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The Department of Defense plans to release by the second week of December the final solicitation for the potential $11.7B Defense Enclave Services network consolidation contract, C4ISRNET reported Thursday.

Peter Ranks, former deputy chief information officer for information enterprise at the Department of Defense, has left DoD for a role at the Central Intelligence Agency where he will support cloud procurement, Federal News Network reported Tuesday. Ranks returns to the CIA to help the agency run the Commercial Cloud Enterprise or C2E program that aims to procure cloud products and services.

The Department of Defense’s (DoD) Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) will work to support the warfighter and be an enabling force-multiplier for the disparate AI efforts through its data and development platform, the Joint Common Foundation (JCF). JCF will enable JAIC to build out a data and algorithm development platform. 

The Department of Defense (DoD) has selected Dave McKeown to serve as next chief information security officer (CISO), effective in late Nov. 2020, FedScoop reported Tuesday. He will succeed former CISO Jack Wilmer, who left the role in July 2020 to lead a private security company. Mark Hakun has served as acting CISO since Wilmer’s resignation.

THIS WEEK’S TOP 10 MOST POPULAR STORIES View Weekly Contract Awards SAIC Wins $737M AFMS3 Contract to Support Modeling, Simulation; Michael LaRouche Quoted Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) has been awarded the potential $737 million U.S. Air Force Modeling and Simulation Support Services (AFMS3) 2.0 contract to implement, integrate and develop modeling and simulation (M&S). …

An industry team led by General Dynamics' (NYSE: GD) information technology business will help the Department of Defense implement cloud-based communication and collaboration applications under a potential 10-year, $4.4B blanket purchase agreement. The General Services Administration and DoD re-awarded the Defense Enterprise Office Solutions contract to CSRA, which GDIT acquired in 2018, as a result of corrective action following protests to the BPA originally awarded in August last year, GSA said Friday.

The Department of Defense has issued a new strategy aimed at aligning DoD’s electromagnetic spectrum activities with the objectives of the National Defense and Security Strategies and goals of national technology and economic policies.

THIS WEEK’S TOP 10 MOST POPULAR STORIES View Weekly Contract Awards AECOM Closes Sale of Power Construction Business to CriticalPoint Capital; Troy Rudd Quoted AECOM has sold its Power construction business to affiliates of CriticalPoint Capital, AECOM reported on Friday. The sale will add to AECOM’s business transformation strategy to become a higher-margin, lower-risk Professional …

The Department of Defense released a strategy to facilitate its transformation into a data-centric organization that considers data as a strategic asset critical to building and maintaining operational advantage on the battlefield. The Data Strategy "reinforces DOD’s priority focus areas of joint warfighting, senior leader decision support and data analytics,” Chief Data Officer Dave Spirk said.

Dana Deasy, Department of Defense (DoD) chief information officer (CIO) and 2020 Wash100 Award recipient, recently discussed the department's initiatives to advance the cloud platforms for critical defense mission sets, FedScoop reported on Thursday. Since the DoD Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud acquisition went to court, the department pivoted to find alternative clouds for services, commands and other defense agencies with critical warfighting needs.