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  • Nimbis Services Secures Phase III SBIR Contract From USAF for R&D Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Nimbis Services Secures Phase III SBIR Contract From USAF for R&D Support

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded a $9 million Small Business Innovation Research phase 3 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to Nimbis Services for continued research and development services on a cloud-based Defense Department silicon integrated circuit design environment. DoD said Thursday Air Force Research Laboratory will obligate $749,468 from fiscal 2015 research, development, test and evaluation funds for the first cost-plus-fixed-fee task order in the sole-source IDIQ […] More

  • DLT to Feature Cloud Consulting Offerings at AWS Public Sector Summit - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DLT to Feature Cloud Consulting Offerings at AWS Public Sector Summit

    DLT Solutions will feature its Amazon Web Services offerings and cloud consulting services during the AWS Public Sector Summit from June 20 to 21 in Washington D.C.’s Washington Marriott Wardman Park. The public sector technology provider will showcase how it works to help government clients determine their Cloud Readiness Factor and how its managed services offering supports the AWS platform, DLT said Thursday. […] More

  • Dell, Software AG Introduce IoT Edge Analytics Offering for Enterprises; Jason Shepherd Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dell, Software AG Introduce IoT Edge Analytics Offering for Enterprises; Jason Shepherd Comments

    Dell and Software AG have launched an Internet of Things architecture offering intended to help enterprise customers analyze real-time data from networks, devices and sensors. The integrated offering combines Dell’s Edge Gateway 5000 Series and an embedded version of Software AG’s Apama Streaming Analytics to support real-time analytics at the edge of the network, Software AG said […] More

  • Jeff Yu Receives Executive Mosaic's Top CTO Executives Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jeff Yu Receives Executive Mosaic’s Top CTO Executives Award

    JEFF YU DIRECTOR OF TECHNOLOGY, ADVANCED CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY NORTHROP GRUMMAN MISSION SYSTEMS Jeff Yu is director of Technology, Advanced Concepts & Technology, assigned to the Cyber and Intelligence Mission Solutions division for Northrop Grumman’s Mission Systems sector, a leading global provider, manufacturer and integrator of advanced, secure and agile software-defined systems and solutions. ExecutiveBiz: […] More

  • NJVC Gets CMMI Level 2 Appraisal for Software Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NJVC Gets CMMI Level 2 Appraisal for Software Development

    Chantilly, Virginia-based information technology services provider NJVC has received Capability Maturity Model Integration level 2 rating from the CMMI Institute for the company’s approach to software development project management. The CMMI level 2 appraisal suggests that NJVC’s software services business executes projects in accordance with  policy, employs skilled professionals to produce outputs and works to monitor, review and evaluate if projects adhere to process […] More

  • Microsoft, Unisys Grow Cloud Security Tech Partnership; Ann Johnson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft, Unisys Grow Cloud Security Tech Partnership; Ann Johnson Comments

    Unisys and Microsoft have agreed to expand their global cloud management and security partnership in an effort to help address customer demand for cloud-based cybersecurity tools. As part of the alliance, the companies plan to create new products intended to secure cloud computing systems and Unisys intend to exhibit its new cloud security technology for the public and […] More

  • Former NASA Chief Dan Goldin Launches Neural Tech Company Called KnuEdge - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former NASA Chief Dan Goldin Launches Neural Tech Company Called KnuEdge

    Dan Goldin, a former NASA chief, launched a new San Diego, California-based company called KnuEdge that provides neural computing technology for the aerospace, banking, healthcare, hospitality and insurance sectors. KnuEdge said June 6 that it has also developed a new military-grade voice recognition and authentication technology called KnuVerse that works to utilize human-voice interfaces in next-generation computing. […] More

  • AT&T's Chris Smith: Managed Services From Industry Can Help Agencies Handle Cyber Issues - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AT&T’s Chris Smith: Managed Services From Industry Can Help Agencies Handle Cyber Issues

    Chris Smith, global public sector solutions vice president of technology for AT&T‘s global public sector business, has said federal agencies with limited information technology budgets should team up with industry partners to address cybersecurity issues, Channelnomics reported Wednesday. Scharon Harding writes the government allocated $80.4 billion on IT spending last year with cybersecurity concerns as a prime focus for many agencies. Smith […] More

  • Aquilent Obtains AWS Managed Service Partner Designation; David Fout Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aquilent Obtains AWS Managed Service Partner Designation; David Fout Comments

    Amazon Web Services has accepted Aquilent to an AWS-led network of technology partners with background in cloud infrastructure and application migration. Aquilent provides digital services, DevOps, agile development and cloud services to the federal government and continues to offer cloud products to customers as a member of AWS’ Managed Service Program, Aquilent said Wednesday. The program is intended […] More

  • Commerce Dept Reuses FedRAMP Authorizations for AWS GovCloud, East/West Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Commerce Dept Reuses FedRAMP Authorizations for AWS GovCloud, East/West Systems

    The Commerce Department has approved two Amazon Web Services cloud computing platforms for use in the agency’s big data projects under a pair of existing authority-to-operate designations. Commerce Chief Information Officer Steve Cooper and Deputy Chief Data Officer Tyrone Grandison said Wednesday AWS GovCloud and AWS East/West hold ATOs under the government-wide Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program and the department has determined […] More

  • SolveBio to Continue Variant Explorer System Development Through NIH Grant - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SolveBio to Continue Variant Explorer System Development Through NIH Grant

    The National Institute of General Medical Sciences has awarded SolveBio a phase one Small Business Innovation Research Grant to continue development work on a genetic variation analysis and visualization system. SolveBio said Tuesday it built Variant Explorer as a cloud-based data integration and visualization system designed to help medical professionals such as clinical geneticists, molecular pathologists and scientists conduct clinical interpretation of […] More

  • A2LA Accredits Sunera as Third-Party Cloud Assessor For FedRAMP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    A2LA Accredits Sunera as Third-Party Cloud Assessor For FedRAMP

    Sunera has been accredited by the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation to serve as a third-party assessment organization under the federal government’s cloud computing program. The company said Tuesday cloud service providers that aim to obtain Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification can now employ the help of Sunera’s subject matter experts and RMS compliance platform. “With so much overlap among security controls, […] More