Chris Painter, vice president and chief engineer for the Navy and Marine Corps Intranet at Perspecta, wrote in an article published Wednesday on Breaking Defense that there are several steps the Defense Information Systems Agency can take as it plans to modernize the information technology infrastructure of fourth estate agencies through the Defense Enclave Services program. He said the first step calls for DISA to assess the as-is environment to better understand the capabilities of the IT infrastructure and the population’s requirements.
Gerry Fasano and Daniel Voce of Leidos told Federal News Network in an interview published Friday how the company will help the Navy advance its digital modernization effort under the potential eight-year, $7.7B service management, integration and transport portion of the Next Generation Enterprise Network Recompete contract.
A new report by Thales says 98 percent of U.S. federal government respondents said they are using sensitive data with digitally transformative technologies such as cloud, internet of things, big data and blockchain. The 2019 Thales Data Threat Report – Federal Edition showed that less than a third of the respondents are adopting data encryption within those tech environments, the company said Wednesday.
Executive Mosaic is pleased to announce Patrick Shanahan, acting secretary at the Department of Defense, as an inductee into the 2019 edition of the Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of the most influential voices in the government contracting arena — for his role in revising the department’s cybersecurity strategy and his vision of establishing a new agency for space operations.
The Department of Veterans Affairs has initiated its search for potential contractors that can help VA develop a content management system as part of its efforts to update its veteran-facing website, VA.gov. A FedBizOpps notice posted Wednesday says the move is part of VA’s digital modernization strategy that seeks to upgrade its digital tools in […] More
ExecutiveBiz recently spoke with Jeff Henry, president of ViON Corporation, about his company’s role providing as-a-Service acquisition and information technology modernization to federal agencies. “Budget, time and resources to implement IT modernization are the major roadblocks. Across every agency one or all of these rings true. Some agencies are spending the lion’s share of their […] More
PV Puvvada, president of Unisys‘ federal business, has urged government agencies to implement cultural transformation efforts to obtain governance, management and technology skills required for digital modernization projects. Puvvada, an inductee into Executive Mosaic‘s Wash100 for 2017, wrote in a blog post published Thursday that federal information technology leaders should adopt tested systems, migrate services to a cloud platform […] More