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Army Unveils Plan to Transform Into Data-Centric Organization; CIO Raj Iyer Quoted

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...

DAF Migrates Over 6,000 Sites to Cloud-Based Collaboration Tool; Lauren Knausenberger Quoted

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,...

NRO Director Christopher Scolese Receives 3rd Consecutive Wash100 Award From Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson

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...

DARPA Unveils Advanced Research Concepts Initiative; Director Stefanie Tompkins Quoted

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...

DON CIO Aaron Weis Signs Design Concept Outlining Information Superiority Objectives

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...

CISA Releases Directive to Improve Asset Visibility, Vulnerability Detection; Director Jen Easterly Quoted

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...

White House ONCD Seeks Comments on National Cyber Workforce Strategy

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...

US-Australia Space Surveillance Telescope Achieves IOC Status; Gen. John Raymond Quoted

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...

Guidehouse Strengthens Financial Services, IT Offerings With Grant Thornton Acquisition; Scott McIntyre Quoted

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,...

ManTech Selects Matt Tait as New CEO; Kevin Phillips Appointed Chairman

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,...

Cubic President, CEO Stevan Slijepcevic Receives 2022 Wash100 Award From Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson

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...

DOD Tech Chief Heidi Shyu Receives 2nd Wash100 Award From Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson

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...

DoD Announces Award of Defense Manufacturing, Community Infrastructure Grants; William LaPlante Quoted

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...

QinetiQ US CEO Shawn Purvis Receives 2nd Consecutive Wash100 Award From Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson

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...

GovCon Expert Reggie Brothers, CEO of BigBear.ai, Receives 2nd Wash100 Award From Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson

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...