Carahsoft Technology has secured a spot on a potential five-year, $261.2 million blanket purchase agreement under the General Services Administration’s Multiple Award Schedule contract to provide risk management software from Forescout to the Department of Defense and U.S. Coast Guard. The DOD Enterprise Software Initiative BPA covers the prov...
Thunderdome is a new, modernized cybersecurity and technology architecture for the Department of Defense, spearheaded by the Defense Information Systems Agency. It is part of the Pentagon’s official zero trust strategy, as mandated by President Biden’s Executive Order and concretized in the DOD’s Nov. 2022 zero trust strategy. Thunderdome gai...
Open radio access networks, or Open RAN, is a new approach to RANs that separates traditionally integrated hardware and software and upholds a set of specific standards to enable multiple vendors to provide different components under one cloud service provider’s network. The Department of Defense has made 5G a top priority, and it has taken notic...
The U.S. Navy has awarded a potential $250 million contract modification to the University of Washington’s Applied Physics Laboratory to sustain its provision of research, development, test and evaluation support for Department of Defense programs. The modification raises the ceiling value of a previously awarded contract to $925.8 million, the ...
Pergravis will provide U.S. government facilities worldwide with emergency repair and preventative maintenance services under a 10-year, $250 million contract from the U.S. Air Force. The Tampa, Florida based mission-critical facility services firm said Monday the services will support uninterruptable power supply systems and related equipment at fe...
In the last year, the U.S. government has made some decisive steps toward the adoption of artificial intelligence technologies, including an executive order issued in October that lays the groundwork for AI in the federal government. But defense experts say there are still roadblocks toward widespread AI across the public sector. For one, the Penta...
Department of Defense Principal Deputy Chief Information Officer Leslie Beavers has joined the Wash100 ranks for the first time in recognition of her work driving information technology modernization and cybersecurity efforts across the DOD. Vote for Beavers as your favorite Wash100 winner at Wash100.com! The Wash100 popular vote competition is o...
Recent momentum in artificial intelligence could be seen as a largely American enterprise, led by domestic companies such as OpenAI and federal government initiatives from the likes of the Department of Defense’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office — not to mention multiple presidential executive orders on the matter. However, U.S. ...
Department of Defense Chief Information Officer John Sherman received his 2024 Wash100 Award from Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson last week during a 4×24 executive leadership series event. Vote for the Honorable John Sherman to win this year’s Wash100 popular vote competition at Wash100.com! Each year, Executive Mosaic goes through ...
EchoStar (Nasdaq: SATS) subsidiary Hughes Network Systems will continue to deploy Open Radio Access Network-based private 5G networks at military installations in Hawaii and Washington State through 2025 under a contract extension awarded by the Department of Defense. The contract extension awarded by DOD’s Office of the Undersecretary for Researc...
