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Sheryl Hanchar, vice president and chief information security officer at Cobham’s advanced electronic solutions business, has been named to the board of directors of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Accreditation Body.

The Department of Defense plans to release by the end of August a draft solicitation for a potential 10-year, $11.7B single-award contract for information technology support services, Bloomberg Government reported Tuesday.

Bill Downer, vice president of national programs for Seagate Government Solutions, has released his second article as a member of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program on Monday after exploring the impact or lack of impact CMMC will have on supply chains and data hygiene. Click here to become a GovCon Expert.

One of the many lessons to come out of the ongoing global health crisis is that, even amid quarantines, stay-home orders, and a drastic slowdown in business and economic activity, cyber threats never rest — and in some instances, even escalate.

Dawn Greenman, deputy program manager for Cybersecurity with Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, and Ty Schieber, board chairman for CMMC Accreditation Body served as panelists during Potomac Officers Club’s (POC) CMMC Virtual Forum 2020 on June 24th.

Ty Schieber, board chairman of the accreditation body for the Pentagon’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program, said certification and audit data of contractors seeking accreditation under CMMC will be hosted on the Department of Defense Information Network, Nextgov reported Tuesday.

Todd Gustafson, president of HP’s federal arm, wrote in a commentary published Monday on Federal News Network that the Department of Defense’s implementation of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program marks “an important step in enabling a more secure government.”

Cybersecurity company Cyemptive Technologies has acquired Burlington, Wash.-based consultancy firm Interpreting Technology in a move to expand the former’s information technology portfolio and client base.

In my opinion, CMMC has nothing to do with supply chain management. CMMC is intended to serve as a verification mechanism to ensure appropriate levels of cybersecurity practices and processes are in place to ensure basic cyber hygiene as well as protect controlled unclassified information (CUI) that resides on the department’s industry partners’ networks. 

Mark Berman, communications committee chair for the accreditation body for the Department of Defense's Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program, said the group aims to finalize the prerequesites, application process and fees for potential third-party CMMC assessors by June 1, Federal News Network reported Friday.