By Payam Pourkhomami, President & CEO of OSIbeyond The Department of Defense’s Dec. 16, 2024 final rule on the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program marks a decisive shift in how defense contractors must approach cybersecurity compliance. Under the CMMC clause (DFARS 252.204-7021), contractors must meet one of three certificat...
HII has completed the acquisition of a South Carolina-based metal fabricator as part of a push to expand its shipbuilding capacity. The company said Monday the acquired facility will support the production of nuclear-powered submarine modules and aircraft carrier structures for U.S. Navy programs. Following the transaction, HII has commenced work at...
OPEXUS and Casepoint have merged and received a majority investment from software investment firm Thoma Bravo to form a combined entity that will offer data discovery platforms and process management software to government and commercial customers in North America. According to a joint release published Monday, OPEXUS CEO Howard Langsam will lead th...
Assured Information Security has won a potential 10-year, $300 million contract to provide software, hardware and reports for virtualization and remote access. The Department of Defense said Friday the Air Force Research Laboratory launched a competitive acquisition process and received three bids for the Engineering for Virtualized Enterprise and R...
Gil Herrera, the National Security Agency’s research director, has spoken publicly in multiple places about how, if a true, fully powerful quantum computer were built, it could have the potential to both drastically cut worldwide energy consumption but also, if in the wrong hands, handily dismantle the world’s economy. He revisited those th...
C5MI has worked with the Defense Logistics Agency and SAP to facilitate the migration to the SAP S/4HANA enterprise resource planning software to advance the Department of Defense’s digital transformation efforts. The IT services provider said Friday the S/4 migration as part of DLA’s SAP Warehouse Management System, or WMS, deployment effor...
AT&T Business has appointed Wes Anderson, a 26-year Microsoft veteran and a three-time Wash100 awardee, as senior vice president of federal. Anderson announced his move to AT&T in a LinkedIn post published Thursday. In the post, Anderson expressed his gratitude for the talented people, customers and partners he worked with at Microsoft and f...
The U.S. Army has awarded L3Harris Technologies a $300 million purchase order to produce thousands of handheld, manpack and small form fit, or HMS, radios. Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer’s office said Thursday the military branch placed the order under a potential 10-year, $12.7 billion indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract ...
CACI International has reported $2.1 billion in revenues for the second quarter of fiscal 2025, an increase of $14.5 percent compared to the same period in 2024. The Reston, Virginia-headquartered government and defense technology company said Thursday it secured a total of $1.2 billion in contract awards during the quarter that ended on Dec. 31,...
The U.S. Navy has started seeking proposals for an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity multiple award contract with a potential value of $1.9 billion for outsourcing work related to Chief of Naval Operations availabilities on fast attack submarines. Contract Specifications According to the request for proposal issued on SAM.gov Thursday, th...
