The Department of Defense has been working on creating a Defense Industrial Base cybersecurity strategy that is expected to be released by the end of the year, according to DOD Acting Principal Deputy CIO David McKeown, a 2023 Wash100 Award winner. “If you’ve done business with us, you know that there’s a variety of folks withi...
Parsons (NYSE: PSN) has appointed government and industry veterans Andrew Weber and Richard Varos to its strategic advisory boards focused on federal solutions and critical infrastructure, respectively. Weber brings to the federal solutions advisory board three decades of government service, including a five-year stint as assistant secretary of defe...
Allan Day, vice president of logistics and sustainment of global public sector at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), said there are three factors government agencies and other public sector organizations should consider to help improve the decision-making process and address inefficiencies in supply chains post-pandemic. These factors are the development of co...
Blue Origin has received a potential $3.4 billion contract from NASA to develop a human landing system for the Artemis V lunar mission. The company said Friday it will work with Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), Boeing (NYSE: BA), Astrobotic, Draper and Honeybee Robotics to design, develop, test and demonstrate its Blue Moon lander under the...
J&J Worldwide Services holds a spot on a potential 10-year, $75 billion contract managed by the Department of Health and Human Services and is eligible to pursue task orders to help HHS manage influx care facilities. The company said Monday it will compete for work under the contract’s direct care, facilities management and wrap-around ser...
Department of Defense leaders are facing a tsunami of data and wrestling with the question of how exactly to best use and harness it. As the data influx continues to swell, government and industry executives are working to identify areas for improvement within their organizations. “We’re in a world where the sensors far outnumber our...
With a total funding revenue of $7.5 billion and a team of 18,000, the Food and Drug Administration is responsible for regulating consumables like grocery products as well as class one medical devices and invasive tools. Essentially everything you see in a hospital is managed by the FDA and an approximate 78 percent of everyday...
The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification has been divisive throughout its creation over the last decade-plus, but especially since its implementation in 2017 as a requirement for defense industrial base organizations. As part of the initiative, contracting companies working with the Department of Defense must have their cyber protection system...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has released a request for proposals for a 10-year recompete contract covering technical, professional and scientific services in the oceans domain. The ProTech 2.0 Oceans Domain is a multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract reserved for small businesses and has a base...
Software as a service company Exiger has acquired supply chain risk management platform vendor Ion Channel. Exiger said Tuesday that it will add the acquired company’s technology offering to a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program-certified SaaS platform that contains information on 16.8 million unique supply chains. Before the acq...
