General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) information technology business will continue to provide managed hosting and professional services to a Department of Homeland Security-owned data center under a potential 18-month, $395.5 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. An award notice posted Thursday on SAM.gov says GDIT will extend i...
Potomac Officers Club, the top membership organization dedicated to connecting and empowering executives within the government contracting (GovCon) community, hosted its Trusted Workforce Forum on Wednesday, June 16th. If you missed the Trusted Workforce Forum, you can still access the OnDemand footage by visiting Potomac Officers Club’s Event Pag...
Jeffrey Huth, vice president of TransUnion Public Sector, acted as moderator for an expert panel discussion during the Potomac Officers Club’s Trusted Workforce Forum on June 30th. The following panelist discussed private partnership in the era of artificial intelligence and machine learning, featuring Heather Green of Defense Counterintelli...
The federal government has struggled to complete the required security clearance processes for its massive workforce. The security clearance backlog has recently been reduced due to the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) efforts to streamline and digitize the clearance process. During Potomac Officers Club’s Trusted Workforce F...
Pacific Defense has established an advisory board in an effort to inform the aerospace technology company’s decision-making processes and expand its customer reach, and has named former Department of Defense leaders David Norquist and Alan Shaffer as anchor members. Norquist, Shaffer and other board members will bring in their industry experie...
Dave West, formerly an executive at ECS, has been appointed senior vice president of corporate development and strategy at McLean, Virginia-based consulting and information technology services provider Avantus Federal. He will be responsible for driving mergers and acquisitions, partnerships and strategic efforts in his new position at Avantus, the ...
Sabra Horne, former chief of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s innovation hub, has been named an entrepreneur in residence at Palo Alto, California-based technology incubator BMNT, FedScoop reported Monday. She will help oversee BMNT’s artificial intelligence-driven InsightAI program that works to analyze data from ...
Veeam Software has launched a new subsidiary to offer software platforms meant to help federal government customers protect and manage data, workloads and mission-critical applications. Washington, D.C.-based Veeam Government Solutions has more than 1,200 government clients, including the Department of Defense, intelligence community and civilian ag...
During Potomac Officers Club’s Trusted Workforce Forum, elite private and public sector executives will discuss the future of Trusted Workforce 2.0, major initiatives and policies to accommodate future technology-driven Trusted Workforce capabilities and how private industry can assist with reducing the security clearance backlog. William Lietza...
President Joe Biden has signed an executive order to help address the risks posed by connected software applications linked to foreign adversaries and maintain the national emergency declared in May 2019 by the previous administration with regard to the the security of the U.S. information and communications technology and services supply chain. The...
