Karolyn Gardner is the vice president of contracts and pricing at ICF, a consulting and technology services provider headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia. The role puts her in charge of a team of contracts, subcontracts and pricing professionals that support ICF’s disaster management division and public sector operation group. Gardner is double-hatted as the co-chair of […]
Nand Mulchandani, chief technology officer of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, shared some of the JAIC’s tech adoption initiatives and organizational challenges during his appearance on a radio program hosted by Federal News Network. Mulchandani, a past Potomac Officers Club event speaker, highlighted Project Salus, a JAIC effort aimed at integrating data from the supply […]
Nancy Norton, a former military information technology leader and a past Wash100 winner, has been elected to T-Rex Solutions’ national security board of advisers. Norton will help advise the company’s leaders on how to shape IT solutions to serve customers in the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community, T-Rex Solutions said Monday. She will […]
The Navy aims to migrate more sailors and Marines to its new Microsoft Office 365 virtual collaboration environment called Flank Speed. A select pool of 260,000 users began the transition on June 1. The goal is to have 472,000 users before the end of fiscal year 2021, FedScoop reported. Flank Speed is an improved version […]
Small businesses are seeking to be excused from complying with higher levels of the Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program. Jonathan Williams, a partner at the Washington, D.C.-based law firm PilieroMazza, told members of the House Small Business Committee on June 24 that compliance with CMMC requirements beyond level 1 would burden small […]
A newly introduced bill in the Senate proposes the establishment of cyber workforce apprenticeship programs within the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Department of Veterans Affairs. Upon the enactment of the Federal Cybersecurity Workforce Expansion Act, CISA would have two years to set up a federally-funded training program to create a talent pipeline […]
The Department of Defense’s Cyber Crime Center is conducting a pilot program showcasing a new service offering to inform contractors of the state of their overall defense against cyberattacks. The Krystal Ball pilot, which underwent a soft launch in February, aims to use publicly available information and threat intelligence to give companies insight into their […]
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is looking to accelerate the operational timeline of the GOES-T satellite to cover for one of the agency’s malfunctioning advanced geostationary weather satellites. GOES-T, which will be renamed GOES-18 once it reaches geostationary orbit, will replace GOES-17, which is suffering from overheating problems with a component known as the […]
The Department of Homeland Security is seeking to obtain backing from the Technology Modernization Fund to finance its modernization projects. The agency sent applications for four initiatives aimed at improving the processing of immigrants at the southern border, facilitating airport experience, promoting better data utilization and furthering threat information sharing. Speaking at a Professional Services […]
The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Accreditation Body has granted Smithers Information Security Services certified third-party assessment organization candidate status. The designation puts Smithers one step closer to performing assessments on defense contractors seeking compliance with the CMMC. Final C3PAO status is given by the CMMC-AB to organizations that have secured clearance from the Defense Contract […]
