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Lauren Williams
Staff Writer
Lauren C. Williams is a staff writer at FCW covering defense and cybersecurity.
Defense Systems
Pentagon moves on from JEDI
The Pentagon plans to replace the $10 billion cloud contract with a new multi-cloud, multi-vendor contract called the Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability.
- Lauren Williams
Defense Systems
Top HASC Republican won't seek re-election in 2020
Rep. Mac Thornberry, the House Armed Services Committee's top Republican and a leading voice for consolidations and closures in the Defense Department's "fourth estate" announced he won't seek reelection in 2020.
- Lauren Williams
Defense Systems
Pentagon releases unified cyber standard for contractors
The Defense Department's Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification framework is ready for public comment.
- Lauren Williams
Defense Systems
Defense budget fight coming, Ernst says
The defense top-line budget will be a point of contention between the Republican-led Senate and Democrat-led House as they resolve their differences with the 2020 defense authorization bill, a leading lawmaker said on Tuesday.
- Lauren Williams
Defense Systems
GAO: Barriers to commercial satellite launch 'surmountable' for DOD
Centralizing data related to the Defense Department's work with commercial satellites could be one of the first tasks for a “Space Force.”
- Lauren Williams
Defense Systems
Shwedo tapped to be new Joint Staff CIO
President Donald Trump has nominated Air Force Lt. Gen. Bradford Shwedo to be the next Joint Staff CIO.
- Lauren Williams
Defense Systems
Nakasone talks cyber deterrence at confirmation hearing
"Our adversaries have not seen our response in sufficient detail to change their behavior,” the Army general said when asked about previous cyber provocations.
- Lauren Williams