The conversation surrounding cryptocurrency and other digital assets has gained new context in the U.S. federal government following the release of a highly-anticipated document from the Federal Reserve on digital currencies. The Federal Reserve’s paper, Money and Payments: The U.S. Dollar in the Age of Digital Transformation, d...
The State Department has approved a request by France to procure follow-on contractor logistics support services and related equipment for the country’s MQ-9 unmanned aerial vehicle fleet under a $300 million foreign military sales deal with the U.S. government. General Atomics will serve as the principal contractor on the follow-on FMS transa...
Former Department of Defense officials Jack Gumtow, Scott Howell and Patricia Stokes have joined the board of advisers of artificial intelligence software provider Babel Street. They will advise the leadership team on approaches to help customers implement the company’s analytics software platform, Babel Street said Wednesday. Gumtow, a three-...
ECS has received a contract to transfer medical data from the Defense Health Agency’s legacy information technology systems to a single electronic health records platform. The Fairfax, Virginia-based company said Wednesday it will help agency personnel decommission older EHR systems and integrate a unified database for patient records with exi...
Potomac Officers Club, the top membership organization dedicated to connecting and empowering executives within the government contracting (GovCon) community, hosted its Trusted Workforce Forum on Wednesday, June 16th. If you missed the Trusted Workforce Forum, you can still access the OnDemand footage by visiting Potomac Officers Club’s Event Pag...
Jeffrey Huth, vice president of TransUnion Public Sector, acted as moderator for an expert panel discussion during the Potomac Officers Club’s Trusted Workforce Forum on June 30th. The following panelist discussed private partnership in the era of artificial intelligence and machine learning, featuring Heather Green of Defense Counterintelli...
The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency is working with other agencies to replace the periodic reinvestigation of federal employee and contractor security clearance holders with a continuous vetting process as part of the Trusted Workforce 2.0 framework. DCSA — which took over the responsibility for the management and operation of ...
The federal government has struggled to complete the required security clearance processes for its massive workforce. The security clearance backlog has recently been reduced due to the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) efforts to streamline and digitize the clearance process. During Potomac Officers Club’s Trusted Workforce F...
The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) is striving to increase security clearance efficiency by developing the National Background Investigation Services (NBIS) that will replace legacy background investigation information technology (IT) systems. The NBIS is a part of the new Trusted Workforce 2.0 framework, designed to co...
This past Wednesday, Potomac Officers Club (POC) hosted its 2021 CMMC Forum to provide the government contracting (GovCon) and federal sector’s members his overview and vision of the CMMC Rollout as well as the top priorities for the board and how industry feedback will help to improve the vision behind how the organization develops for the...
