The accreditation body for the Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program has issued a request for proposals for a continuous monitoring platform. The RFP posted Wednesday on LinkedIn says that certified third-party assessment organizations, assessors and companies seeking certification will use the continuous moni...
**NEWS ALERT** Gina Haspel Overtakes Top Spot in Wash100 Vote Rankings; Stacey Dixon, Juliane Gallina, Katie Arrington Push into Top 10 After rising in the 2020 Wash100 Rankings for the past few weeks, Gina Haspel, director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has overtaken first place. Her ascension in the rankings proves that your votes...
Mike Moran, former vice president of space strategies at Peraton and a retired U.S. Air Force colonel, has joined small satellite data provider PredaSAR as chief operating officer....
Jerry McGinn, executive director of the Center for Government Contracting at George Mason University’s School of Business, has presented his key takeaways from a presentation by Katie Arrington, chief information security officer at the Department of Defense and a 2020 Wash100 award winner, about DoD’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certificat...
MAG Aerospace has agreed to acquire AASKI Technology, a professional services provider to the government sector, for an undisclosed sum. Baird served as AASKI's exclusive financial adviser on the deal....
The Defense Logistics Agency has extended the period of performance under a $4B special operational equipment indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract previously awarded to six companies....
Bruce Jette, acquisition executive at the U.S. Army and a 2020 Wash100 award winner, said companies that previously submitted bids for the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle program have expressed plans to compete again after the service restructured the acquisition strategy for the OMFV competition, Inside Defense reported Thursday....
Joseph Martz, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general, has been appointed a senior adviser for Advanced Concepts and Technologies International under a partnership with Martz & Associates Consulting....
Comtech Telecommunications (Nasdaq: CMTL) has agreed to buy Gilat Satellite Networks (Nasdaq: GILT) for $10.25 per share or approximately $532.5M in cash and stock. “The acquisition better positions Comtech to take advantage of key marketplace trends, particularly the growing demand for satellite connectivity and the enormous long-term opportunit...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 24, 2020 — Credence Management Solutions, a member of Amazon Web Services’ partner network in the public sector, helped the Defense Logistics Agency move five applications to the AWS GovCloud (US) platform, ExecutiveBiz reported Jan. 17....
