The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification has been divisive throughout its creation over the last decade-plus, but especially since its implementation in 2017 as a requirement for defense industrial base organizations. As part of the initiative, contracting companies working with the Department of Defense must have their cyber protection system...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has released a request for proposals for a 10-year recompete contract covering technical, professional and scientific services in the oceans domain. The ProTech 2.0 Oceans Domain is a multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract reserved for small businesses and has a base...
Two companies will compete to deliver administrative and executive assistant services to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency under a five-year, $92.5 million contract. Bailey Information Technology Consultants and LMR Technical Group hold positions on the multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to support the agency ...
The State Department has approved Germany’s request to buy heavy-lift cargo helicopters, manufactured by Boeing (NYSE: BA), from the U.S. government through a potential $8.5 billion government-to-government transaction. Germany is seeking to acquire 60 CH-47F Chinooks, 140 T55-GA-714A engines, 72 common missile warning systems and 284 secure r...
Bronwyn Haley, a former Drug Enforcement Administration special agent, has been appointed vice president for the Department of Justice sector technical services contractor Steampunk. She will lead the segment under Steampunk’s homeland, commerce and justice division and brings decades of client relationships, organizational risk management and...
The Department of Veterans Affairs has started to solicit information on industry sources and their capabilities to provide support services for VA’s cybersecurity operations center. The proposed VA CSOC Next Generation II Support contract will have a nine-month base period and four 12-month options and will require the vendor to provide comprehen...
The public and private sectors alike share at least one defining characteristic: their operations are determined by their ever-increasing relocation to the cybersphere. Work, agreements, communication, storage and even warfare are now all taking place online, in the cloud and across complex digital architectures. This sweeping and ongoing digital mo...
Aaron Tyler, former chief technology officer at the White House Communications Agency, has joined General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) information technology business as solutions architect. Garrett Yee, vice president and general manager of GDIT’s Army sector, announced Tyler’s appointment in a LinkedIn post published Tuesday. Tyler is a ...
Jacobs (NYSE: J) will spin off its critical mission solutions business into an independent company focused on providing applied science research, technical consulting, program management, training and intelligent asset management support services for federal government customers. Steve Arnette, executive vice president and president of CMS business ...
Artificial intelligence is currently experiencing a major peak in the commercial world with the skyrocketing popularity of generative AI tools in recent months, which is causing a ripple effect with implications in the public sector too. Mandy Long, the new CEO of BigBear.ai, delved into the present state of the AI market, where she thinks it...
