Jeffrey Adorno of Zscaler and Ryan Heidorn of C3 Integrated Solutions said zero trust could help accelerate the compliance of government contractors with the Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program “because it offers a way to mitigate technical bloat and debt, such as on-premises legacy technologies.” “...
Pergravis will provide U.S. government facilities worldwide with emergency repair and preventative maintenance services under a 10-year, $250 million contract from the U.S. Air Force. The Tampa, Florida based mission-critical facility services firm said Monday the services will support uninterruptable power supply systems and related equipment at fe...
Leonardo DRS (Nasdaq: DRS) has secured a potential five-year, $177.9 million contract from the U.S. Army to provide support services for several combat vehicles. The cost-plus-fixed-fee contract covers support for Abrams M1 tank family of vehicles, Bradley Fighting Vehicles, M88 Recovery FoVs, Assault Breacher Vehicles and Joint Assault Bridges, the...
Department of Defense Principal Deputy Chief Information Officer Leslie Beavers has joined the Wash100 ranks for the first time in recognition of her work driving information technology modernization and cybersecurity efforts across the DOD. Vote for Beavers as your favorite Wash100 winner at Wash100.com! The Wash100 popular vote competition is o...
Recent momentum in artificial intelligence could be seen as a largely American enterprise, led by domestic companies such as OpenAI and federal government initiatives from the likes of the Department of Defense’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office — not to mention multiple presidential executive orders on the matter. However, U.S. ...
A General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) subsidiary will provide planning yard support services for the U.S. Navy’s Zumwalt-class guided missile destroyers under a potential five-year, $343.7 million contract. The cost-plus-award-fee contract has a $22.7 million base value that will run through March 2025, the Department of Defense said Friday. Planning ...
Project Maven was launched in 2017 to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence across the U.S. military. The initiative has made tremendous strides in its efforts to explore new AI technologies, and in November, it became a program of record at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Rachael Martin, director of NGA’s Maven Office a...
While artificial intelligence is still a growing technology and comes with its share of risks and unknowns, some experts feel that the U.S. government is being too conservative about releasing information to the public regarding AI. “I think we all recognize we do not want to put out and jeopardize information that’s important to the...
Executive Mosaic is honored to introduce Gen. Charles “CQ” Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as an inductee into the 2024 Wash100 — an annual list of public and private sector leaders who are at the forefront of trends and events shaping the government contracting activity. Vote for Brown as your favorite GovCon...
The Department of Defense’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office is set to release its first maturity model for large language models this year, according to CDAO Chief Technology Officer William Streilein. LLMs are deep learning models that are trained on mass amounts of data and can respond to prompts from a human. They are a major...
