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  • PacStar to Begin Full-Rate Communications Module Production for Army - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PacStar to Begin Full-Rate Communications Module Production for Army

    Pacific Star Communications has received authorization from the U.S. Army to begin full-rate production of deployable and tactical communications modules in support of the service’s Transportable Tactical Command Communications program. PacStar’s 400-Series small form factor communication modules are designed to provide baseband networking support for the T2C2 program’s Heavy and Lite satellite terminals that work to provide […] More

  • Donald Williams Named Global Engineering EVP at Polycom - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Donald Williams Named Global Engineering EVP at Polycom

    Donald Williams, formerly vice president and head of engineering at software company  Prysm, has been named executive VP of worldwide engineering at Polycom. Polycom said Monday Williams will lead the firm’s efforts to develop audio, video and content sharing platforms, as well as manage engineering team members in North America, China and India. “Don brings considerable experience […] More

  • Cisco’s Diane Gongaware: Agencies Should Implement ‘Proactive’ Cybersecurity Approach - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cisco’s Diane Gongaware: Agencies Should Implement ‘Proactive’ Cybersecurity Approach

    Diane Gongaware, vice president of U.S. public sector services at Cisco, has said agencies should adopt a “proactive” approach to cybersecurity in order to facilitate threat detection and response as well as mitigate the impacts of cyber attacks. Gongaware wrote in a FedTech article published Tuesday that agencies should conduct risk assessments to identify the types of information […] More

  • Irving Tan Named Cisco Operations, Digital SVP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Irving Tan Named Cisco Operations, Digital SVP

    Irving Tan, senior vice president of Cisco‘s business operations in Asia Pacific and Japan, will transition to a new role as SVP for operations and digital at the San Jose, California-based technology company. Tan will oversee digital transformation initiatives in partnership with sales, engineering and other departments of the company in his new position, Cisco said Thursday. […] More

  • Ben Gibson Appointed Nutanix Chief Marketing Officer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ben Gibson Appointed Nutanix Chief Marketing Officer

    Ben Gibson, formerly chief marketing officer at F5 Networks, has been appointed to the same position at California-based cloud computing software company Nutanix. Nutanix said Tuesday Gibson will be responsible for developing and implementing a global marketing strategy intended to drive adoption of company-built enterprise cloud technology offerings. Gibson said he aims to help expand the company’s customer base […] More

  • Leidos Opens Tech Collaboration Facility in Canberra, Australia; Tim Reardon Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Opens Tech Collaboration Facility in Canberra, Australia; Tim Reardon Comments

    Leidos has opened a new facility in Canberra, Australia, in a move to provide collaboration space for the company’s employees, clients and partners to explore new technology platforms, ARN reported Friday. The CONNECT hub will employ at least 20 professionals and support government customer programs in the information technology, communications, cyber, geospatial analytics and simulation […] More

  • Cisco, Interpol Enter Cyber Threat Intell Sharing Agreement - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cisco, Interpol Enter Cyber Threat Intell Sharing Agreement

    Cisco and Interpol have signed an agreement to share cyber threat intelligence as part of efforts to jointly mitigate cybercrime. The company said Tuesday it will work with the Singapore-based Interpol Global Complex for Innovation to develop a data sharing approach that will support global threat detection and lay the foundation for future training and […] More

  • Cisco, Siemens Top Navigant Research's Smart City Supplier Leaderboard - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cisco, Siemens Top Navigant Research’s Smart City Supplier Leaderboard

    Cisco and Siemens respectively secured the first and second spot in Navigant Research‘s ranking of 16 leading smart city suppliers. The report titled “Navigant Research Leaderboard: Smart City Suppliers” explores the strategy and execution of 16 global smart city vendors with the capacity to lead large-scale smart city projects across a range of operational and service areas, […] More

  • CSRA Launches Virtual Center to Offer Cyber Support for Public Sector Clients - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA Launches Virtual Center to Offer Cyber Support for Public Sector Clients

    CSRA has unveiled a new virtual center that seeks to deliver cybersecurity capabilities, innovation and consulting support to government clients. Keith Alexander, a retired U.S. Army general and former National Security Agency director, delivered a keynote speech Thursday during the launch of the company’s Cyber Center of Excellence in Tysons Corner, Virginia, CSRA said Friday. […] More

  • Red River Wins Cisco Federal Service Partner of the Year Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Red River Wins Cisco Federal Service Partner of the Year Award

    Cisco has named Red River its Americas U.S. Public Sector Federal Service Partner of the Year for the fourth time in the last five years. Red River said Friday it was given the recognition during Cisco’s annual partner conference that took place in Dallas, Texas, last week. The Claremont, New Hampshire-based company has helped federal clients adopt Cisco-built technology […] More

  • Jonathan Goldberger Joins Unisys as Global Security VP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jonathan Goldberger Joins Unisys as Global Security VP

    Jonathan Goldberger, formerly director of Cisco Systems‘s advanced security services group, has been named vice president of the global security business at Unisys. Unisys said Tuesday Goldberger will oversee the company’s integrated sales and services efforts for managed security and security consulting service offerings in his new position. He will report to Harvey King, VP of services, and help drive […] More

  • Cisco’s Larry Payne: FedRAMP ‘Tailored’ Reduces Security Control Requirements for Low-Impact Cloud Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cisco’s Larry Payne: FedRAMP ‘Tailored’ Reduces Security Control Requirements for Low-Impact Cloud Services

    The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program‘s new “tailored” baseline process is designed to accelerate security assessments and certification of cloud service providers with software-as-a-service platforms, Cisco‘s Larry Payne wrote in a blog entry posted Thursday. Payne, vice president of public sector sales at Cisco, said the FedRAMP Tailored program seeks to reduce from 125 to 36 the number of security controls […] More