Members of the Machinists’ Union Local S6 have voted to reject a three-year contract from General Dynamics Bath Iron Works that covers shipyard work for the Navy’s destroyer fleet. Some 4.3K shipyard workers, or 87 percent of the union, staged a work stoppage in protest over the contract at midnight Sunday, thus suspending work for […]
The Navy has awarded Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Ingalls Shipbuilding division a $145M contract modification to provide continued services in support of the landing helicopter assault 9 type of amphibious assault ships. The award, which marks HII’s third modification for the contract, calls for long-lead-time material and advanced procurement activities for LHA 9. According to Ingalls […]
The Defense Information Systems Agency is looking to gather industry feedback on software management platforms that would help expand the cybersecurity capabilities in its device security program. As indicated in a request for information, the initial wave of capabilities for the Comply-to-Connect program deployed by DISA was limited to conducting “pathfinder activities.” The C2C program […]
Genesys, a contact center solutions provider, has named Amazon Web Services as its preferred cloud provider for its public cloud contact center platform, Genesys Cloud. The announcement cements the partnership between the companies, as Genesys has been leveraging the AWS portfolio to accelerate organizational transitions from centralized contact centers to remote contact centers during the […]
Salesforce has announced that its cloud instance, called Government Cloud Plus, which runs on Amazon Web Services’ GovCloud platform, has received a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program provisional authority to operate at the High Security Impact Level. The operational clearance allows Salesforce customers to deploy the company’s Customer 360 customer relationship management platform and […]
The Department of Defense has announced that it will work on another solicitation amendment and review additional limited proposal revisions relative to the $10B Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract, as Amazon Web Services continues to seek clarifications on the cloud procurement. The proposed changes were announced in a June 16 court filing, but lawyers representing […]
Thomas “Tom” McCabe serves as the senior vice president, general counsel, chief compliance officer and corporate secretary of BWX Technologies, a defense and space company that supplies nuclear components and fuel to the U.S. government. According to his LinkedIn profile, McCabe is responsible for enterprise-wide legal, regulatory, compliance and contracts matters, including ethics, governance, mergers […]
Alice Eldridge, a member of the Potomac Officers Club, joined BAE Systems in July 2019 as senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary. In the said roles, Eldridge handles BAE Systems’ legal matters and oversees its businesses across the U.S., U.K., Sweden and Israel. She also manages the company’s contracts, security, ethics, compliance and […]
John Zangardi, former chief information officer of the Department of Homeland Security, has been elected to the Qualys board of directors. Zangardi, a past event speaker for the Potomac Officers Club, will provide executive oversight to a computer and network security company committed to delivering cloud-based security and compliance solutions in more than 130 countries. […]
GoSecure, together with software vendor SAP NS2 and Carahsoft, announced that its proprietary endpoint detection response platform has received the approval of the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program. Neal Creighton, chief executive officer of GoSecure, described the EDR platform as a purpose-built tool for detecting the most advanced attacks and addressing federal agencies’ specific use […]
