David McKeown, deputy chief information officer for cybersecurity and senior information security officer at the Department of Defense, said DOD has published a strategy, a reference architecture and an implementation plan to achieve a zero trust-based architecture by 2027, DefenseScoop reported Thursday. “We want to achieve targeted zero trust by...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) was awarded a $143 million task order to support the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Open Source Intelligence Integration Center. The company announced Thursday that it was chosen for the design and implementation of the center’s Tasking, Collection, Processing, Exploitation and Dissemination system. The indefinite-delivery...
New Directions Technologies has won a potential five-year, $111.4 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide test, system and transition engineering support services. The Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division launched a competitive procurement process through a small business set-aside program and received three offers for the cost-plus-fixe...
Cindy Bishop, formerly senior director of capture and business development at Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), has joined ICF (Nasdaq: ICFI) as vice president of enterprise capture, according to a LinkedIn post. She brings to the role over three decades of industry experience in business development and account management. Before joining Leidos, Bishop was VP o...
Perdigita, a service-disabled, veteran-owned small business and a joint venture of ANALYGENCE and Client Solution Architects, has secured a potential five-year, $80 million contract from the U.S. Air Force’s Air Combat Command and 16th Air Force for cyber test and range engineering support services. The Air Force Cyber Operational Test Evaluat...
The State Department has approved a pair of foreign military sale requests worth $219.3 million combined from the government of Italy’s request to procure an air-launched precision strike weapon and air-to-air missile systems from the U.S. government. Italy requested to procure 12 RTX-manufactured (NYSE: TRX) AIM-120C-8 advanced medium-range a...
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has begun seeking information for a follow-on multiple-award contract covering software development support services. The fourth iteration of the Outcome-Based Delivery and DevSecOps Services contract vehicle will support the USCIS Office of Information Technology in the operation and maintenance of the agen...
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...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured a potential five-year, $111.7 million delivery order under a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to design and test an electronic warfare support system for the U.S. Navy’s submarines. The award has a base value of $43.4 million and covers the design and qualification test...
Jim Edwards, former senior vice president of business development at SOS International, has been elevated to the role of chief growth officer at the Reston, Virginia-based aerospace, defense and government services integrator. He is now tasked to bolster SOSi’s advanced technology portfolio to expand its presence in the defense, federal civili...
