After the government contracting industry experienced a surge in mergers and acquisitions a few years ago, the market has cooled in recent times. This is partly due to cautionary business behaviors in response to accelerated inflation. According to Howard Seeger, founder, managing partner and CEO of advisory firm Deep Water Point, in today’s lan...
David Erickson, senior director of solutions architecture at Elastic (NYSE: ESTC), said open source technologies enable government agencies to control and query their data to glean insights quickly and speed up the decision-making process. “The real power of open source technologies was revealed when they cracked the code on being highly powered, ...
Christopher Smith, vice president and general manager of the North America public sector at Red Hat, said the transparency, portability and innovation that open source offers have made the technology a mission-critical foundation for federal agencies, companies and other organizations. “Open source technologies evolve rapidly based on the diverse ...
John Balbus, interim director of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Climate Change and Health Equity, said in a GovCon Wire-hosted virtual event that OCCHE works to promote health equity and strengthen sector-wide commitment to addressing the climate crisis as its overt and subtle effects threaten worldwide well-being. He n...
Enlightenment Capital has invested in iNovex, a Columbia, Maryland-based provider of software development platforms focused on signals intelligence, cybersecurity, robotic process automation and data analysis for federal government, intelligence community and commercial clients. Gary Daigle, CEO of iNovex, said in a statement published Wednesday Enl...
Four additional companies have secured spots on a potential $25 billion contract vehicle for general management and business support services to the Department of Veterans Affairs, according to data published Wednesday on the Federal Procurement Data System. The VA added ReefPoint Group, Revolve Solutions, Strategic Ventures Consulting Group and Ten...
Jay Leask, director of federal strategy for AvePoint’s (Nasdaq: AVPT) public sector business, said government agencies looking to establish a digital collaborative space to carry out its mission while protecting that space from cyberthreats should establish policies at the workspace level. Leask wrote that “it is essential to ask questions about...
The two main concepts on which the U.S. Army’s cyber team is concentrated in order to protect its information are time and scale. Responding to potential threats in “machine time” in order to diminish the blast radius of a harmful event is crucial, as is executing cybersecurity that matches the breadth of resources in need of...
Nick Heudecker, senior director of market strategy at Cribl, said the 2021 cybersecurity executive order has pushed federal agencies to take a closer look at zero trust, endpoint detection and response and supply chain security and implement a layered security architecture. Heudecker wrote that the EO has resulted in the development of the Office of...
The volume, velocity and variety of data that organizations are dealing with has increased dramatically in recent years. While all this data poses new challenges to leaders — especially in the U.S. government — it can also unlock troves of important organizational insights if collected, analyzed and harnessed with the right tools. Rob Carey, pre...
