Amentum is working on task orders from the State Department to provide training, professional development, engineering, design and build services under the Africa Peacekeeping Program. The company said Wednesday it received $165 million in awards to train the armed forces in the country of Benin and construct military bases for the Somalia National ...
Private equity firm Bain Capital is about to finalize its acquisition of consulting firm Guidehouse for $5.3 billion including debt and an agreement is expected as early as Monday, The Wall Street Journal reported. Guidehouse caters to the departments of Defense, Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs and other federal government agencies. It also p...
Xage Security and Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) will provide zero trust, distributed security and other cybersecurity platforms and services for the Department of Defense and federal agency customers under a strategic partnership. “Our work with SAIC reflects our focus on the adoption of zero trust in the public sector,” ...
Open source software, or software with publicly available code, has become popular in the United States federal government in recent decades due to its cost savings, improved security, faster innovation and flexibility. Now, the healthcare sector is getting serious about open source. Andrea Fletcher became the first ever chief digital strategy offi...
Dre’ Abadie, public-sector senior solutions architect at VMware (NYSE: VMW), said government agencies that seek to strengthen the cybersecurity of their hybrid cloud or multicloud environments should partner with companies that provide cross-cloud visibility and analytical insights and advance automation of security tasks. Abadie wrote in an a...
The healthcare sector in the United States is in the midst of transformational modernization. Taking lessons learned from the global COVID-19 pandemic, health sector leaders and government officials are deploying emerging technologies and focusing on human-centered design to revolutionize healthcare today. Lauren Alexanderson, deputy chief tec...
Ron Fizer, fellow emeritus for management strategy at LMI, said Congress should act now to reauthorize the Department of Homeland Security’s Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office to protect the country from chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threats. In a blog post published on LMI’s website, Fizer wrote that DHS CWMD Office ...
Tessa Baerlocher, most recently deputy general manager of the space superiority business group at LinQuest, has assumed the role of vice president and business lead of the space systems technology developer’s TMC Design subsidiary. In this capacity, she will oversee growth initiatives within TMC and advance modernization in the areas of digita...
Justin Woulfe is the chief technology officer of Systecon North America, a company focused on bringing cutting edge lifecycle management and operational readiness services to a variety of industries, including the defense sector. Since we last spoke with Woulfe in January, he and his cohort have been busy: they’ve successfully secured and...
With technology advancing rapidly and new threats taking shape, zero trust, a security strategy based on continuous authentication, has become a major priority for the Department of Defense. In November 2022, the department solidified its zero trust push with the release of the Zero Trust Strategy and Implementation Roadmap. According to J...
