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GSA Awards Initial Task Orders under Federal Cyber Monitoring Program

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, January 28th, 2014

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The General Services Administration (GSA) this month awarded initial task orders to four companies under a potential multi-billion dollar, multiple award contract announced last August that allows federal agencies to buy cyber security products and services from vendors. The task orders, the first yet awarded under the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program, were let to Hewlett Packard [HPQ], Knowledge Consulting Group (KCG), Northrop Grumman [NOC], and Technica. HP received the lion’s share of the $60 million awarded for various…

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