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Vertosoft, the company driving emerging technology growth for the government, announced a new partnership with SpyCloud, the leader in cyber fraud prevention, to protect customers of government digital services from identity theft and other cybercrime. “SpyCloud offers powerful solutions for government agencies to continuously monitor, prevent and investigate online cyberattacks,” said Jay Colavita, founder, and president of Vertosoft.

Novetta announced Thursday that it was awarded an agreement under the SOSSEC Consortium’s other transactional authority (OTA) Cyberspace Operations Broad Responsive Agreement (COBRA) vehicle for the Cloud Account Management Optimization (CAMO) effort with the U.S. Army’s Enterprise Cloud Management Agency (ECMA). 

The U.S. Navy has selected Lockheed Martin and enterprise applications developer IFS to build and deliver a ship and aircraft maintenance platform in support of the Naval Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul initiative. The N-MRO program seeks to advance the use of digital twins, predictive analytics and artificial intelligence to predict potential system failures to improve support of fleet management, supply logistics and maintenance functions.

Amazon Web Services has recognized General Dynamics' information technology business for the latter's competency in cloud migration and DevOps. General Dynamics Information Technology said Wednesday it received the AWS Migration and DevOps Competency statuses in recognition of offerings that have supported federal cloud migration projects.

Collins Aerospace, a business unit of Raytheon Technologies, has invested $18 million to build a wind tunnel in Rockford, Illinois, as part of efforts to simplify the process for testing ram air turbine products. Work is underway on the test platform at Collins Aerospace's center of excellence for electric power systems and the new structure is scheduled to be operational in the summer of 2022, the aircraft technology supplier said Wednesday.

A team of SparkCognition's government services unit and Intrinsic Enterprises has received a contract from the U.S. Air Force to explore the potential use of artificial intelligence in military pilot training programs. The partnership will aim to develop a qualitative standards-based approach to gauge airmen's skills mastery using AI and machine learning through the Air Force Research Laboratory's Small Business Innovation Research program, SparkCognition said Wednesday.

A new Lockheed Martin-made missile performed its longest flight to date in a recent demonstration conducted with the U.S. Army in New Mexico, where it flew 248.5 miles. A High Mobility Artillery Rocket System launched the Precision Strike Missile to hit a target at White Sands Missile Range, demonstrating long-range precision fire capabilities, Lockheed said Wednesday.

San Franciso-based software company Talkdesk has appointed James Ward, a former Genesys executive, as vice president of regulated industries and named John Bastin, who was chief sales officer at GCR Inc., as VP of public sector industry strategy.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 13, 2021 — Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has appointed Chief Accounting Officer Christopher Cage to serve as its chief financial officer when James Reagan steps down from the CFO position on July 5, GovCon Wire reported May 5.

FedEx Office has received a recompete contract from the Government Publishing Office to provide federal agencies with printing, digital, binding, banner and sign production and direct mail services under the GPOExpress program. The contract provides over 3,000 federal employees holding GPOExpress cards with discounted FedEx Office service rates in more than 2,100 sites and access to online document management and print ordering tools.

John Osborne, chief OpenShift architect for public sector at Red Hat, wrote in an article that adopting cloud-native security platforms could help agency developers secure the development of containerized applications. Osborne said the open source community is creating and introducing new tools that could provide visibility into containerized applications, “perform deep scans to detect trojans, viruses and malware contained within the images” and improve runtime security through the identification of possible behavior changes and anomalies. 

DLT Solutions and Axonius have partnered to offer an information technology asset monitoring system to agencies through a governmentwide acquisition contract vehicle managed by the General Services Administration. Axonius announced Tuesday the inclusion of its Cybersecurity Asset Management Platform to DLT's GSA Schedule contract as an offering intended to help public sector customers maintain asset inventory and security compliance.

KPMG has expanded its operations in the Lake Nona community in Orlando with the opening of a new facility that will house the firm's additional workforce who will be responsible for providing customers with advisory and tax services. The Capability Center is established in support of KPMG's enhanced service delivery model and will enable the company to offer 350 new jobs in the state.

Craig Halliday, chief executive officer of Unanet, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding the launch of the company’s enhanced capabilities for its ERP technology platform, benefits for contractors in GovCon and the federal workforce as a whole. “The key for us is that if there is a better and easier way for a customer to run their business, we will do everything we can to provide them with that product or service.”

Ro Dhanda, formerly of Snowflake Computing, has been appointed vice president of federal business for H2o.ai, the visionary leading open source data science, AI and machine learning platform company out of Silicon Valley. Dhana brings significant experience and a long history of working in both the information technology and services industries.