A new report from the Intelligence Community underscores the growing cyber threat posed by the U.S.’ foreign adversaries. In its annual threat assessment report, the IC said cyber threats from nation states and their surrogates will remain acute. The intelligence agencies also noted that states’ increasing use of cyber operations as a tool of national […]
Rob Joyce, a past Wash100 winner, has formally assumed the position of cybersecurity director at the National Security Agency. Joyce leads the Cybersecurity Directorate, an organization within the NSA tasked with protecting the Department of Defense, National Security Systems and the defense industrial base from cyber threats, CHIPS Magazine reported. The Cybersecurity Directorate was launched […]
Ret. Maj. Gen. Michael Taheri has been named a strategic board adviser to Sev1Tech, an information technology service management company headquartered in Woodbridge, Virginia. His leadership, expertise and guidance will be critical to supporting customer mission areas and growth goals, Sev1Tech said Monday. Sev1Tech CEO Bob Lohfeld, a member of the Potomac Officers Club, said […]
Bill Ott is the director of Red Hat’s North America public sector professional services business. Since assuming the position in October 2019, he has been in charge of the business unit’s strategy, sales and delivery. Ott’s team helps Red Hat clients make better use of the company’s cloud technology portfolio to deliver customer success and […]
Tamara Greenspan is the group vice president and general manager of application sales for Oracle’s federal and Canadian public sector business. She leads a team of professionals that provides enterprise applications and software as a service solutions for Oracle’s federal government and Canadian customers. Greenspan’s team specializes in delivering enterprise resource planning, human capital management, […]
The Defense Intelligence Agency wants to utilize the CIA’s multi billion-dollar Commercial Cloud Enterprise contract to leverage expanded cloud capabilities. While certain details of the contract remain undisclosed, the DIA said it intends to procure services for more cloud storage and edge computing under C2E. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, multiple-award contract has already been awarded to five […]
The White House has asked Congress for $500 million in additional funding for the General Services Administration’s Technology Modernization Fund as part of its discretionary funding request for fiscal year 2022. According to the White House, the money would facilitate the modernization of agencies’ antiquated information systems. In particular, the TMF funding would be directed […]
President Joe Biden has named his nominees for key leadership positions at the departments of Veterans Affairs, Labor, Energy and Transportation. Biden wants to nominate Matt Quinn for under secretary for memorial affairs at the VA and Doug Parker for assistant secretary for occupational safety and health at the DOL. He is also eyeing Ali […]
Lt. Gen. Michael Groen, director of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center and a 2021 Wash100 winner, recently talked about the efficiencies of AI and its potential to help the Department of Defense in its budget situation. Speaking at an April 9 press briefing, Groen told reporters that relying on AI’s productivity gains becomes an economic […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has introduced a new tool to detect post-threat compromise activity from the SolarWinds incident. CISA’s Aviary dashboard goes hand in hand with Sparrow, a threat detection tool that the agency released in December to help network defenders find Azure/Microsoft O365 accounts that may have been compromised by the SolarWinds […]
