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NuWave Merges with PCI to Form BigBear.ai; Reggie Brothers Quoted
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NuWave Merges with PCI to Form BigBear.ai; Reggie Brothers Quoted

NuWave Solutions and PCI Strategic Management have merged to form BigBear.ai, NuWave reported on Tuesday. BigBear.ai will be led by CEO Dr. Reggie Brothers, former CEO of NuWave, GovCon Expert and 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, and Sean Battle, vice chairman and chief strategy officer, who co-founded PCI and served as CEO.

“This combination is a game changer for the industry,” said Brothers. “BigBear.ai offers unmatched artificial intelligence, analytics, cyber and data management tools tailored specifically to the national security communities, giving our customers ‘decision dominance.’”

With the merger, the combined companies will provide high-end capabilities across the data and digital spectrum to deliver information superiority and decision support.

BigBear.ai will provide a comprehensive suite of solutions, including artificial intelligence and machine learning, data science, advanced analytics, offensive and defensive cyber, data management, cloud solutions, digital engineering and systems integration.

“As a disruptor in national security information technology, BigBear.ai is truly transforming decision making at the most critical level,” said Battle. “With our depth of capabilities and scale, BigBear.ai is well-equipped to take on the biggest challenges in defense and the U.S. Federal Government. We are excited for what lies ahead.”

The new company will also deliver advanced technology solutions to analyze information, manage risk and solve complex problems, which will enable better decision making for its customers, including the U.S. Intelligence Community, Department of Defense and federal government.

“As the future battlefield and technology landscape continues to evolve, the U.S. Government will be forced to adapt and rapidly respond to its adversaries,” said Kirk Konert, partner at AEI. “BigBear.ai’s tools and capabilities will help solve these complex issues that challenge our national security.”

NuWave and PCI are portfolio companies of AE Industrial Partners. AEI acquired NuWave and PCI in June 2020 and Oct. 2020, respectively.

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AT&T Provides 5G Capabilities for VA Puget Sound Health Care System; Chris Smith Quoted
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AT&T Provides 5G Capabilities for VA Puget Sound Health Care System; Chris Smith Quoted

AT&T has delivered 5G and multi-access edge computing (MEC) technologies across the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Puget Sound Health Care System, under its partnership with the department, the company reported on Tuesday. AT&T’s MEC has delivered a computer and cellular network architecture to provide real-time, high-bandwidth, low-latency access to latency dependent mobile applications.

“AT&T has installed a full 5G Distributed Antenna System (DAS) encompassing the entire Seattle VA Medical Center… This 5G system allows for increased carrier speeds and provides the next generation of cellular and mobility technology for both veterans and staff,” said Daniel Mesimer, director, WAN/LAN Infrastructure Engineering & Provisioning Solution Delivery, Office of Information and Technology, IT Operations and Services, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

With the new capabilities, VA plans to pilot a variety of healthcare use cases. The VA’s pilots will enable the department to explore and better understand how they can improve healthcare delivery to veterans that use VA healthcare services.

The healthcare-focused use cases could include: mobile-to-mobile connectivity across medical devices; improved medical procedures and training, leveraging emerging technologies; remote and virtual pain management; and remote or near real-time surgical assistance.

In addition, AT&T has installed a 5G Distributed Antenna System (DAS) for use with Sub6 GHz spectrum and  other components to enable 5G. The company’s 5G coverage extends to the VA’s recently opened Mental Health & Research building. AT&T has planned to deploy MEC and 5G millimeter wave spectrum and technologies in 2021, which will increase speeds and improve latency.

“This public-private partnership to test our 5G and MEC capabilities is distinguished by the scope of implementation and innovation it allows, going well beyond a single-room care environment to encompass an entire medical care and training campus. It’s an honor to work with the VA to explore the future of 5G and MEC-powered healthcare innovations,” said Chris Smith, vice president of Civilian and Shared Services, AT&T Public Sector and FirstNet.

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Naval Safety Center Launches Risk Management Modernization Program
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Naval Safety Center Launches Risk Management Modernization Program

The Naval Safety Center has unveiled a new initiative that aims to augment the U.S. Navy's risk management program and expand its relevance within the naval enterprise.

The project seeks to introduce an operational RM program that utilizes a systems-based approach to address and properly accept risks at the applicable level, the Navy said Monday.

NAVSAFECEN also formed a team of subject matter experts from various warfare communities to examine the whole RM program and devise case studies to demonstrate the use of risk management across the service branch. The initiative also aims to address accountability and how risks are being communicated.

"The team will engage with their respective communities in the naval enterprise and work with them to help build the case studies as examples that Sailors and Marines can refer to," said Don Ciesielski, director at the Navy's risk management and expeditionary warfare directorate.

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Sumo Logic’s Continuous Intelligence Platform Achieves FedRAMP-Moderate Authorization; Doug Natal Quoted
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Sumo Logic’s Continuous Intelligence Platform Achieves FedRAMP-Moderate Authorization; Doug Natal Quoted

Sumo Logic’s Continuous Intelligence Platform has achieved Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Authorization at a Moderate impact level, the company reported on Tuesday.

“Sumo Logic’s powerful Continuous Intelligence Platform (CIP) stands ready to provide the security and operational insights that our Public Sector customers need, said Doug Natal, general manager of Sumo Logic Public Sector,  “The easy deployment, massive-scale and quick return on investment is what delights the IT leadership teams.”

Sumo Logic’s security-by-design approach includes a secure cloud-native, multi-tenant platform that enables data-driven decisions and reduces time to deploy, investigate security and operational issues.

“Our customers will now be able to access the cloud-scale data collection and predictive analytics needed to help make better decisions across DevSecOps initiatives,” Natal added.

With this designation, Sumo Logic will help public sector organizations receive real-time insights into on-premises and cloud environments. The authorization will also strengthen the company’s security and compliance, and optimize performance.

“Sumo Logic has been on a several year journey with FedRAMP, and this is yet another significant step forward to help the federal civilian sector, unclassified DOD and commercial entities get the visibility and continuous intelligence needed to operate in cloud environments,” said George Gerchow, CSO, Sumo Logic.

FedRAMP is a government-wide program that has leveraged a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services. The authorization helps government agencies transfer from legacy IT to mission-enabling and secure cloud-based solutions.

About Sumo Logic

Sumo Logic Inc. (Nasdaq: SUMO) is the pioneer in continuous intelligence, a new category of software, which enables organizations of all sizes to address the data challenges and opportunities presented by digital transformation, modern applications, and cloud computing. The Sumo Logic Continuous Intelligence Platform™ automates the collection, ingestion, and analysis of application, infrastructure, security, and IoT data to derive actionable insights within seconds.

More than 2,100 customers around the world rely on Sumo Logic to build, run, and secure their modern applications and cloud infrastructures. Only Sumo Logic delivers its platform as a true, multi-tenant SaaS architecture, across multiple use-cases, enabling businesses to thrive in the Intelligence Economy.

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GSA, USPS Offer Credentialing Services at U.S. Post Offices; Darlene Gore Quoted
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GSA, USPS Offer Credentialing Services at U.S. Post Offices; Darlene Gore Quoted

The General Services Administration (GSA) partnered with the U.S. Postal Service to help federal employees update personal identity credentials with ease of access. Federal employees were able to access credentialing services at U.S. post offices under the USAccess Point pilot, an effort to address the limited availability of USAccess credentialing sites, GSA said Monday.

GSA launched the pilot on Nov. 5 and has since helped over 4,000 federal government employees process credentials at U.S. post offices. The pilot stood up credentialing operations across seven post offices within the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. These sites include post offices in Suitland, Maryland; and Herndon, Virginia.

“The partnership allows for innovations in the federal shared services model and could lead to offering additional identity management services at USPS sites in the future," said Darlene Gore, director of GSA's identity credential and access management division.

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Ian Wallace to Advise State Department on Cyber Matters
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Ian Wallace to Advise State Department on Cyber Matters

Ian Wallace, who formerly held leadership roles at the U.K.'s defense ministry, has been named a senior adviser to the State Department's Office of the Coordinator for Cyber Issues. 

He will focus on helping the department build cyber capacity in his new role, which became effective on Monday, the newly appointed senior adviser said in a tweet posted Friday. Wallace will perform this work on a contractual basis under Tuvli, an Akima subsidiary that offers information technology and cybersecurity support to the federal government.

He most recently served as a senior fellow for the German Marshall Fund of the United States' Digital Innovation and Democracy Initiative, and was a counselor for defense policy and nuclear matters at the British Embassy in Washington.

His career also includes advisory work for a U.K.-based multinational force that operated in Iraq. The State Department's cyber issue coordinator office works with partner countries to sustain a secure infrastructure for international communications and information-related activities.

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DARPA Announces Results of 2020’s FETT Cybersecurity Bug Bounty Program; Keith Rebello Quoted
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DARPA Announces Results of 2020’s FETT Cybersecurity Bug Bounty Program; Keith Rebello Quoted

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has finalized the results of a recent bug bounty event that tested the effectiveness of new hardware- and firmware-based security technologies. 

The Finding Exploits to Thwart Tampering or FETT bounty discovered 10 vulnerabilities across 980 processors developed under DARPA's System Security Integration Through Hardware and Firmware or SSITH program, the agency said Thursday.

FETT ran from July to October last year with the participation of over 580 cybersecurity experts. DARPA then reviewed the program's findings over three months to determine the final results. Researchers from Synack, a crowdsourced security platform, performed the penetration tests on SSITH technologies.

“The majority of the bug reports did not come from exploitation of the vulnerable software applications that we provided to the researchers, but rather from our challenge to the researchers to develop any application with a vulnerability that could be exploited in contradiction with the SSITH processors’ security claims," said Keith Rebello, the DARPA's program manager for SSITH and FETT.

With FETT concluded, SSITH is now in the final stage where researchers are working to further develop the tested technologies with bolstered security.

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GAO: DOE Must Align Goals, Implement Performance Metrics for Tech Transfer Initiatives
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GAO: DOE Must Align Goals, Implement Performance Metrics for Tech Transfer Initiatives

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has identified three barriers to the Department of Energy’s (DOE) transition of project funding to the private sector and recommends the department to establish performance goals and metrics for technology transfers.

GAO said Monday that these obstacles include funding gaps, administrative and legal barriers and misaligned goals between industry needs and DOE research. The DOE has addressed gaps through its Technology Commercialization Fund and Energy I-Corps training program for researchers seeking to commercialize DOE technologies, GAO said. 

However, the watchdog noted that the DOE is yet to adequately assess which researchers would benefit from technology transfers. DOE must evaluate its commercialization training objectives and set performance targets to measure progress in line with broader strategic goals, according to the report.

The department collates DOE-wide technology transfer data such as the number of patents and licenses every year, GAO noted.

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NCSC Issues Report on China-Sponsored US Health Data Breaches; William Evanina Quoted
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NCSC Issues Report on China-Sponsored US Health Data Breaches; William Evanina Quoted

William Evanina, former director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC), has said that the U.S. is facing threats of having critical health care data breached by Chinese state-sponsored threat actors, The Hill reported Monday.

Evanina told CBS News in a prior interview that it is “110 percent” likely that the People’s Republic of China has collected personal data from  Americans through the nation’s health care systems.

Previously, NCSC released a report stating that the Chinese government has amassed information from U.S. health data sets including DNA and genomics data. NCSC noted that China’s efforts ramped up during the COVID-19 crisis in an effort to outpace U.S. biotechnology firms on drug development and innovation in medicine as well as artificial intelligence.

“China’s access to U.S. healthcare and genomic data poses serious privacy and national security risks to the U.S. Through its cyber intrusions in recent years, the PRC has already obtained the Personal Identifying Information (PII) of much of the U.S. population,” the report states.

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SAIC Appoints Josh Jackson SVP of Naval Business Unit
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SAIC Appoints Josh Jackson SVP of Naval Business Unit

Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) has appointed Josh Jackson as senior vice president of the Naval Business Unit, where he will be responsible for an approximately $1 billion portfolio of customers, including the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, the company announced on Tuesday. Jackson will report to Bob Genter, president of SAIC’s Defense and Civilian Sector.

“As we continue to transform and grow, Josh’s 19-year career with SAIC brings an understanding of our company’s rich heritage, but also the vision to help us shape our organization to more closely align to our strategy and drive organic growth,” said Genter.

Jackson has served with SAIC for nearly two decades. With the company, he has supported critical defense programs across SAIC. He most recently served as senior vice president and operations manager for SAIC’s Navy and Marine Corps Information Warfare Operation, where he supported the Navy’s digital transformation.

“Josh’s experience as the former lead of our Solutions and Technology Group will be an asset to our sector as we seek to leverage leading-edge technologies that drive digital transformation for our Navy customers,” Genter added.

Jackson joined SAIC in 2002, where he served as program manager. Since then, he has successfully led programs, divisions and organizations to support defense and national security customers.

Jackson previously led the Solutions and Technology Group with SAIC, where he supervised strategy and market growth. In the role, he was responsible for developing solutions that leverage SAIC’s cloud, software, analytics, digital engineering and training solutions.

Prior to joining SAIC, Jackson served in engineering and program leadership roles at Huntington Ingalls and led an engineering design effort for the VIRGINIA and SEAWOLF class submarines. He also served as project engineer for Northrop Grumman from 1999 to 2002.

Jackson is a member of the executive committee of the AFCEA International Board, and is a member of the advisory board for the George Mason University Center for Government Contracting.

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