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Former NSA analyst charged in leak of classified documents to reporter

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A former National Security Agency analyst has been charged and arrested for illegally obtaining classified national defense information, including files on drone warfare, and disclosing it to a reporter. The charges, which were filed originally in March of this year in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, include obtaining, retaining, transmitting, and causing the communication of national defense information, disclosure of classified communications intelligence information, and theft of government property. The Department of Justice unsealed the charges against the former analyst, Daniel Hale of Tennessee, Thursday. Some of the documents that Hale illegally obtained and shared with the reporter detailed top secret information the NSA gathered on specific named targets, several counterterrorism operations, an overseas military campaign targeting al-Qaeda, and the effects of that operation. At least one document revealed classified technical capabilities of the U.S. military. Hale served in the U.S. Air Force from 2009-13, during which he was assigned […]

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Capgemini to buy cybersecurity arm of Leidos

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The cybersecurity division of Leidos is being sold to Capgemini, a French multinational business consultancy, the companies announced on Thursday. Capgemini says it hopes the acquisition will reinforce its presence in North America and help “meet growing customer demand for its portfolio of cybersecurity services and solutions across the region.” In a statement, Capgemini CEO Paul Hermelin called Leidos Cyber a “pioneer” in cybersecurity that “defined the market in protecting the industrial control ecosystem for the mission critical infrastructure needs of global enterprises.” Reston, Va.-based Leidos provides IT, engineering, science and defense contracting services and is one of the top U.S. federal contractors. However, its cybersecurity arm is commercially focused. Leidos Cyber employs about 500 cybersecurity professionals spread out across North America, according to the press release. Capgemini has a wide array of focus areas in its service offering is one of the largest IT consulting companies in Europe, with […]

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Six big vendors dominate a fragmented federal cyber market, numbers show

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Federal procurement of cybersecurity goods and services is highly fragmented, according to new research published this week, with more than 7,600 different companies winning U.S. government contracts during the past six years. But despite this long tail of small awards, the market space is dominated by a handful of familiar names. Only six contractors — Leidos, Northrup Grumman, Booz Allen Hamilton, IBM, Hewlett Packard and General Dynamics — earned a billion dollars or more in cyber contracts from the U.S. government in fiscal 2011-16, according to the new report from Govini, a consultancy that crunches procurement numbers. “Acquisition of cybersecurity solutions is highly fragmented now,” Arun Sankaran, Govini’s director of professional services, told CyberScoop. He was the lead author of the report, which analyzes the $45.9 billion obligated between 2011-2016 in three categories of federal cybersecurity spending: defense, resilience and threat analytics. Spending rose significantly in the second half of that period, from an average of $6.3 billion […]

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