BAE Systems has secured a $126M task order for the provision of mission-critical sustainment and engineering services to the U.S. Marshals Service’s information technology division. The task order requires BAE Systems to perform IT infrastructure engineering, full life cycle operations and comprehensive portfolio management. It also calls for desk support and the use of cloud service […]
Sen. Mark Warner, the vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and co-chair of the Senate Cybersecurity Caucus, emphasized the need for federal agencies to adopt vulnerability disclosure programs to secure their information technology products following a malware attack on the Department of Defense’s web server. In a letter addressed to Dana Deasy, DoD […]
Jim Reagan joined Leidos in July 2015 and has since served as its executive vice president and chief financial officer. He is responsible for the company’s financial activities, covering accounting and financial reporting, treasury, tax, planning and analysis and investor relations. Reagan has demonstrated his financial expertise serving large, publicly held companies, according to his […]
The Central Intelligence Agency is building robots as part of the Robotics Process Automation Center of Excellence to free the agency’s employees from having to perform transactional, routine, rule-based tasks. Speaking at the ServiceNow Federal Forum, center lead Pam Dempsey said the robots employed under the program perform “digital labor” and deal with the CIA’s […]
The Department of Energy is set to award 86 grants worth $97M to 70 small businesses across 28 states as part of the department’s Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs. The grants, which were announced by Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette, will fund the businesses’ Phase II research and development efforts. The […]
Booz Allen Hamilton has joined the Google Cloud Partner Advantage program. The partnership expands Booz Allen’s product offerings to its federal customers as it now gains access to a wide range of cloud-enabled capabilities provided by Google Cloud. The partnership also allows both companies to provide federal agencies with tools and services that support their […]
The U.S. Navy has awarded five companies cumulative indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts worth $249M for its System-Level Cost Analysis with Total Ownership Cost Analysis initiative. The potential five-year IDIQs were awarded to Deloitte Consulting, Boston Consulting Group Federal, CACI, Mid-Atlantic Technical and Executive Consulting, and Whitney, Bradley & Brown. The companies will perform work at contractor and […]
Douglas Natal is the general manager of the public sector business unit at Sumo Logic, a secure, cloud-native, machine data analytics software company based in California. In this role, Natal oversees the company’s go-to-market strategy, which is targeted at providing mission support to public sector clients across the U.S. The 20-year government technology market veteran […]
Sean Connelly, Trusted Internet Connections program manager at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said his office is working to release finalized TIC 3.0 documents by spring. During an FCW-organized event, Connelly explained that the TIC 3.0 aligns with zero trust architecture as it is aimed at shrinking trust zones to reduce attack surfaces. Connelly […]
VMware Public Sector Cloud has appointed Lance Bendit as its new chief strategy officer. Bendit brings over 20 years of experience in providing cloud and cybersecurity technology solutions to VMware. He joined VMWare after working for over a year at Govplace as managing director of portfolio operations, G2Xchange reported Monday. Bendit also served as a […]
