The Department of Defense asked a federal judge to approve its motion for a 120-day remand to reassess its decision to award the potential 10-year, $10B Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing contract to Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), Nextgov reported Monday....
Katherine Arrington, chief information security officer (CISO) for the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition (OUSDA) of U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), will serve as a keynote speaker during Potomac Officers Club’s CMMC Forum 2020 on Wednesday, June 24th. ...
NASA has announced the return of the “worm” logo to mark the launch of the Crew Dragon spacecraft atop the SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket to transport astronauts to the International Space Station as part of the Demo-2 mission. SpaceX’s first manned flight to the ISS is scheduled to occur by mid- or late-May, NASA said Thursday....
Katie Arrington Offers Updates on Pentagon’s CMMC Program Katie Arrington, chief information security officer for acquisition with DoD and 2020 Wash100 Award recipient, elaborated to Government Matters during an interview about the creation of standards that third-party assessment organizations will use to evaluate and certify contractors unde...
Space Development Agency Director Derek Tournear has said that SDA wants to begin the process of awarding contracts in August to procure communications and tracking satellites that will support its planned mesh network in low-Earth orbit, National Defense magazine reported Thursday....
The Department of the Navy has awarded Perspecta (NYSE: PRSP) a four-month, $62M extension to its Next Generation Enterprise Network contract for end-user hardware services to the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps....
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has won a potential $512M foreign military sales contract with the U.S. Air Force to produce F-16 Block 70 jets for the Bulgarian government....
An alert from K2 Intelligence-Financial Integrity Network says the Financial Action Task Force has upgraded the U.S. from “partially compliant” to “largely compliant” with Recommendation 10 after it implemented the U.S. Treasury’s requirements for customer due diligence....
The Department of Defense has issued a request for prototype proposals seeking spectrum-sharing concepts from members of the National Spectrum Consortium to support 5G development and test activities at military bases in Utah....
AirBoss Defense Group has secured a potential 13-week, $96.4 million contract with Federal Emergency Management Agency to provide 100,000 American-made FlexAir Powered Air Purifying Respirators and 600,000 High Efficiency Filters for urgent response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the company announced on Wednesday. ...
