Bryant Choung is senior vice president of federal and defense solutions at Palantir Technologies, a data analytics company headquartered in Denver, Colorado. A member of the Potomac Officers Club, he serves as a strategy and technical consultant and specializes in enterprise architecture and software engineering, according to his LinkedIn profile. Palantir’s government customers include the […]
Gabe Camarillo, the undersecretary of the Army, said in an interview that the service’s ongoing transition to Google Workspace has gone smoothly so far. The past Potomac Officers Club event speaker said he was not aware of any major issues in the rollout. Workspace is a collection of office programs that provide email, word processing, […]
Spider Strategies’ Impact for Government offering has obtained certification from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, a standard security assessment process for cloud-based software and services. Impact for Government is intended to provide users with a means of managing key performance indicators, generating reports, holding meetings, visualizing business intelligence and enacting data governance policies, […]
NetImpact Strategies has secured a $60 million Information Technology Operations contract with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to provide modernization support. The company will support the various IT applications and hardware used by the Natural Resources Conservation Service, a USDA component that supports farmers and owners of private farm and forest lands. Current and future […]
The Federal Communications Commission has voted to establish the Space Bureau, which would be responsible for setting policies for the satellite industry. The new rulemaking body will emerge from a proposed overhaul of the International Bureau, an entity that handles telecommunications and satellite programs, moderates spectrum usage and promotes the U.S.’ related interests globally. The […]
The U.S. Navy has awarded Science Applications International Corp. a five-year, $349 million contract to extend support for afloat and ashore tactical networks’ in-service engineering agent functions. Services to be provided include management, engineering, technical, integrated logistics and life cycle support. SAIC maintains a TACNET ISEA team of project managers, engineers and various personnel to […]
NTT has joined the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative, a group of government and commercial organizations led by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency that focuses on protecting key infrastructure and functions by forming defense strategies, fusing information and distributing guidance. CEO and President Akira Shimada said that public-private collaboration will be necessary to deter cyber […]
The National Science Foundation has chosen nine universities to receive a combined $29 million in funding under CyberCorps Scholarship for Service, which is aimed at supporting cybersecurity workforce recruitment and retention in government. Each recipient will establish grant programs intended to finance applicants’ learning on the condition that they take on cybersecurity roles at the […]
The U.S. Space Force is asking the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for a weather satellite to replace one stationed above the Indian Ocean for U.S. Central Command. The Electro-Optical Infrared Weather System-Geostationary 1 spacecraft was an NOAA asset called Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-13 until it was obtained by the U.S. Air Force, which later […]
Robert Provencher Jr. is a director at ENSCO, where he supports the National Capital Region mission systems group. He manages the company’s research, engineering and technical support work under an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with the Directorate of Defense Research and Engineering for Advance Capabilities, according to his LinkedIn profile. A Potomac Officers Club member, he was […]
