What you need to know about GSA’s new CUI security framework
The implications of GSA’s new IT security guidance are significant and is a different approach to protecting controlled unclassified information than DOD’s CMMC standard, writes Summit7’s Jacob Horne. For years, federal contractors have assumed that if other agencies followed the Department of Defense’s lead on cybersecurity assurance, they would eventually adopt the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification […]
Small business drops challenge to $5.5B Salesforce sole-source contract
TurboVets’ brief protest questioned whether the Army properly justified awarding the Pentagon-wide contract without holding a competition. The small business taking issue with a $5.5 billion sole-source Army contract that went to Salesforce has ended its protest, which questioned the service branch’s decision to not hold a competition. TurboVets filed at the Government Accountability Office on Feb. […]
Operations, tech and talent leadership moves across the market
Also included in this listing: one of the market’s most active investors makes a series of promotions in its senior ranks. AAR Corp. Dylan Wolin will rejoin the aviation services provider as chief financial officer on Feb. 23 following a two-year stint as president of Federal Signal Corp.’s specialty vehicle businesses. He previously worked at AAR […]
Venture moves in space and manufacturing to highlight
Axiom and Stoke lay out what they want to do next with their newfound investment, while Perseus Materials gets the backing of Lockheed Martin’s venture arm. Axiom Space This commercial space station developer has collected $350 million in new capital aid its pursuit of opportunities surrounding NASA’s effort to replace the International Space Station. Axiom Space […]
CNO: ‘I need my stuff on time’
Adm. Daryl Caudle issued a direct call for transparent contracting with the maritime industrial base. SAN DIEGO, California—Deliver what we ask for on time. That’s the terse message two maritime service chiefs are sending to industry. “What I need is: when I have a contract with you, you deliver it on time. That’s really what I […]