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Former Everbridge CEO David Meredith to Head Cloud Tech Company Boomi
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Former Everbridge CEO David Meredith to Head Cloud Tech Company Boomi

David Meredith, former CEO of Everbridge and 25-year tech industry veteran, has been appointed as chief executive officer for Boomi.

Boomi said Monday that effective Jan. 31, 2022, Meredith will succeed Chris McNabb as CEO of the Chesterbrook, Pennsylvania-based integration Platform-as-a-Service software company.

“David’s track record scaling category-leading software-as-a-service and infrastructure providers and his thought leadership within the industry make him the perfect choice to lead Boomi through its next phase of growth,” said Brian Decker and Andrew Kowal of Francisco Partners, which acquired Boomi earlier this year with TPG Capital for $4 billion.

Kowal and Decker, as well as Nehal Raj and Art Heidrich of TPG Capital, thanked McNabb for his years of leadership and welcomed Meredith to the company.

Prior to joining Boomi, Meredith served as CEO of Everbridge, where he led the company during a period of rapid revenue growth, which moved Everbridge into the large-cap level of the Russell 1000 Index in 2020.

His extensive experience in the tech industry includes multiple senior roles within companies including Rackspace, CenturyLink (now Lumen Technologies), CGI, Capital One and VeriSign, among others.

Additionally, Meredith is a recognized thought leader who has been featured as a speaker for platforms, forums and media outlets such as CNBC, NPR and Nasdaq Trade Talk.

Meredith has served on the board of directors for companies like Datapipe, LiteStack, NeuPals IT and the University of Virginia.

Commenting on his appointment with Boomi, Meredith said, “The company is a true innovator, and I am thrilled to partner with Francisco Partners and TPG to lead Boomi through the next stage of the company’s growth journey.”

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DOE Allots $54M to Fund Clean Energy Technology Projects
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DOE Allots $54M to Fund Clean Energy Technology Projects

The Department of Energy (DOE) plans to invest $54 million in a funding opportunity for technologies that can help the U.S. achieve a clean energy economy. DOE said Monday that it will finance research and development projects that aim to produce commercialization plans for clean energy technologies.

Participants will get the opportunity to receive a maximum of $250,000 under the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs. The department will also award follow-on funds valued at up to $1.6 million.

DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) seeks technologies with the potential to diversify sustainable material sources, update thermal energy storage for buildings, improve solar panel recyclability, boost hydropower generation, convert biomass into carbon-free fuels and support efficient hydrogen production.

The office will also finance efforts to commercialize DOE-made clean energy technologies. These include a hydrogen-contaminant detector designed for use in hydrogen refueling stations.

Interested parties may submit letters of intent through Jan. 3rd and full applications up to Feb. 22nd.

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DHS to Run Bug Bounty Program for External Systems
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DHS to Run Bug Bounty Program for External Systems

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has launched a bug bounty program that seeks to discover cybersecurity vulnerabilities in DHS systems. DHS said Tuesday that its Hack DHS program invites cybersecurity researchers to spot vulnerabilities within select external systems of the department.

Hack DHS is a three-phase program that will run across fiscal year 2022 and aims to produce a model that organizations can use as a basis for cyber resiliency.

Participants will use a platform made by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and disclose findings to DHS stakeholders. The more severe the detected bug, the higher the bounty.

The first phase will task hackers to run virtual assessments on the selected DHS systems and the second phase will execute a live hacking event. The department will review results and lessons learned in the third phase.

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Army Migration to New Microsoft 365 Cloud Email Environment Now 50 Percent Complete; Lt. Gen. John Morrison Comments
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Army Migration to New Microsoft 365 Cloud Email Environment Now 50 Percent Complete; Lt. Gen. John Morrison Comments

Officials from the U.S. Army have revealed that more than half of the service’s email accounts already migrated to a new Microsoft Office 365 cloud environment ahead of schedule, FedScoop reported Tuesday.

Lt. Gen. John Morrison, Army deputy chief of staff for cyber, told media that the service expects to finish transferring 60 percent of its total accounts or more to the Army 365 system by the end of 2022.

However, Morrison conceded that the service could not complete moving all Army personnel away from the Defense Enterprise Email (DEE) system and into A365 by the March deadline. “The transition off of DEE has always been condition-based,” he explained.

Access to A365 provides Army soldiers, civilians and contractors with cloud-native email tools, storage and collaboration technology.

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Navy Commemorates Facility Work at Port Hueneme for Unmanned Vehicle Prototype Testing; Capt. Pete Small Quoted
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Navy Commemorates Facility Work at Port Hueneme for Unmanned Vehicle Prototype Testing; Capt. Pete Small Quoted

The U.S. Navy recently held a ceremony to mark the completion of facility modifications and the start of building construction work for the testing, evaluation and demonstration of unmanned vehicle prototypes at Naval Base Ventura County Port Hueneme in California.

The Naval Sea Systems Command said Tuesday extra-large unmanned undersea vehicles will reside at Port Hueneme’s modified littoral combat ship support facility while unmanned surface vessels will be operated and maintained from a new modular administrative building.

According to the organization, the site’s open-water ranges, expeditionary transportation capabilities, close distance to naval and industry hubs and relationship with tenant commands makes it ideal to host unmanned vehicle testing.

“These facilities will be the focal point of Navy learning and experimentation on the capabilities, operations and sustainment of Unmanned Maritime Vehicle prototypes to inform future programs,” explained Capt. Pete Small, program manager for unmanned maritime systems.

The Navy is planning to send five Orca XLUUV prototypes, one Medium Unmanned Surface Vehicle, two Sea Hunter USVs and four Overlord USVs to NBVC in the future.

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NIST Releases AI Risk Management Framework Concept Paper for Public Consultation
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NIST Releases AI Risk Management Framework Concept Paper for Public Consultation

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is seeking comments from the public on a concept paper for the Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework, which is aimed at addressing risks in the design, development and use of AI systems.

The concept paper describes the fundamental approach proposed for the framework and incorporates feedback gathered from a request for information released in July and discussions from a workshop held in October, NIST said Tuesday.

According to the paper, the structure for the AI RMF is similar to the guidelines used in the development of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and the Privacy Framework.

The agency wants input on the approach and suggestions about details and specific topics reviewers would like to see in the first draft of the framework, which NIST expects to release in early 2022 for public consultation.

“The framework aims to foster the development of innovative approaches to address characteristics of trustworthiness including accuracy, explainability and interpretability, reliability, privacy, robustness, safety, security (resilience), and mitigation of unintended and/or harmful bias, as well as of harmful uses,” according to the previous RFI published in the Federal Register.

NIST plans to unveil the first version of the framework in early 2023. 

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House, Senate OK Measure to Raise Borrowing Limit by $2.5T
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House, Senate OK Measure to Raise Borrowing Limit by $2.5T

Congress prevented a debt default by approving a measure that would increase the debt ceiling by $2.5 trillion, CNBC reported Wednesday. The House voted 221-209 early Wednesday to pass the measure.

The lower chamber’s decision came hours after the Senate approved the bill in a 50-49 vote. Senate leadership reached a deal on the debt ceiling, allowing lawmakers to raise the borrowing limit without requiring 60 votes to clear a filibuster, according to a report by Vox.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said the legislation will raise the borrowing cap “to a level commensurate with funding necessary to get into 2023.”

Increasing the debt ceiling will allow the Department of the Treasury to continue to pay off the government’s bills.

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Alex Stamos Calls for Executive Order on Basic Security Functions in Cloud Offerings
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Alex Stamos Calls for Executive Order on Basic Security Functions in Cloud Offerings

Alex Stamos, partner at the Krebs Stamos Group and a federal advisory committee member at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said he believes basic security functions should not be sold as add-ons by cloud service providers and that such features should be addressed through an executive order.

“You should not have to pay extra for security, I’m sorry, that is immoral for companies [to charge for],” said Stamos.

“I’d love to see an executive order that any cloud product that is bought by a federal agency has to support [multi factor authentication], [single sign on] and basic audit in the most base paid package.”

Stamos, who is also director of Stanford Internet Observatory, raised concerns among CSPs charging for MFA, SSO and other baseline security features through an enterprise license.

“Give it to everybody who’s paying five bucks a month or 10 bucks a month for your product, do not charge 20 or 30 or $50 a month to get the basic security functions,” he said. “It’s just a completely unethical thing. For big businesses to hold up small businesses, ‘can’t be secure unless you pay me more money,’ just really pisses me off, to be frank.”

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NSF Seeks Ideas for Convergence Accelerator Research Topics
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NSF Seeks Ideas for Convergence Accelerator Research Topics

The National Science Foundation has asked interested stakeholders to submit potential research topics that could help address existing and future societal and national challenges as part of the Convergence Accelerator program.

The topic ideas should be broad in technical scope and impactful to society at scale, should build on foundational research and are suitable for a multidisciplinary, convergent research approach, according to a notice posted Tuesday.

NSF will fund the selected ideas into community workshops, which intend to further develop concepts to integrate convergence research and foster collaboration among stakeholders from government, industry, academia, nonprofit and other communities of practice.

The workshops’ findings will inform NSF’s efforts in creating the “final convergence research track topics to be funded in future years,” the notice reads.

NSF will hold informational webinars on the Convergence Accelerator program on Jan. 20th and Jan. 25th. Responses to the call for ideas are due Feb. 28th.

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Kevin Kelly Named Chairman, CEO of Arcfield
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Kevin Kelly Named Chairman, CEO of Arcfield

Arcfield, the new company name of CTFV Acquisition Corp. (CTFV), announced on Tuesday that Kevin Kelly, a 30-year defense and intelligence leader, has been named the company’s new chairman and CEO.

“I am excited to take the helm at such an important time and am focused on driving growth through innovation,” said Kelly. “We look forward to continuing this critical work in support of national security initiatives.”

Prior to his new role with Arcfield, Kelly served as president of the National Security and Innovative Solutions sector for CACI International. In addition, he also worked with LGS Innovations for more than 22 years in a variety of roles, including chief strategy officer, chief operations officer, and eventually CEO.

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