The Department of Defense will advance the development of a B61 nuclear gravity bomb variant to meet the needs of an evolving security environment as discussed in the 2022 Nuclear Posture Review. The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration would develop and produce the proposed B61-13 bomb as part of efforts to strength...
The General Services Administration has issued a draft request for quote outlining its plan to establish under GSA’s Multiple Award Schedules contract a potential 10-year, $919.7 million blanket purchase agreement for the acquisition of supply chain risk illumination tools and analytic support services. The proposed Supply Chain Risk Illumination ...
The Office of Management and Budget has begun soliciting feedback on draft guidance meant to modernize and strengthen the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. The draft memorandum seeks to define the scope of cloud offerings subject to FedRAMP, foster a consistent and transparent process for conducting security assessment and authoriza...
2023 marks the 20th annual Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the U.S. federal government’s tradition of promoting careful cyber hygiene and ensuring protective precautions for digital assets. Established by the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and a nonprofit, the National Cybersecurity Alliance, ev...
CACI International (NYSE: CACI) released its results for the three months that ended Sept. 30, highlighting a 15.2 percent year-over-year revenue growth to $1.85 billion during the first quarter of its fiscal year 2024. John Mengucci, president and CEO of CACI and a four-time Wash100 awardee, said in a statement published Wednesday, “The busin...
Accenture’s (NYSE: ACN) federal arm has won a potential five-year, $190 million contract from the State Department to provide data collection, analysis, engineering, systems support, hosting, operational and administrative support services for the Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and Health Diplomacy and the Foreign Assistance Bureau. Th...
Rodney Slater, former U.S. secretary of the Department of Transportation, and Sue Gordon, former principal deputy director of national intelligence and a two-time Wash100 awardee, have been elected to respectively serve as chairman and vice chairwoman of Mitre’s board of trustees. Slater most recently served as interim chairman and has been a memb...
Red River has named contracts expert Jessica Johnson as vice president of contracts for its government technology services business, the company announced Wednesday on LinkedIn. She has been in the contracting profession since 2009 and was most recently the government contracts lead for a Silicon Valley tech startup. Johnson’s career highlight...
The healthcare sector in the United States is in the midst of transformational modernization. Taking lessons learned from the global COVID-19 pandemic, health sector leaders and government officials are deploying emerging technologies and focusing on human-centered design to revolutionize healthcare today. Lauren Alexanderson, deputy chief tec...
Michael Moore, principal of partner solutions and technology at Neo4j, said government agencies looking to uncover insights into security vulnerabilities should consider adopting a graph database platform that could provide an “explicit treatment of the relationships between data points” and a “traversable, networked view of their data.” In ...
