President Joe Biden has signed a memorandum that outlines requirements to improve the cybersecurity of Department of Defense, Intelligence Community and national security systems in accordance with the cybersecurity executive order issued in May 2021. The National Security Memorandum provides timelines and guidance on how the federal government will...
As the world enters the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the newly identified more contagious Omicron variant is posing new challenges for the U.S. health care system and the nation’s pandemic preparedness and response capabilities. Now, the federal government aims to leverage commercial partnerships, more robust funding, adapted legislati...
The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice’s antitrust division are seeking public comments as they work to update federal guidelines on mergers to better identify and prevent anticompetitive transactions. “Illegal mergers can inflict a host of harms, from higher prices and lower wages to diminished opportunity, reduced innovatio...
The Supreme Court on Thursday decided to block the White House’s COVID-19 vaccination and testing requirement for large private businesses but allowed the Biden administration to implement a vaccine mandate for over 10 million health care workers whose facilities take part in Medicare and Medicaid programs, The Wall Street Journal reported. Th...
The Department of Defense is ramping up its modernization efforts with critical funding boosts and newly created senior executive roles to match the speed of rapid global developments and combat urgent pacing challenges. Defense spending for fiscal year 2022 has increased by five percent from the previous fiscal year’s defense policy measure. In D...
Tyto Athene seeks to expand its digital enterprise transformation and network modernization capabilities in support of defense and national security customers through its recently concluded acquisition of Qbase. Chris Meilhammer, CEO of Tyto Athene, said in a statement published Wednesday Qbase brings over two decades of experience in supporting Dep...
Kevin Plexico, senior vice president for information solutions at Deltek and a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, published his latest article as a part of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program on Wednesday. Previously, GovCon Expert Kevin Plexico discussed the major improvements that government contractors and their respective organizations have ma...
The Department of Energy’s environmental management office has released a draft solicitation for a potential 10-year, $5.87 billion follow-on contract to perform decontamination and decommissioning work at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Ohio. The Portsmouth Decontamination and Decommissioning contract includes support for the demolition...
Executive Mosaic’s flagship GovCon Wire will feature Kevin Welsh, executive director of the Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Environment and Energy, in an upcoming virtual fireside conversation to overview the agency’s mission to address climate change within the aviation sector. The FAA unveiled in November its plan to impl...
Reid Middleton has won a five-year, $100 million contract to perform architecture and engineering work for projects located within Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command‘s Northwest area of operations. NAVFAC received six proposals for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract via a competitive acquisition process, the Departm...
