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 […]