Posts from GovConDaily for 06/13/2016

IHS Reports ‘Record-Breaking’ $65B in 2015 Global Defense Trade

IHS has reported a “record-breaking” $65 billion in global defense trade for 2015 after examining trends worldwide across 65 countries based on 40,000 programs in the firm’s Aerospace, Defense & Security’s markets forecast database…

Gemalto Study: Orgs Continue to Depend on Basic Perimeter Security Systems

Gemalto‘s third-annual Data Security Confidence Index says a majority of organizations continue to depend on basic perimeter security systems against data breaches regardless of increased cyber threats worldwide…

Vice Adm. Thomas Moore Takes NAVSEA Command Post

U.S. Navy Vice Adm. Thomas Moore, former program executive officer for aircraft carriers, took on the role of chief of the Naval Sea Systems Command during a ceremony held Friday at the Washington Naval Yard…

Katja Seim Appointed FCC Chief Economist; Tom Wheeler Comments

Katja Seim, Wharton School associate professor of business economics and public policy, has been appointed by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler as the agency’s chief economist and will start in the role July 1…

Terrence O’Shaughnessy Appointed Pacific Air Forces Commander, Nominated for Promotion to General

U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Terrence O’Shaughnessy has been nominated to the roles of commander of the Pacific Air Forces, air component commander of the U.S. Pacific Command and executive director of the Pacific Air Combat Operations Staff…

NJVC Gets CMMI Level 2 Appraisal for Software Development

Chantilly, Virginia-based information technology services provider NJVC has received Capability Maturity Model Integration level 2 rating from the CMMI Institute for the company’s approach to software development project management…

House Committee Questions FDIC’s Transparency Amid Breach Investigation

The House Science, Space and Technology Committee sent a letter to Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Martin Gruenberg Thursday to raise concerns over the agency’s gathering of internal communications from its office of inspector general amid a cybersecurity investigation…

Avaya Government Solutions, DHA Sign Unified Communication & Contact Center Services Pact

Avaya Government Solutions has signed an agreement with the Defense Health Agency to provide unified communications, contact center and SIP technologies in support of the DHA’s modernization efforts…

Army Research Lab Chemist Aims to Identify Warfighter Injuries with Gold Nanoclusters

U.S. Army Research Laboratory chemist Sasha Teymorian has started a study to identify cellular injuries sustained by warfighters through the use of synthesized gold nanoclusters. The Army said Thursday Teymorian, also a postdoctoral research fellow at ARL, will examine the structure and stability properties of the gold nanoclusters at the lab’s Weapons and Materials Research Directorate at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland…

Tripwire Survey: 64% of IT Professionals Say Exit from EU Would Not Affect UK’s Cyber Defense Function

A new Tripwire survey says 64 percent of information technology executives believe the U.K. government’s separation from the European Union would not have an impact on the country’s function to protect its networks from potential cyber attacks…