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  • World Affairs Council Holds Annual Global Education Gala - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    World Affairs Council Holds Annual Global Education Gala

    The World Affairs Council held its annual gala at Ritz Carlton-Washington, D.C., on March 29 to honor organizations that contributed to global education, international affairs and global communications. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter was the event’s keynote speaker and also received the International Public Service Award, World Affairs Council said March 11. IBM Corp. was among […] More

  • Re/code: Former AOL President Bob Lord to Join IBM as Chief Digital Officer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Re/code: Former AOL President Bob Lord to Join IBM as Chief Digital Officer

    IBM has named Bob Lord, former AOL president, as chief digital officer, Re/code reported Sunday. Arik Hesseldahl writes the appointment was announced internally on Monday in a company statement circulated to employees which said Lord will oversee IBM’s digital operations and ecosystem. Lord left AOL six months after Verizon bought the internet company, Re/code noted. Prior to joining […] More

  • Livermore Lab to Use IBM Neuromorphic Tech for Collaborative Supercomputing Initiative - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Livermore Lab to Use IBM Neuromorphic Tech for Collaborative Supercomputing Initiative

    IBM has agreed to provide Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory access to a company-made brain-inspired chip architecture as part of a collaborative project to build supercomputer systems. The company said Tuesday LLNL will receive a 16-chip TrueNorth neurosynaptic system that is designed to process data equivalent to 16 million neurons and four billion synapses. IBM’s research business developed […] More

  • New IBM Initiative Aims to Address Public Health Issues - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    New IBM Initiative Aims to Address Public Health Issues

    IBM has introduced a new initiative to pick heath organizations that will $500,000 in healthcare engagement and expert assistance in an effort to help address public health challenges. The company began to solicit health projects from civil, governmental and social sector organizations for IBM’s health and technology team to solve, IBM said Tuesday. IBM intends […] More

  • Former IBM, CA Exec Donald Friedman Joins Datawatch Board; Richard de Osborne Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former IBM, CA Exec Donald Friedman Joins Datawatch Board; Richard de Osborne Comments

    Donald Friedman, formerly a vice president and general manager at IBM, has been named to the board of directors at Datawatch. Friedman’s appointment brings the total number of the Massachusetts-based visual analytics firm’s board members to nine, Datawatch said March 9. Richard de Osborne, board chairman at Datawatch, said Friedman’s insights could help the firm […] More

  • Matt Rahman Joins Tangible Security as Commercial Cyber Solutions SVP, GM - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Matt Rahman Joins Tangible Security as Commercial Cyber Solutions SVP, GM

    Virginia-based software company Tangible Security has appointed Matt Rahman as the company’s commercial cyber solutions senior vice president and general manager. The former IOActive chief strategy officer and executive vice president joins Tangible Security to lead the commercial cyber business practice in an effort to drive focus on company growth, Tangible Security said Tuesday. “We are […] More

  • Executive Profile: Davis Johnson, Riverbed US Public Sector VP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Davis Johnson, Riverbed US Public Sector VP

    Davis Johnson serves as vice president for the U.S. public sector business at Riverbed Technology, where he oversees delivery of network and application performance management solutions to government clients. Before he joined Riverbed in April 2015, Johnson held a vice president role at Oracle with responsibility over the company’s hardware and infrastructure sales initiatives in […] More

  • ViON Awarded Nonprofit, State & Local Govt IT Support Contract; Tom Frana Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ViON Awarded Nonprofit, State & Local Govt IT Support Contract; Tom Frana Comments

    ViON Corp. has received a three-year contract from the National Cooperative Purchasing Alliance to provide information technology platforms and support services to nonprofit and public sector agencies across the U.S. The contract took effect in October 2015 and covers more than 15,700 cloud and big data offerings, warranties and professional services from ViON and its partners, ViON said […] More

  • Research and Markets Forecasts Key Cloud Security Vendors Through 2020 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Research and Markets Forecasts Key Cloud Security Vendors Through 2020

    Research and Markets has launched a market report entitled Global Cloud Security Market 2016-2020 which lists five key vendors in cloud security and predicts a compound annual growth rate of 20.91 percent during the covered period. The company announced Friday the contents of the new report and named Cisco, IBM, McAfee, Symantec and Trend Micro as the five top cloud security vendors. […] More

  • Former Boeing Chairman & CEO Jim McNerney Joins CD&R as Senior Adviser - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former Boeing Chairman & CEO Jim McNerney Joins CD&R as Senior Adviser

    Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has named former Boeing Chairman and CEO Jim McNerney as its new senior adviser to provide support for its investment and value-creation strategies. McNerney brings decades worth of experience in management while he held senior leadership positions for a number of global companies, CD&R said Wednesday. “His exceptional record is one grounded […] More

  • IBM, Avnet Forge Public Sector Cloud Security Partnership; Scott Ryan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM, Avnet Forge Public Sector Cloud Security Partnership; Scott Ryan Comments

    IBM and Avnet Government Solutions have jointly introduced a new security-as-a-service offering for public sector clients in an effort to help bolster their cloud security postures. Under the partnership, Avnet customers will have access to IBM’s services such as BigFix for endpoint security, QRadar security analytics platform and the Guardium data security tool, Avnet said […] More

  • IBM Secures DISA Impact-Level 5 Cloud Security Certification; Sam Gordy Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Secures DISA Impact-Level 5 Cloud Security Certification; Sam Gordy Comments

    IBM has received a Defense Information Systems Agency authorization to host impact-level 5 data workloads for the Defense Department through the firm’s cloud service. The conditional authority-to-operate certification allows IBM to provide its Cloud suite for the management of controlled unclassified information at DoD, the company said Thursday. The service is offered from the Allegany Ballistics Laboratory in […] More