Like many government agencies, the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Customs and Border Protection manages petabytes of data flowing through it every day. They perform an estimated 50 billion data exchanges and 10 billion transactions daily. This also means there are roughly 100 million cyber attack attempts per day on their network, accordin...
Paul Courtney, chief procurement officer for the Department of Homeland Security, accepted his 2024 Wash100 Award from the award’s founder, Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson, in a recent in-person meeting. The Wash100 Award is bestowed on the 100 individuals EM’s discerning voting body determines are the foremost change-makers in government...
As a program manager and engineer in the U.S. Air Force, Rocky Thurston gained the skills he needed to transition smoothly into government contracting. His first work in the field was as a program manager for an intelligence community contract at Booz Allen Hamilton, after which point he took on more assignments and learned and...
The Department of Homeland Security has begun seeking information for a recompete contract worth more than $100 million to provide information technology operations and maintenance services to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The IT User and Field Operations Support II contract vehicle has a five-year ordering period and covers technical s...
The Department of Homeland Security intends to launch a competition for the third iteration of the Geospatial Technical Support Services blanket purchase agreement. GTSS 3.0 is anticipated to have a ceiling amount of over $100 million and DHS expects to issue a solicitation for the planned multiple-award BPA by the end of May, according to...
Artificial intelligence has seen a meteoric rise across the public and private sectors alike as new advancements, policies and opportunities fuel continued growth and interest for the promising technology. However, AI is not without risk, and government leaders are weighing risk against potential benefits as they seek to adopt it. Dr. Kathleen Fishe...
The field of artificial intelligence is evolving rapidly, and the U.S. government is working to adapt to these constant changes as quickly as possible. To ensure that AI is brought in successfully, federal organizations have devised new strategies to guide their adoption of AI tools. During a panel discussion at the Potomac Officers Club’s 5th An...
When most people think of generative artificial intelligence, these days they’re thinking of commercial large language models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude or Microsoft Copilot. But genAI, as it’s known, also has immense utility in the public sector space as a data organization tool and to automate certain customer experience pro...
Today’s national security landscape is incredibly complex. As the Department of Homeland Security evolves to combat the wide array new threats posed by rapidly advancing technologies and extreme climate events, it has adopted a forward thinking approach focused on what DHS Under Secretary for Science and Technology Dimitri Kusnezov called “ove...
Noblis President and CEO Mile Corrigan has earned a second consecutive Wash100 Award for her ambitious, growth-minded leadership of the science and technology organization. Vote for Corrigan and your other favorite GovCon execs in the Wash100 Award popular vote contest, open now until April 30! It’s been an exciting, neck-and-neck race thus far...
