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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...

Maximus CEO Bruce Caswell Receives 4th Consecutive Wash100 Award From Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson

Bruce Caswell, president and CEO of Maximus, recently accepted his 2022 Wash100 Award, the highest honor in government contracting (GovCon) that is bestowed on the most significant executives of consequence...

NGA Awards G-EGD Contract Renewal to Maxar Technologies for Mission-Ready Satellite Imagery; CEO Dan Jablonsky Quoted

Maxar Technologies announced on Tuesday that the company has received an Option Year 3 contract renewal from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) for a total value of $176 million, which...

Kathleen Hicks Highlights Biomanufacturing’s Potential to Advance National Security

Kathleen Hicks, deputy secretary at the Department of Defense and a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, said biotechnology and biomanufacturing innovation present transformative opportunities to advance national security efforts. Speaking at...

NVIDIA Federal VP Anthony Robbins Receives 5th Wash100 Award From Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson

Anthony Robbins, vice president of the federal business at NVIDIA, accepted his 2022 Wash100 Award, the highest honor in government contracting (GovCon), from Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson during a...

5 Consortia Secure DoD Cooperative Agreements to Foster STEM Education; Heidi Shyu Quoted

The Department of Defense has issued five cooperative agreement awards for academic organizations to elevate science, technology, engineering and math education at two-year institutions and community colleges. Five consortia could...