The Food and Drug Administration is shifting to an enterprise-wide modernization approach to combat organizational fragmentation and data silos while improving operational efficiency and data utilization. With three guiding components aimed at creating infrastructure to support change, developing a common operational approach and ensuring strategic ...
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration has put out three funding opportunity notices as part of the Biden administration’s $45 billion investment plan to ensure people in the U.S. have access to high-speed internet by the end of the decade. NTIA will be responsible for administering and implementing the Internet for All...
LookingGlass Cyber Solutions has agreed to acquire business intelligence and strategic advisory firm Next5 for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to pursue growth, expand its line of cybersecurity platforms and support its customers in navigating cyberthreats and meeting their missions. Bryan Ware, founder and CEO of Next5, will serve as CEO of L...
The Office of the National Cyber Director has announced the appointment of cybersecurity leaders Kemba Walden, Neal Higgins and Rob Knake to help Chris DeRusha, federal chief information security officer and deputy national cyber director for federal cybersecurity, meet ONCD’s mission to protect U.S. citizens in cyberspace and enable them to benef...
Forcepoint‘s federal business will deliver a user activity monitoring tool to the Department of Defense’s combatant commands and fourth estate organizational entities under an $89.1 million contract from the Defense Information Systems Agency. DOD said Monday the Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization received two proposals ...
The U.S. Air Force has released a request for proposals for a 10-year, $420 million contract to modernize and maintain KC-135 aerial refueling and transport planes. USAF said Friday in a solicitation notice the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract encompasses recurring and nonrecurring engineering tasks and requires personnel with variou...
The U.S. Intelligence Community is prioritizing cloud migration as it works to push capabilities out to the tactical edge and better support U.S. warfighters with access to critical data. Notably along this effort, the Department of Defense recently released its software modernization strategy, which replaces its 2018 cloud strategy and more clearl...
For the Social Security Administration, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020 was the impetus for a much-needed digital transformation that has ushered the agency into a new era of speed, accuracy and efficiency. During his keynote address at the Potomac Officers Club’s 3rd Annual CIO Summit, Sean Brune, SSA’s chief information o...
The Department of Homeland Security has released a draft solicitation for a potential five-year, $40 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide crowdsourced vulnerability discovery and disclosure services across DHS networks, software, web applications, hardware and other information systems as part of efforts to improve the...
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is shifting its workflow approach and prioritizing speed to close its pacing gap with other global powers in today’s rapidly changing geopolitical environment, according to NGA Chief Information Officer Mark Andress. “We’re moving away from a Continental U.S.-first, human-initiated, point-to-poin...
