Semiconductor chips underpin nearly every technology, weapon system and digital capability across the Department of Defense, making them increasingly important for a wide array of government and military missions. However, the United States’ production of these chips has fallen in recent decades, threatening our technological standing on the globa...
The Biden administration has released its first iteration of a multi-year plan to implement the U.S. federal government’s new national strategy to defend cyberspace. The implementation plan outlines more than 65 high-impact initiatives assigned to specific federal agencies and aligned with the five pillars and 27 strategic objectives of the Na...
The Swift Group, a Reston, Virginia-based IT services provider, has acquired OPS Consulting for an undisclosed sum to expand technology offerings for the Department of Defense and the intelligence community. Holton Yost, president and CEO of Swift, said in a statement released Thursday the acquisition will help the company to execute its long-term g...
By Alan Chvotkin, Partner at Centre Law & Consulting In March 2016, pursuant to an initial Obama Executive Order, the National Archives published its long-awaited final regulations covering how agencies must deal with controlled unclassified information, or CUI. CUI is information that requires safeguarding or dissemination controls pursuant to,...
The Department of Energy plans to extend its existing contract with Washington River Protection Solutions for another two years to manage tank waste at DOE’s Hanford Site in Washington state. The planned contract extension will kick off on Oct. 1, 2023, and run through the end of September 2025, and covers base operations, tank retrieval...
In recent years, space has become a warfighting domain as global tensions rise, new threats emerge and the peer competition heats up. Now, more than ever, the ability to collect, process, and understand intelligence from space is critical to gaining and maintaining technological dominance on the global stage. Under its eighth director, Vice AdmiralÂ...
By Chuck Brooks, President of Brooks Consulting International A new bipartisan legislation, the Cybersecurity Awareness Act, would require the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to launch a public-private campaign that would promote access to cybersecurity resources and expand outreach to small businesses and underserved communities on...
By Kim Koster, VP of Industry Marketing at Unanet In early 2013, during his second term in office, then-President Barack Obama signed the annual Defense Authorization Act, setting in motion a process to change the federal government’s small business contracting programs. That same year, the Defense Contract Audit Agency made small business a ...
Joseph DiNoto, former vice president for national security programs at Ignite, has been elevated to the position of senior VP and chief strategy officer. DiNoto will support corporate strategy development and coordinate Ignite’s business relations with defense, civilian and intelligence community customers, the professional services company sa...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) will build 18 CH-47F Block I Chinook heavy-lift helicopters for South Korea and one additional unit for Spain under a potential $793 million deal made through a foreign military sales agreement with the U.S. Department of Defense. Block I helicopters are expected to be delivered in 2027 under the deal, which marks...
