Top officials from the Department of Justice have urged lawmakers to pass legislation requiring companies to notify federal authorities of data breach incidents, including ransomware attacks. Richard Downing, deputy assistant attorney general for the DOJ’s criminal division, told the Senate Judiciary committee that the lack of prompt cyber incident reporting hinders the federal government from […]
Raft, a technology consulting firm headquartered in Reston, Virginia, has been awarded a $36 million contract to support the Cloud Computing and IT Integration effort of the Air Force’s Kessel Run software factory. The deal calls for the provision of DevSecOps software engineering expertise, Kubernetes infrastructure and multi-region platform services to facilitate the modernization of […]
Qualys has secured a contract to deploy its federally approved cloud platform in support of the Department of Homeland Security’s Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation Dynamic and Evolving Federal Enterprise Network Defense Group F program. The cloud platform, authorized under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, will provide over 70 non-cabinet level federal agencies with […]
Lt. Gen. John Thompson, commander of the Space and Missile Systems Center, formally retired from service during a July 27 ceremony at Los Angeles Air Force Base in California. Thompson wrapped up more than 30 years of service, which dates back to 1984 when he was commissioned to the U.S. military through the Air Force […]
Caroline LeCount has been the vice president of talent management at Maxar Technologies since December 2019. According to her LinkedIn profile, LeCount oversees enterprise-level leading teams responsible for organizational effectiveness/learning and development, diversity, inclusion and belonging, change management and talent acquisition. She assumed her current role following a nearly two-year stint as Maxar’s VP of […]
Irvin Towson joined Magellan Health in June 2014 as vice president of talent acquisition. According to his LinkedIn profile, he is responsible for implementing scalable global recruitment initiatives to meet corporate demands, executing recruiting strategies, determining workforce needs and developing talent acquisition solutions. Before making the jump to Magellan Health, Towson spent nearly two years […]
Cubic Mission and Performance Solutions has secured a follow-on task order for the development of two small form factor radio prototypes in support of the Air Force’s Data Link Enterprise. The SFF Radio Phase 2 task is valued at more than $10 million. Cubic said it will produce an SFF software-defined radio variant for a […]
The guidelines for responsible space operations released by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin should be part of a wider conversation and be adopted beyond the Department of Defense, according to a top DOD official. The recommendations by John Hill, a past Potomac Officers Club event speaker who is performing the duties of assistant secretary of defense […]
Dr. Carolyn Clancy, acting deputy secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, told lawmakers that the agency will likely resume deployments of its modernized electronic health record system in 2022. Speaking before members of the House VA Committee, Clancy said a new deployment schedule would not be ready until the end of the year. Rep. […]
Members of the Senate Armed Services Committee have approved a $740 billion spending plan for the Department of Defense in fiscal year 2022, up by $24 billion compared to President Joe Biden’s request. The SASC’s version of the FY2022 defense authorization bill includes $1.7 billion in funding to restore an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer and $1.5 […]
