Appgate, a provider of secure access solutions, announced plans to make its zero trust network access solution available as a service for government customers. Appgate SDP is an enterprise-grade solution that uses zero trust principles to ensure that users can securely connect to resources they are explicitly authorized to access, Appgate said Tuesday. Barry Field, […]
Erwin Villiger serves as LMI’s principal for sustainability and climate analytics. He advises the company’s customers on the use of analytics for sustainability and climate risk assessment. He is an expert in geospatial analytics and composite indicator system evaluation and development, LMI said. Villiger said in his LinkedIn profile that he helps LMI develop techniques […]
Stephen Ambrose serves as the chief climate scientist at Science Applications International Corp., a Fortune 500 technology and engineering company. SAIC said it offers modernization and mission solutions to customers in the defense, space, civilian and intelligence markets. Ambrose serves as a subject matter expert on climate at SAIC, supporting the company’s efforts to build […]
LuxSci, a Massachusetts-based secure messaging company, said it will support the federal government’s implementation of zero trust by helping raise the standard for email encryption. Emails can be made more secure when both the sender and the receiver are using the SMTP Mail Transfer Agent Strict Transport Security “add-on” technology, LuxSci said. The company explained […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology should account for the possibility of a global catastrophe caused by artificial intelligence, according to a research team from the University of California, Berkeley. UC Berkeley issued the warning in an evidence paper responding to NIST’s draft framework on the adoption of AI across the federal government, FedScoop […]
Ted Kaouk, the chief data officer at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, will leave his post to serve as CDO of the Office of Personnel Management. He will also serve as OPM’s deputy director for human capital data management and modernization starting sometime in October, Federal News Network reported. During his tenure at USDA, Kaouk […]
Global Systems Technologies, a security engineering company, has secured a $300 million multiple-award blanket purchase agreement to provide test and evaluation services to the Department of Homeland Security. The company said it will serve as an independent test agent for the department’s major acquisition programs. The program portfolio covers security, detection, communications and other systems […]
CloudBees, an enterprise software specialist, has formed a corporate partnership with CACI International to rapidly field new capabilities and consistently deliver high-quality software. CACI is an information technology and professional services company that serves federal government clients in the defense, homeland security, intelligence and health care sectors. The partnership will benefit from CACI’s competence in […]
Tego, an information technology engineering company, announced that it has become a registered provider organization under the Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program. The DOD established CMMC to raise the bar for cybersecurity among defense contractors and address supply chain management issues. aCMMC includes sets of cybersecurity requirements that contractors must meet before […]
The House of Representatives has proposed including $800 million in funding for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency under the $3.5 trillion Build Back Better Act. The funding is intended to help the Department of Homeland Security agency implement President Joe Biden’s May 12 executive order on modernizing the federal government’s cybersecurity, FCW reported Thursday. […]
