The Department of Defense has been working on creating a Defense Industrial Base cybersecurity strategy that is expected to be released by the end of the year, according to DOD Acting Principal Deputy CIO David McKeown, a 2023 Wash100 Award winner. “If you’ve done business with us, you know that there’s a variety of folks withi...
For military service branches, connectivity at the tactical edge — often outside of the continental United States — is critical to mission success. Warfighters must be able to access data, intelligence, capabilities and technological power in these environments in order to fight and win, especially during an era of increasing global competition ...
The Department of Defense’s long-awaited enterprise cloud effort finally got off the ground in December 2022, when four commercial cloud service providers landed a spot on the $9 billion Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract. Executive Mosaic spoke with leaders from each of the awardee companies — Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft and...
The Department of Veterans Affairs has ceased upcoming deployments of the Oracle Cerner electronic health record system as part of a program reset aimed at addressing EHR-related issues that were identified at five VA health facilities during the “assess and address” period. VA said Friday it will resume EHR deployment activities once the system...
NVIDIA Federal Vice President Anthony Robbins has been inducted into the 2023 edition of Executive Mosaic‘s Wash100 for his continued efforts to promote partnerships and advanced computing tools designed to empower innovation across the public sector. This is the sixth time Executive Mosaic has chosen Robbins to the annual Wash100 list of exec...
The U.S. Space Force has awarded 18 companies positions on a potential five-year, $900 million contract to provide data software services to help meet warfighters’ requirements. Space Systems Command received 34 offers for the multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract and expects work to occur in El Segundo, California, thro...
As cloud technology matures and continues to take over the federal landscape, leaders across the government contracting ecosystem are learning key lessons that are helping shape the path forward. Chief among those lessons is that a multi-cloud approach works best, which is why the Department of Defense awarded its massive enterprise-wide cloud contr...
Executive Mosaic is honored to induct Department of Defense Chief Information Officer John Sherman into the 2023 edition of the Wash100 for his work cultivating closer partnerships with the DOD’s industrial base and allied forces, trailblazing the department’s cloud adoption journey and spearheading information technology innovation across...
Professional services firm cBEYONData has acquired Summit2Sea Consulting in a transaction that expands its data analytics capabilities for federal government customers. Summit2Sea has been providing data analytics, enterprise application modernization and robotic process automation support across Department of Defense programs since 2003 and maintai...
The Department of Defense’s enterprise-wide cloud environment has been years in the making, but now, the wheels are really beginning to turn. In December 2022, the DOD awarded its long-awaited $9 billion Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract to four industry cloud service providers — Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft and Oracle — m...
