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NCI Information Systems has been awarded a two-year, $89 million contract from the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) to provide IT Fit-Out services for the Secure Admin Operating Facility (SAOF), the company announced Tuesday. Under the contract, NCI will deliver information technology (IT) and audiovisual (AV) engineering services to modernize INSCOM headquarters.

Wendi Whitmore, vice president of a team working on threat intelligence and incident response at IBM, said the company’s Cost of a Data Breach report shows a connection between the adoption of security automation and orchestration practices and reduced data breach costs, Nextgov reported Thursday.

Summit 7 Systems has been selected for the Microsoft 2020 MSUS Partner Award in the modern workplace category for providing customers with end-to-end security solutions based on Microsoft security and compliance capabilities in 365 and Azure.

Jennifer Chronis, general manager for the Department of Defense market at Amazon Web Services, told SiliconANGLE Media’s theCUBE in a video interview posted Tuesday that the migration of the U.S. Navy’s enterprise resource planning system to AWS GovCloud has enabled the service to facilitate analytics and improve the decision-making process.

Dan Chenok, executive director of the IBM Center for the Business of Government, told Government Matters in an interview posted Monday about the need for government agencies to understand the benefits and risks of implementing artificial intelligence.

The Department of Homeland Security asks industry for information about a passenger screening system that will help modernize the Transportation Security Administration’s operations.

Perspecta has renewed its accreditation to evaluate cloud-based solutions for federal government agencies as a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program Third Party Assessment Organization, the company reported on Thursday. 

CNSI has appointed technology leader Mike Jin as senior vice president, chief information officer and chief information security officer to lead information and data security, the company announced on Monday. 

Executive Mosaic is honored to present Gina Haspel, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, as an inductee into the 2020 Wash100 Award for developing new technologies and policies that enhance safety within the agency as well as national security.

Roger Krone, chairman and CEO of Leidos and a 2020 Wash100 awardee, has said efforts to drive business growth will continue amid some external challenges such as the coronavirus pandemic, Inside Defense reported Wednesday.

The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification regulations were created by the Department of Defense to strengthen cybersecurity in the supply chain of the Defense Industrial Base and Version 1.0 was released on Jan. 31.

The U.S. Transportation Command has announced its support for the Department of Defense’s new Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification to mitigate risks from its supply chain, the branch stated in February.

The Department of Defense released the final Model Version 1.0 of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification framework in January. The development of the CMMC framework is part of DoD’s efforts to enhance the protection of sensitive data within the Federal supply chain. 

In late January, the Department of Defense released the final version of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC v. 1.0), outlining how contractors’ security regulations will shift with the new supplier cybersecurity compliance program. 

HawkEye 360 has named Martin Faga of the National Reconnaissance Office, Joan Dempsey of Intelligence at the Defense Intelligence Agency and former senator Joe Donnelly to its advisory board to add defense and intelligence expertise, the company announced on Thursday.