Mitre has secured a $474 million option contract to continue operating the U.S. Air Force-funded National Security Engineering Center, which conducts research work in cybersecurity and other technical areas. The nonprofit will continue to manage the NSEC federally funded research and development center through Sept. 30, 2022, and will initially rece...
Titania has introduced a new tool designed to help companies automate the assessment of their network security practices in compliance with the Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program. The new module is part of the company’s Nipper software that looks for vulnerabilities in firewalls, routers and switches and o...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has selected three joint ventures and one independent company to offer architectural and engineering task orders under a three-year, $110 million contract. AECOM Technical Services, HDR GEI JV, Kleinfelder-Stantec USACE A JV and Tetra Tech-Black & Veatch JV are the awardees on the firm-fixed-price contract, the D...
The research arm of the U.S. Air Force has released a presolicitation notice for a program aimed at enabling autonomous electromagnetic warfare operations through artificial intelligence or machine learning-powered collection and analysis of on-board data in real time. According to the notice of contract action posted Thursday on SAM.gov, Project Ka...
Contegix has acquired Ascend Integrated in a move to expand the former’s DevOps service and offer new information technology services in the public sector market. Washington, D.C.-based Ascend Integrated holds an Atlassian Gold Partner status and specializes in IT Agile, system implementation and DevOps services, Contegix said Wednesday. The c...
James “Jim” Hutcherson, a Salesforce trainer for public and academic institutions, has been named vice president of cloud platform solutions at B3 Group, a Herndon, Virginia-based information technology consulting firm providing digital services to federal government and enterprise customers. He oversees B3 Group’s cloud governance and strateg...
Woolpert has acquired Optimal GEO, an Alabama-based geospatial services provider to the defense and intelligence sectors. Woolpert said Thursday it made the acquisition to increase its ability to support domestic geospatial programs and add lidar, photogrammetric mapping and orthoimagery offerings. The two companies have jointly worked with federal ...
Kim Koster, vice president of GovCon Strategy at Unanet, co-author of the 2021 GAUGE Report and GovCon Expert, has published her latest article on Thursday as a member of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program. Koster provides insight into the Gauge Report’s findings that explore the best practices and benchmarks of the government contr...
The Office of Management and Budget has issued a draft federal strategy to help U.S. government agencies implement zero trust principles in their enterprise security architecture in accordance with President Joe Biden’s cybersecurity executive order. OMB said Tuesday the draft Federal Zero Trust Strategy establishes baseline technical and policy r...
WSM Pacific SIOP, A Joint Venture, has secured a potential $500 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide architectural and engineering services to a shipyard infrastructure modernization project of Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Pacific. The Honolulu-based business entity will support the Navy in structural and waterfront-related...
