President Joe Biden, who took the oath of office Wednesday, has appointed individuals to lead 34 federal government organizations in acting capacities until his Cabinet choices complete confirmation procedures. Each agency leader will support the new administration in efforts to create a âwhole-of-governmentâ strategy to address national challen...
D.J. Dart, formerly business development executive for the Department of Homeland Security at Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC), has elevated to the role of vice president for DHS enterprise, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Tuesday. He joined SAIC through its acquisition of the Unisys Federal business in March 2020 and has more than tw...
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that seeks to address foreign use of infrastructure as a service cloud computing platforms for malicious cyber activities. The order directs the secretary of the Department of Commerce to develop rules within six months to require IaaS providers to verify the identity of foreigners with IaaS accou...
The Department of Homeland Security has issued a request for proposals for a potential 10-year, $3.35B indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that covers enterprise data center, colocation and cloud to hybrid computing infrastructure. A solicitation notice posted Thursday states that the Data Center and Cloud Optimization contract has a fi...
The Department of Homeland Security has created a strategy outlining its measures to address threats Chinese activity poses to the U.S.’ immigration, critical infrastructure and cybersecurity, trade and maritime defense operations. DHS said Wednesday its Strategic Action Plan applies input from the department’s China Working Group and th...
Kenneth Bible, former deputy chief information officer at the U.S. Marine Corps, has joined the Department of Homeland Security as chief information security officer, Federal News Network reported Monday. He succeeds Paul Beckman, who stepped down from the DHS CISO position last year and now works for Consolidated Nuclear Security in the same role. ...
GovCon Expert Chuck Brooks has published his latest article as a member of Executive Mosaicâs GovCon Expert program on Tuesday. In his latest piece, Chuck Brooks discussed the most recent cyber breaches that have impacted federal agencies and the dire need to prevent future breaches and potential consequences of not prioritizing cybersecurity...
Thomas Scientific has secured a potential $105.8M indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to provide nasopharyngeal swabs to five federal executive departments and the Indian Health Service....
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has released an emergency directive directing all federal civilian agencies to mitigate a compromise that threat actors are exploiting in SolarWinds' (NYSE: SWI) Orion Network Management products....
TYSONS CORNER, VA, December 7, 2020 â LMI will help the Department of Homeland Security's Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office manage chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear defense efforts under a potential $77.6M contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday....
