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  • Palo Alto Networks Debuts Virtual Firewall on Microsoft's Azure Govt Cloud - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Palo Alto Networks Debuts Virtual Firewall on Microsoft’s Azure Govt Cloud

    Palo Alto Networks has begun to offer its virtualized firewall on Microsoft‘s Azure Government Cloud platform in a move to help public sector customers protect their applications and data in the cloud. Microsoft said Monday that Palo Alto Networks’ VM-Series firewall works to analyze all traffic in a single pass to determine application identity, content and user identity. The […] More

  • IT Vet Robert Youngjohns Joins Blueprint's Board of Directors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IT Vet Robert Youngjohns Joins Blueprint’s Board of Directors

    Robert Youngjohns, a senior adviser at management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, has joined Blueprint‘s board of directors. The Toronto, Canada-based software company said Thursday that Youngjohns brings experience in various leadership roles from his time leading the information technology industry. “Robert is a true pioneer and trailblazer in the world of software and I am very […] More

  • Navy Clears Accelera's Cloud-Based Active Directory Service; Steve Weiss Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Clears Accelera’s Cloud-Based Active Directory Service; Steve Weiss Comments

    The Department of the Navy has granted Accelera Solutions authorization to operate a cloud-based active directory service intended to help U.S. Navy reservists access to applications hosted in Microsoft‘s Office 365 environment. Accelera said Tuesday its Dedicated Active Directory Forest is built upon the Active Directory Federation Services platform and will help connect the Defense Department‘s Office 365-based network with the Navy’s […] More

  • Former DOT CIO Richard McKinney Joins AECOM as Enterprise IT Strategy VP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former DOT CIO Richard McKinney Joins AECOM as Enterprise IT Strategy VP

    Richard McKinney, formerly chief information officer at the U.S. Transportation Department, has joined AECOM’s management services group as vice president of enterprise information technology strategy. McKinney will oversee the delivery of AECOM’s systems engineering and information platforms and services to clients, the company said Wednesday. John Vollmer, president of AECOM’s management services group and an […] More

  • Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Unveils Initiative for Gov't Data Accessibility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Unveils Initiative for Gov’t Data Accessibility

    Steve Ballmer, a former CEO of Microsoft, has launched an initiative that aims to boost the accessibility of government data on tax revenues, expenditures and spending outcomes. The USAFacts project works to collect data from approximately 130 government statistical databases to create products such as a document modeled after the 10-K form that companies file with the Securities […] More

  • DXC Technology, Microsoft Seek to Facilitate Hybrid Cloud Adoption With New Service Offering - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DXC Technology, Microsoft Seek to Facilitate Hybrid Cloud Adoption With New Service Offering

    Microsoft and DXC Technology have teamed up to provide a new service offering designed to help clients manage workloads across the Microsoft Azure public cloud platform and DXC’s data centers. The DXC Services for Azure offering will work to help users facilitate hybrid and public cloud adoption as well as access Azure services in DXC’s […] More

  • Yale University and McKinsey & Co. Hold First Ever Cyber Leadership Forum - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Yale University and McKinsey & Co. Hold First Ever Cyber Leadership Forum

    Yale University and global consulting firm McKinsey & Co. aim to facilitate a conversation on how legal, business and policy leaders can work together on cybersecurity issues at the “Bridging the Divide” conference March 30-April 1 in New Haven, Conn. This first-ever Yale Cyber Leadership Forum aims to offer attendees an environment to exchange ideas […] More

  • Reports: Microsoft Develops Custom Windows 10 Offering for Chinese Govt - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Reports: Microsoft Develops Custom Windows 10 Offering for Chinese Govt

    Microsoft has developed a customized version of its Windows 10 operating system for the Chinese government through a partnership with state-owned China Electronics Technology Group, Dow Jones Newswires reported Tuesday. Eva Dou and Yang Jie write CETC helped Microsoft develop the custom Windows 10 offering as the U.S.-based technology firm aims to regain access to the Chinese market and address security demands […] More

  • Former US CIO Tony Scott to Serve as Board Member at Baldrige Foundation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former US CIO Tony Scott to Serve as Board Member at Baldrige Foundation

    Tony Scott, former federal chief information officer and administrator of the Office of Management and Budget‘s e-government and information technology unit. is set to join Washington-based Baldrige Foundation in April as a member of the board of directors. Al Faber, president and CEO of the Baldrige Foundation, said in a statement released Tuesday that Scott played a key role […] More

  • Microsoft Azure Govt Cloud Gets FedRAMP High ATO From VA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft Azure Govt Cloud Gets FedRAMP High ATO From VA

    The Department of Veterans Affairs has granted authority-to-operate certification to Microsoft‘s Azure Government cloud platform through the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. Microsoft said Wednesday the FedRAMP High ATO designation confirms that Azure meets security standards needed to handle sensitive VA workloads such personally identifiable information and protected health information. The company also received FedRAMP approval in February to add 12 customer-facing services in Azure Government’s provisional ATO. […] More

  • Microsoft Uses DHS-Built Visualization Software in Disease Mitigation Effort - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft Uses DHS-Built Visualization Software in Disease Mitigation Effort

    Microsoft has adopted a Department of Homeland Security-developed visualization platform to sequence mosquito DNA as part of efforts to mitigate disease. DHS said Thursday the Krona software is designed to help users analyze big data such as millions of DNA sequences in a mosquito sample. Microsoft uses Krona to analyze complex DNA in blood samples collected by mosquitoes that can serve as an early […] More

  • Microsoft Adds Big Data, Analytics, Visualization Tools to Azure Govt Cloud - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft Adds Big Data, Analytics, Visualization Tools to Azure Govt Cloud

    Microsoft has added two big data and visualization tools to the company’s Azure Government cloud platform. Tom Keane, a Microsoft general manager, wrote in a blog post published Monday the HDInsight and Power BI offerings are designed to help government agencies manage, analyze and visualize huge quantities of data in Azure. He said HDInsight works to help users build data and […] More