A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson
A White House-mandated cybersecurity organization created to combine knowledge and experience from the public and private sectors added a new leader this week whose background includes stops on both sides.
She joins a leadership team that includes former White House national security adviser Tom Donilon and retired IBM CEO Sam Palmisano, who will respectively serve as chairman and vice chairman of the NIST-backed commission.
At Liberty Group Ventures, Todt advised public, private and nonprofit sector clients on risk strategiesfor the cyber arena and other areas such as infrastructure and homeland security.
Her government service tenure includes time as a staff member for the Senate Homeland Security Committee, where she helped draft the cybersecurity and infrastructure-related components of legislation that created the Department of Homeland Security.
The Commerce Department, NIST’s parent agency, announced Todt’s appointment in a week that saw cybersecurity become a topic of prominence again with one guilty plea and an indictment in federal courts over hacks on military technical information and critical infrastructure.
These and other incidents like the OPM hack sure to figure in the eventual 12-member commission’s agenda as it works on the national cyber strategy and ways to merge public and private sector expertise.
Rear Adm. Colin Chinn Appointed DHA R&D Director
Chinn joins the Defense Health Agency nearly a year after it arrived at full operational capability as a medical support provider for combatant commands.
Government agencies are seeing more efficient responses and resolutions to cybersecurity issues as a result of a number of strategies, including a focus on collaboration, according to officials from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. CISA’s David Carroll, who serves as associate director for mission engineering, credits private-public partnerships as the “fuel” of cyber operations and
Paul Courtney, chief procurement officer for the Department of Homeland Security, accepted his 2024 Wash100 Award from the award’s founder, Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson, in a recent in-person meeting. The Wash100 Award is bestowed on the 100 individuals EM’s discerning voting body determines are the foremost change-makers in government contracting and the federal sector. Candidates are evaluated
The Department of Homeland Security intends to launch a competition for the third iteration of the Geospatial Technical Support Services blanket purchase agreement. GTSS 3.0 is anticipated to have a ceiling amount of over $100 million and DHS expects to issue a solicitation for the planned multiple-award BPA by the end of May, according to