The Army Combat Capabilities Development Command's C5ISR center has tapped CACI International to provide research and development on cryptographic modernization, information security and tactical network protection under the terms of a five-year, single-award task order worth a potential $465M. CACI will be tasked with delivering new software-defined capabilities in support of a wide range of […]
Kamal Narang serves as the vice president and general manager of General Dynamics Information Technology’s federal health sector. In his current position, Narang provides executive oversight of the strategic direction, growth, planning and performance of a team that delivers mission-critical information technology services and solutions across federal government agencies, including the National Institutes of Health, […]
Robert Wilkie, a past Wash100 winner, is the current Department of Veterans Affairs secretary, a role which he initially assumed on an acting capacity for two months before his confirmation on July 23, 2018. Prior to his appointment as VA secretary, Wilkie was the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness, serving under former Defense […]
Rob Sherry has spent over two-and-a-half years serving as the senior director of federal healthcare at VMware, a computer software company that specializes in cloud infrastructure, virtualization, cloud management, software-defined data center and network virtualization. A 20-year industry veteran, Sherry, a member of the Potomac Officers Club, has spent the last 10 years holding executive […]
The Department of Homeland Security has recorded a 900 percent surge in the use of Teams, Microsoft's collaboration platform, as well as a 483 percent increase in terms of virtual private network usage amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In line with the increase in telework, Brian Forsythe, branch chief of technical assessments at DHS, said the […]
Billy Spears has joined Irvine, California-based information technology company Alteryx as its new chief information security officer. Spears brings to Alteryx over two decades of experience leading multidisciplinary teams and establishing collaborative information security and privacy environments in organizations across the government, private and public sectors. As the new CISO, Spears is expected to provide executive oversight […]
Amazon Web Services has again challenged the proceedings of the $10B Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud contract, with its most recent bid protest directed at revisions made to the solicitation by the Department of Defense. According to a spokesperson for AWS, the company specifically sought clarifications on "ambiguous aspects" of the amended JEDI solicitation, which […]
The Navy is seeking information on any state-of-the-art or novel technologies, approaches or processes that can assist information technology staff in solving technical issues for data centers in enterprise networks. As indicated in a request for information notice published on the System for Award Management website, the Navy’s goal is to reduce the IT burden […]
Science Applications International Corp. has secured one of 40 spots on a $982M multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide support for the Naval Sea Systems Command’s unmanned surface vehicle family of systems. Under the terms of the contract, SAIC will support the USV FOS functional areas and the Navy’s future unmanned surface fleet by providing products […]
Ashburn, Virginia-based Cignal has received funds amounting to $142K from the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate’s Silicon Valley Innovation Program to facilitate its development of an artificial intelligence training system that leverages high-fidelity synthetic data. Karl Harris, S&T screening at speed program manager, acknowledges that systems capable of churning out computer-generated and […]
