By Ross Wilkers
Dec 16, 2020
The Defense Information Systems Agency has put a much-anticipated potential $11.2 billion contract for broad IT and systems integration services out for industry to compete for.
Bids for the Defense Enclave Services contract are due Feb. 8, 2021 as DISA intends to pick one winner sometime in the fourth quarter of 2021, the agency said Tuesday in a Beta.Sam.Gov notice.
Work will take place over a four-year base period and three two-year option periods that would achieve the full ceiling amount.
Defense Enclave Services is an ambitious effort by DISA to consolidate several IT support contracts across so-called “Fourth Estate” agencies outside the service branches into one vehicle. The broad idea behind DES is to put all 22 of those agencies on a single network named DoDNet, which DISA will operate for 400,000 users across 80 locations.
HOLT Officials at Certified Manufacturing Inc. say the company’s recent achievement of complying with new stringent cyber security requirements puts it in an even stronger economic position heading into 2021.
The small electronics manufacturing company opened in 1998 and is led by its owner and president, Pamela Bechtold, and her husband, CMI Vice President Bob Bechtold.
The company specializes in the manufacture and test of cables, wire harnesses and circuit cards, parts procurement and other services for defense, aerospace, civilian and Homeland Security agencies.
Michelle Rasbeck, CMI’s director of administration/contracts, said Tuesday that the Department of Defense recently created a mandatory requirement for all companies that want to continue to conduct business with the DoD to comply with very high-level cyber security requirements.
Troy Fine Named CMMC Provisional Assessor
One of only 101 professionals nationally to earn Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Provisional Assessor status
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PITTSBURGH, Dec. 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ Troy J. Fine, Senior Manager of Risk Advisory Services at Schneider Downs, has qualified as a Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Provisional Assessor, enabling him to provide CMMC assessments for Department of Defense (DOD) prime and sub-contractors. Mr. Fine will serve as one of only 101 certified assessors nationally under the CMMC-Accreditation Body (CMMC-AB) who are available to assess companies currently in need of a certified CMMC assessment.
By Lauren C. Williams
The Defense Department has released the first contracts that could include the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification requirement for contractors that’s aimed to make the defense industry base’s infrastructure more secure.
The Dec. 15 announcement calls out seven pilot contracts: the Technical Advisory and Assistance contract for the Missile Defense Agency; the Azure Cloud Solution, Mobility Air Force Tactical Data Links, and Consolidated Broadband Global Area Network Follow-On contracts for the Air Force; and the Navy’s Integrated Common Processor, F/A-18E/F Full Mod of the SBAR and Shut off Valve, and yard services for the Arleigh Burke Class destroyer contracts.
With CMMC rolling out, this list of seven programs could touch 700 companies
The Defense Department has now released an initial group of contracts that will require the third-level certification out of five under the Defense Department s new CMMC cyber standards for contractors.
The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification is DOD’s effort to get contractors to verify how they protect government information that resides in their systems. CMMC will apply to tens of thousands of contractors, so DOD is implementing a phased-in approach.
We have seen CMMC pop up in other contracts as it has already been included as a requirement in the General Services Administration s Polaris and 8(a) STARS III small business vehicles.