The U.S. Army has released a plan that presents its approach to improving data management as part of efforts to become a data-centric organization. The Army Data Plan focuses on the warfighting mission area and reflects a three-year initiative that...
The Department of the Air Force has completed the migration of on-premises sites to a cloud-based productivity and collaboration platform as part of its modernization strategy. The DAF365 Enterprise Services, the department's Microsoft Office 365 collaboration platform, now hosts 6,823...
Christopher Scolese, director of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), recently accepted his 2022 Wash100 Award, the highest honor in the government contracting (GovCon) community, during a visit by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson to the department’s headquarters in Chantilly, Virginia. Executive Mosaic has recognized Christopher...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has launched an initiative to rapidly explore novel technology concepts that seek to address high-risk, high-reward “what if” questions. DARPA said Wednesday the Advanced Research Concepts initiative intends to invest in research that...
Aaron Weis, the chief information officer of the Department of the Navy, has signed a design concept outlining an integrated framework to achieve digital modernization goals across the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. The Capstone Design Concept for Information Superiority...
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has issued a binding operational directive mandating that agencies report vulnerability enumeration performance data to improve CISA's operational visibility into federal networks. The BOD 23-01, titled "Improving Asset Visibility and Vulnerability Detection on Federal...
The Office of the National Cyber Director is requesting the public to comment on its plan to create a national strategy focused on cyber workforce, cyber training and education and digital awareness. The White House said Monday ONCD has released...
The U.S. Space Force and the Australian defense department issued an initial operational capability declaration Friday for a ground-based military telescope being used to monitor deep-space objects. The Space Surveillance Telescope is designed to capture images of faint objects in...
Consulting firm Guidehouse has concluded its transaction to acquire the public sector advisory business of Grant Thornton LLP. With the acquisition, Guidehouse adds new expertise and capabilities in financial services, human-capital management and information technology, among other focus areas, the McLean, Virginia-based...
Established government contracting executive Matt Tait has been appointed CEO and president of defense technology firm ManTech, effective immediately. Tait has also been voted to ManTech’s board of directors and, in his new role, succeeds the retiring Kevin Phillips, a six-time recipient of the Wash100...
Stevan Slijepcevic, president and CEO of Cubic Corp., recently accepted his 2022 Wash100 Award for his visionary leadership to support the company’s customers in their critical missions as well as for driving significant company growth since assuming the CEO role in January...
Heidi Shyu, undersecretary for research and engineering OUSD(R&E) at the Department of Defense (DoD), recently accepted her 2022 Wash100 Award, the highest annual honor bestowed to the highest members of the government contracting (GovCon) community, during a visit by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson....
The Department of Defense has awarded 19 grants valued at approximately $90 million combined under the Defense Community Infrastructure Pilot Program and six grants worth about $30 million in total through the Defense Manufacturing Community Support Program. DOD said Friday...
Shawn Purvis, president and CEO of QinetiQ Group’s U.S. subsidiary, accepted her 2022 Wash100 Award, the most significant award of consequence to the government contracting community, during a recent visit by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson to the company’s office in Lorton, VA. “Shawn...
Reggie Brothers, CEO of BigBear.ai and a key member of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program, was presented with his second consecutive Wash100 Award, the most coveted award in all of government contracting (GovCon), by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson. “Dr. Reggie Brothers fits into...
