The Department of Defense has released a zero trust cybersecurity framework outlining targeted efforts to secure the DOD Information Enterprise by reducing its attack surface, enabling risk management and facilitating data sharing. The DOD Zero Trust Strategy and Roadmap focuses on four high-level strategic goals: zero trust cultural adoption, DoD i...
William LaPlante, undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment at the Department of Defense, was presented his 2022 Wash100 Award, the most prestigious award in all of government contracting (GovCon), by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson during a summit hosted by Potomac Officers Club (POC). Executive Mosaic recog...
Leaders from disparate parts of the U.S. government have encouraged members of the government contracting industry who may be concerned about secure ideas and blueprints being leaked or compromised during the acquisition process to enter the exchange as early as possible. This would mean getting on the ground floor so as to prevent risking their...
Since the close of William LaPlante’s service as assistant secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics in 2017, he has noticed a significant and much-needed increase in the amount of prototyping and experimentation activity within the Department of Defense. Now, LaPlante, a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, has re...
The Department of Defense has started seeking proposals for a potential 10-year, $499 million contract to develop and test anti-tamper systems to protect critical program information and technologies from reverse engineering attempts and other adversarial efforts. The DOD Anti-Tamper Executive Agent Program Office expects the platforms to be procure...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) received the most money through Department of Defense contracts during the government’s 2021 fiscal year, according to data from the Pentagon’s Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation. The “Fiscal Year 2021 Defense Spending by State” report...
Lloyd Austin, secretary of the Department of Defense and a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, and other DOD leaders hosted the Defense Innovation Board’s meeting on Monday and joined DIB Chair Michael Bloomberg in welcoming the seven newly named board members. Established in 2016, DIB provides department leaders with independent expert advice on how DOD c...
Lily Zeleke, acting deputy chief information officer at the Department of Defense, said DOD is on schedule to award the potential $9 billion Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract by the end of 2022, C4ISRNET reported Thursday. “December 2022 is still the date we’re aiming for, for awards,” Zeleke said at an event Wedneday. “I can...
The concept of zero trust has been widely discussed yet enigmatic in recent years; now, as the Department of Defense moves forward with codifying zero trust and putting a strategy for implementation in place, the U.S. Navy is taking a closer look at its own transition to zero trust. Scott St. Pierre, deputy director for...
The Washington Headquarters Services plans to issue $420 million in modifications under a previously awarded $496 million small business set-aside contracting vehicle for support services to the Pentagon’s Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. American Systems, Applied Research and Associates and Modern Technol...
