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• Jason will oversee all aspects of cybersecurity at Sectigo including data, infrastructure, network, applications, and products.
• “It’s exciting to join a company that is expanding into new markets and growing as quickly as Sectigo is,” said Jason.
• “The company’s mission to deliver the simplest, most secure, and most scalable CLM solutions make cyber hygiene and a strong security posture critical to success.
• “We are pleased to welcome Jason to the Sectigo family,” said Sectigo Chief Product and Engineering Officer Mark Bilger .

• While hundreds of thousands of British men did, indeed, volunteer to serve in the first flush of jingoistic patriotism in 1914, the manpower well soon began to run dry.
• Despite this, however, some form of conscription does still exist today in most European countries.
• But as the implications of Russia’s war against Ukraine come to be better understood, introducing or extending conscription is increasingly being discussed in European Nato states.

• But, over the past few months, political leaders in both countries have been discussing the reintroduction of forms of conscription or national service.
• In other countries in Europe, there has traditionally been a type of “conscription-lite” in operation.
• Sweden, which joined Nato in March, had dropped conscription in 2010 but reintroduced it in 2018 as the country prepared to join Nato.
• Finland, the other Nordic country that has recently joined Nato, could hardly expand its conscription net any further.

Conscription extended in Ukraine

• The country already has conscription for 18-26 year-olds but only those above 27 were actually asked to serve in combat roles (although many volunteers under 27 did as well).
• To replace those lost in the war and to maintain the ability to rotate troops in and out of the front lines, Ukraine needs a larger pool of military manpower.
• But casting the manpower net wider is a toxic issue in Ukraine, and as ever, such conscription is not popular.
• Accordingly, government spokespersons moved quickly to quash any notions that conscription was on any agenda.

Rod Thornton does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

• HERNDON, Va., March 25, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ManTech, a leading provider of AI, cyber and mission-focused technology solutions, has won a $166 million contract to provide DevSecOps support for the Defense Health Agency’s Medical Logistics (MEDLOG) Information Technology (IT) Program Management Office.
• Under this 5-year hybrid new business/recompete win, ManTech will leverage Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) to modernize, sustain and continue migration to AWS cloud, accelerating mission performance for a suite of systems that supports 25,000 military and civilian users and more than 940,000 daily supply requisitions.
• “ManTech’s work will help the DHA achieve digital transformation for a large, complex suite of applications that empower Army, Navy, Air Force and the Marine Corps to rapidly provide medical services to combatants in peacetime and wartime,” said Stephen Deitz, Executive Vice President and General Manager of ManTech’s Federal Civilian Sector.
• “We are fully aligned to supporting the client’s commitment to enable ready, reliable care anytime, anywhere through modernized, integrated and resilient medical logistics capability at home and abroad.”

• Gross profit increased 27.4% to $263.0 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2023 from $206.5 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2022.
• Gross margin increased 290 basis points to 40.5% in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2023 from 37.6% in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2022.
• Operating income increased 44.3% to $97.7 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2023 from $67.7 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2022.
• Adjusted EBITDA(1) increased 43.2% to $110.6 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2023 from $77.2 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2022.