Cybersecurity
June 17, 2022
Luci Holemans, ATO Cybersecurity Group Manager at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), spoke about what initiatives the FAA is taking to promote cybersecurity at the 2022 Connected Aviation Intelligence (CAI) Summit in Reston, Virginia, earlier this month. One key change is a shift to a Zero Trust architecture and focusing less on network-based perimeters as a…
June 7, 2022
NASA awarded Booz Allen Hamilton a cybersecurity services contract for NASA’s Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO), worth up to $622.5 million. Booz Allen announced the Cybersecurity and Privacy Enterprise Solutions and Services (CyPrESS) contract on Tuesday. It is a hybrid indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) single award contract with a total potential value of $622.5 million.…
May 31, 2022
After Russian military hackers knocked much of Viasat's KA-SAT network offline at the start of the invasion of Ukraine, U.S. intelligence officials were so concerned about the threat to other satellite operators that they organized an unprecedented briefing for company executives. Although it was classified, executives without a security clearance were given a temporary one…
May 19, 2022
Getting cybersecurity right at a federal agency means learning to speak the language of the program and mission managers who actually run the IT systems you’re trying to protect against hackers and cyberspies, said Rob Powell, a senior advisor on cybersecurity in the Office of the CIO (OCIO) at NASA. “The culture at NASA is…