Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) filed a federal suit Friday in Washington contesting the fairness of the Department of Defense's move to award a $10B cloud computing contract to Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), Bloomberg reported Saturday. DoD faces the legal challenge one month after it selected Microsoft to be its Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contr...
On Tuesday, Potomac Officers Club (POC) hosted its Unmanned Systems in the Future Fight Forum featuring Maj. Gen. Peter Gersten, special assistant to the Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans and Programs (AF/A5/8) for the U.S. Air Force, as the keynote speaker. In addition, an expert panel featuring Jim Thomson of the Army Futures Command...
NortonLifeLock (Nasdaq: NLOK) has announced the appointment of key leaders following its launch as an independent publicly traded consumer cyber safety company as a result of Broadcom’s (Nasdaq: AVGO) $10.7B acquisition of Symantec’s enterprise security assets. Vincent Pilette, a more than 20-year financial management executive, has been named...
The Aspen Cybersecurity Group announced that 15 companies have expressed their commitment to implementing talent management principles meant to narrow the cybersecurity skills gap....
Concurrent Technologies Corp. has won a potential five-year, $21M contract to provide subject matter expertise and program management support to the U.S. Air Force's deputy assistant secretary for environment, safety and infrastructure....
Defense Secretary and 2019 Wash100 awardee Mark Esper has recused himself from a review of the Pentagon’s potential 10-year, $10B Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing contract to avoid any issue of a conflict of interest....
Phyllis Schneck, a veteran cybersecurity leader, will assume the role of vice president and chief information security officer of Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), starting Oct. 14....
President Trump announced on Wednesday that he’s selected Robert O’Brien to be the new National Security Adviser for the White House. O’Brien succeeds John Bolton, who left Trump’s administration last week. In his role, O’Brien will tackle everything from immigration policy to heightened tensions with Iran. H...
Kelly Loeffler, former global capture management leader of IBM's (NYSE: IBM) Watson Health division, has joined CNSI as vice president of deals, strategy and capture. She brings nearly two decades of capture and sales experience to CNSI and will help drive its growth, investment and partnership efforts in her new position, the company said Tues...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has awarded 17 positions on a potential $5B indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for technical assistance and analytics support to federal healthcare delivery models and demonstration efforts....
