The Department of Defense intends to extend procurements made under the Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability contract to small cloud providers. Speaking at a Potomac Officers Club event, Danielle Metz, DOD deputy CIO for information enterprise, confirmed that JWCC awards will not be exclusive to hyperscale cloud service providers and will eventually be open to any […]
The Department of Commerce plans to launch an enterprise-wide information technology contract to accelerate tech procurement, minimize the cost of infrastructure upgrades and establish the agency as a federal leader in IT. The Commerce Acquisition for Transformational Technology Services contract covers six task areas: chief information officer support, digital document and records management, managed service […]
The Office of Management and Budget released a memorandum on Tuesday requiring all federal agencies to protect on-premise software in line with recent guidance issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Agencies must first identify critical software, including those currently in use or in the process of acquisition, within 60 days of the […]
Lt. Gen. John Shaw, deputy commander of the U.S. Space Command, believes it is only a matter of time before cybercriminals target the commercial space sector given the interconnectedness of the cyber and space realms. Speaking at the Small Satellite Conference, Shaw said commercial space assets will likely face various cyber challenges, including ransomware attacks […]
Bill Donellan is the vice president of Adobe’s public sector business, which caters to a wide range of government customers, including national security, defense, health and human services, and civilian federal agencies. According to his LinkedIn profile, Donellan manages all sales and go-to-market strategies for the computer software company’s public sector business in North America. […]
CACI has tapped retired U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Peter Gallagher, a past Potomac Officers Club event speaker, to serve as senior vice president for national security technology solutions. Gallagher will report to Todd Probert, president of CACI’s National Security and Innovative Solutions sector. Probert, another former POC event speaker, believes that Gallagher’s defense mission expertise, […]
The Department of Agriculture is having difficulties complying with a directive requiring all agencies to go paperless in support of federal-wide electronic recordkeeping. Per a 2019 memo issued by the Office of Management and Budget, the National Archives and Records Administration, which is responsible for keeping U.S. government documents, will stop accepting paper-based records at […]
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is using facial biometric comparison technology to verify the identities of arriving passengers at seaports amid the resumption of cruise ship travel. The technology, estimated to be more than 98 percent accurate, is available at 12 seaports across the country and has mostly been used to clear cruise passengers in […]
A group of senators has proposed legislation that would address the gap in measuring cybercrime incidents. The newly introduced Better Cybercrime Metrics Act would require law enforcement agencies to report cybercrime and cyber-enabled crime within their jurisdictions to the FBI. It would also mandate the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Census Bureau to ask […]
Carlos Del Toro has received Senate confirmation to serve as the 78th secretary of the Navy. His appointment comes months after Christine Wormuth was confirmed unanimously by the Senate to be the first female secretary of the Army. Frank Kendall was also recently confirmed as Air Force secretary via voice vote after a stalled nomination […]
