John Zangardi, CEO of Redhorse and a 2023 Wash100 Award winner, said it is imperative for federal agencies looking to transition to zero trust architecture to develop complete visibility into their information technology systems. Zangardi wrote in a May 17 commentary published on Federal News Network that there are five steps agencies should consider when […] More

A new report by the Identity Theft Resource Center and LexisNexis Risk Solutions has found that 63 percent of surveyed government officials said their agencies have gone back to pre-pandemic levels of identity-related benefit fraud. The IDentification in a Post-Pandemic World Report covered responses from 986 government executives, general consumers and self-identified identity crime victims […] More

General Dynamics‘ information technology business will support a financial system modernization project for the higher education student financial aid agency of New York under a $78 million contract. The GDIT unit will replace New York Higher Education Services Corporation systems with a new platform designed to help the agency simplify grant application processing and analyze […] More

Xage Security has become one of the latest companies to be part of the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative. The company said Thursday it joined JCDC’s Industrial Control Systems unit and will lend its expertise and insights on zero trust principles to improve U.S. resilience against online threats. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency added ICS […] More

James Clevenger, director of government sales at Hughes Network Systems, said there are three key takeaways from a recent event attended by state information technology leaders in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and one of those is that government agencies are initiating efforts to be more agile by adopting emerging technologies to meet their enterprise objectives […] More

Michael McCalip, Navy relationship executive at Carahsoft Technology, said information technology professionals from government and industry could support the U.S. Marine Corps as the service branch moves to achieve its goals this year, such as improving cybersecurity, advancing expeditionary contracting and prepositioning and acquiring a minimum of 31 amphibious combat ships. “For example, transforming cybersecurity […] More

Government agencies should future-proof their information technology systems starting at the design stage to make them resilient against evolving threats from the exploitation of quantum computers, according to John Taibi, vice president of business development at Cambridge Consultants. In an opinion piece published Tuesday, Taibi emphasized the need to build a trustworthy cyber-physical system and […] More

Anthony Robbins, vice president of federal at NVIDIA, said autonomous systems, weather prediction models, simulators and other artificial intelligence-based technologies could enable fire departments and first responders to predict and prevent wildfires. “Drones and other autonomous systems will increase the efficacy of the nation’s overall wildfire response and provide a new way to protect firefighters […] More

A new survey conducted by Government Executive and underwritten by Denodo has found that only 43 percent of federal government information technology decision-makers and influencers felt very confident that they could govern, protect and manage data, which is one of the key aspects of the Federal Data Strategy. Denodo said Tuesday GovExec polled 200 federal […] More

CGI Federal has won a potential five-year, $40 million contract from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for system modernization support. Under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, CGI Federal is expected to deliver continuous assistance to NRC financial management systems, which already use the company’s Momentum federal enterprise resource planning tool, CGI Federal announced from Fairfax, Virginia on Tuesday. Stefan Becker, […] More

An information technology executive with international experience and a career spanning three decades, Guy Nielsen has nurtured a life-long passion for technology. His father worked in the industry and Nielsen developed his own love for the family business as he worked through college, earning a bachelor of science in mechanical engineering at Tulane University and […] More

Executive Mosaic is honored to announce Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall as a winner of the 2023 Wash100 Award for driving strategic initiatives for the Air and Space Forces to improve their abilities to project power. Kendall has been selected four times to Executive Mosaic’s annual list of leaders who shape the government contracting narrative […] More