Katie Arrington Offers Updates on Pentagon’s CMMC Program Katie Arrington, chief information security officer for acquisition with DoD and 2020 Wash100 Award recipient, elaborated to Government Matters during an interview about the creation of standards that third-party assessment organizations will use to evaluate and certify contractors unde...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 3, 2020 — David Egts, chief technologist of the North American public sector business at Red Hat, said adopting Agile principles such as the prioritization of important goals and increased coordination between officers can help improve an agency’s Federal Information Security Modernization Act scorecard ratings, Executi...
Space Development Agency Director Derek Tournear has said that SDA wants to begin the process of awarding contracts in August to procure communications and tracking satellites that will support its planned mesh network in low-Earth orbit, National Defense magazine reported Thursday....
An alert from K2 Intelligence-Financial Integrity Network says the Financial Action Task Force has upgraded the U.S. from “partially compliant” to “largely compliant” with Recommendation 10 after it implemented the U.S. Treasury’s requirements for customer due diligence....
AirBoss Defense Group has secured a potential 13-week, $96.4 million contract with Federal Emergency Management Agency to provide 100,000 American-made FlexAir Powered Air Purifying Respirators and 600,000 High Efficiency Filters for urgent response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the company announced on Wednesday. ...
The Professional Services Council (PSC), in conjunction with the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA), sent a letter to Congress that has requested a six-month extension of the deadline of Section 889(a)(1)(B) Fiscal Year 2019 National Defense Authorization Act, the agency announced on Thursday....
Accenture has acquired Yesler, a business-to-business (B2B) marketing services agency that helps many of the world’s leading brands run their global marketing programs and operations at speed and scale, the company announced on Thursday. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed....
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received a five-year, $404M contract modification for software, engineering and product support work on the U.S. Navy's airborne early warning and command-and-control aircraft platform. The Navy exercised options on a previously awarded contract to procure E-2D Advanced Hawkeye support services and two addi...
Executive Mosaic is pleased to present Roger Krone, chairman and CEO of Leidos, as an inductee into the 2020 Wash100 Award for driving company growth through the acquisitions of Dynetics as well as L3Harris security detection and automation businesses. This marks the seventh consecutive-time that Krone has received a Wash100 Award, which means he...
A Bechtel Corp. subsidiary has secured a three-year, $1.21B contract modification to continue helping the U.S. Army operate the branch's Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant in Colorado....
