The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has selected Kristen Baldwin as its new chief information officer. Baldwin, a past Potomac Officers Club speaker, moved to the OCC from the Federal Aviation Administration where she served as CIO and assistant administrator for information and technology services. At the FAA, she was responsible for the […]
The International Trade Administration has appointed Gerald Caron as chief information officer, a position that had been vacant since January 2022 when then ITA CIO Rona Bunn moved to the private sector. Caron, a former Potomac Officers Club speaker, held the CIO and assistant inspector general for information technology roles at the Department of Health […]
Raytheon Technologies and General Dynamics Mission Systems have demonstrated software designed for the deconfliction of friendly missiles, artillery fire and manned and unmanned aircraft in a highly congested battlespace. The demo was performed at the U.S. Army’s Mission Command Battle Lab in late 2022 as part of the second phase of the Defense Advanced Research […]
The Department of the Air Force has released an enterprise IT road map to guide the agency’s technology modernization initiative focused on implementing a zero trust architecture, identity, credentialing and access management, and workforce automation, among other efforts. At the recent AFCEA Rocky Mountain Cyberspace Symposium, DAF Chief Technology Officer Jay Bonci highlighted the importance […]
The General Services Administration has extended the contracts awarded to 45 service-disabled, veteran-owned small businesses through the potential $5 billion Veterans Technology Services 2 governmentwide acquisition contract. GSA exercised a five-year option, extending the ordering period to Feb. 22, 2028. The IT contract vehicle allows government agencies to procure data management, security, software development and other IT-related […]
The White House will publish a national cybersecurity strategy that would hold large companies accountable for failing to take reasonable steps to secure their software. At a recent CyberScoop event, Camille Stewart Gloster, the deputy national cyber director for technology and ecosystem security, said shifting the liability toward larger players that can make systems secure […]
NASA plans to begin preparations for the first cargo mission for the Gateway lunar station later in the year. SpaceX secured a NASA logistics services contract in 2020, under which it will build a Dragon XL cargo spacecraft to bring research equipment and other supplies to the space station. Gateway will serve as a staging […]
Lauren Knausenberger, the chief information officer of the Department of the Air Force, will step down in June, according to an agency spokesperson. She has served the department since 2017. Prior to becoming CIO in 2020, Knausenberger was the DAF’s chief transformation officer and director of cyberspace innovation. She is the latest CIO set to […]
The Defense Logistics Agency will roll out a new tool in ServiceNow to easily manage and audit all documents related to intragovernmental transactions and agreements. According to Jodi Beard, DLA Transformation’s program manager for support agreements, the new platform will provide the agency with a single system serving as a storage for the documents to […]
E-Space will demonstrate the capability of its new low-Earth orbit network to provide communication services to the U.S. Space Force and the Space Development Agency. Work will be performed under a contract the company recently secured from the Department of Defense. According to Greg Wyler, founder and CEO of E-Space, the LEO space system will […]
