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The National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center issued a draft solicitation in late March for a potential 15-year, $40B follow-on IT support governmentwide acquisition contract, Bloomberg Government reported Friday.

The Small Business Administration has partnered with Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) to help SBA distribute approximately $350B worth of loans to small companies as part of the Paycheck Protection Program, CNN reported Tuesday.

Katie Arrington, chief information security officer for acquisition at the Department of Defense and a 2020 Wash100 award winner, told Government Matters in an interview posted Sunday about the creation of standards that third-party assessment organizations will use to evaluate and certify contractors under DoD's Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program.

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 present Ellen Lord, undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment, as an inductee into the 2020 edition of the Wash100 Award for ramping up efforts to secure the defense supply chain while also working to accelerate the Pentagon's procurement process. This marks Lord’s fourth Wash100 Award and third consecutive.

Executive Mosaic is honored to introduce Katie Arrington, chief information security officer in the office of the undersecretary of defense for acquisition, as an inductee into the 2020 edition of the Wash100 Award for her role in the Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification initiative. This honor marks Arrington’s first Wash100 win.

The General Services Administration has awarded 75 companies spots on a potential five-year, $5.5B blanket purchase agreement for information technology products and services.

Broadcom (Nasdaq: AVGO) has agreed to acquire Symantec's (Nasdaq: SYMC) enterprise security assets for approximately $10.7B in cash. The transaction includes the acquisition of the Symantec name and is expected to conclude before the end of calendar year 2019, subject to regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions, Symantec said Thursday.

The General Services Administration has awarded 24 small businesses spots on the first pool of a potential $3.45B contract to provide human capital and training support services for federal agencies.