Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks has signed the Department of Defense’s Joint All-Domain Command and Control Implementation Plan. Hicks said the Pentagon must maintain its focus on enhancing its capabilities to face current and future threats. According to the deputy defense secretary, command and control capabilities are essential in a battlefield that relies more on […]
The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program has granted Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for Government a FedRAMP+ authorization. The designation allows Oracle to offer the OCI for Government platform to the Intelligence Community. The OCI for Government platform provides federal agencies with various infrastructure and applications, such as the Oracle Cloud VMware Solution and the Oracle […]
Kathy Conrad is the director of digital government at Accenture Federal Services. She has been holding her current leadership role since 2015. She oversees the digital government strategy and growth for AFS and focuses on how the company can deliver emerging technologies to help government customers become more efficient, customer-centric and data-driven. She offers customer […]
Sean Messner is the vice president of digital operations and information technology modernization at government contractor ASRC Federal. He specializes in enterprise transformation, IT operations and IT investment alignment. In his current leadership role, he established and led the Digital Operations and IT Modernization Center of Excellence. This organization is composed of 8,000 employees who […]
The Department of Defense has awarded Logistics Management Institute and Morse Corp. a $241 million basic ordering agreement to support the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center‘s Data Readiness AI Development program. The program is designed to scale AI across the Pentagon. According to Kristen Cheman, vice president of digital and analytics solutions at LMI and a […]
The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency have warned organizations about the ability of Russian state-sponsored cyber actors to gain network access by exploiting default multifactor authentication protocols. According to a joint cybersecurity advisory, state-sponsored hacking groups would exploit a misconfigured account to set default MFA protocols at a non-government organization and access […]
The Missile Defense Agency has decommissioned two Space Tracking and Surveillance System satellites after over 12 years of service. The satellites stopped collecting data in September 2021. The STSS satellites were created by Northrop Grumman and were launched to low-Earth orbit on a United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket in 2009. Their mission was to […]
Software company Coupa has secured the “Moderate” authorization from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for the Coupa Business Spend Management for Federal platform. As part of the milestone, the company’s products are now available in the FedRAMP marketplace. The authorization allows the company to expand its services to federal agencies. The company offers […]
The U.S. Army has awarded engineering company KBR a four-year, $70 million task order for sensor development technical analysis services. Work under the contract will support the Army Program Executive Office Missiles and Space, Search, Track, Acquire, Radiate, Eliminate Project Office. The company will provide research, development, test and evaluation services to independently verify and […]
The National Institutes of Health has awarded Melax Technologies a $300,000 Small Business Innovation Research Phase I contract to develop and enhance user-focused informatics tools that will be used for infectious, immune and allergic disease research. Melax Tech will work with the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of Californa San Diego to develop […]
