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  • Box to Provide DARPA Cloud-Based Collaboration Platform; Sonny Hashmi Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Box to Provide DARPA Cloud-Based Collaboration Platform; Sonny Hashmi Comments

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected Box to provide a cloud-based technology platform for DARPA personnel to collaborate with each other and external research partners. Box said Tuesday it will provide a cloud content management platform along with data management, governance and protection expertise in support of the agency’s digital workplace initiatives. “We are thrilled to support […] More

  • Former Technica Exec Basil Parker Appointed OPM Senior Adviser - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former Technica Exec Basil Parker Appointed OPM Senior Adviser

    Basil Parker, former director of Defense Department programs at Technica, has joined the Office of Personnel Management as senior adviser for governmentwide information technology and cyber workforce development. He will serve in the Senior Executive Service-level advisory role for a term of up to three years and advise the OPM director on workforce-related IT, information systems […] More

  • DISA Seeks Unified Enterprise Platform for DoD Organizational Needs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DISA Seeks Unified Enterprise Platform for DoD Organizational Needs

    The Defense Information Systems Agency has announced a $7.8 billion acquisition vehicle aiming to procure a unified enterprise software that would streamline office productivity, messaging, content management and collaboration within the Defense Department. DISA said Monday it will use the potential 10-year Defense Enterprise Office Solution (DEOS) single-award contract to acquire a platform to replace legacy organizational […] More

  • DoD Certifies CA Technologies Access Management System as Cybersecurity Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD Certifies CA Technologies Access Management System as Cybersecurity Tool

    New York-based firm CA Technologies has received approval from the Defense Department to operate the CA Privileged Access Manager system as a cybersecurity tool. CA Technologies said Wednesday CA PAM is now included in the DoD Information Network’s Approved Product List and National Information Assurance Partnership’s Product Compliant List. Mordecai Rosen, general manager for cybersecurity […] More

  • General Dynamics to Help Air Force Implement Cloud Enterprise Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics to Help Air Force Implement Cloud Enterprise Platform

    General Dynamics‘ information technology business has received a $9 million sole-source contract to help the U.S. Air Force implement a cloud services environment. The Cloud Hosted Enterprise Services infrastructure is designed to provide the military branch access to Microsoft Office 365 services and additional services from Amazon Web Services, Oracle and SAP, General Dynamics said Tuesday. GDIT will work to […] More

  • Virtustream Launches SaaS Option for Risk Mgmt Software - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Virtustream Launches SaaS Option for Risk Mgmt Software

    Dell Technologies’ Virtustream business has added a software-as-a-service option to a platform that works to provide compliance monitoring and risk management support to government agencies and commercial users. The addition of the SaaS option to Virtustream Viewtrust seeks to provide clients with insights into their compliance and risk posture in both cloud and physical environments, Virtustream said Tuesday. Virtustream […] More

  • IBM's Cloud-Based Collaboration Platform Gets FedRAMP OK - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM’s Cloud-Based Collaboration Platform Gets FedRAMP OK

    John Hamilton, program manager of operations at the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, has tweeted that IBM‘s collaboration platform became the 100th cloud service offering to receive FedRAMP approval, Federal Times reported Wednesday. IBM Connections is designed to support business email, instant messaging, web conferencing and social business networking, file sharing, online document editing and archiving. […] More

  • AT&T Secures Year 2 Option Under DISA Comms Network Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AT&T Secures Year 2 Option Under DISA Comms Network Support Contract

    AT&T will continue to support the the Defense Information Systems Agency‘s ultra-high-frequency/line-of-sight communications network under a $13.7 million contract modification. DISA exercised option year 2 under the company’s sole-source contract that covers the provision of Northstar long-haul telecommunications services and related transmission circuits for the UHF/LOS communications system, the Defense Department said Monday. Work under the modification will begin May 1 and […] More

  • Booz Allen to offer info, comm system support through DISA's Encore III vehicle - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen to offer info, comm system support through DISA’s Encore III vehicle

    Booz Allen Hamilton will vie for task orders to provide communication and information technology support services to military and federal agencies under the Defense Information Systems Agency‘s potential 10-year, $17.5 billion contract vehicle. The company said Tuesday it aims to help DISA maintain a globally accessible information infrastructure for the Defense Department‘s command-and-control and data exchange […] More

  • IBM's IaaS cloud platform gets DoD impact level 5 authorization - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM’s IaaS cloud platform gets DoD impact level 5 authorization

    IBM has received provisional authorization from the Defense Information Systems Agency to host impact level 5 data of Defense Department and federal agency customers through a multitenant cloud computing platform. DISA said Tuesday it granted a 12-month PA to the company’s SmartCloud for Government infrastructure-as-a-service platform. SCG encompasses compute, memory, network, operating system and storage provisioning services intended to help […] More

  • DLA Seeks Info on Financial Mgmt Program Hosting Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DLA Seeks Info on Financial Mgmt Program Hosting Systems

    The Defense Logistics Agency has posted a request for information on commercial hosting platforms that can support an enterprise resource planning program designed to facilitate financial management functions across the Defense Department. DLA said Friday in a FedBizOpps notice that it will consider cloud-based hosting solutions that could aid the migration of the Defense Agencies Initiative ERP system […] More

  • DISA OKs Security Technical Implementation Guide for ForeScout’s Device Discovery Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DISA OKs Security Technical Implementation Guide for ForeScout’s Device Discovery Tech

    ForeScout Technologies has received Security Technical Implementation Guide validation from the Defense Information Systems Agency for a technology product designed to help government customers discover, manage and classify multiple devices and applications. The STIG validation for CounterACT follows an agreement signed between ForeScout and the Defense Department through Enterprise Software Initiative program, the company said Monday. DoD’s EIS program helps defense organizations […] More