Posts from GovCon Daily for 10/23/2015

Centene, Health Net Shareholders Approve $6.3B Combination

Shareholders at healthcare services providers Centene (NYSE: CNC) and Health Net (NYSE: HNT) have separately approved the deal originally announced in July for Centene to purchase Health Net for $6…

White House Supports Cybersecurity Info Sharing Bill

The Obama administration has endorsed the approval of a bill that would allow private companies to exchange cyber threat information with federal agencies, The Hill newspaper reported Thursday. Cory Bennett writes the White House praised Sens…

Navy Launches Cyber Defense Efforts Through Workforce Mgmt Manual Update, Training Programs

The U.S. Navy has started to update the Cyber Workforce Management Manual as part of its efforts to protect its data infrastructures and navigation and weapons systems from cyber threats, the service branch said Thursday…

GAO Reviews Strategic Sourcing of DoD, NASA, DHS IT Services

According to a new Government Accountability Office report, NASA and the departments of Defense and Homeland Security used strategic sourcing programs to manage up to 44 percent of the agencies’ information technology investments during fiscal 2013…

Booz Allen’s Greg Wenzel: Open Architecture-Based C4ISR Could Help in Interoperability, Situational Awareness

Greg Wenzel, an executive vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton, has told C4ISR & Networks that an integrated command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance system could help achieve interoperability and enhance situational awareness for troops…

Lockheed Delivers Denmark’s 1st MH-60R Order to Navy; Stephanie Hill Comments

Lockheed Martin has delivered Denmark’s first order of the Sikorsky-built MH-60R helicopter to the U.S. Navy ahead of a scheduled series of tests. The company said Thursday the helicopter is the first of nine planned MH-60R purchases by Denmark to support search-and-rescue, surveillance, anti-surface warfare and anti-piracy operations…

CounterTack|MCSI Study: 75% of Firms Unequipped for Nation-State Cyber Attacks

A report from CounterTack|MCSI has shown that 49 percent of 639 U.S. information technology professionals surveyed by the Ponemon Institute have adopted a “wait-and-see” stance on enterprise cyber defense…