6 days agoCACI Named Contractor of the Year as 2025 Revenue Reaches Nearly $9 Billion
CACI International received the 2026 Greater Washington Government Contractor Award for companies with more than $300 million in annual revenue, following nearly $9 billion in 2025 revenue and $11.6 billion in contract awards. The recognition provides market context on a major national security contractor but does not announce a new procurement opportunity or contract award.
6 days agoACI Schedules 2027 Washington Summit on Cybersecurity and AI Governance
The American Conference Institute will hold its 4th Annual Cybersecurity, AI Governance & Digital Risk summit in Washington, DC, on February 2–3, 2027. The event is not a solicitation or award, but contractors may find its sessions on third-party risk, incident reporting, ransomware, and AI governance relevant to contract compliance and supplier oversight.
12 days agoCISA Sets Federal Deadlines for Two Exploited Ivanti Vulnerabilities
CISA added two actively exploited Ivanti Connect Secure vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Federal civilian agencies have passed the November 2, 2026, deadline for CVE-2026-111357 and must remediate CVE-2026-118527 by November 13, making contractor coordination and compromise investigations immediate priorities.
12 days agoPotential Post-Midterm Shift Could Intensify Congressional Scrutiny of Contractors
A possible change in congressional control after the 2026 midterms could bring more investigations of companies and federal contractors, including scrutiny of AI, privacy, labor, consumer protection, and tax issues. Contractors should prepare for committee and individual-member inquiries, subpoenas, and potential conflicts between congressional information requests and executive-branch privilege claims; the report identifies no new procurement opportunity or legal requirement.
13 days agoCISA Adds Low-Scoring VMware ESX Logging Flaw to KEV
CISA added VMware ESX vulnerability CVE-2026-41709 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on October 28, triggering a November 11 remediation deadline for federal civilian agencies despite the flaw’s 2.7 CVSS score. Contractors supporting affected systems should coordinate patching, log protection, and remediation evidence with agency customers.
16 days agoEEOC Immediately Rescinds 2012 Guidance on Arrest and Conviction Records
The EEOC voted to withdraw its 2012 enforcement guidance on employers’ use of arrest and conviction records, effective immediately. Federal contractors should review hiring-screening practices while continuing to comply with Title VII’s prohibition on race- and national-origin discrimination; the change creates no new procurement requirement or opportunity.
21 days agoFederal Contractors Should Prepare Now for Post-Quantum Cryptography
Finalized NIST post-quantum standards create near-term planning, implementation, and validation work for federal contractors, even though proposed RSA and ECC transition dates remain unsettled. Contractors can inventory cryptographic dependencies and assess hybrid ML-KEM pilots while monitoring standards for certificates, TLS, and messaging; no solicitation, award, or contract value is identified.