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  • Iron Mountain Adds Data Center Colocation Services to GSA Schedule; Michael Lewis Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iron Mountain Adds Data Center Colocation Services to GSA Schedule; Michael Lewis Quoted

    Iron Mountain has included data center colocation and network services on the company’s Schedule 36 contract with the General Services Administration. The additional services are listed under the 51-600 special item number for electronic records management offerings and meant to support government digital transformation efforts, Iron Mountain said Thursday. Michael Lewis, vice president and general manager […] More

  • Chenega Wins DARPA Physical Security Support Contract; Timothy Lamb Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Chenega Wins DARPA Physical Security Support Contract; Timothy Lamb Comments

    A Chenega Corp. subsidiary has won a potential five-year, $42.2M contract to provide physical security support services to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Chenega Infinity will help DARPA’s security and intelligence directorate protect agency personnel, business operations, data and facilities, according to a FedBizOpps summary. “Chenega is very pleased to have the opportunity to serve the Security […] More

  • Northrop Vet Mark Koltz Appointed Tantus Health Solutions VP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Vet Mark Koltz Appointed Tantus Health Solutions VP

    Mark Koltz, former manager of operations and strategy for Northrop Grumman’s health systems management organization, has joined Tantus Technologies as vice president of health solutions. He will be responsible for helping drive Tantus’ growth efforts in the federal healthcare market and oversee its projects at the Department of Health and Human Services and the National Institutes of Health, the company said Thursday. Buck […] More

  • Eric Clark Appointed Chief Digital Officer of NTT Data Services; Bob Pryor Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Eric Clark Appointed Chief Digital Officer of NTT Data Services; Bob Pryor Quoted

    Eric Clark, former president of the application services division at NTT Data Services, has been named chief digital officer of the Plano, Texas-based technology services provider. The company said Wednesday Clark will aim to address clients’ systems design requirements through the use of digital, cloud and security technologies. Bob Pryor, CEO of NTT Data Services, said the […] More

  • Carahsoft to Resell Senzing's AI-Based Software via NASA SEWP Vehicle - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft to Resell Senzing’s AI-Based Software via NASA SEWP Vehicle

    Senzing and Carahsoft Technology have partnered to offer public sector customers an artificial intelligence-based platform designed to search for identities across multiple data sources. Carahsoft serves as master government reseller of the Entity Resolution 2.0 software through NASA’s Solutions for Enterprise-wide Procurement vehicle, Senzing said Wednesday. The technology is built to help clients identify criminal and fraudulent activities, […] More

  • Horacio Rozanski: Booz Allen Eyes Gov't AI Market Potential - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Horacio Rozanski: Booz Allen Eyes Gov’t AI Market Potential

    Booz Allen Hamilton CEO Horacio Rozanski said during a recent earnings call the company has invested in artificial intelligence as the Defense Department and federal agencies tap into the technology, National Defense Magazine reported Tuesday. “We see this as the beginning of something. The market for [AI] is here and Booz Allen is well prepared to capture it,” Rozanski added. […] More

  • DigitalGlobe Includes Radarsat-2 Satellite Data in Cloud-Based GEOINT Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DigitalGlobe Includes Radarsat-2 Satellite Data in Cloud-Based GEOINT Platform

    Maxar Technologies‘ DigitalGlobe business has added imagery from an MDA-built Earth observation satellite to a cloud-based technology platform built to help government analysts obtain geospatial intelligence data. SecureWatch users can start to access Radarsat-2 synthetic aperture radar data beginning on Oct. 1 via a subscription service, Maxar said Monday. The GEOINT platform will also feature both SAR and optical imagery, the company added. DigitalGlobe […] More

  • Cubic Named Preferred Bidder on San Francisco Bay Area's Fare System Modernization Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic Named Preferred Bidder on San Francisco Bay Area’s Fare System Modernization Project

    The San Francisco Metropolitan Transportation Commission has selected Cubic as the agency’s preferred contractor to update the fare collection system in California’s Bay Area. Cubic said Friday its transportation systems business aims to modernize the Clipper electronic fare payment being used by 22 transit agencies across the region if the commission awards the project to the company after a three-stage approval […] More

  • Intel's Asha Keddy: Government Action Needed to Facilitate 5G Wireless Network Transition - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Intel’s Asha Keddy: Government Action Needed to Facilitate 5G Wireless Network Transition

    Asha Keddy, a group vice president at Intel, has urged the Federal Communications Commission to authorize the use of mid-band spectrum for 5G wireless systems. “FCC must expeditiously establish the rules to open new bandwidth for 5G use in this crucial spectrum,” Keddy wrote in an opinion piece published Thursday on The Hill. “This is a make-or-break […] More

  • Bell, NASA Enter Into UAS Flight Demo Cooperative Agreement - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bell, NASA Enter Into UAS Flight Demo Cooperative Agreement

    Textron’s Bell subsidiary has signed a cooperative agreement with NASA to design, build and integrate an unmanned aircraft system for the agency’s planned 2020 flight demonstration effort in national airspace. Bell will lead a team composed of Textron Systems, Xwing and the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere to demonstrate potential commercial missions […] More

  • Hortonworks' Shaun Bierweiler: Agencies Look to Internet of Things for Data Collection - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hortonworks’ Shaun Bierweiler: Agencies Look to Internet of Things for Data Collection

    Shaun Bierweiler, vice president of Hortonworks‘ U.S. public sector business, has said he observed agencies tapping into internet-of-things platforms to store, process and compute data from multiple sources, MeriTalk reported Tuesday. He noted the Census Bureau has implemented handheld devices to support its digital information gathering process and the General Services Administration has adopted sensors to collect information about the […] More

  • Xavier Beale Promoted to Trades VP at HII's Newport News Shipbuilding Division - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Xavier Beale Promoted to Trades VP at HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding Division

    Xavier Beale, formerly director of human resources operations at Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Newport News Shipbuilding division, has been promoted to a vice president role within the same division. He will oversee production trades and trades administration and management functions as well as manage operations of the company-run Apprentice School in Virginia, HII said Friday. Beale succeeds Ray […] More