Laurie Cook, former senior account executive for the federal civilian market at SAS, has been appointed vice president of public sector sales and alliances at robotic process automation company Blue Prism, G2Xchange ETC reported Friday.

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Jon Lemon, a strategic solutions specialist at SAS’ government unit, wrote in an opinion piece posted Wednesday on Federal Times how data analytics could help federal agencies in their workforce management efforts. A federal agency’s time and attendance systems, human resource platform, financial tools and employee satisfaction surveys are some of the data sources that could be integrated to form a “centralized analytics dashboard,” he wrote.

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Scott Frohman, formerly enterprise federal sales manager of defense and intelligence at Google, has joined SAS as director of federal sales. He will manage a sales team that promotes company-built business intelligence, analytics and data management platforms in the federal civilian, defense and intelligence markets, SAS said Monday. “Scott will lead the charge to bring […] More

Don Parente, vice president of sales and solution architecture for the federal sector at MetTel, said a software-defined wide area network could serve as a revolutionary architecture that could enable federal agencies to deliver secure network connectivity to multiple sites. SD-WAN “uses a centralized control plane to route traffic, allowing administrators to write rules and […] More

Jacobs Solutions has secured a potential five-year, $570.5 million contract to help the Federal Emergency Management Agency repair and restore disaster-damaged, publicly-owned facilities in the West Zone regions. The company said it will partner with CDM Smith to provide site inspection, field support, technical evaluation and cost analysis services to FEMA under the Public Assistance Technical Assistance Contract V contract vehicle.

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The U.S. government federal agencies have online portals where the public can gather information, services, and resources provided by the government. These websites get over 5 billion monthly visits, with many users looking for tax forms, learning about government programs, and checking the latest news and updates.  However, unexpected events can cause a sudden surge […] More

James Clevenger, director of government sales at Hughes Network Systems, said geostationary and low-Earth orbit satellites can help the Federal Emergency Management Agency maintain communications in the event of a natural disaster. In a commentary published Friday on Federal News Network, Clevenger wrote that FEMA should take advantage of cost-effective emerging technologies to resolve communication […] More

The government of Puerto Rico awarded ICF a potential three-year, $24 million recompete contract to provide technologies to support its disaster relief programs. Puerto Rico’s Central Office for Recovery, Reconstruction and Resiliency extended its partnership with ICF for project development and hazard mitigation program support, the company announced Monday. Under the terms of the multiple-award […] More

Orolia Defense & Security will now operate under the brand name Safran Federal Systems in line with its inclusion in Safran Group, an aerospace and defense company that acquired the former in 2022. Safran Federal Systems on Monday announced its rebranding along with a new inertial navigation offering, which includes the Hemispherical Resonator Gyro Crystal […] More

The General Services Administration has signed a memorandum of understanding with Entergy Corporation to help advance the Biden administration’s net-zero carbon emission goal by 2030. Under the MOU, Entergy Arkansas will enable utilization of nuclear as well as solar, hydro, wind and other regionally sourced renewable power among public and private customers in the state, […] More

Government infrastructure builder Conti Federal Services has received a $140.9 million contract award from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for the construction of an aircraft facility at a U.S. Air Force base in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The firm-fixed-price contract tasks Conti Federal’s team with constructing a structure customized to house various aircraft maintenance processes at Francis E. […] More

Spire Global and Ursa Space Systems have teamed up to merge their capabilities and help U.S. federal agency clients track illegal activity in the maritime domain. Spire will provide automatic identification system data and combine it with synthetic aperture radar imagery sourced by Ursa Space to help detect and monitor “dark” ships that may be […] More