The departments of Energy and Transportation recently invested $5 billion in the buildout of a national electric vehicle charging infrastructure, with a focus on increasing charging access for rural, disadvantaged and hard-to-reach locations. According to the DOE, the investment is part of the Biden administration’s larger effort to halve the United States’ greenhouse gas pollution […]
Department of Defense Chief Information Officer John Sherman said at an event hosted by AFCEA that he plans to focus on engaging with small and medium-sized businesses in connection with the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program. Sherman, a speaker at an upcoming Potomac Officers Club event and a 2022 Wash100 winner, said he also wants […]
Ping Identity, a developer of identity and credential management solutions, has entered into a distribution partnership with Carahsoft. As part of the collaboration, Carahsoft will expand the availability of Ping Identity’s security solutions across the public sector. Carahsoft will leverage its expertise and connections in government contracting to make procurement more efficient for government customers, […]
Optimal Strategix Group, a customer engagement analytics company, has won a spot on the Defense Health Agency’s $1.43 billion digital modernization contract. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract has a completion date of January 2028, OSG said Tuesday. According to OSG, the contract is aimed at taking best-in-class private-sector practices and implementing them in public health care. OSG […]
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has awarded a potential $300 million engineering and technical services contract to the Compass Production and Technical Services Joint Venture. Compass PTS JV, a joint venture led by AECOM, will support FEMA’s Risk Mapping, Assessment and Planning program under the terms of the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The deal has a one-year […]
DDN announced that its data storage technology will be implemented on the Department of Defense’s high-performance computing enterprise. The company said that its EXAScaler ES400X appliances will work alongside Penguin Computing‘s TrueHPC platform to drive computing resources at the Navy DOD Supercomputing Resource Center and the Air Force Research Laboratory DSRC. The DSRCs are two […]
Dragos, a cybersecurity software developer, has entered into a public-private partnership with the National Security Agency and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Under the partnership, the agencies will adopt the company’s Neighborhood Keeper, which is designed to enable secure intelligence sharing across industrial control system and operational technology networks in real time. The NSA […]
Businesses today have access to a wealth of data sources owing to advancements in information technology. However, large troves of data are only useful if they can be digested. In a 2020 publication, Gartner noted that the fields of data and analytics have historically been considered distinct. But the increasing integration of analytics capabilities with […]
Department of Defense Chief Information Officer John Sherman, a speaker at an upcoming Potomac Officers Club event and a 2022 Wash100 winner, wants to determine whether the government is labeling too many pieces of information as controlled unclassified information. Controlled unclassified information is one of the document types that the DOD’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification […]
David Geiger serves as director of data and analytics at KPMG’s U.S. business. KPMG is an international network of professional services firms that specialize in audit, tax and advisory. In his role, Geiger manages the delivery of data science and operations research capabilities to commercial and government clients, according to his LinkedIn profile. Prior to […]
