VMD has secured a spot on the General Services Administration’s Highly Adaptive Cybersecurity Services Special Item Number contract, making it eligible to compete for cybersecurity services under the agency’s IT Schedule 70. The company passed the GSA’s technical evaluation for the HACS SIN’s key sub-categories, such as high-value asset assessments, risk and vulnerability assessment, cyber […]
Three senators have proposed a new bill called the "‘Cybersecurity Competitions to Yield Better Efforts to Research the Latest Exceptionally Advanced Problems Act of 2020," or CYBER LEAP Act, aimed at promoting prize-based grand challenges to improve the country’s cybersecurity posture. Primarily, the CYBER LEAP Act, if passed, would mandate the Commerce Secretary to establish […]
Neil Wiley, a long-time career intelligence officer and a national security veteran, has been appointed as the principal executive at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell made the announcement Wednesday, granting Wiley the responsibilities tied with the said role until the Senate confirms a presidential nominee […]
Veritone, an artificial intelligence tech company based in Costa Mesa, California, has landed a two-year, $210M indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to deliver audio and video transcription services, as well as translation services, to the Department of Justice. The services provided under the contract will cater to 94 U.S. attorney’s offices nationwide. According to the company, work for […]
Shaun Bierweiler, a Potomac Officers Club member, serves as president of Cloudera’s government solutions, a role he has held since June 2019. His current position puts him at the helm of a public sector team that helps agencies address big data, data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence challenges through the use of data and […]
Paul Puckett is the current director of the Army’s Enterprise Cloud Management Office, the service’s centralized enterprise-wide resource dedicated to facilitating efficient cloud migrations. The role puts Puckett at the forefront of leveraging cloud services and resources to provide the Army with actionable information. Since taking on the role in November 2019, Puckett has […]
John Lee joined Carahsoft in April 2011 as vice president for cloud solutions, providing senior-level oversight to the computer software company’s cloud-based activities. In the said role, Lee has been responsible for growing a pay-as-you-go licensing model for companies including VMware, Adobe, EMC, Symantec and Red Hat. With over three decades of industry experience, Lee […]
Two Republican members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee have proposed 15 bills aimed at giving American companies a leg up on China in the tech sphere. The bills are wide in scope, as they address the need for standards-setting for both facial recognition and three-dimensional printing, as well as place importance in promoting […]
The U.S. Special Operations Command has been adopting and continuously fostering artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities in light of extremist threats and in support of mission-critical priorities, including next-gen mobility and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance tech. Speaking at the virtual Special Operations Forces Industry Conference, Army Gen. Richard Clarke, commander of USSOCOM, said […]
Maria Roat is set to relinquish her position as chief information officer of the Small Business Administration as she transitions to the deputy CIO role at the Office of the Federal CIO within the Office of Management and Budget. The move to the OFCIO wraps up Roat’s nearly four-year career at SBA, where she took […]
