Kim Koster, vice president of GovCon Strategy at Unanet, co-author of the company’’s 2021 GovCon Success Guide and GovCon Expert, published her latest article on Tuesday as a member of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program. After exploring the challenges facing supply chain and GovCon executives as the compliance requirements, such as CMMC...
The General Services Administration issued in May its second draft policy that would allow federal agencies to buy commercial cloud services on a consumption basis under the Federal Supply Schedule program, Federal News Network reported Monday. Jeff Koses, senior procurement officer at GSA’s office of acquisition policy, wrote in the draft policy ...
Quantum Computing Inc. will use its cloud software application to help the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory address graph partitioning and data decomposition issues to enable petascale and exascale simulations that can be applied to national security efforts. The company and Los Alamos signed a three-year cooperative...
Greg Pelton, most recently the chief product officer of artificial intelligence company Pryon, will join Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) to succeed the retiring Hermon Pon as chief technical officer. Pelton will oversee Iridium’s technology development and engineering functions and technical aspects of its product and service offerings, ...
As the Department of Defense moves forward with its phased implementation of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program, several studies have offered insights within the defense industry about contractor preparations and expectations on the department’s CMMC process. A DOD interim rule, released in September 2020, provided a five-y...
Anne Neuberger, deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging technology at the White House National Security Council and a 2021 Wash100 Award winner, met with the National Association of Attorneys General on Thursday and outlined the four lines of effort of the Biden administration’s ransomware strategy. The White House said Friday the ...
Hillary Ashton, chief product officer of Teradata (NYSE: TDC), has been appointed to serve on the board of CentralSquare as an independent director, responsible for providing cloud product insight to support the public sector technology company’s growth strategy. CentralSquare said Thursday Ashton, as Teradata CPO, drives the multicloud data p...
Tony Mitchell, formerly vice president of business development and strategy at Leidos‘ (NYSE: LDOS) Dynetics group, has been appointed VP of advanced technology and strategy at military electronics supplier CAES. He will be responsible for coordinating CAES’ independent research and development projects and its partnerships with governme...
From warfighting missions to public service, data has proven to be a critical asset in boosting the nation’s performance and competitive advantage. Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks on May 5 signed a memorandum aimed at revolutionizing the Department of Defense into an agency that leverages data architecture and systems to advance the na...
The U.S. Navy has awarded 29 companies potential 10-year contracts worth up to $242 million combined to provide expeditionary supplies and services in support of military exercises, disaster relief, humanitarian missions and contingencies worldwide. The fleet logistics center of Naval Supply Systems Command in Japan received 35 offers for the indefi...
