Sheena Burrell has been named the permanent chief information officer of the National Archives and Records Administration after serving in an acting capacity for over a week. Burrell started serving as acting CIO on Aug. 1 after Swarnali Haldar left the agency in May. The newly appointed official has been working for NARA since February […]
MakNuAx will provide enterprise service desk support services to the Department of Labor under a $115 million contract. The company is a joint venture between Makpar and NuAxis Innovations. Work includes modernizing systems to improve customer experience using innovative and emerging technologies, MakNuAx said. According to NuAxis CEO Raza Latif, a Potomac Officers Club member, […]
Gen. Michael Langley has assumed the role of U.S. Africa Command lead following a change of command ceremony on Wednesday. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin III, a 2022 Wash100 winner, swore in Langley during the event and said that the official will face several challenges, including terrorism. The Department of Defense head cited the expansion of […]
A joint advisory from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Australian Cyber Security Centre urges organizations to proactively address malware strains that have been targeting systems for at least five years. The government agencies warned against top malware strains in 2021, namely Agent Tesla, AZORult, Formbook, Ursnif, LokiBot, MouseIsland, NanoCore, Qakbot, Remcos, TrickBot […]
QinetiQ US will continue providing technical and programmatic services to the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command C5ISR Center Fort Belvoir Prototyping Integration Facility under a $45 million task order. Work includes system development, fabrication, sensor and system integration, multi-function sensor suites prototyping and technology assessment to support current and future PIF Belvoir customers and […]
Christine Hines, a Potomac Officers Club member, works at ManTech as vice president for artificial intelligence, analytics and automation, responsible for forming and implementing the company’s A3 strategy. Since taking the job in December 2021, the executive has been leading a team tasked with building innovative and disruptive capabilities for government clients. Hines brings to […]
Collin Lee has been serving General Dynamics Mission Systems as director of Frontiers for nearly four years. Frontiers is a space technology incubator for GDMS. In his current role, Lee focuses on developing technologies, including those using quantum mechanics, for internet of things connectivity. His work also includes using artificial intelligence to automate network operations […]
SolarWinds has launched new support services to help federal government agencies, state and local governments and education customers in implementing, maintaining and optimizing their SolarWinds IT management software. The new services are Federal Premium Support, Monalytic Federal Professional Services and Monalytic Federal Deployment Services – Fixed Scope, all of which offer tiered support and professional […]
Federal agencies are expected to progress in achieving their data center optimization goals by the end of fiscal 2022 with the closure of 54 data centers. Agencies are reducing the number of their servers and focusing on increasing the utility of the remaining centers while advancing their use of energy metering tools and server virtualization […]
General Dynamics Information Technology will provide cyber operations support to the Army National Guard under a $267 million contract the company secured on July 7. Work will focus on securing the Department of Defense Information Network utilized by over 124,000 users at 3,000 locations. Information technology services and zero trust solutions will be used to […]
