The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded basic ordering agreements to 12 companies as part of the third pool of the STRATUS program for cloud software-as-a-service offerings. USDA released a request for quotes in late September and received 41 quotes for STRATUS Cloud SaaS BOA Pool 3, according to an award notice published Friday on...
The Wash100 Award popular vote contest — a friendly yet fiery match-up between the government contracting industry’s most exceptional talents — has been going on for nearly three months now, but this week may have been its most exciting yet. The number one seed, Booz Allen Hamilton’s Judi Dotson, is hanging on to her spot, but there...
Mark Anderson, an associate principal solutions architect at Red Hat, said government agencies looking to manage and ensure the security of hybrid cloud environments should implement an everything-as-code approach and automation. In an article published in Carahsoft.com, Anderson wrote that the everything-as-code approach “means thinking about how...
David Kubicki, senior manager of solution architects for the public sector at Palo Alto Networks (Nasdaq: PANW), said an ideal cloud security platform enables government agencies to address security requirements “while enabling them to expand for additional use cases as their cloud maturity increases.” “Adopting a platform designed with flexib...
Jon Tidwell, government strategic services lead at Mandiant, now part of Google Cloud, said government agencies looking to advance multicloud adoption to operate and manage workloads should take into consideration the use of automation and the need to address security concerns while meeting missions and organizational goals. “A combination of basi...
In its 10th week, Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 popular vote race has officially become a clash of the titans — a race between executives from the powerhouse organizations at the forefront of the government contracting industry. The top 10 is comprised of leaders from influential enterprises like Google, Booz Allen Hamilton, the Department of Defe...
Jeffrey Adorno of Zscaler and Ryan Heidorn of C3 Integrated Solutions said zero trust could help accelerate the compliance of government contractors with the Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program “because it offers a way to mitigate technical bloat and debt, such as on-premises legacy technologies.” “...
Saif Rahman, CEO and co-founder of Quzara, said defense industrial base organizations looking to comply with the Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification framework should focus on having security visibility through auditing, monitoring and generating security logs to better understand the vulnerabilities they face. In...
Sanjeev Verma, founder and chairman of PreVeil, said defense contractors seeking to protect sensitive controlled unclassified information while ensuring compliance with the Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program and the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement should adopt tools like an end-to-end e...
The General Services Administration has awarded eight companies positions on a potential 10-year, $194.5 million contract for the procurement of next-generation identity proofing capabilities for Login.gov to provide the public access to digital services offered by federal, state, local and tribal agencies. GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service launch...
