The United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) Office of the Secretary of Transportation Administration’s (OST) Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (Volpe Center) security program awarded Kingfisher Systems, Inc. the Security Assessment and Authorization Support Services contract, valued at approximately $3 million. The Volpe Center awarded the contract under USDOT’s Cybersecurity Information and Program Services (CSIPS) Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA). Kingfisher partnered with CISEVE, Inc., a leader in cybersecurity and security assessments, to support the Volpe Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The Volpe Center provides multimodal, multidisciplinary expertise to solve the Nation’s most pressing and complex transportation challenges and advance USDOT’s key priorities of safety, innovation, and infrastructure to improve the Nation’s transportation system. In support of this program, Team Kingfisher’s information security subject matter experts will improve program efficiency, effectiveness, and consistency by providing prompt, reliable, and high-quality security controls assessments as defined in the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Risk Management Framework (RMF) for Volpe Center’s High and Moderate information systems.
Roy L. Reed, Jr., Kingfisher’s Chief Executive Officer, stated, “Over the last ten years, Kingfisher has provided RMF expertise to Department of Defense (DoD), Intelligence Community (IC), and Federal Civilian Customers. This award highlights Kingfisher’s continued role as a leading provider of Assessment and Authorization services to the Federal Government. We are honored to support the Volpe Center’s critical cybersecurity mission.”
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