Tag Archives: Department of Homeland Security

Boulder, Colo.-based electronic monitoring systems provider BI has received a potential $2.2B contract from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to provide support services as part of the fourth iteration of the Intensive Supervision Appearance Program.

If agencies and companies implement measures that do not align with new federal guidance defining essential workforce amid the COVID-19 pandemic, they will end up hurting the very professionals and businesses that help protect national security, writes EverWatch CEO John Hillen.

The Department of Defense on Friday released two memos to address key concerns identified by defense trade groups during the four daily update calls on the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic led by Jennifer Santos, deputy assistant secretary of defense for industrial policy. Ellen Lord, defense undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment and a 2020 Wash100 award winner, on Friday issued a memo saying the defense industrial base is considered as a critical infrastructure sector by the Department of Homeland Security and that its workforce should maintain normal work schedules to meet national security requirements.

The Department of Homeland Security plans to issue in April a draft solicitation for the potential five-year, $288M Cellular Wireless Managed Services recompete contract, Bloomberg Government reported Thursday.

Executive Mosaic is honored to unveil Christopher Krebs, director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, as an inductee into the 2020 edition of the Wash100 for leading the agency in its national efforts to safeguard cyber and physical assets.

The Department of Homeland Security has placed the rogue device mitigation platform of Sepio Systems, a leader in RDM, on its list of approved products for the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program. Suzan Zimmerman, a member of Sepio’s board and CEO of Strategic Capture Group, said the platform is the only product on DHS' APL that offers RDM capabilities.

Kevin McAleenan, a former Department of Homeland Security official and two-time Wash100 awardee, has joined the board of directors of information technology firm Steampunk.

Data analysts and other technology experts from a Thomson Reuters subsidiary collaborated with federal, state and local agencies to help rescue victims of human trafficking and arrest offenders during a Super Bowl crackdown in Florida, the Miami Herald reported. Thomson Reuters Special Services’ data analysts provided assistance by monitoring the traffickers’ communications on social media platforms.

The Department of Homeland Security has certified Sepio Systems’ network defense platform for use by federal customers to help them manage cybersecurity posture as part of the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation Program.

Executive Mosaic is honored to present David Norquist, deputy secretary of the Department of Defense, as an inductee into the 2020 edition of the Wash100 Award for leading the department’s initiatives to improve financial management for its components and service branches.