The General Services Administration and the Small Business Administration have agreed to provide more contracting opportunities for 8(a) contractors and facilitate the use of the Multiple Award Schedule for agency customers under an updated partnership agreement for the program. GSA said Tuesday it is collaborating with SBA to create a new 8(a) pool...
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...
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 General Services Administration has named 14 representatives from public and private sectors as inaugural members of a federal panel that will advise and offer recommendations to the GSA administrator, the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program’s board and agencies with regard to the secure adoption of cloud computing products a...
Boecore, an Enlightenment Capital portfolio company, has purchased San Diego-based information system security technology provider La Jolla Logic in a strategy to offer a comprehensive suite of products and services designed to help customers defend against cyber threats. The deal provides Boecore with new offerings and access to additional governme...
The Food and Drug Administration is looking for 8(a) small businesses capable of providing professional, administrative and consulting services to support the agency’s public health mission. A notice posted Friday on SAM.gov stated that the FDA intends to award a competitive small business set-aside indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity cont...
Diana Dunnigan, co-founder of Agility Federal, has assumed the CEO role at the company she helped establish to offer health care, information technology and enterprise resource planning services to the government. Agility Federal said Friday her appointment coincides with the company’s application for Small Business Administration certificatio...
The U.S. Navy has issued a $622 million award to TranLogistics, a transportation and supply chain services provider, as a modification of a potential 10-year multiple-award contract for husbanding services that was originally announced in 2020. The amendment to the previously awarded $2.12 billion contract adds new providers for the remaining three ...
A Huntsville, Alabama-based joint venture of AI Signal Research Inc. and ERC has won a five-year, $840 million contract to perform test and engineering work for the U.S. Army. Joint Technical Solutions bested four other bidders for the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, according to a Tuesday award notice on the Department of Defense’s website. The...
A joint venture between IT companies LinTech Global and Pragmatics has won a $140.4 million contract to provide end-to-end technical assistance to the U.S. Army. LinTech-Pragmatics JV outbid nine other vendors in an online solicitation for the cost-no-fee, firm-fixed-price IT services contract, which is targeted for completion by March 14, 2028, the...
