Boston Government Services, a digital solutions provider, has been certified as a third-party assessor organization for 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, BGS said Tuesday. C3PAOs are authorized to conduct compliance assessments for […]
U.S. Army officials have announced that the 2021 iteration of Project Convergence, a multi-platform initiative aimed at merging joint force capabilities, will more heavily focus on joint warfighting. While the 2020 version had joint warfighting assets tacked on, it mostly consisted of the Army performing experiments on its own at Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona, […]
Lawmakers in the House of Representatives have introduced legislation seeking to set a five-year term limit for the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. The Cybersecurity Leadership Act would also affirm that the director is presidentially nominated and Senate-approved, The Hill reported Tuesday. On its website, CISA said it serves as the United […]
Karl Schaub serves as the chief solutions architect at NetScout Systems, a computer networking company that specializes in cybersecurity and business intelligence. NetScout said its solutions are designed to protect industry leaders from the risk of disruption and allow them to address challenges in network performance and security problems. As chief solutions architect, Schaub serves […]
Jason Weaver serves as the chief solutions officer at SkyePoint Decisions, a cybersecurity and information technology maintenance provider. SkyePoint said it provides cybersecurity engineering, critical infrastructure support and application development services to federal government customers. Weaver is responsible for identifying customer priorities and developing technical and business solutions to meet them, SkyePoint said. He is […]
Splunk, a data and software company, announced that it has secured Impact Level 5 Provisional Authorization from the Department of Defense. With the authorization, federal government agencies may now use Splunk cloud technology to handle data with the “controlled unclassified information” designation and below, Splunk said Thursday. According to the Defense Information Systems Agency’s Computing […]
Octo has been awarded a $31 million contract to provide technical support for the General Services Administration‘s legacy Federal Procurement Data System. GSA issued the Operations and Maintenance of FPDS Next Generation and System for Award Management Integration Environment contract through the CIO Modernization and Enterprise Transformation blanket purchase agreement, Octo said Thursday. The agency […]
The U.S. Digital Service, a technology unit within the Executive Office of the President of the United States, has named Mina Hsiang as its third administrator. Hsiang brings over a dozen years of technical experience from the private sector. She has built products, teams and organizations focused on delivering analytics and digital services, USDS said […]
Infoscitex, a DCS company specializing in technology and engineering, has been awarded a contract to help the Air Force Research Laboratory develop modeling and simulation technology. Work will be done under the terms of a multiple-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a shared cost ceiling of $48 million, IST said Thursday. The company will specifically support AFRL’s […]
Rees Johnson serves as chief product officer at Forcepoint, a multinational software company that specializes in data protection and cloud access security. Forcepoint said it offers solutions that bring together key elements of zero trust, including a zero trust network access solution, a data loss prevention product and a new cloud-based continuous user activity monitoring […]
