Jeff Bezos: Blue Origin’s ‘New Shepard’ Rocket Completes 3rd Test Flight Blue Origin-built New Shepard rocket has completed a take-off and vertical landing operation two months after the company put the rocket through a second unmanned test flight in November 2015. Blue Origin CEO Jeff Bezos wrote in a blog entry posted Friday that New Shepard took off from a launch site in West Texas and slowly descended to Earth for reuse after it achieved an apogee of 101…

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Army Awards Cybersecurity Contract to Parsons; Mary Ann Hopkins Comments Parsons will provide cybersecurity services to the U.S. Army under the awarded Deployable Defensive Cyberspace Operations Infrastructure contract. The company said Monday the contract covers cyberspace weapons systems that work to detect possible cyber threats in support of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology…

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Mike Convertino Joins F5 Networks as CISO; Tony Bozzuti Comments Mike Convertino, formerly chief information security officer at CrowdStrike, has joined F5 Networks as the company’s first CISO. Convertino will lead F5’s security product road map development and help maintain the security of company and customer assets, F5 Networks said Monday…

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FedRAMP Advocacy Group Proposes Overhaul of Govt Cloud Certification Process A MeriTalk-formed industry advocacy group has developed a six-step plan that it believes the U.S. government should adopt to increase transparency and efficiency in the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program…

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Boeing-Built Blackjack UAS Begins Initial Operations The U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps’ Boeing-built RQ-21A Blackjack unmanned aircraft system will kick off its initial operation after the program received a go signal. Lt. Gen. Jon Davis, Marine Corps’ deputy commandant for aviation, said the first Marine unmanned aerial vehicle squadron has been confirmed for deployment with the RQ-21A system, the Navy said Wednesday…

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ORNL Uses Allinea Code Performance Analysis Tool to Support Supercomputers Oak Ridge National Laboratory has deployed Allinea Software‘s Allinea MAP code performance profiler to help drive operational efficiency for the Titan supercomputer and facilitate application readiness for the upcoming Summit pre-exascale computing system…

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GSA, DoD, NASA Propose Rule to Tackle Federal Contractor Confidentiality Requirements The General Services Administration, NASA and the Defense Department have proposed a regulation to block vendors that use internal agreements to prevent their employees or subcontractors from reporting wasteful spending, fraud and abuse to federal customers…

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January 25 Market Close: GovCon Index Falls Back Into Correction Ahead of Earnings Week for ‘Big Five’ Contractors and Others The GovCon Index retreated with a loss of 1.295 percent to 70.580 Monday in a move that puts the Index back into a correction, or 10 percent off its most recent high, for the second time this month…

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