President Joe Biden has nominated William LaPlante, president and CEO of Draper Laboratory and a national security leader, to serve as undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment at the Department of Defense. LaPlante has nearly 40 years of experience in the defense industrial base, acquisition, technology and sustainment, the White House said Tu...
The Department of Defense has asked Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN), Google, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) to compete for the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. “Our commitment to supporting our nation’s military and ensuring that our warfighters and defense partners have access to the ...
The Washington Headquarters Services has launched an unrestricted solicitation process to identify a vendor that can help the Department of Defense implement federally mandated information management and access programs. A solicitation notice posted on SAM.gov says the government is looking to procure support services for the requirement through a $...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 16, 2021 — A Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) vice president has expressed the need for the Department of Defense to employ evolutionary capabilities and revolutionary platforms to ensure that missile defense could take on emerging hypersonic and cruise missile threats, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. “We need to have ...
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian said the company will compete once it receives an invitation to bid on the Department of Defense’s Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract. “And if selected as one of the compliant vendors, we will proudly work with the DoD to help them modernize their operations following the process we have in...
Tom McCaffery, former assistant secretary for health affairs at the Department of Defense, has joined research and consulting firm Health Management Associates as a principal. He will work from HMA’s office in Washington, D.C. and brings military health care program experience to his new position, the company said Wednesday. McCaffery noted th...
Kathleen Hicks, deputy secretary of the Department of Defense and a 2021 Wash100 Award winner, said that DOD created an adaptation plan and a risk analysis document to comply with the White House’s executive order for all agencies to take action on climate change, DOD News reported Tuesday. “These reports will help guide the department...
The Department of Defense has completed an internal review and unveiled the strategic direction for the enhanced version of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program. The “CMMC 2.0” program seeks to further clarify cybersecurity policy, regulatory and contracting requirements and simplify the program standard; focus third-party asse...
The Department of Defense has awarded the U.S. business arm of British technology company Chemring a potential $99 million sole-source contract to produce technology that would detect biological warfare agents in maritime environments. Chemring Sensors and Electronic Systems will deliver the Enhanced Maritime Biological Detection system to the DOD u...
President Joe Biden has signed an executive order delegating authority to the undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment at the Department of Defense to release critical and strategic materials from the national defense stockpile. The order will cover the release of materials from the stockpile for national defense purposes only and exclude thos...
