The CMMC clock is ticking: What defense contractors need to know about compliance
With mandatory third-party audits now in effect, government contractors must act quickly to meet stricter cybersecurity standards or risk losing DoD contracts, writes Aprio’s Raj Raghavan. By and large, technology has changed our world for the better, but the positives come with other complicated side effects, including cybersecurity risks. Security breaches can damage any business’s bottom […]
GSA leaders urge acquisition teams to embrace flexibility as FAR overhaul rolls out
Officials at the General Services Administration are emphasizing trust, collaboration and learning from mistakes as they work in a world with fewer acquisition regulations. Senior leaders at the General Services Administration want acquisition teams across the government to embrace the process as the government rolls out a reformed and significantly smaller Federal Acquisition Regulation. GSA Acting […]
GSA expands contract reviews to resellers
The General Services Administration is seeking price breakdowns and other information from 10 technology product suppliers as part of GSA’s OneGov push to streamline procurement. The General Services Administration has added a new group of companies, this time technology suppliers, to the agency’s ongoing review of federal contracts and push to extract more savings from them. […]
Google is ‘all in’ on government business
The company’s cloud offering for government customers achieved more important security milestones last week, allowing it’s tech tools to be used in the most sensitive, classified environments. Three years ago, tech giant Google placed a bet on government business, launching a new division — Google Public Sector — to better serve the massive market of federal, state […]
Why federal agencies must act now on post-quantum cryptography
Gina Scinta, deputy CTO for Thales Trusted Cyber Technologies, offers a seven-step roadmap as organizations face a narrow window to move off of vulnerable encryption algorithms. Less than a year ago, NIST released its first set of Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) standards. The call then went out from quantum cryptography experts for federal agencies to immediately […]
NNSA awards $250M sole-source contract to Aerospace
The National Nuclear Security Administration decided no other contractors are qualified for the type of specialized systems engineering work it needs. The National Nuclear Security Administration has awarded a sole-source contract potentially worth $250 million to the Aerospace Corporation, a nonprofit research organization. The contract covers systems engineering and technical analysis services in support of nuclear security […]
Voyager sets the size, specs of its IPO
The space and defense systems manufacturer quantifies what it hopes to achieve in the pending initial public offering. Voyager Technologies has set the terms of its pending initial public offering and the valuation it is seeking to fetch from investors through the sale of stock, according to amended regulatory documents filed Monday. The space and defense […]
Infleqtion closes $100M Series C round
The 18-year-old quantum tech company now counts Science Applications International Corp.’s ventures arm as an investor and go-to-market partner. Infleqtion, a quantum technology company that uses lasers to maintain those systems, has fetched roughly $100 million in Series C capital from investors to aid in the further development and scaling of its product offerings. Founded as […]
CISA projected to lose a third of its workforce under Trump’s 2026 budget
The White House’s latest spending proposal projects nearly 1,000 jobs will be slashed at the nation’s lead civilian cyber agency. Related cyber and intel programs across government also face funding rollbacks. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency would lose nearly 1,000 full-time employees under the Trump administration’s proposed fiscal year 2026 budget, a stark downsizing of […]
WT 360: All roads lead back to GSA in this ‘Editor’s Summit’ episode
Frank Konkel, editor-in-chief for GovExec’s publications including us, joins Nick and Ross to unpack the General Services Administration’s newest moves to be the central agency for all things GovCon and some other major storylines. As Trump’s White House sees things, the General Services Administration should take on substantially all of the responsibility for managing the federal […]