Executive Mosaic is pleased to present a 2022 Wash100 Award to Aaron Weis, chief information officer of the Department of the Navy, for his efforts to continue modernization of enterprise information technology as DON seeks to prevent a regress to its pre-pandemic IT practices. The award marks Weis’ third consecutive Wash100 recognition. He was first […] More

Anthony Robbins, vice president of the North American public sector business for NVIDIA and a 2021 Wash100 Award winner, said the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center helps the Department of Defense assess use cases and address AI-sprawl, Federal News Network reported Tuesday.

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The General Services Administration expected nine out of 17 major agencies to award task orders by March 31 through the $50B Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions telecommunications contract but only one of those agencies used EIS to issue a task order, Federal News Network reported Monday.

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Katie Arrington,  chief information security officer at the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and a 2020 Wash100 Award recipient, made an announcement on the accreditation body for the Department of Defense’s (DoD) new Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC). The Potomac Officers Club will host its CMMC Forum 2020 on April 2nd. Click here to register for the event.

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Executive Mosaic is thrilled to present Kevin Plexico, senior vice president of information solutions for Deltek, as an inductee into the 2020 edition of the Wash100 Award for leading Deltek’s team of GovCon analysts and managing GovWin. 

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Some industry experts said the introduction of draft guidance to implement the Trusted Internet Connections 3.0 policy seeks to reflect the move to separate the Department of Homeland Security’s EINSTEIN cybersecurity program from the TIC initiative, Federal News Network reported Tuesday. “TIC 3.0 isn’t here to kill EINSTEIN, but decouple it from TIC. I think some form of EINSTEIN will still need to exist," said Stephen Kovac, vice president of global government and corporate compliance at Zscaler.

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Dan Jablonsky, president and CEO of Maxar Technologies, wrote in a blog post published Tuesday the company merged the operations of Radiant Solutions, SSL and DigitalGlobe as part of a restructuring effort aimed to provide leaders with direct authority and facilitate innovation and service delivery.

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David Young, senior vice president of strategic government group at CenturyLink, told Federal News Network in an interview published Monday about the potential advantage to carriers and agencies of the move to extend the transition timeline for the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract. The decision makes the EIS program “more feasible and not rushed because when things […] More

More than 10,500 existing vendors and 942 new contractors are expected to benefit from the General Services Administration’s decision not to require entities that update or create their registration on the System for Award Management website to submit a notarized letter before activation of their registration, Federal News Radio reported Monday. GSA will still require vendors […] More

Jonathan Benett, chief enterprise architect of the Agriculture Department, has stepped down to join Adobe Systems‘ public sector business in June, Federal News Radio reported Thursday. He started his federal service in 2008 as head of project management at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office after almost 10 years of industry career. After USPTO, he served as director of […] More

The Department of Homeland Security’s procurement innovation lab has implemented a two-phased approach to streamline the acquisition process and cut the time it takes to award contracts, Federal News Radio reported Monday. DHS awarded contracts to Deloitte and IBM through PIL’s implementation of a self-certification method based on technical assessment factors in the initial phase […] More

PV Puvvada, president of Unisys‘ federal business, has said he observed the U.S. government moving toward a comprehensive approach to modernize federal information technology systems, Federal News Radio reported Monday. The Trump administration implemented initiatives to support federal IT modernization, including the enactment of the Modernizing Government Technology Act; the release of the finalized IT Modernization Strategy; […] More