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  • Peraton Gets DOJ Cyber, Forensic Analysis Support Contract; Roger Mason Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Peraton Gets DOJ Cyber, Forensic Analysis Support Contract; Roger Mason Comments

    Peraton has received a $9.45 million contract to provide automation tools for the Justice Department‘s intrusion analysis and malware triage activities. The company said Monday its analysts will help DOJ examine details of computer and network intrusions, as well as manage the full life cycle of digital media. “Countering sophisticated cyber threats requires advanced technical […] More

  • Apptio Offers Machine Learning Platform for Federal Technology Business Management - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Apptio Offers Machine Learning Platform for Federal Technology Business Management

    Bellevue, Wash.-based tech software provider Apptio has launched an early adopter program to help government agencies field a machine learning system for technology business management. The Apptio TBM Unified Model can help assist government agencies and participants in the public sector to immediately gauge information technology costs from financial systems like ledgers and vendor invoices, the company said […] More

  • DOJ Seeks IT Tools, Services to Update Inmate Mgmt System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOJ Seeks IT Tools, Services to Update Inmate Mgmt System

    The Justice Department‘s Federal Bureau of Prisons has issued a request for information on potential tools and services to modernize a system used to manage inmate records. A FedBizOpps notice posted Thursday says the bureau looks to update its mainframe-based SENTRY platform that includes common business-oriented language and assembler programs. BOP also seeks a code conversion methodology; databases and […] More

  • CenturyLink Gains DOJ Nod to Sell Level 3's Arizona Network Assets to FirstDigital Telecom - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CenturyLink Gains DOJ Nod to Sell Level 3’s Arizona Network Assets to FirstDigital Telecom

    The Justice Department has approved CenturyLink‘s proposal to sell certain Level 3 Communications assets in Tucson, Ariz., to FirstDigital Telecom. CenturyLink said Monday it will divest metro fiber network platforms as part of an agreement with DOJ related to the telecommunication firm’s approximately $34 billion acquisition of Level 3. The proposed sale is subject to customary closing conditions that include […] More

  • FBI considers $5B IDIQ for IT support services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FBI considers $5B IDIQ for IT support services

    The FBI has released a request for information on potential vendors of information technology products and support services as it considers creating an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract designed to meet IT requirements across the Justice Department. A FedBizOpps notice posted Wednesday says the bureau looks to establish a potential 10-year, $5 billion IDIQ for IT consulting, cybersecurity, […] More

  • CenturyLink Gets DOJ Clearance to Sell Level 3’s Albuquerque Fiber Network Assets to UPN - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CenturyLink Gets DOJ Clearance to Sell Level 3’s Albuquerque Fiber Network Assets to UPN

    CenturyLink has received approval from the Justice Department to sell Level 3 Communications’ fiber network assets in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to Unite Private Networks for an undisclosed sum. The transaction is subject to the Federal Communications Commission’s approval and other customary closing conditions, CenturyLink said Wednesday. “Once the transaction is approved, we will quickly work […] More

  • CenturyLink Obtains DOJ Approval to Sell Level 3 Metro Network Assets to Syringa Networks - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CenturyLink Obtains DOJ Approval to Sell Level 3 Metro Network Assets to Syringa Networks

    The Justice Department has given CenturyLink the green light to sell certain metro network assets of Level 3 Communications in Boise, Idaho, to fiber-optic networking services provider Syringa Networks. Monroe, Louisiana-based CenturyLink said Tuesday the sale is still subject to other customary closing conditions and comes nearly five months after the telecommunications firm completed its $34 billion acquisition of […] More

  • FBI Solicits Proposals for Enterprise Business Process Mgmt. Software - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FBI Solicits Proposals for Enterprise Business Process Mgmt. Software

    The FBI seeks proposals from vendors that can provide commercial off-the-shelf enterprise business process management software. The bureau said Tuesday in a FedBizOpps notice that its existing Enterprise Process Automation System is based on an OpenText-built BPM platform that will no longer be supported beyond fiscal year 2018. The agency wants an enterprise software that […] More

  • DOJ Vet Kathleen McGovern Named EY Principal - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOJ Vet Kathleen McGovern Named EY Principal

    Kathleen McGovern, a 14-year veteran of the Justice Department, has joined Ernst & Young‘s Washington, D.C. office as a principal in its fraud investigation and dispute services practice. EY said Friday McGovern joins other former government officials working in the company’s FIDS group and brings more than two decades of prosecutorial experience to her new position. She most recently served […] More

  • Seth Faith Returns to Battelle as Applied Genomics Research Leader - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Seth Faith Returns to Battelle as Applied Genomics Research Leader

    Seth Faith, former assistant professor at North Carolina State University’s Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences, has been appointed as research leader for Battelle‘s applied genomics program. Battelle said Thursday Faith previously worked as a technical leader in the nonprofit company’s human DNA forensics and genomics unit, where he led the development of a forensic human identification methodology. He also […] More

  • NEC Subsidiary Enters Agreement With DOJ to Update Software Product Security Protocols - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NEC Subsidiary Enters Agreement With DOJ to Update Software Product Security Protocols

    NEC‘s Netcracker Technology Corp. subsidiary has agreed to implement additional measures to secure software products and service offerings for U.S. customers under a “non-prosecution” agreement with the Justice Department. DOJ said Monday Netcracker would update data security protocols designed to manage remote access to business networks and transfer of sensitive information. “As threats to our critical infrastructure increase, especially […] More

  • DSA Subsidiary Lands DOJ Victim Notification Tool Upgrade Contract; Paul Strasser Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DSA Subsidiary Lands DOJ Victim Notification Tool Upgrade Contract; Paul Strasser Comments

    Project Performance Co., a Data Systems Analysts subsidiary, has received a potential $6 million contract to upgrade the Justice Department’s Victim Notification System. PPC said it will update the VNS application that works to send automated notifications to federal crimes victims through the use of Pegasystems’ Pega 7 platform. Pega 7 is an application development […] More