Zack Butcher, a founding engineer at Tetrate, said government agencies looking to implement a zero trust architecture to improve their cybersecurity posture should adopt an infrastructure layer called service mesh. He wrote in an article published on Carahsoft.com that a service mesh like Istio could enable agencies to intercept network traffic amon...
By Eric Trexler, Senior Vice President of U.S. Public Sector at Palo Alto Networks Today’s zero trust conversation has matured since it was originally popularized in 2010 by John Kindervag, one of the world’s foremost cybersecurity experts and a Palo Alto Networks alum. Although the urgency and capabilities for zero trust have exploded in t...
Sixteen companies will continue to compete for individual orders to deliver information technology products and related incidental services to defense and federal civilian agencies under a U.S. Army firm-fixed-price contract worth $2.5 billion over two and half years. All 16 awardees hold prime positions on the Army’s Information Technology En...
Amentum will deliver life-cycle support and other follow-on technical services to eligible international naval forces under a potential five-year, $591.6 million contract with the U.S. Navy. The Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division in Keyport, Washington, received four proposals for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract through a co...
A Cherokee Federal business will support various functions at the Defense Health Agency headquarters under a four-year, $44 million contract. Cherokee Nation Defense Solutions will help DHA develop future plans for its clinical support division and clinical quality management branch, the Department of Defense’s Patient Safety Program, and DOD ...
BAE Systems has agreed to acquire Ball’s (NYSE: BALL) aerospace business for approximately $5.55 billion as part of efforts to accelerate the British defense contractor’s space market strategy and expand its technology offerings for the U.S. government. “This marquee acquisition would advance our company’s position in some of the fastest...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will provide F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program management, nonrecurring requirements and training support for the government of Germany under a potential $622.4 million contract with the U.S. Navy. Work on the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract will occur in Texas, Florida and South Carolina through December 2027, the Departmen...
CACI International‘s (NYSE: CACI) federal arm has received a five-year, $414 million task order to engineer software and systems supporting the U.S. Air Force’s functional and mission requirements. The company will help the Air Force Research Laboratory explore information processing tools for battlespace awareness and decision-making ap...
Lt. Gen. Robert Skinner, director of the Defense Information Systems Agency, said the Department of Defense has placed task orders worth $200 million combined under the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract since the award to four vendors was announced in December 2022, Breaking Defense reported Tuesday. He gave the JWCC procurement vehicle up...
An RTX (NYSE: RTX) division will supply tube-launched, optically-tracked, wireless-guided missiles to the U.S. Army under a three-year, $322.5 million contract. Raytheon Land and Air Defense Systems will provide the TOW 2B variant of the long-range anti-armor, anti-fortification and anti-amphibious landing weapon system as part of the fixed-price-in...
