Posts from GovCon Daily for 10/19/2015

CrowdStrike: China-Affiliated Cyber Attacks Continued After Pact Signed

Dmitri Alperovitch, co-founder and chief technology officer of CrowdStrike, says his company has identified several attempted intrusions by China-affiliated threat actors on U.S. companies over the past month…

Rep. Will Hurd: Federal Agencies Slow to Adopt Cloud Computing Tech

Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas) told MeriTalk in an interview published Friday he has observed an organizational culture that has prevented agencies from implementing cloud migration efforts at a faster pace…

Parsons’ Heather Shinn Elected to CMAA Board; Mary Ann Hopkins Comments

Heather Shinn, a vice president and program manager in Parsons‘ government services business, will serve a three-year term as a board member at the Construction Management Association of America…

Navy, Marine Corps Eye Data Migration to Commercial Cloud; Janice Haith Comments

The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps seek to transition their enterprise data from government-controlled data centers to commercial cloud platforms, Federal News Radio reported Monday. Jared Serbu writes the services plan to overhaul their Next Generation Enterprise Network contract and open the competition to commercial providers of information technology services…

Lockheed Orders F-35 Aluminum Flat Rolled Material from AMI Metals; Scott Smith Comments

Lockheed Martin has awarded a a five-year, $300 million contract to a Reliance Steel & Aluminum subsidiary to produce aluminum flat rolled materials for the F-35 fighter jet. Brentwood, Tennessee-based AMI Metals will supply aluminum plates to Lockheed partner and subcontractor facilities for F-35, Reliance Steel said Monday…

Orbital ATK Opens Ramjet Test Facility With Supersonic Flight Simulation

Orbital ATK has opened its new Ramjet Test Facility at the Allegany Ballistics Laboratory in West Virginia to provide a clear-air testing environment that simulates supersonic flight conditions. The company said Monday it has also completed the final validation and tests for the facility, which replicates up to Mach 4…

Navy CIO Rob Foster: IT-Acquisition Integration a Strategic Weapon

Rob Foster, chief information officer of the U.S. Navy, believes that the collaboration between the information technology and acquisition organizations could be a strategic weapon for federal agencies, FierceGovernmentIT reported Friday…