ECS Federal has received a potential $37.7M contract to help the FBI form and manage two cybersecurity programs. A FedBizOpps notice posted Friday says the contractor will deliver a range of services to help the bureau set up the Cybersecurity Red and Blue Team program and the Enterprise Compliance and Continuous Monitoring Support Program under the […] More

FBI has issued a request for information on artificial intelligence tools that will work to detect fingerprint alterations in the bureau’s electronic criminal history information repository. A FedBizOpps notice posted Friday says FBI’s criminal justice information services division seeks industry feedback on AI offerings, the capacity of such technology to learn in current platforms and […] More

The Department of Homeland Security collaborated with the FBI, Microsoft and Facebook to inform state and local government officials at a recent joint briefing about cybersecurity initiatives ahead of midterm elections. DHS said Saturday the event aimed to encourage public and private stakeholders to exchange information on efforts to safeguard election infrastructure against foreign interference. Christopher Krebs, undersecretary of DHS’ […] More

The FBI has released a request for information on potential vendors of information technology products and support services as it considers creating an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract designed to meet IT requirements across the Justice Department. A FedBizOpps notice posted Wednesday says the bureau looks to establish a potential 10-year, $5 billion IDIQ for IT consulting, cybersecurity, […] More

Timothy Gallagher, a more than 20-year FBI veteran, has been named as a managing director within Kroll‘s cybersecurity and investigations practice. Kroll said Monday Gallagher brings investigative experience in the areas of financial fraud and cyber-related crimes to his new position. He previously managed the FBI’s Newark, New Jersey office and led a multiagency task force that worked to […] More

The FBI seeks proposals from vendors that can provide commercial off-the-shelf enterprise business process management software. The bureau said Tuesday in a FedBizOpps notice that its existing Enterprise Process Automation System is based on an OpenText-built BPM platform that will no longer be supported beyond fiscal year 2018. The agency wants an enterprise software that […] More

Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Virginia) has asked the office of the General Services Administration’s inspector general to conduct an inquiry into GSA’s decision to call off its plans for a new consolidated FBI headquarters. He wrote a letter Wednesday to GSA IG Carol Ochoa to investigate the factors agency officials used to arrive at a decision to cancel the […] More

John Adams, formerly assistant director of the FBI‘s intelligence directorate, has been named executive assistant director for the bureau’s information and technology branch. The two-decade FBI veteran began his career at the Washington Field Office where he investigated espionage, drug trafficking, violent crime and terrorism cases. He transferred to the bureau’s headquarters in 2004 and […] More

The FBI has issued a request for information on potential vendors of cloud-based  infrastructure as-a-service, platform as-a-service and software as-a-service offerings. A FedBizOpps notice posted Friday says the bureau plans to acquire PaaS and SaaS platforms from a cloud service provider with a large-scale commercial offering in an effort to comply with the government’s “Cloud First” policy. The […] More

Matthew Dunn, a 20-year FBI veteran, has joined Kroll as associate managing director within its cybersecurity and investigations practice in Nashville, Tennessee. Kroll said Tuesday Dunn most recently led the bureau’s Nashville-based cyber crimes and counterintelligence squad as a supervisory special agent. He began his FBI career in 1997 as special agent in the Philadelphia field office and later held […] More

James Turgal, former executive assistant director of the FBI‘s information and technology branch, has been appointed as a managing director within the cyber risk services practice at  Deloitte‘s risk and financial advisory segment. He will advise clients on cyber incident response, cyber war-gaming and cyber resilience, Deloitte said Tuesday. In his previous role, Turgal oversaw all applications, […] More

Persistent Systems has secured a position on a potential $100 million FBI indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide mobile ad hoc networking radio systems in support of the bureau’s operational technology division. The company said June 5 it seeks to deliver a wireless internet protocol network to the FBI through the firm’s MPU5 communication system. Herbert Rubens, CEO of […] More