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Sep
22

$135M in CDM Contracts Awarded, Bringing Effort to 97 Percent of Civilian Agencies

From: SIGNAL/AFCEA

By Sandra Jontz

The U.S. government’s effort to provide a common baseline of cybersecurity tools across civilian agencies now is available to 97 percent of the departments—a milestone hit after the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), through the General Services Administration, awarded three orders under the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program. The orders now bring the number of federal agencies using the tools and services to shore up cyber vulnerabilities to 17.

The orders were awarded to Booz Allen Hamilton for $82 million, Northrop Grumman for $32 million and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Services for $21 million.

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