Posts from GovConDaily for 10/09/2014

October 9 End of Day Report: GovConIndex Mirrors S&P 500’s 2% Drop

The GovConIndex declined by approximately 1.76 percent Thursday to 63.569, representing a downturn of nearly 1.1 percent. This decrease mirrored that of the S&P 500 composite index, which declined by about 2 percent to 1,930…

Curt Nothstine on Boeing’s Core Network-Space Systems Markets and Cost Accounting Standards

Curt Nothstine oversees all finance-related activities for Boeing‘s network and space systems business as the unit’s chief operating officer and vice president. He elevated to his current role in 2012 after two years of service as director of accounting in the aerospace company’s defense, space and security segment and is a former board member of Alsalam Airlines…

Michael Daniel: Internet of Things Presents Challenge, Opportunity

White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Michael Daniel said the explosion of technology around the Internet of Things presents challenges as well as opportunities for the government from a cyber point of view, Nextgov reported Wednesday…

Tom Frana: ViON Debuts On-Demand Cloud Offering for Public, Private Sectors

ViON has unveiled a new cloud service designed to help government and commercial organizations secure information technology infrastructure through on-premise private cloud environments. The ViON on Demand program offers service level agreements for enterprise IT maintenance, upgrade and managed work, ViON said Thursday…

SAIC to OfferClients Bromium Security Tools; Charles Onstott Comments

Science Applications International Corp. will provide Bromium‘s vSentry and Live Attack Visualization Analysis endpoint security products to customers through SAIC’s CyberSecurity Edge offering…

Grant Thornton’s Philip Higginbotham: Businesses Need ‘Forward-Thinking’ Analytics Approach

Philip Higginbotham, Grant Thornton’s national director of analytic services, has called on business leaders to “understand and implement a more sophisticated, forward-thinking form of analytics to get ahead…

Louie Lombrardo: Lockheed, Northrop Eye 2016 to Finish SBIRS Satellite 4

The Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman team has delivered to the U.S. Air Force the payload for the next geosynchronous Earth orbit satellite of the Space Based Infrared System. SBIRS’ prime contractor Lockheed saidWednesday that the payload is fitted with a scanning sensor to perform wide-area surveillance of missile launch operations and a staring sensor to focus on smaller areas with heightened infrared sensitivity…

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