TAKE NOTE (Insights and Emerging Technology) “Every single business doing any kind of business with the Department of Defense will need to get certified and get a third-party audit that they have basic cyber hygiene.” It’s been nearly four years since former Pentagon official Katie Arrington said those words and unveiled the “Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification” during a May 2019…
TAKE NOTE (Insights and Emerging Technology) Farooq Mitha, director of the office of small business programs at the Department of Defense, said he expects the current administration’s next budget proposal to reinstate the Rapid Innovation Fund to make it easier for small enterprises with novel ideas to do business with DOD, Defense News reported Tuesday. Since 2019, Congress has not…
TAKE NOTE (Insights and Emerging Technology) The agency has decided to reopen discussions with bidders, which means these two companies that protested can still get positions on the systems modernization vehicle. It looks like something in the protests filed by IBM and Booz Allen Hamilton over a $2.6 billion IRS blanket purchase agreement have gotten that agency’s attention. Accenture and…
TAKE NOTE (Insights and Emerging Technology) The U.S. Army has provided Google Workspace, the search-and-software giant’s collaboration suite, to more than 180,000 personnel in the wake of email licensing shortfalls and other information-technology dilemmas. he US Army has confirmed that the platform is live for soldiers who don’t require the full collaboration capabilities of Army365. Raj Iyer, Chief Information Officer,…
TAKE NOTE (Insights and Emerging Technology) The National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center informed the Government Accountability Office that it would initiate corrective action on the potential 10-year, $50 billion Chief Information Officer-Solutions and Partners follow-on contract for IT platforms and services after 119 protests were filed with GAO. NITAAC will only accept revised bids from…