By Nancy Patel, General Manager of Commercial at Unison It starts with an email. A few lines of text—a DOGE request. And a deadline that assumes you’ve been ready for this moment your entire career. Somewhere, someone hits “forward,” and the scramble begins. Welcome to the data call. The government wants answers fast. N...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Cubic Defense Applications a potential $399 million follow-on firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for P5 Combat Training System logistics support for domestic and international defense customers. With the increasing sophistication of threats, the need for advanced defense capabilities in ...
The Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Reclamation has awarded NW Construction a potential $255 million contract to support a construction project at B.F. Sisk Dam in California. According to an award notice published Tuesday, the contract will support work on Phase II of the B.F. Sisk Safety of Dams, or SOD, Modifications project. Contrac...
Booz Allen Hamilton has won a potential three-year, $209.9 million task order from the U.S. Air Force to provide technical engineering support to facilitate command and control, communications, computer, cybersecurity, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems and missions. To learn more about the latest advances in defense capabilities ...
By Aparna Achanta, Principal Security Lead, IBM Risk management in organizations is more than a routine checkbox exercise. Instead, it is the foundation of business resilience. What is the impact of security risks? Failing to implement appropriate and proportionate security measures can result in data breaches, infrastructure lapses ...
Flank Speed was one of the U.S. Navy’s top IT modernization priorities and the service’s CIO is applying lessons from its implementation to another critical modernization effort. What Is Flank Speed? Flank Speed is a unique U.S. Navy enterprise system for daily work, providing a secure ecosystem for working with colleagues, cloud computi...
Digital technology company SMX has acquired cBEYONData for an undisclosed sum to establish a provider of digital transformation capabilities meant to help government customers address their planning, financial and analytical needs. OceanSound Partners-backed SMX said Tuesday cBEYONData will continue to operate with its existing leadership team withi...
5G connectivity has the potential to mitigate latency and enable large amounts of data to pass through communications systems, a bonus for the military. But so too do non-terrestrial networks — which are facilitated not by cellular towers but rather arrays of satellites — as long as they are situated in low Earth orbit rather than...
Global supply chains were thrown into the spotlight in 2020 when Covid sparked massive disruptions. Now, focus on supply chains has taken a new shape as the U.S. shifts its priorities to cybersecurity, global competition and more. GovCon Wire spoke with two Chertoff Group leaders — CEO and Co-Founder Chad Sweet and Michele Iversen,...
Much commotion was made online and in the media over the holiday season regarding reported sightings of unmanned aircraft in the U.S. airspace. In particular, a number of testimonies came from citizens in New Jersey spotting drones in the skies near Picatinny Arsenal and Naval Weapons Station Earle. In news conferences, the Department of Defens...
