Pentagon announces senior appointments to CIO’s office
“Their collective expertise in cybersecurity, defense innovation, and enterprise-level strategy is exactly what we need to accelerate our mission,” Defense CIO Kirsten Davies said about her new leadership team. The Pentagon formally announced on Wednesday that five officials received new appointments within the Office of the Chief Information Officer to help manage the department’s sprawling technology […]
AI Finds the Bugs. Humans Still Have to Fix Everything Else.
The Mythos experiment is real and impressive. But the threat actors who actually breach organizations aren’t waiting on it, writes A. Stryker of Fable Security. Assume Anthropic’s much-discussed Mythos AI model scales perfectly. Assume the economics solve themselves. Assume every organization that needs Mythos-class vulnerability discovery eventually gets access to it, at a price they can […]
Optum’s federal arm wins $1.6B military care contract
The Remote Health Reserve Program supports efforts by active duty, reserve and National Guard components to maintain a deployable force. Optum’s federal-facing subsidiary has won the recompete of a massive Defense Health Agency contract covering a wide range of care services to support military readiness. The Remote Health Reserve Program-4th Generation Support Services contract has a […]
State embarks on search for new content management software platform
The State Department is succinct with this line its request for information: “Custom-built or unproven solutions will not be considered.” The State Department has embarked on its search for a secure software platform to manage digital content that employees can share with each other from anywhere in the world. State’s global mission of diplomacy and business processes […]
Amentum secures INDOPACOM supply contract after incumbent’s protest denied
Amentum unseated SupplyCore for the contract to support roughly 100 military installations across Japan. SupplyCore has lost its attempt hang onto an incumbent contract it has held for five years for logistics support to U.S. military installations in Japan. Amentum won the $77.8 million contract in January, then SupplyCore filed a protest to challenge the evaluation and […]
New research firm targets federal agencies, nonprofit firms with social policy focus
Incevia Policy Partners is already working with the Department of Housing and Urban Development on its Housing Choice Voucher program. A new research company targeting work with federal agencies and other organizations announced its launch on Wednesday (today). Incevia Policy Partners LLC conducts research focused on advancing healthy families, thriving communities, and resilient social environments. Dr. […]
Kentro, Lynker elevate new CEOs from within
The now-former chief executives for both companies are staying involved as board chairs. Kentro The federal IT modernization and cybersecurity company has put in place a new leadership structure that sees a pair of executives move up to the co-CEO ranks with different areas of responsibility. Tom Swerdzewski was named co-chief executive of delivery and operations, […]
Leidos sheds security screening unit in agreement with Analogic
The transaction moves 1,500 employees and $625 million in revenue to the Altaris-owned imaging tech company. Leidos is carving out its Security Enterprise Solutions unit to become part of another company that it will co-own with investment firm Altaris. Altaris is the backer of Analogic and will own 58.5% of what Leidos calls a joint venture. […]
Citra, Turion detail their newest capital raises
Washington Harbour Partners led the Series A and B rounds for these startups focused on space, which is a priority area for the investment firm. Citra Space This developer of space object identification software has fetched $15 million in Series A capital to support the further development and deployment of the tools for government and commercial […]
World needs to ‘get ready’ for more powerful AI, Anthropic co-founder says
The company’s powerful Mythos, unveiled earlier this month, won’t be the only supercharged AI system to hit the market, Jack Clark said. Anthropic’s groundbreaking new large language model, Mythos, won’t be the last advanced — and extremely powerful — AI model to be created, Anthropic’s co-founder said. Speaking on Monday at the Semafor World Economy, Jack […]