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...
A portfolio company of Enlightenment Capital, iNovex, has purchased software engineering company Innoplex for an undisclosed sum to create a middle-market technology provider in support of Department of Defense and Intelligence Community customers. The private investment firm said Tuesday that iNovex will operate with nearly 1,000 employees supporti...
Rocky Thurston, chief operating officer of Digital Management Inc. since January 2022, has succeeded Sunny Bajaj as CEO at the Bethesda, Maryland-based company. Bajaj, DMI’s founder and chief executive for the past 21 years, will continue to serve on the board of directors, the technology services provider said Tuesday. In his prior role, Thur...
Peraton reported contract awards valued at more than $340 million combined in the first quarter of 2023 to support various classified government programs in the space and intelligence area. The company said Tuesday it aims to continue helping national security customers through its cleared workforce and technology services. “While Peraton has ...
The Department of Veterans Affairs has revised its electronic health record system modernization contract with Oracle Cerner a month after VA halted deployments of the EHR system as part of a program reset, Bloomberg Government reported Tuesday. In April, VA reset the program in a move to address EHR-related issues that were identified at five...
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...
Parsons has secured a $55 million contract from Space Systems Command to help operate and integrate satellites for missile warning, tracking and defense. The contractor will perform integrated ground and operations services in support of the first increment of SSC’s medium Earth orbit satellite constellation for tracking missile threats, the U...
Syam Nair, a former executive at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), has been named chief technology officer at Zscaler (Nasdaq: ZS) in a move that takes effect May 24. Zscaler said Tuesday that Nair will serve as executive vice president for research and development in addition to CTO. The 25-year technology industry veteran...
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...
The Department of Health and Human Services has outlined several focus areas of a $5 billion government initiative to fund public-private collaborations working to speed up the development of next-generation vaccines and other therapeutics. Project NextGen aims to streamline the process from drug development to government approval to prepare and pro...
