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  • CSC, Hitachi Data Systems Seek to Facilitate Cloud Adoption for Enterprises Via Expanded Partnership; Dave Zolet Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSC, Hitachi Data Systems Seek to Facilitate Cloud Adoption for Enterprises Via Expanded Partnership; Dave Zolet Comments

    Computer Sciences Corp. and Hitachi Data Systems have agreed to expand their strategic partnership in an effort to help enterprises adopt cloud-based digital platforms designed to accelerate business processes. CSC and HDS will jointly provide clients with the CSC BizCloud tool equipped with the Hitachi Unified Compute Platform, SAP‘s Hana in-memory data management platform and storage-as-a-service offerings, CSC said […] More

  • CSC Launches Healthcare IT-as-a-Service Platforms on UK's Digital Marketplace - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSC Launches Healthcare IT-as-a-Service Platforms on UK’s Digital Marketplace

    Computer Sciences Corp. has started to offer care coordination and population health as-a-service platforms to U.K. government agencies through the online G-Cloud marketplace. CSC said Monday its care coordination offering consists of business process services intended to help providers address referral management, complex care coordination, discharge management and patient access challenges. The services are supported by a delivery platform that includes a directory […] More

  • Technavio: Global Defense IT Spending Market to Reach $108B by 2020 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Technavio: Global Defense IT Spending Market to Reach $108B by 2020

    Technavio has forecasted that global defense information technology spending will reach $108.4 billion by 2020 as continued demand for IT and technology offerings in the defense industry drive the need for technological support services. The company said Friday the market will see a compound annual growth rate of at least three percent over the forecast period. IT investments will work […] More

  • HPE Names Software-Defined & Cloud Group Lead, Storage Business Chief in Series of Exec Moves - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HPE Names Software-Defined & Cloud Group Lead, Storage Business Chief in Series of Exec Moves

    Hewlett Packard Enterprise has made a set of leadership changes in its hybrid information technology and storage businesses. Ric Lewis, senior vice president and general manager of converged data center infrastructure at HPE, will lead the firm’s software-defined and cloud group, HPE said Monday. These appointments come after HPE announced plans in May to merge its […] More

  • CSRA-Racemi Alliance to Offer Cloud Migration Services in Public Sector; Peter O'Donoghue Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA-Racemi Alliance to Offer Cloud Migration Services in Public Sector; Peter O’Donoghue Comments

    CSRA and Racemi have extended their partnership to jointly market a suite of bundled services intended to help government customers transition to Amazon Web Services‘ cloud computing platform or isolated GovCloud region. The companies’ three-phased cloud migration offering covers discovery and design, target preparation and assisted server migration services, CSRA said Monday. “Today’s [chief information officers] adopt cloud transformation strategies that require migration […] More

  • Joe Ayers on The Future CSC-HPE's Federal Footprint, Trends in Federal Healthcare IT & Big Data - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Joe Ayers on The Future CSC-HPE’s Federal Footprint, Trends in Federal Healthcare IT & Big Data

    Joe Ayers heads the federal enterprise group at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise as a vice president and is responsible for the organization’s work with partners, pursuit of cloud computing opportunities and work to provide agencies technology and related consulting services. The enterprise services segment of HPE is slated to merge into Computer Sciences Corp. and create an estimated […] More

  • NIH Picks Vibrent Health Platform for National Precision Medicine Study - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NIH Picks Vibrent Health Platform for National Precision Medicine Study

    The National Institutes of Health has awarded Vibrent Health a five-year, $74 million contract to supply a technology platform for NIH to enroll and engage U.S. participants in the cohort program of the White House’s Precision Medicine Initiative. Vibrent Health said Wednesday it will develop, test, maintain and update the platform for the nationwide medical research effort using data hosting services from Amazon […] More

  • Mike Raymond Named Chief Strategy Officer of Octo Consulting - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mike Raymond Named Chief Strategy Officer of Octo Consulting

    Mike Raymond, a 37-year government information technology market veteran and former senior vice president at Dynanet Corp., has joined Octo Consulting Group as chief strategy officer of the Tysons Corner, Virginia-based digital services provider. He will oversee Octo Consulting’s business development and growth strategies in his new position and will report directly to CEO and founder Mehul Sanghani, […] More

  • Bloomberg Government Team Predicts FY 2016 Reversal of Contract Spending Declines, M&A Reshaping to Continue - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bloomberg Government Team Predicts FY 2016 Reversal of Contract Spending Declines, M&A Reshaping to Continue

    Total federal contract spending declined for the sixth consecutive year in the government’s 2016 fiscal year but the team of analysts at Bloomberg Government predict that negative trend to reverse in the current FY 2016. In its BGOV 200 study released Tuesday, Bloomberg Government said federal unclassified contract spend for fiscal year 2015 fell nearly 1.5 percent to a […] More

  • 12 Tech Firms Join FireEye Cybersecurity Alliance; Ed Barry Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    12 Tech Firms Join FireEye Cybersecurity Alliance; Ed Barry Comments

    Milpitas, California-based security company FireEye has added 12 technology companies to its partner ecosystem that aims to help customers address complex security challenges with a FireEye-built threat management platform. The Cyber Security Coalition works to integrate FireEye’s Global Threat Management platform with various security offerings in an effort to simplify how enterprise clients avoid, detect, examine or respond to attacks, the company said Friday. “Security teams are […] More

  • Army Taps CSRA Subsidiary for Biomedical Research Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Taps CSRA Subsidiary for Biomedical Research Contract

    CSRA subsidiary SRA International has won a potential five-year, $34.6 million contract to support biomedical research programs of the U.S. Army. The Defense Department said Tuesday SRA will perform work under the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract through May 16, 2021. The Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity received two bids for the procurement initiative via the Internet, DoD said. DoD noted the service […] More

  • BAE, CSC Sign $600M IT Outsourcing Pact - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE, CSC Sign $600M IT Outsourcing Pact

    Computer Sciences Corp. will provide a range of information technology services for BAE Systems‘ U.K. and Saudi Arabia operations under a $600 million agreement between the two companies. CSC said Tuesday the IT outsourcing deal will run through November 2021 and covers contact center, end user compute, mainframe, physical/virtual servers, storage, networking, project services and application maintenance support. “We are delighted to […] More