The Department of the Air Force’s Office of the Chief Information Officer has released a new strategy that seeks to implement a zero trust approach as part of the DAF’s efforts to protect critical assets and strengthen its resilience against evolving cyberthreats. The DAF CIO announced the release of the Zero Trust Strategy in a...
The Department of the Interior has selected seven companies for a potential 10-year, $2 billion follow-on contract for cloud license and support services. The awardees under the Foundation Cloud Hosting Services 2 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract are Accenture Federal Services, IBM (NYSE: IBM), CGI Federal, Cognosante, Science Applic...
GlobalFoundries (Nasdaq: GFS) will receive a potential $1.5 billion investment from the Department of Commerce through the CHIPS and Science Act to build and expand new manufacturing capabilities to produce more semiconductor chips for automotive, defense, aerospace, artificial intelligence, internet of things and other applications. The company sai...
Ryan Higgins, formerly chief information security officer and deputy chief information officer at the Department of Commerce, has been named acting CIO and chief AI officer at DOC. The Federal CIO Council announced the move Wednesday on LinkedIn and said that Higgins has provided oversight of DOC’s enterprise cybersecurity functions and coordi...
Since its release in October 2022, the National Defense Strategy has guided the Department of Defense as it navigates today’s global competition landscape. A core objective within the strategy is to build enduring advantages, and the NDS notes investments in technology as a key part in achieving this goal. Leading DOD R&D efforts is Under...
Virginia, Texas and California emerged as the top three states for total defense spending in fiscal year 2022, according to a report released by the Department of Defense’s office of local defense community cooperation. Florida, New York, Maryland, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Arizona are the other seven states that made the to...
By Eric Trexler, Senior Vice President of U.S. Public Sector at Palo Alto Networks Today’s zero trust conversation has matured since it was originally popularized in 2010 by John Kindervag, one of the world’s foremost cybersecurity experts and a Palo Alto Networks alum. Although the urgency and capabilities for zero trust have exploded in t...
Scott Brock, vice president of strategy and business development for state and local at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), said chief information officers at state and local government agencies should consider the platform technology they intend to adopt as they advance information technology modernization. “Most have moved into the cloud, but modernizing wi...
The Department of Defense has moved to update the rates of progress payments meant to help defense contractors mitigate the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. In March 2020, DOD issued a memo that increases the progress payment rates for large businesses from 80 percent to 90 percent and from 90 percent to 95 percent for...
Solid State Scientific Corp. has secured a five-year, $186.9 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force update cloud-based infrastructure for military weather forecasting. The company will develop a platform as a service to support the Weather Virtual Private Cloud under phase three of the branch’s Small Business Innovation Research program, ...
