Posts from GovCon Daily for 11/19/2015

NVRC Study: California, Northern Virginia Top Federal Contracting States for 2010-14

California and Northern Virginia were respectively the first- and second-largest states in terms of federal contract spending between 2010 and 2014 if the latter region was a state, a new study says…

Alan Lynn: DISA Eyes ‘Identity Assurance’ Cyber Partnership With Industry

Army Lt. Gen. Alan Lynn, director of the Defense Information Systems Agency, has said DISA works to achieve “100 percent identity assurance” with its contractors in an effort to safeguard data infrastructures from cyber threats, C4ISR & Networks reported Wednesday…

CACI Debuts ‘SkyTracker’ UAS Detection System; Ken Asbury Comments

CACI International has released a new system for customers to detect and identify unmanned aerial systems they believe could be in restricted airspace. The SkyTracker precision system uses radio links to monitor drones that fly in protected airspace and locate ground operators, CACI said Thursday…

Thomas Tshudy Joins ULA as VP, General Counsel; Tory Bruno Comments

Thomas Tshudy, formerly senior vice president and general counsel for International Launch Services, has joined the United Launch Alliance as VP and general counsel. ULA, a joint venture of Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), said Wednesday Tshudy will succeed the retiring Kevin McCarthy…

DARPA Extends Xerox Subsidiary’s Disappearing Electronics Contract; Gregory Whiting Comments

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has extended a contract with Xerox‘s PARC subsidiary for continued development work on a transient electronics technology. PARC made the Disintegration Upon Stress Release Trigger for DARPA’s Vanishing Programmable Resources program as the agency seeks to develop electronic systems that dissappear on command, Xerox said Wednesday…

General Atomics, Army Fly Gray Eagle for South Korea Exercises; Frank Pace Comments

A Gray Eagle drone General Atomics built for the U.S. Army has completed a series of joint manned-unmanned aircraft teaming exercises in South Korea. General Atomics said Wednesday the Gray Eagle worked to stream video and metadata to the AH-64 Apache helicopter from a remote location for operators to control the drone’s sensors and identify targets…

Accenture-MeriTalk Study: 52% of Federal IT Leaders Worry About Legacy App Security

A new MeriTalk survey of 150 federal information technology leaders indicates almost 92 percent of managers believe there is an urgent need to update their agencies’ IT applications. Fifty-two percent of those respondents are worried that legacy enterprise apps will cause security breaches at their organizations, while 62 percent said not modernizing agency apps will affect mission-critical infrastructure, MeriTalk said Thursday…