Amazon Web Services has filed an agency-level protest contesting the Department of Defense’s process to reconsider some aspects of the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud contract, Federal News Network reported Thursday....
Dana Deasy, chief information officer at the Department of Defense and a 2020 Wash100 award winner, told Breaking Defense in an interview published Tuesday that the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing program seeks to deliver a unique capability to troops operating at the tactical edge. He said JEDI satisfies several warfightin...
Less than 20 defense companies have applied for $17B worth of loans under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act and Ellen Lord, undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment at the Department of Defense and a 2020 Wash100 awardee, said the Treasury Department is working with DoD as it considers how to expand the eligibility requir...
Katie Arrington, chief information security officer in the Department of Defense acquisition office and a 2020 Wash100 Award recipient, has said that DoD is looking to require suppliers of prime contractors to meet the foundational requirements for its new certification program, Federal News Network reported Friday.Arrington will serve as a keyn...
The Department of Defense plans to release a draft request for proposals for a potential five-year, $1.5B contract vehicle for research and development, administrative and technical services to support DoD and “fourth estate” entities, Bloomberg Government reported Friday....
President Donald Trump will nominate Anthony Tata, a retired U.S. Army brigadier general, as undersecretary for policy at the Department of Defense following John Rood's resignation in February, Bloomberg reported Thursday....
The Department of Defense has awarded contracts worth $133M combined to 3M (NYSE: MMM), O&M Halyward and Honeywell (NYSE: HON) to increase local production of N95 masks by over 39M in the next three months as part of the Defense Production Act Title 3 COVID-19 project....
John Sherman, who currently serves as the intelligence community's chief information officer, has been appointed to succeed the retiring Essye Miller as principal deputy CIO of the Department of Defense....
Tetra Tech has received a $117M initial task order to help the Department of Defense track the progress of various security cooperation programs through data analytics. The company said Monday it will work with the Defense Security Cooperation Agency and DoD Office of the Secretary of Defense for Policy in program evaluation efforts....
A federal judge decided to put on hold until Aug. 17 a lawsuit filed by Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) challenging the Department of Defense’s decision to award Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) the potential 10-year, $10B Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing contract, Reuters reported Saturday....
