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  • Red Hat Gets New Common Criteria Certification for Operating System; Paul Smith Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Red Hat Gets New Common Criteria Certification for Operating System; Paul Smith Comments

    Red Hat has obtained another Common Criteria Certification for its Enterprise Linux 7.1 operating system. BSI, Germany’s federal information security office, issued the certification under the General-Purpose Operating System Protection Profile 3.9 that sets security requirements for OS fielded in public utilities, telecommunications, health care and other critical infrastructure, Red Hat said Wednesday. Paul Smith, […] More

  • Nicole Gardner: IBM Looks to Hire 2K More Military Veterans - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Nicole Gardner: IBM Looks to Hire 2K More Military Veterans

    Nicole Gardner, a vice president of IBM’s global business services division, has said the company intends to employ 2,000 additional veterans, Park Cities People reported Tuesday. Gardner said during a panel discussion on the “Keeping America’s Promise” program that veterans are great team players and contribute to companies through their problem-solving skills. “They are obviously up for […] More

  • DoD Eyes Cloud Services Contract Award in Q4 FY 2018; IBM’s Sam Gordy Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD Eyes Cloud Services Contract Award in Q4 FY 2018; IBM’s Sam Gordy Comments

    The Defense Department plans to award a potential 10-year contract to a single vendor by the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2018 to provide cloud computing platforms and services across the agency, Nextgov reported Tuesday. DoD said in the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure strategy document it plans to award an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract through a full […] More

  • IBM Designs Server for AI Workload Processing - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Designs Server for AI Workload Processing

    IBM has unveiled a new server platform designed to help enterprise customers process and manage data-intensive artificial intelligence and cognitive computing workloads. AC922 Power Systems are built with IBM’s POWER9 processor and designed to accelerate training on deep learning processes by approximately four times, the company said Dec. 5. The processor currently powers the Energy Department‘s high-performance […] More

  • IBM Tops List of Australian Govt IT Contractors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Tops List of Australian Govt IT Contractors

    A new report from Australia’s national audit office says IBM received the highest number of information technology contracts from the Australian government during the 2012 to 2013 through 2016 to 2017 period, ZDNet reported Thursday. Australia spent $27 billion on IT contracts over the five-year period, including $1.8 billion for 692 government contracts that went to IBM, […] More

  • NOAA Surveys Market for Satellite Ground IT Security Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NOAA Surveys Market for Satellite Ground IT Security Services

    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration wants information on industry sources of information technology security services for ground-based satellite equipment. A FedBizOpps notice posted Wednesday says NOAA’s satellite and information acquisition division is conducting the market survey ahead of a potential upcoming procurement effort. SIAD will collect through Dec. 18, 2017 capability statements from interested contractors that have […] More

  • Victory Media Recognizes IBM as 2018 Military Friendly Employer; Sam Gordy Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Victory Media Recognizes IBM as 2018 Military Friendly Employer; Sam Gordy Comments

    IBM has received the 2018 Military Friendly Employer of the Year Award from Victory Media for the company’s efforts to hire military veterans. Recipients of the 2018 Military Friendly Employer award will be featured in Victory Media’s G.I. Jobs and Military Spouse magazines, IBM said Monday. Sam Gordy, IBM general manager of IBM’s federal business, wrote in a blog […] More

  • Marc Teerlink Appointed Global VP for SAP's Digital Innovation System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Marc Teerlink Appointed Global VP for SAP’s Digital Innovation System

    Marc Teerlink, formerly chief business strategist of IBM‘s Watson business group, has joined SAP as global vice president of the software company’s digital innovation system SAP Leonardo. SAP said Friday that Teerlink will be responsible for helping drive the company’s presence in the artificial intelligence and machine learning markets in his new position. He will be based at a company […] More

  • IBM Tapped to Provide Cognitive Computing Infrastructure for Australian Defense Dept - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Tapped to Provide Cognitive Computing Infrastructure for Australian Defense Dept

    IBM‘s Australian unit has secured an estimated $3.1 million contract to provide cognitive computing infrastructure and support to Australia’s defense department, ARN reported Monday. IBM Australia will furnish the Watson artificial intelligence platform to the department over three years under the limited-tender contract, the publication said. A spokesperson for the department told ARN the platform will […] More

  • IBM-Mellanox-Nvidia Team Aims to Complete New DOE Supercomputers in Early 2018 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM-Mellanox-Nvidia Team Aims to Complete New DOE Supercomputers in Early 2018

    A team composed of IBM, Nvidia and Mellanox is scheduled to complete the development of two supercomputing machines at the Energy Department‘s Oak Ridge and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories early next year. The alliance is working to build ORNL’s Summit and LLNL’s Sierra computers through a $325 million project DOE awarded in late 2014. Dave Turek, vice president of exascale systems […] More

  • eGlobalTech to Help Migrate FEMA Emergency Warning System to Cloud - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    eGlobalTech to Help Migrate FEMA Emergency Warning System to Cloud

    eGlobalTech has been chosen to support IBM in a project to migrate the Federal Emergency Management Agency‘s integrated public alert and warning system to Amazon Web Services cloud technology. IPAWS is designed to help federal, state, territorial, tribal and local authorities inform communities in the event of a critical situation, eGT said Thursday. eGT has previously helped transition FEMA emergency management […] More

  • Veterans Affairs Selects Zenoss Platform for Cybersecurity Monitoring - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Veterans Affairs Selects Zenoss Platform for Cybersecurity Monitoring

    The Department of Veterans Affairs‘ office of cybersecurity (OSC) has chosen Zenoss‘ information technology monitoring system to track the performance of technologies it hosts. Zenoss Service Dynamics platform will be utilized by the OSC to gain holistic health and performance insights on hardware and software within the office’s enclaves managed by the Cyber Security Hosted Services, […] More