Steve Spano, regional vice president for public sector at Tableau, has said there are three misconceptions surrounding data analytics that government agencies should address and break down to leverage data as a strategic asset. One of the myths Spano debunked is that data reporting is hard. Spano wrote that agencies should shift from spreadsheet-cen...
The National Institutes of Health and three other U.S. health agencies have teamed up with the Foundation for the NIH, European Medicines Agency and 16 biopharmaceutical companies to speed up the development of vaccines and treatments for COVID-19. The Accelerating COVID-19 Therapeutic Interventions and Vaccines partnership will work to streamline c...
A team of General Electric (NYSE: GE) and Ford (NYSE: G) has been awarded a Defense Production Act contract worth potentially $336M to produce ventilators for the Department of Health and Human Services....
Katie Arrington, chief information security officer for the Department of Defense’s acquisition and sustainment office and a 2020 Wash100 Award winner, said she believes the DoD’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program “will become a federal standard for the whole of government rapidly,” FedScoop reported Thursday. Arrington...
Textron (NYSE: TXT) has secured a five-year, $386.3M contract modification from the U.S. Navy to build additional landing craft, air cushion vehicles designed to transport military personnel, weapons and equipment....
The U.S. Air Force is expected to award a contract for the potential $85B Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent intercontinentinal ballistic missile program to Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) by the end of September but Will Roper, the service’s acquisition executive and a 2020 Wash100 awardee, said the contract award could occur sooner than expected, De...
The Professional Services Council (PSC) has released its comments on the Department of Defense (DoD) and General Service Administration’s (GSA) actions to accelerate payments to government small business primes and small business subcontractors, the organization announced on Thursday. ...
Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese & Associates and a 2019 Wash100 awardee, highlighted in a report some of the key takeaways from the remarks of Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, at a White House press briefing Tuesday....
The Department of Defense’s office of inspector general concluded that the awarding of the potential 10-year, $10B Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing contract to Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) was consistent with federal acquisition laws and policies, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday....
Les Buday, former president and chief operating officer of Tetrad Digital Integrity, has been named director of cybersecurity at McLean, Va.-based systems integrator HumanTouch....
