The U.S. government has arrived at a seemingly widespread acceptance of the importance of maintaining and evolving its cybersecurity protections, particularly within the Intelligence Community. Without these measures, classified information could be at risk from both state-based and independent bad actors from across the globe looking to exploit vul...
Information technology company Echelon Services has won a potential five-year, $153.4 million contract to provide enterprise and transformational cybersecurity support services to the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency. DCSA sought proposals from seven 8(a) small businesses for the firm-fixed-price, labor-hour contract and obligat...
Doug Cossa, chief information officer of the Defense Intelligence Agency, will keynote a Nov. 17 virtual forum to be hosted by Executive Mosaic’s flagship Government Contracting Wire (GovCon Wire) to discuss the DIA’s current information technology environment and the role of industry in efforts to transform the agency’s IT infrast...
Deborah Dunie, former executive vice president and chief technology officer at CACI International (NYSE: CACI), has joined the board of directors of Perry, Georgia-based Sigma Defense Systems. Sigma Defense CEO John Wilcox said in a statement published Monday Dunie brings to the company over 30 years of experience serving in the Department of Defens...
The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency is working with other agencies to replace the periodic reinvestigation of federal employee and contractor security clearance holders with a continuous vetting process as part of the Trusted Workforce 2.0 framework. DCSA — which took over the responsibility for the management and operation of ...
Following an opening keynote address by Morgan Adamski, chief of the National Security Agency (NSA) Cybersecurity Collaboration Center, GovConWire Events moved to the second part of Wednesday’s Defense Cybersecurity Forum with a can’t miss expert panel. Bob Renko, director of digital forensics at Peraton, acted as the panel’s moderator with Je...
GovCon Wire, the leading membership organization dedicated to connecting and empowering executives within the government contracting (GovCon) community, hosted its Defense Cybersecurity Forum on Wednesday, May 12th. If you missed the Defense Cybersecurity Forum, you can still access the OnDemand footage by visiting GovCon Wire Event Archive. The Def...
Jeffrey Specht, executive director of the Defense Cyber Crime Center operating under the U.S. Air Force, will join Jude Sunderbruch, executive director of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, and other panelists in a discussion on cybersecurity at a GovCon Wire event Wednesday. Specht leads DC3’s efforts to provide computer forensic...
Richard Naylor, deputy assistant director of cyber operations at the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency, will speak during GovCon Wire’s Defense Cybersecurity Forum as part of an expert panel. Join the virtual event to hear from government and industry executives as they offer insight on how organizations can help safeguard nation...
Tom Afferton, president of the cyber mission sector at Peraton, will provide a keynote speaker introduction at GovCon Wire’s Defense Cybersecurity Forum on May 12. He will introduce Morgan Adamski, chief of the National Security Agency’s Cybersecurity Collaboration Center, during the virtual event. Afferton joined Peraton, a portfolio compan...
