The First 100 Days: President Biden Signs Memo on Tribal Consultation and Strengthening Nation-to-Nation Relationships, February 4, 2021, Tony Franco
Last week, President Biden signed a Memorandum on Tribal Consultation and Strengthening Nation-to-Nation Relationships. In the memorandum, President Biden says “It is a priority of my Administration to make respect for Tribal sovereignty and self-governance, commitment to fulfilling Federal trust and treaty responsibilities to Tribal Nations, and regular, meaningful, and robust consultation with Tribal Nations cornerstones of Federal Indian policy.” The memo also reaffirms Executive Order 13175, which “charges all executive departments and agencies with engaging in regular, meaningful, and robust consultation with Tribal officials in the development of Federal policies that have Tribal implications.” Read more here.
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PITTSBURGH, Feb. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Schneider Downs & Co., Inc. has successfully completed the Certified Third-Party Assessor Organization (C3PAO) accreditation process and applied for the CMMC ML-3 assessment performed by the Defense Contract Management Agency s (DCMA) Defense Industrial Base Cybersecurity Assessment Center (DIBCAC). Pending a successful CMMC ML-3 assessment, Schneider Downs will be authorized to provide certification assessments for the Department of Defense s (DoD) Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program. This represents another step in our commitment to provide comprehensive compliance assessment services to organizations dealing with the Department of Defense, explained Eric M. Wright, shareholder at Schneider Downs. Schneider Downs is already certified as a Registered Provider Organization to provide preliminary CMMC advisory assessments. Completing the C3PAO certification furthers our ability
New guidelines from NIST on how to avoid cyberattacks from a nation-state defense (Getty Images) Feb 5, 2021 | FEDSCOOP
The National Institute for Standards and Technology has some new advice for contractors that handle sensitive information desirable to adversarial nation-states.
In a new special publication, NIST SP 800-172, the agency details how systems administrators should arrange networks and which security practices could provide additional protection from advanced persistent threats (APTs) the industry term for hacking groups typically associated with foreign governments.
The new document arrives in the wake of the SolarWinds incident, in which alleged Russia-backed attackers compromised the company’s update servers to push out malware to federal agencies, major corporations and other organizations. Similar attacks large-scale compromises are only expected to rise in frequency and ferocity, leav
By Mark Rockwell
The General Services Administration worked with the Defense Department and vendors to reconfigure the Defense Enterprise Office Solutions Blanket Purchase Agreement that resulted in a dramatically lower ceiling value from the initial award, according to the agency s manager of the contract.
GSA initially awarded DEOS, a 10-year contract to provide Microsoft s productivity suite Office 365 to DOD, to General Dynamics IT in 2019. The ceiling value of the award was $7.6 billion. The solicitation was revised amid protests and the contract was re-awarded to GDIT last month with a $4.4 billion ceiling.
At the time of the the re-award, GSA declined comment, citing the post-award protest period. With that period passed, officials explained the revised price tag.
Industry Group Gives Defense Contractors ‘C’ Health Grade in Annual Report Titima Ongkantong/Shutterstock.com
email February 3, 2021
The report found weak industrial security scores driven by increases in cyber vulnerabilities negatively impacted the health of the defense industrial base in 2020.
The defense industrial base faced an uptick in cyber vulnerabilities in 2020, contributing to a slight decline overall in the health of the defense contracting community, according to a new report from the National Defense Industrial Association.
In its annual “Vital Signs” report, NDIA and data company Govini found defense contractors entered the coronavirus pandemic in a “weakened state,” and around 71% of companies surveyed reported the pandemic negatively affected business. Data included in the report comes from before the onset of the pandemic, while survey responses were gathered in August 2020. The report gave the health of the ba