
A cybersecurity provider for the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is urging reconsideration of a recent follow-on award to a rival company. The transition from the $271 million contract held by information-technology specialist Criterion Systems, of Vienna, Va., was driven “by a perceived need to rapidly remediate a contract protest action lingering from 2016,” Criterion co-founder and CEO Promod Sharma wrote in a Nov. 21 letter to National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Administrator Lisa Gordon-Hagerty. The NNSA…