The Department of Transportation is undergoing rapid transformation under Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. Since stepping into the role in January 2025, Duffy has prioritized robust infrastructure investments, safety standards, and the speedy, efficient delivery of critical projects nationwide. DOT’s transformation presents ample opp...
TechnoMile has appointed national security leaders Donald Blersch and Isaiah “Ike” Rivers to its newly formed security information management board of advisers. The Tysons, Virginia-based company said Tuesday Blersch and Rivers join 10 legacy SIMS Software advisers on the board, which is responsible for providing strategic guidance for TechnoMil...
Rahul Dubey, vice president of global regulated markets solutions at CyberArk, said federal agencies should treat artificial intelligence agents as a new class of privileged identities to mitigate emerging security risks. “AI agents have access to an organization’s most sensitive resources, which makes them privileged identities. And alt...
By Payam Pourkhomami, President & CEO of OSIbeyond Phase 1 of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program is live. The DFARS acquisition rule took effect on November 10, 2025, and DoD has begun incorporating CMMC requirements into new solicitations and contracts. Yet misconceptions about CMMC persist across the defense indus...
The General Services Administration has awarded 48 vendors positions on the women-owned small business, or WOSB, pool of the Polaris governmentwide acquisition contract, or GWAC, for IT products and services. The latest round of awards under a governmentwide IT contract vehicle underscores the continued demand for agile, high-performing techno...
President Donald Trump said he plans to raise the 10 percent worldwide tariff to 15 percent — the maximum rate permitted under Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974. In a Truth Social post Saturday, Trump said the increase would take effect “immediately” and described the 15 percent level as “fully allowed” under the...
The American Center for Manufacturing & Innovation has broken ground on its first National Security Industrial Hub in Bloomfield, Indiana, advancing a Department of War-backed effort to expand domestic munitions and solid rocket motor production capacity, according to a press release sent to GovCon Wire. The campus, which spans more than 1...
By Chuck Brooks, president of Brooks Consulting International The future of innovation in both government and industry will not be distinguished by singular breakthroughs, but rather by the convergence and meshing of a number of different new technologies. Going forward, industries, national security, economic competitiveness, privacy and almost eve...
The Department of Veterans Affairs has started soliciting proposals for a potential 10-year, $700 billion multiple-award contract to provide Community Care Network, or CCN, services and healthcare resources for veterans through an established network of licensed healthcare providers and practitioners. As VA advances the CCN Next Gen Medical contract...
The U.S. Marshals Service Information Technology Division, or USMS ITD, has awarded NTT DATA a task order under an existing blanket purchase agreement in support of the agency’s Functional Operations and Resources for Core Enterprise Services, or FORCE, program. The Potomac Officers Club’s 2026 Digital Transformation Summit on April 22 w...
