John Radziszewski, former director of information technology products at the General Services Administration, has been appointed to lead an office that functions as the single point of contact for federal IT providers, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Friday. As director of the GSA IT Vendor Management Office, Radziszewski lead efforts to assist customer agencies with market research.
Read More »Reports: UVA Official Ty Schieber Named Board Chairman for New DoD Cybersecurity Certification
Ty Schieber, senior director of executive education at the University of Virginia Darden School Foundation, has been appointed to lead an independent body that will be responsible for the governance of the Department of Defense cybersecurity maturity model certification, Inside Defense reported Thursday.
Read More »Army Advances Bomb Disposal Tech Modernization With Three Robotic Programs
The U.S. military has launched efforts to modernize its explosive ordnance disposal technologies and one of the service branches has made progress developing robotic systems in the past year, National Defense reported Friday.
Read More »QinetiQ North America, Pratt and Miller Defense Announce Robotic Combat Vehicle Partnership; Jeff Yorsz Quoted
QinetiQ North America (QNA) and Pratt and Miller Defense announced on Monday during the 2019 Association of the U.S. Army (AUSA) Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. that the companies have formed a partnership on the Robotic Combat Vehicle (RCV) program.
Read More »USO’s Jack Dyer Crouch Named Defense Policy Board Chair
Jack Dyer Crouch, president and CEO of the United Services Organization, has been appointed as chairman of the Defense Policy Board. Defense Secretary James Mattis also announced the addition of five new members to the board, the Defense Department said Thursday. Crouch previously held roles of increasing responsibility at QinetiQ North America such as …
Read More »US Army Begins Clearing Operations for Fort Bragg Aerial Gunnery Range; Bob Selfridge Comments
The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center has begun to clear a Fort Bragg, North Carolina-based site of vegetation for a planned aerial gunnery range in the area. Technicians at a vehicle-mounted mobile command center used video game controllers to remotely maneuver the camera-equipped forestry equipment, the Army said Sept. 9. Bob …
Read More »FedRAMP’s Controls, Tasks; QinetiQ’s John Lambeth Comments
The General Services Administration has taken another step in implementing FedRAMP by issuing new baseline security controls for federal agencies and cloud providers. The GSA included measures similar to those in a publication issued in August 2009 by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, according to FedScoop. Similar measures include …
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