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  • DHS to Host Industry Day on Cloud Services Procurement Plan - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS to Host Industry Day on Cloud Services Procurement Plan

    The Department of Homeland Security will hold an industry day on Nov. 7 to discuss the Enterprise CLoud Infrastructure Provider Suite program currently in development. DHS will provide an overview of the award structure, projected spend and scope of the proposed ECLIPS program and host a question-and-answer session related to the effort, according to a […] More

  • Databricks Cloud Service Platform Achieves FedRAMP Authorization - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Databricks Cloud Service Platform Achieves FedRAMP Authorization

    Enterprise software company Databricks has secured an authorized designation under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for its Lakehouse cloud service platform. The FedRAMP Program Management Office gave the Databricks offerings a moderate impact level designation, allowing contractors and federal agencies to utilize the cloud platform for data, analytics and artificial intelligence consolidation, the […] More

  • Collabware to Open New Office in Washington, DC to Expand Market Footprint - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Collabware to Open New Office in Washington, DC to Expand Market Footprint

    Software company Collabware is relocating its U.S. headquarters from Boston, Massachusetts, to Washington, D.C. in a push to expand its footprint in the government sector. The new office will accommodate Collabware’s workforce expansion and targeted growth and investment plans in the area and allow existing employees to combine onsite and remote work arrangements, the company […] More

  • Executive Spotlight: Interview with Davis Johnson, VP of Riverbed Technology's Public Sector - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Spotlight: Interview with Davis Johnson, VP of Riverbed Technology’s Public Sector

    As if there was not enough instability in our current political climate, Congress has plans to limit funds for the U.S. Army‘s battlefield network development program until they submit a modernization plan for its tactical communications and data networks, according to a recent report by C4ISRNET. The final annual defense policy bill contains language to […] More

  • DISA Taps SHR Consulting Group for MilCloud IT Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DISA Taps SHR Consulting Group for MilCloud IT Support Contract

    SHR Consulting Group has won a potential $21.6 million contract to provide a range of information technology services for the Defense Department‘s current cloud service. The Defense Information Systems Agency disclosed the milCloud 1.0 support contract in a FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday. SHR will provide programmatic, technical, engineering, development, testing and integration services necessary for […] More

  • BlackBerry's Crisis Comm Platform Gets FedRAMP Certification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BlackBerry’s Crisis Comm Platform Gets FedRAMP Certification

    BlackBerry has obtained certification under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to provide its cloud-based crisis communication service to federal agencies. The company said Tuesday its AtHoc software-as-a-service offering received FedRAMP authorization through the sponsorship of the Federal Aviation Administration. The U.S. Army also granted AtHoc a certificate of networthiness and authority to operate  in August 2016 to support the […] More

  • Harriet Green: IBM Eyes 'Industry-Specific' Internet of Things Strategy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harriet Green: IBM Eyes ‘Industry-Specific’ Internet of Things Strategy

    Harriet Green, head of IBM‘s Internet of Things business, has said the company seeks an industry-specific strategy to help organizations manage connected devices, Fortune magazine reported Tuesday. Stacey Higginbotham writes IBM will make its Watson cognitive computing technology available to customers through the company’s Internet of Things Foundation cloud-hosted service. The offering will include an application programming interface and predictive and […] More

  • XO to Help Bank Administration Institute Install Cloud Service - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    XO to Help Bank Administration Institute Install Cloud Service

    The Bank Administration Institute has selected a cloud service run by XO Communications to manage data backup and disaster recovery processes. BAI intends for the XO Enterprise Cloud to help virtualize and replicate systems, as well as to reduce recovery time objectives to two days from two weeks, XO announced Tuesday. XO Enterprise Cloud is designed as […] More