On Tuesday, Roger Krone, chief executive officer for Leidos and 2020 Wash100 Award winner, joined CNBC’s “Squawk Alley” to discuss the company’s recent earnings that have surpassed all expectations as its stock continues to surge.

During his appearance, Krone discussed how Leidos will sustain its growth in 2020, programs and acquisitions that are still being processed and the company’s goals for its customers. You can watch the full interview on CNBC below:

For a full breakdown of Leidos’ 4th quarter earnings and financial results click here.

“We delivered strong fourth quarter results, including record organic revenue growth, increasing margins and significant year-over-year non-GAAP earnings growth. Our growth and execution momentum accelerated throughout 2019 and has continued into 2020 with significant new program wins and the opportunity to create value from our two recently announced acquisitions, said Krone.

I am confident that we are growing the company with the right talent, the right capabilities and the right strategy to continue to drive value for our customers, employees and shareholders.”

About Leidos

Leidos is a Fortune 500 information technology, engineering, and science solutions and services leader working to solve the world’s toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, homeland security, civil and health markets. The Company’s 36,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers.

Cisco has released its Annual Internet Report and it has noted that 5G technologies will support more than 10% of the world's mobile connections by 2023, the company reported on Tuesday.

"What we are seeing from our research is a continuous rise in internet users, devices, connections, and more demand on the network than we could have imagined," said Roland Acra, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Cisco. 

Cisco stated that as consumers and business users worldwide continue to create new demands and expectations for mobile networking, the adoption of mobile applications is projected to grow exponentially. Social networking, video streaming and downloads, business productivity, e-commerce and gaming will drive the continued growth of mobile applications with nearly 300 billion downloaded by 2023.

The average 5G speed will be 575 megabits per second, 13 times faster than the average mobile connection. 5G will deliver more dynamic mobile infrastructures for AI and emerging Internet of Things (IoT) applications including autonomous cars, smart cities, connected health, immersive video and more.

The report additionally noted that the top six global trends, including internet, device, mobile Wi-Fi, network and cybersecurity projections to occur by 2023. Cisco stated that more than 70 percent of the global population will have mobile connectivity.

In addition, the company hypothesized that there will be 3.6 networked devices and approximately  half of all devices will have video capabilities. Cisco also stated that, of the networked devices, 45 percent will be mobile-connected and 55 percent will be wired or connected over Wi-Fi.

Cisco made global Wi-Fi projections in the report. The company claimed that Wi-Fi hotspots will grow four-fold from 2018 to 2023. There will be nearly 628 million global public Wi-Fi hotspots, up from 169 million in 2018. Along with the growth of Wi-Fi, the company has stated that the average global mobile connection speeds grow tremendously. The report said that the speed will more than triple from 13 Mbps in 2018 to o 44 Mbps in 2023.

"The insights and knowledge gained by our Annual Internet Report are helping global businesses, governments and service providers prepare and secure networks for the ongoing growth in connections and applications. Strategic planning and partnerships will be essential for all organizations to capitalize on their technology innovations and investments."

About Cisco

Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide technology leader that has been making the internet work since 1984. Our people, products, and partners help society securely connect and seize tomorrow's digital opportunity today. 

Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT) will support the development of Made In Space’s spacecraft platform for the upcoming Archinaut One Mission, BCT announced on Thursday. 

“The implications of our ability to conduct 3D printing in space are endless and we’re proud to partner with Made In Space to make this mission a reality,” said George Stafford, founder and CEO of Blue Canyon Technologies. 

BCT will provide robotic manufacturing and assembly to demonstrate how companies can utilize and enable entirely new structures in orbit. The objective of the Archinaut One mission is to construct two ten-meter solar arrays on orbit to power an ESPA-class satellite. 

Once on orbit, Archinaut One will display the extended structure additive manufacturing capabilities and advanced robotics to manufacture and assemble the satellite’s power system. The Archinaut-created solar arrays will yield nearly 5 times the power currently available to ESPA-class satellites.

“More and more we’re finding that our spacecraft bus capabilities are enabling increasingly innovative technologies, changing the new space frontier and how we can leverage it,” added Stafford.

In addition to BCT’s support of the space mission, the company has also provided services to the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Nov. 2019. Under the agreement, BCT will provide a pair of nanosatellites for NRL's joint mission with the U.K. ministry of defense to study the ionosphere and radiation environment in space from different vantage points.

BCT stated that it will equip each six-unit CubeSat with two ultraviolet photometers from NRL to gauge ionospheric structure and airglow from low-Earth orbit as part of the Coordinated Ionospheric Reconstruction CubeSat Experiment.

"Since space weather affects satellite communications and radar, a thorough understanding of the environment is essential to commonly used satellite infrastructure like GPS and communications systems," said Matt Pallas, manager of the CIRCE program at BCT.

About BCT

Blue Canyon Technologies, Inc., (BCT) a Colorado-based private company founded in 2008 to bring innovative, reliable and affordable solutions to space missions, is an experienced integrator of aerospace systems and developer of advanced aerospace products and technologies. BCT is a vertically integrated spacecraft manufacturer supporting nearly 40 unique missions with over 70 spacecraft. The company currently has more than 60 satellites in production and is developing a new 80,000-square-foot facility for high rate production.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has partnered with 3M to provide cloud management and services as 3M strengthens its enterprise IT infrastructure, AWS announced on Monday. 

“AWS…will deliver the agility, speed, and scalability 3M needs to launch new business processes and service models. We look forward to expanding our use of AWS’s portfolio of services, including analytics and machine learning, to gain greater insights and become an even more agile company in the cloud,” said John Turner, Vice President, IT Systems and Chief Information Officer at 3M. 

3M will integrate AWS’ leading infrastructure services to modernize and drive efficiencies across the company’s global market. With AWS services, 3M will enhance its enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, including accounting, supply chain management, manufacturing, product lifecycle management and e-commerce, along with business-critical enterprise IT applications. 

3M will additionally utilize AWS’ technology to leverage portfolio of services, including machine learning, analytics, storage, security, and databases to optimize and automate operational, manufacturing, and business processes, as well as product solutions. As the company transitions, 3M expects to drive efficiencies and gain agility in meeting 3M business and customer needs.

“For more than 100 years, 3M has had a relentless focus on innovation, making scientific discoveries that advance, enhance and improve every company, home, and life. AWS’s breadth and depth of services will help 3M continue to launch new business processes, bring increased customer focus, and keep its position as one of the world’s most successful diversified companies,” said Mike Clayville, Vice President, Worldwide Commercial Sales at AWS. 

AWS has also been selected by Second Spectrum to provide cloud services that improve artificial intelligence, machine learning and media services, the company announced in Feb. 2020. 

AWS will help Second Spectrum deliver new kinds of live game-watching experiences to fans. Second Spectrum will use AWS’s services to provide enhanced analytics, visualizations and easily searchable video clips during games and matches.  

“In expanding the relationship between AWS and Second Spectrum, bringing together a top provider of sports analytics with AWS’s unmatched portfolio of services, we are adding new layers of depth to the spectator experience and helping teams uncover new ways to understand, evaluate, and elevate their performance,” said Clayville. 

About Amazon Web Services

AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 69 Availability Zones (AZs) within 22 geographic regions, with announced plans for 16 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Italy, Japan, South Africa, and Spain. 

Energy Secretary Dan Broulliette said the Department of Energy’s request for a 20 percent increase in budget seeks to support the infrastructure around the National Nuclear Security Administration’s complex, particularly the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Defense News reported Sunday.

“We look at the lithium processing facility, we at look the need for tritium down the road, and we look at the timetables in which we need them — it’s very important that we start now,” he told reporters Saturday on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference. “And the president made the decision that he wanted to move up these projects and start them now. So that’s been our direction. That’s been our mission.”

Broulliette acknowledged that the additional funds will come from the Department of Defense and noted that DOE will work with Congress to achieve the $19.8B budget request.

He cited DOE’s involvement in the analysis of Iranian nuclear intelligence and concerns over cyber activity in Europe. He also responded to a question regarding an agreement with Russia and other countries over arms control.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) has introduced a bill that would set up an independent federal agency to protect personal data and advance data privacy.

The proposed Data Protection Agency would enforce data protection rules and privacy statutes, address complaints and launch investigations related to data protection concerns, Gillibrand wrote in an article posted Thursday on Medium website.

The agency proposed under the Data Protection Act would develop and offer resources such as privacy enhancing technologies to help minimize the collection of personal information as well as protect against “pay-for-privacy” provisions in service contracts.

Gillibrand noted that the agency would also advise Congress on encryption, Deepfakes and other emerging technology and privacy issues and represent the country at international forums on data privacy.