CACI International (NYSE: CACI) has acquired ID Technologies from investment firm The Acacia Group for approximately $225 million as part of efforts to expand its secure network modernization capabilities in support of Department of Defense, Intelligence Community and federal civilian agency customers. ID Technologies is an Ashburn, Virginia-based p...
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has won a potential 10-year, $750 million contract to provide the U.S. Marine Corps multichannel handheld radios for integration with joint light tactical vehicles and high mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicles. Marine Corps Systems Command is the contracting activity and received two offers for the firm-fixed-pric...
President Joe Biden has signed a memorandum that outlines requirements to improve the cybersecurity of Department of Defense, Intelligence Community and national security systems in accordance with the cybersecurity executive order issued in May 2021. The National Security Memorandum provides timelines and guidance on how the federal government will...
The Government Accountability Office decided to sustain Microsoft’s (Nasdaq: MSFT) protest of a potential $10 billion cloud computing contract that the National Security Agency awarded to Amazon Web Services in July, Nextgov reported Friday. “GAO found certain aspects of the agency’s evaluation to be unreasonable and, in light thereof, recomme...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) has secured a potential 10-year, $2 billion contract from the National Security Agency to provide high performance computing technology as a service to help NSA address its data management requirements. HPE will deliver fully managed cloud services on-premises through the HPE GreenLake platform to enable NSA to...
Amazon Web Services has won a potential $10 billion cloud computing contract from the National Security Agency, Nextgov reported Tuesday. According to the report, the contract awarded to Amazon’s (Nasdaq: AMZN) cloud subsidiary appears to be part of the NSA’s effort to update its GovCloud platform, the intelligence community’s classified data ...
Jen Easterly, head of firm resilience and the Fusion Resilience Center at Morgan Stanley, received Senate confirmation to serve as director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, three months after the White House announced her nomination for the role, Politico reported Monday. In a unanimous vote, senators approved Easterly to lea...
The Senate unanimously approved the nomination of Chris Inglis, a 28-year National Security Agency veteran, as the first national cyber director, The Hill reported Thursday. He will be responsible for coordinating policies to increase the security of federal information systems and will serve as a point of contact between the White House and Congres...
CACI International (NYSE: CACI) has secured a potential five-year, $447 million contract to help the National Security Agency gather signals intelligence and protect government networks from cyber threats. Work under the single-award contract will include the development of technology intended to assist agency efforts in providing data for U.S. lawm...
With the prevailing and emerging cybersecurity threats to U.S. critical infrastructure, the public and private sectors work to fortify national security systems’ defense against malicious actors in the cyber domain. GovCon Wire’s Defense Cybersecurity Forum on May 12 will feature Morgan Adamski, chief of the National Security Agency̵...
