The Department of Defense has released a zero trust cybersecurity framework outlining targeted efforts to secure the DOD Information Enterprise by reducing its attack surface, enabling risk management and facilitating data sharing. The DOD Zero Trust Strategy and Roadmap focuses on four high-level strategic goals: zero trust cultural adoption, DoD i...
By Cameron Chehreh It has become a cliché to say digital technology has transformed every aspect of our lives and that businesses need to embrace digital transformation to compete in the marketplace. It has likewise become conventional wisdom to note that government agencies must digitize internal processes and external service delivery to fulfill ...
MM Technologies has won a $553.7 million contract from NASA to provide financial support and related services at several research centers of the space agency nationwide. The Huntsville, Alabama-located small business will support missions, programs, projects and organizational offices at Armstrong Flight Research Center, Ames Research Center, ...
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...
The Missile Defense Agency has awarded Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) other transaction prototype agreement modifications to continue the development and refinement of the companies’ respective concepts of the Glide Phase Interceptor. Both contractors will work to polish their prototypes for the â€...
Todd Helfrich, vice president of federal sales at SentinelOne (NYSE: S), said government agencies should advance cyber resiliency, adopt industry best practices and reduce the identity attack surface to protect endpoints and networks from cyber adversaries. Helfrich wrote that cyber resiliency has been highlighted by the release of guidance by the N...
Leonardo has agreed to sell the air traffic management business of its Selex ES subsidiary to an Indra Sistemas company for an undisclosed sum under a sales transaction that is expected to close in the first quarter of 2023. ATM focuses on developing, producing and offering en route navigation and surveillance technologies as well as...
Matthew Edwards, a two-decade defense and intelligence market veteran, has been appointed vice president of Axient‘s Navy business segment and president of the company’s SEG subsidiary. He previously led businesses that provide products and services to government customers such as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Office...
Global supply chain issues have significantly impacted the government contracting ecosystem in recent years, calling attention to the need for speed in federal acquisition, procurement and manufacturing processes. Kicking off GovCon Wire’s 3rd Annual Defense Digital Acquisition and Innovation Forum, Lt. Gen. David Bassett illustrated the...
Sean Frazier, federal chief security officer at Okta (Nasdaq: OKTA), said government agencies should consider identity as critical infrastructure and modernize their identity and access management to provide better user experiences. “Agencies can assess the state of their identity infrastructure by continually asking whether they are delivering th...
