Posts from ExecutiveBiz for 02/13/2015

Jim McAleese Chosen to Wash100 for GovCon Consulting and Analysis Leadership

Executive Mosaic is honored to unveil Jim McAleese, a principal at McAleese & Associates, as the newest inductee into the Wash100 — a group of influential leaders in the government contracting arena…

Report: President Obama to Issue Cybersecurity Information Sharing Order

President Barack Obama will take executive action to encourage sharing of cyber threat information between public and private sector organizations, Reuters reported Thursday. Joseph Menn and Roberta Rampton writes President Obama is set to sign the order during a cybersecurity forum that will be held Friday at Stanford University…

Metron, SAIC, WBB Land Spots on $167M Navy Assessment Planning IDIQ

The U.S. Navy has awarded positions on a potential five-year, $167 million contract to three companies for assessment planning and warfare support analysis services. Awardees will compete for firm-fixed-price and cost-plus-fixed-fee task order contracts to work with the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations and subordinate staff organizations on methodologies and reviews of the Navy’s warfighting capacity…

OMB Forms New Cyber Oversight Unit; Grant Schneider Comments

The Office of Management and Budget has formed a new cyber and national security group in a move to oversee the cybersecurity programs of government agencies, Federal News Radio reportedThursday. Jason Miller writes Trevor Rudolph will lead the E-Gov cyber and national security unit in its task to identify agencies that will undergo a cyberstat processlaid out in President Barack Obama’s 2016 budget plan…

IARPA Seeks SIGINT-Based Crises Forecasting Methods

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity plans to enlist industry expertise to develop methods to predict dire international scenarios using signals intelligence data. IARPA will hold a proposers’ day forum in Washington on March 5 to seek technology ideas from interested participants in the Mercury Program, the agency said Feb…