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  • Hitachi Vantara Federal’s Phil Fuster: Agencies Should Adopt Data-Centric Security Approach - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hitachi Vantara Federal’s Phil Fuster: Agencies Should Adopt Data-Centric Security Approach

    Phil Fuster, chief revenue officer at Hitachi Vantara Federal, said federal agencies looking to better defend systems from cybercrimes should foster collaboration with industry and other agencies through sharing of threat intelligence and best practices and establish secure standardized platforms for sharing information. In a Fed Gov Today podcast aired Thursday, Fuster highlighted the need […] More

  • Aeyon's Mark Hogenmiller on Social, AI, Governance & Environmental Framework - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aeyon’s Mark Hogenmiller on Social, AI, Governance & Environmental Framework

    Aeyon Chief Transformation Officer Mark Hogenmiller said government agencies and corporations are seeing the emergence of the Social, Artificial Intelligence, Governance and Environmental framework, which calls for agency and industry leaders to collaborate to develop, understand and implement standards to advance the ethical use of AI. “By incorporating the SAGE Framework, we can accelerate the […] More

  • Leidos Awarded Navy Contract Modification for Medium UUV Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Awarded Navy Contract Modification for Medium UUV Development

    Leidos has received a $36.3 million contract modification to fabricate, test and deliver four development models of a medium unmanned undersea vehicle and related equipment and data to the U.S. Navy. The modification exercises an option on a contract awarded by Naval Sea Systems Command in July 2022 in support of the Razorback UUV and […] More

  • Cloudera's Rob Carey on How Government Should Approach Generative AI - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cloudera’s Rob Carey on How Government Should Approach Generative AI

    Rob Carey, president of Cloudera Government Solutions, said he considers the potential of generative artificial intelligence as “virtually unlimited,” Nextgov/FCW reported Wednesday. “The only limiting factor may be the data you give it access to,” added Carey, former principal deputy chief information officer at the Department of Defense and a previous Wash100 awardee. Carey said […] More

  • GDIT Issues Study on Emerging Tech Adoption in Federal Government; Ben Gianni Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GDIT Issues Study on Emerging Tech Adoption in Federal Government; Ben Gianni Quoted

    A study by General Dynamics’ information technology business has found that 65 percent of federal agencies said they are adopting artificial intelligence, 5G, machine learning, quantum computing, virtual and augmented reality and other emerging technologies to accelerate digital transformation efforts. GDIT’s digital consulting practice polled 425 defense, intelligence and civilian agency officials for the Seeds […] More

  • HP Federal's Tommy Gardner on Improving Customer Experience in Government - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HP Federal’s Tommy Gardner on Improving Customer Experience in Government

    Tommy Gardner, chief technology officer of HP Federal, said government agencies looking to improve customer experience should not only change their mindset but also consider budget, GovLoop reported Tuesday. “Customer experience is defined by money as most experiences are,” said Gardner, a key member of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program. “Most organizations have more unacceptable risk […] More

  • Raytheon-Northrop Team Secures DARPA Follow-On Contract for Scramjet-Powered Hypersonic Weapon Concept - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon-Northrop Team Secures DARPA Follow-On Contract for Scramjet-Powered Hypersonic Weapon Concept

    Raytheon, an RTX business, and Northrop Grumman will continue to build and conduct additional flight tests of Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept systems powered by scramjet engines under a follow-on contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The Raytheon-Northrop team will incorporate production enhancements into the existing HAWC design and validate system capabilities through additional […] More

  • Mattermost's Barry Duplantis: Self-Hosted Collaboration Tech Could Help Agencies Facilitate Incident Response - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mattermost’s Barry Duplantis: Self-Hosted Collaboration Tech Could Help Agencies Facilitate Incident Response

    Barry Duplantis, vice president and general manager of the North American public sector at Mattermost, said government agencies seeking to facilitate response to cyber incidents and maintain digital sovereignty should implement a self-hosted technical collaboration platform. Duplantis wrote in a commentary published Monday on Federal News Network that such a collaboration platform could provide organizations […] More

  • GSA’s Laura Stanton: Small Business Subcontracting Totaled $2.67B Under Alliant 2 GWAC - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GSA’s Laura Stanton: Small Business Subcontracting Totaled $2.67B Under Alliant 2 GWAC

    Laura Stanton, a General Services Administration official, said federal agencies have obligated approximately $2.67 billion in total small business subcontracting dollars to date through the Alliant 2 governmentwide acquisition contract for information technology products and services. Under Alliant 2, small business subcontracting exceeded the target goal of 50 percent by achieving a rate of 55.5 […] More

  • Carahsoft's Tiffany Goddard: Utilizing Data Could Enable Agencies to Improve Customer Experience - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft’s Tiffany Goddard: Utilizing Data Could Enable Agencies to Improve Customer Experience

    Tiffany Goddard, director of customer experience and engagement solutions at Carahsoft Technology, said government agencies seeking to improve CX should monitor customers’ feedback on social media and come up with actionable plans by generating insights from collected data. “Previously thought to be uncorrelated to constructive feedback, agencies are finding that customers use social media as […] More

  • Software Development Firm Red Alpha Secures Investment From Enlightenment Capital - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Software Development Firm Red Alpha Secures Investment From Enlightenment Capital

    Washington, D.C.-based Enlightenment Capital has invested in Red Alpha through its small business investment company fund to help the software development firm advance its growth strategy. Red Alpha is a Columbia, Maryland-based software technology and consulting firm that has been delivering software development, cybersecurity, data science and prototyping support to customers in the defense and […] More

  • NuAxis' Raza Latif on How Federal Government Should Approach Customer Experience - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NuAxis’ Raza Latif on How Federal Government Should Approach Customer Experience

    Raza Latif, CEO of NuAxis Innovations, said the federal government has the opportunity to deliver citizen services that could have a lifechanging impact on individuals and should approach customer experience by understanding how the citizenry is consuming services. He said he considers CX as an “existential need.” “CX is not just a concept … There’s […] More