Lloyd Austin, secretary of the Department of Defense and a three-time Wash100 awardee, has cleared a memo ordering agencies to implement the six recommendations by a tiger team to accelerate and strengthen the foreign military sales process in support of the 2022 National Defense Strategy. The first three recommendations are improving DOD’s unders...
As adversaries continue to develop and deploy new technologies, cyberattacks pose a greater threat to the United States than ever before. To address these risks, the federal government recently released the National Cybersecurity Strategy, which aims to build a more secure and resilient cyber ecosystem nationwide. For the U.S. government, acquiring ...
The State Department has approved Kuwait’s request to continue its purchase of engineering technical and maintenance support services for C, D, E and F variants of the F/A-18 fighter aircraft from the U.S. government under a potential $1.8 billion foreign military sales agreement. Sigmatech, Kay and Associates, KBR (NYSE: KBR), L3Harris Techno...
D-Fend Solutions has named two vice presidents and one general manager to help the counter-drone technology provider accelerate its growth initiatives in the U.S. market. The company on Tuesday announced the appointments of S. Danny Rajan as U.S. general manager, Michael Langman as vice president of strategic partnerships and Brett Feddersen as VP o...
Cadmus will continue to help the Environmental Protection Agency provide safe drinking water to the public under a five-year, $162 million recompete contract. The environmental consulting firm said Tuesday it will assist EPA’s Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water in enforcing the requirements of the Safe Drinking Water Act to implement pu...
GovCIO received recognition from the Association for Corporate Growth’s National Capital chapter for notable company accomplishments in 2022 such as achieving a 25 percent annual revenue increase and booking $1.3 billion in contracts. The Fairfax, Virginia-based IT contractor said Tuesday it won ACG National Capital’s Corporate Growth Co...
Paul Baltzell, vice president of strategy and business development for state and local government at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), said government agencies looking to counter cyberthreat actors and allow internal teams to focus more on strategic efforts should modernize their digital infrastructure with the adoption of an agile, cloud-based platform. Balt...
Space is undeniably one of the newest and most contested warfighting domains today. While commercial activity in space continues to rapidly accelerate the speed of innovation in the domain, new threats are simultaneously emerging and threatening the United States’ position in the global competition for space dominance. In response to rising space ...
The United States now regularly and publicly participates in cyber warfare. However, 20 years ago — even as recently as a decade ago — this was highly classified information, not permitted in the Title 10 or Title 50 spaces. It has only been in recent years that such practices have become more normalized and widely...
The persistent threat of cyber attacks has been a top concern for the Department of Defense in recent years. Now, as the Pentagon moves forward with a zero trust approach to cybersecurity, DOD leaders are paying close attention to implementing security not just at the enterprise level, but also at the tactical edge, where threats...
