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In July, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced six key priorities for fiscal year 2023: cybersecurity, soft targets and crowded places, intelligence and information sharing, domestic violent extremism, community preparedness and resilience and election security. Since then, the department has been continuously exploring new wa...

Cloud technology has transformed the public sector over the last decade, but some key barriers to effectively adopting and implementing cloud environments still remain. Executive Mosaic spoke with Euna Solutions CEO Tom Amburgey to learn more about how cloud has already changed the way the government operates and what’s next on the cloud hori...

Peraton has won a potential eight-year, $2.8 billion task order to provide enterprise operations and maintenance services for U.S. Special Operations Command, G2Xchange reported Friday. USSOCOM received three offers for the third iteration of the Special Operations Forces Information Technology Enterprise Contract EOM task order through a full and o...

As the world embraces artificial intelligence, more and more federal agencies are looking at areas in which the technology could make operations more efficient and effective. The Defense Contract Management Agency, which provides contract administration services for the Department of Defense, is one such organization moving toward AI adoption. ...

The Potomac Officers Club’s 2023 Homeland Security Summit on Nov. 15 will bring together the foremost experts and decision makers from government and industry to discuss the nation’s most urgent homeland security challenges and what’s being done to address them. Click here to register, and read below for a breakdown of the summit’s spea...

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...