By Kim Koster, Vice President of Industry Marketing at Unanet The 2024 GAUGE Report, a collaboration between Unanet and CohnReznick, is an essential resource for the government contracting community. We recently released the eighth annual edition, and it remains a valuable tool for government contractors looking to evaluate themselves against...
The Department of Health and Human Services has awarded 20 companies positions on a potential five-year, $350 million contract to help facilitate evaluations and evidence-building activities in support of the bureaus and offices within the Health Resources and Services Administration. According to award notices published on the Federal Procurement D...
By Chuck Brooks, President of Brooks Consulting International Earlier this Summer, the Department of Homeland Security, through the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, announced more than $18.2 million in Tribal Cybersecurity Grant Program awards to assist tribal nations with managi...
The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program is the Department of Defense’s latest effort to enforce cybersecurity requirements for contractors. While CMMC is not necessarily new — read below for more information about CMMC’s history — there are a few things contractors need to know about the program as it becomes a defense contrac...
Government technology company Raft has appointed business development executive William “Bill” Bal as senior vice president of growth and human resources executive Danielle McCoy as chief people officer. Raft said Tuesday Bal will oversee the company’s business strategy, spearhead new business opportunities, promote collaborative l...
Harmonia Holdings Group, a Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center-located software company, has appointed Damon Griggs, executive partner at Madison Dearborn Partners, as CEO and chairman of its board of directors. The executive move is part of MDP’s recent investment in Harmonia to accelerate its strategy to become a digital transformation p...
By Payam Pourkhomami, President & CEO of OSIbeyond Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification requirements are here, and the clock is ticking for organizations affected by them. Per the Department of Defense’s estimates, starting in Q1 2025, all new DOD contracts will require self-assessment at CMMC Level 1 or Level 2 before award. By Q3 2...
By Kim Koster, Vice President of Industry Marketing at Unanet In fiscal year 2023, the U.S. federal government delivered a record $765 billion in contract awards. Almost all of these are competed over and require extensive investment to even be in consideration for the award. As a consequence, government contracting companies must not spread ...
Bob Ritchie is a fast learner. The technologist started at SAIC as an intern fresh out of a Virginia Tech computer engineering degree and only three years later was the chief software architect assisting the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, wherein he helped digitally transform preexisting Department of Defense tactical decision and command and control,...
Doug Steele, vice president of federal sales at Noname Security, said government agencies advancing digital transformation efforts should have complete visibility into their application programming interfaces to protect sensitive data from threat actors and other cyber vulnerabilities. In an article published on Carahsoft.com, Steele wrote that comp...
