Posts from ExecutiveBiz for 03/15/2016

Reports: Mac Thornberry to Unveil Weapons Acquisition Reform Bill

House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) plans to introduce a bill that seeks to reform the Defense Department‘s processes for acquisitions of weapons systems, Defense News reported Tuesday…

CNN: US to Blame Iran for 2013 Hack on NY Dam

The U.S. government plans to blame Iran in a public statement for a 2013 cyber breach on a dam based 30 miles north of New York City, CNN reported Thursday. Evan Perez and Shimon Prokupecz write the Justice Department will issue an indictment within the week against hackers investigators believe are working for Iran’s government…

NASA Picks 4 Proposals for Deep Space Solar Array Tech Development Program

NASA has chosen four proposals to enter contract negotiations as part of a program to develop solar array technologies to operate in high-radiation and low-temperature environments for future deep space missions…

Air Force Awards Two R&D Space Tech Task Orders to IAI Subsidiary

A subsidiary of Integrity Applications has been awarded two task orders worth $27.8 million combined for research and development services to the U.S. Air Force. Pacific Defense Solutions will work to develop electro-optical space situational awareness systems and also integrate and produce components under the first task order, Defense Department said Monday…

GPO Taps Amazon Web Services for Library Mgmt System Cloud Migration

The U.S. Government Publishing Office has started to transition its public-facing websites to an Amazon Web Services cloud computing infrastructure. GPO said Thursday it will use company’s services to migrate Integrated Library System web portals in an effort to comply with the government-wide Federal Cloud First policy…

JD Kuhn Promoted to CFO at Salient CRGT

J.D. Kuhn, former senior vice president and controller at Salient CRGT, has been promoted to chief financial officer at the Fairfax, Va.-based software development and data analytics contractor. The company said Tuesday that Kuhn succeeds Ted Dunn, who will retire from the company after six years both there and the predecessor Salient Federal Solutions prior to the late 2015 merger that created the company now known as Salient CRGT…

David Vargas Appointed Acting CIO at OPM

David Vargas, former associate chief information officer at the Office of Personnel Management, has been promoted to interim CIO at the federal government’s lead human resource agency, Fedscoop reported Monday…

House of Representatives Seeks Industry Sources for Cloud Migration Effort

The House of Representatives has started its search for industry sources to assist the legislative branch’s web systems group in its plan to transition the chamber’s public-facing website to a cloud computing infrastructure from the current on-premise environment…