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On Wednesday, it was reported that Vice Adm. Michael Gilday, director of the Joint Staff, was the frontrunner to assume the role due to his experience in cyber warfare. That report was confirmed on Thursday with President Trump approving Gilday’s nomination during a meeting with Navy officials at the White …

Daniel Kroese, associate director of the National Risk Management Center for the Department of Homeland Security, will be featured as a panelist during Potomac Officers Club’s 2019 Secure Supply Chain Forum on July 18th. Register now for the forum right here.

Federal agencies are expected to spend approximately $29B on information technology products and services in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2019, Bloomberg Government reported Tuesday.

Deloitte Consulting, Serco Inc., McKean Defense Group and Aluttiq have secured potential seven-year contracts worth up to $176.4M combined to help the U.S. Navy maintain electronic systems intended for use in technology development, experiment and demonstration efforts.

The U.S. Army has awarded an additional 13 spots on a potential five-year, $5B contract that covers horizontal construction work to support multiple Department of Homeland Security sectors at the southern border.

President Donald Trump nominated Mark Esper, secretary of the U.S. Army and a 2019 Wash100 winner, to serve as the next secretary of the Department of Defense, The New York Times reported Friday.

The Department of Homeland Security has chosen Battelle as one of the eight finalists for a two-phase, $1.55M contest that seeks nonintrusive systems to automatically detect opioids in mail coming into the U.S.

ECS Federal will develop a dashboard for federal agencies to view cybersecurity data and risk exposure reports under a potential six-year, $276M task order from the Department of Homeland Security. The company said Monday it will help DHS deploy the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation Dashboard Ecosystem and incorporate data ingest and visualization, search performance and indexing tools into the platform.

Nadia Carlsten, former director of commercialization at the Department of Homeland Security and program manager of its cybersecurity division, has joined Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) as head of strategy and operations, G2Xchange ETC reported Monday.

Paragon Systems has secured a potential five-year, $95.6M indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the Department of Homeland Security to deploy armed security officers who can protect federal personnel and property at various locations in Virginia.