Tag Archives: DevSecOps

Denim Group has secured a follow-on contract under the U.S. Air Force's AFWERX program to help the service branch speed up the accreditation and delivery of mission software through the use of a vulnerability resolution tool. The company said Tuesday its ThreadFix platform will move on to Phase II of AFWERX's Small Business Innovation Research program after demonstrating its potential to accelerate software development under the initial phase of the SBIR contract awarded in January.

Laura Klebanow, a senior manager at Maximus, wrote in a Nextgov guest piece published Wednesday that the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted government information technology modernization trends such as cloud migration and IT contracting in general.

Sevatec has secured a $22.5 million task order under the Unrestricted GSA Alliant 2 Governmentwide Acquisition Contract (GWAC). The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) awarded the task order to develop a modern authentication and identity proofing platform. Sevatec has partnered with Excella and Capital Technology Group (CTG) to assist in development.

Carahsoft Technology has agreed to offer GitLab's suite of DevSecOps tools to government organizations through Amazon Web Services' cloud marketplace and helped launch a product and training package as part of the partnership

A team comprised of BoxBoat Technologies and CSEngineering secured a task order to help the Department of Defense's DevSecOps enterprise services team manage software applications for the U.S. Air Force's intercontinental ballistic missile system modernization project.

The Department of Defense (DoD) has made continued efforts to transform software procurement across the military,  FedScoop reported Thursday. Ellen Lord, undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment and four-time Wash100 Award recipient, has developed pilot programs to test the acquisition.

Alan Crouch, former federal account manager at software engineering company Coveros, has been appointed to lead Steampunk's DevSecOps practice. He brings technical experience in areas such as Agile engineering, cybersecurity, continuous integration, cloud adoption and test automation, Steampunk said Wednesday.

George Kamis, chief technology officer for government markets at Forcepoint, wrote in a Nextgov article published Tuesday that using unclassified resources and cross-domain platforms to develop code for deployment in classified environments could bring tangible benefits to the Department of Defense.

The Department of Defense has authorized cybersecurity software maker Anchore to offer the hardened version of its DevSecOps-based container security technology to support sensitive DoD programs.

The Defense Information Systems Agency has sought information on potential sources of a scheduling system to improve dynamic spectrum sharing for the Citizen Broadband Radio Service.

Anchore will further develop container platforms designed to secure the U.S. Air Force software supply chain as part of a $2.25M Small Business Innovation Research Phase II contract awarded through the branch's AFWERX program.

Amazon Web Services has included its Elastic Kubernetes Service in GovCloud (US) regions to allow users to utilize open-source software for implementing containerized applications.

The Department of Defense has added cloud services firm D2iQ to its Enterprise Software Initiative contract vehicle to provide DevSecOps technologies and services across the DoD.

Government and industry leaders took part in Government Matters’ Tech Leadership Series: Innovation program to discuss how cloud computing helps agencies advance innovation, deliver citizen services and carry out their missions. One of the key themes discussed during the program is the cloud’s role in enabling agencies to store and analyze large datasets to advance public service innovation, according to an Amazon Web Services blog post published Monday.

Information technology firm Favor TechConsulting has received a five-year, $87M task order to provide software development and other support to the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Financial Services Center.