IT

Latest stories

  • National Strategic Research Institute to Conduct Cyber Defense Study for Stratcom - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Industry News, News

    National Strategic Research Institute to Conduct Cyber Defense Study for Stratcom

    The University of Nebraska’s National Strategic Research Institute has received a contract from the U.S. Strategic Command to perform cyber defense research alongside researchers from Iowa State University and cybersecurity industry consultants. NSRI said Wednesday the research team will use multiple data sources to discover threats and potential vulnerabilities that adversaries might exploit to shut down infrastructure […] More

  • CBP Selects Qbase-Geocent-Newberry Group JV for Tech Service Desk Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in News, Products & Service

    CBP Selects Qbase-Geocent-Newberry Group JV for Tech Service Desk Support Contract

    A joint venture of Qbase, Geocent and the Newberry Group has secured a contract for technology service desk support to Customs and Border Protection employees, contractors, trade partners and participating government agencies that access CBP software applications. The contract was awarded to 360 IT Integrated Solutions through the Department of Homeland Security‘s Enterprise Acquisition Gateway for Leading-Edge Solutions II vehicle, Qbase said Monday. Steve […] More

  • CenturyLink SVP Bill Bradley Joins RiskSense Board of Directors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in News

    CenturyLink SVP Bill Bradley Joins RiskSense Board of Directors

    Bill Bradley, senior vice president for cyber engineering and technology services at CenturyLink, has joined the board of directors of Albuquerque, New Mexico-based cyber risk management company RiskSense. The more than 30-year CenturyLink veteran oversees the development, maintenance and management of the communications technology firm’s internal cybersecurity and engineering functions, RiskSense said Monday. “Bill’s extensive experience in cyber security and industry relationships […] More

  • Tony Whigham Joins Hitachi Data Systems as Govt Sales Director for Australia, NZ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in News

    Tony Whigham Joins Hitachi Data Systems as Govt Sales Director for Australia, NZ

    Tony Whigham, formerly director of the federal business at Hewlett Packard Enterprise‘s Aruba Networks subsidiary, has joined Hitachi Data Systems as director of government sales in Australia and New Zealand. He will work to develop strategies for HDS’ federal and state government portfolio and  explore new areas of collaboration with the company’s social innovation solutions unit, Hitachi said Thursday. The […] More

  • Deltek: Federal Health IT Market Worth $6.4B by 2021 Amid Continued Agency Investments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Healthcare IT, News

    Deltek: Federal Health IT Market Worth $6.4B by 2021 Amid Continued Agency Investments

    A Deltek market report predicts the federal health information technology market to reach $6.4 billion in spending by 2021 at a compound annual growth rate of 1.4 percent due to investments aimed to analyze, digitize, secure and share health information. Deltek said Wednesday federal agencies such as the Defense Health Agency and the Department of […] More

  • Unisys’ PV Puvvada: 'Proactive' Risk Assessment of Federal IT Projects to Advance Under New Administration - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Industry News, News

    Unisys’ PV Puvvada: ‘Proactive’ Risk Assessment of Federal IT Projects to Advance Under New Administration

    PV Puvvada, president of Unisys’ federal systems business, has said he predicts federal employees and contractors to “proactively” evaluate risks in information technology projects under President Donald Trump’s administration through implementation of DevOps and agile development processes. Puvvada wrote in an FCW article published Friday that such a move is part of the administration’s objective […] More

  • eGlobalTech Added to Amazon Web Services' Public Sector Partner Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Industry News, News

    eGlobalTech Added to Amazon Web Services’ Public Sector Partner Program

    Amazon Web Services has selected eGlobalTech to join the former’s partnership program that aims to meet the technology business needs of education, government and non-profit customers. EGlobalTech said Thursday its DevOps Factory service offering and automation tools such as Cloudamatic will support efforts to boost cloud adoption in the federal sector through the AWS Public Sector […] More

  • TechServe Alliance: 2016 IT and Engineering Employment Rises Year-Over-Year - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Industry News, News

    TechServe Alliance: 2016 IT and Engineering Employment Rises Year-Over-Year

    A new study from the TechServe Alliance estimates the number of information technology and engineering jobs increased at respective year-to-year growth rates of 2.4 percent and 0.7 percent. The TechServe Alliance report published Wednesday says IT jobs have grown to 5,179,300 in December 2016 to represent an addition of 122,900 IT workers from the previous year’s final tally. Engineering employment has also […] More

  • ManTech to Continue Navy Ship Maintenance & Logistics Info Systems Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in News, Products & Service

    ManTech to Continue Navy Ship Maintenance & Logistics Info Systems Support

    ManTech International has secured an $11.2 million contract option to continue support work on the U.S. Navy‘s Ship Maintenance and Logistics Information Systems program. The exercised option covers engineering support in areas such as information technology life cycle planning, operations, sustainment, documentation, program management, application technical refresh, testing and training, the Defense Department said Wednesday. Work will occur […] More

  • GAMA-1 Holds Spot on Potential $2.5B NOAA IT Contract Vehicle - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in News, Products & Service

    GAMA-1 Holds Spot on Potential $2.5B NOAA IT Contract Vehicle

    GAMA-1 Technologies has been awarded a prime position on a potential a $2.5 billion indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that covers information technology support services for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s strategic IT planning and management effort. GAMA-1 said Tuesday task orders under the NOAALink Small Business contract are  categorized into customer care, infrastructure management, business management, information security and risk management. […] More

  • Salient CRGT Secures DoD Engineering, O&M Support BPA; Brad Antle Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in News, Products & Service

    Salient CRGT Secures DoD Engineering, O&M Support BPA; Brad Antle Comments

    Salient CRGT has received a potential $45 million blanket purchase agreement from the General Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service to provide integration, engineering, operations and maintenance support for the Defense Department. The company said Monday it will work to integrate and modify commercial off-the-shelf non-developmental items, perform integrated technology services, manage projects, install hardware and software, update […] More

  • Capstone Obtains Govt IT Support Contract Spot Through New Business Acquisition Deal - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Industry News, News

    Capstone Obtains Govt IT Support Contract Spot Through New Business Acquisition Deal

    The National Institutes of Health‘s information technology acquisition and assessment center has novated an information technology support contract to Capstone after the company purchased an unnamed business. Capstone said Wednesday it earned a spot under all 10 task areas of the potential 10-year, $20 billion Chief Information Officers – Solutions and Partners 3 government-wide acquisition contract […] More