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November 27, 2020 By cs

CIA awards secret multibillion-dollar cloud contract

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has awarded its long-awaited Commercial Cloud Enterprise, or C2E, contract to five companies — Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google, Oracle and IBM.

Under the C2E contract vehicle, the companies will compete for specific task orders issued by the CIA on behalf of itself and the 16 other agencies that comprise the intelligence community. The CIA did not disclose the expected value of the contract to Nextgov, but procurement documents issued by the agency in 2019 indicated it could be worth “tens of billions” of dollars over the next decade and a half.

“We are excited to work with the multiple industry partners awarded the Intelligence Community (IC) Commercial Cloud Enterprise (C2E) Cloud Service Provider (CSP) contract and look forward to utilizing, alongside our IC colleagues, the expanded cloud capabilities resulting from this diversified partnership,” CIA spokeswoman Nicole de Haay told Nextgov Friday.

C2E represents the CIA’s next step in cloud computing, having awarded an existing contract — dubbed C2S  —to Amazon Web Services in 2013 to provide a variety of cloud computing services for the CIA and intelligence agencies, including the National Security Agency and FBI.

Keep reading this article at: https://www.nextgov.com/it-modernization/2020/11/exclusive-cia-awards-secret-multibillion-dollar-cloud-contract/170227/

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: C2E, C2S, CIA, cloud, cloud computing, FBI, intelligence community, multiple award contract, National Security Agency

October 15, 2018 By AMK

Two intelligence officials and a business owner indicted for bid rigging

Three individuals have been indicted by a federal grand jury on a variety of charges relating to procurement fraud and unlawfully disclosing and obtaining bid information concerning a contract estimated to be worth almost $1.5 million.

Kevin Kuciapinski was an active duty U.S. Air Force Major working at the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).  Randolph Stimac was an employee of the National Security Agency (NSA).  Both were stationed at the Aerospace Data Facility-Colorado on Buckley Air Force Base.  The third defendant, Mykhael Kuciapinski was the owner and CEO of Company G, a company that attempted to do business with the U.S. Government.  She was also the wife of Kevin Kuciapinski through July 2015.

According to the indictment released by the Justice Department, beginning on August 1, 2013, and continuing through November 24, 2015, the defendants conspired with each other to unlawfully obtain and disclose source selection information prior to the award for services related to a contract for services related to NSA, a category of intelligence that involves the collection, processing, and dissemination of foreign communications in order to obtain foreign intelligence necessary to the national defense, national security, or the conduct of the foreign affairs of the United States.  The alleged plan and purpose of the conspiracy was for Kevin Kuciapinski and Randolph Stimac to provide a competitive advantage to defendant Mykhael Kuciapinski’s bid or proposal by providing her information and source selection information for the contract in question.

This case was investigated by the NRO Office of the Inspector General, NSA, Defense Criminal Investigative Services, Air Force Office of Special Investigations, and the IRS-Criminal Investigation.

The charges contained in the indictment are allegations, and the defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-co/pr/two-intelligence-officials-and-business-owner-indicted-bid-rigging

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: abuse, bid rigging, DOJ, fraud, indictment, Justice Dept., National Reconnaissance Office, National Security Agency, NRO, NSA

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