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  • CSRA Subsidiary to Provide Mgmt Support for Air Force Ground Weapon System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA Subsidiary to Provide Mgmt Support for Air Force Ground Weapon System

    SRA, a subsidiary of technology services contractor CSRA, has won a potential three-year, $35 million contract to manage and maintain the weapon system architecture of the processing, exploitation and dissemination facility of the U.S. Air Force’s Distributed Common Ground System. The service branch awarded the time-and-materials, firm-fixed-price contract through competitive procurement with four bids received, the […] More

  • Bill Ballhaus Joins Blackboard as Chairman, President & CEO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bill Ballhaus Joins Blackboard as Chairman, President & CEO

    Bill Ballhaus, former president and CEO of SRA International, has joined educational technology firm Blackboard as its chairman, president and chief executive. He replaces Jay Bhatt, who will remain with the company as a special adviser to the chairman, Blackboard said Monday. “I am excited to join Blackboard and continue its progress in helping millions of […] More

  • CSC Obtains FedRAMP Certification for PaaS Cloud Offering; Red Hat's Paul Smith Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSC Obtains FedRAMP Certification for PaaS Cloud Offering; Red Hat’s Paul Smith Comments

    Computer Sciences Corp. has received a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification for the company’s ARCWRX cloud computing technology. CSC said Tuesday this is the second FedRAMP certification for the platform-as-a-service ARCWRX, which is based on Red Hat’s OpenShift and resides on CSC’s ARC-P platform. Paul Smith, general manager and vice president of public sector at Red […] More

  • Teresa Carlson: FedRAMP Impacts Enterprise Cloud Security Baselines, AWS GovCloud Use - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Teresa Carlson: FedRAMP Impacts Enterprise Cloud Security Baselines, AWS GovCloud Use

    Teresa Carlson, vice president of Amazon Web Services‘ worldwide public sector business, has said many U.S. private sector and foreign government entities have adopted U.S. government baselines as the standard for cloud security, Fedscoop reported Monday. Greg Otto writes Carlson believes the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program has driven standards implementation and the use of cloud offerings […] More

  • Nextgov: Autonomic Resources' Open Source PaaS Gets FedRAMP Approval - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Nextgov: Autonomic Resources’ Open Source PaaS Gets FedRAMP Approval

    Autonomic Resources has been certified under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for its ARCWRX open source platform-as-a-service cloud offering to the federal government, Nextgov reported Friday. Frank Konkel writes that ARCWRX is the first PaaS offering to achieve FedRAMP compliance. John Keese, director of government cloud solutions for Computer Sciences Corp., told Nextgov some federal agencies have expressed interest […] More

  • Red Hat Govt IT Event to Discuss Open Source Software; Paul Smith Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Red Hat Govt IT Event to Discuss Open Source Software; Paul Smith Comments

    An upcoming Red Hat symposium on government information technology will feature speakers from 13 government agencies who will discuss the impact of open source software on the sector. Red Hat said Thursday its Nov. 10 Government Symposium will focus on how open source software can address government IT challenges in agility, flexibility and collaboration. “The way government IT operates is evolving rapidly, […] More

  • National Instruments Gets Engineering Hardware, Software Contract from NASA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    National Instruments Gets Engineering Hardware, Software Contract from NASA

    Texas-based National Instruments will provide measurement and control systems hardware and system design software to NASA under a potential five-year, $37.7 million contract. NASA said Thursday the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract has a one-year base period and runs through Sept. 27, 2020. The enterprise license management team at the NASA Shared Services Center administered the contract, the space agency added. NSSC […] More

  • CSC Gains PaaS Security Certifications Through Partnership with Cloudera - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSC Gains PaaS Security Certifications Through Partnership with Cloudera

    Computer Sciences Corp. has obtained two security certifications for a Hadoop-based managed service offering intended to help organizations manage big data. CSC said Tuesday it collaborated with Cloudera to meet requirements set forth in the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. Eddie Satterly, chief technology officer at […] More

  • CSC to Support DTRA's Counter-WMD Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSC to Support DTRA’s Counter-WMD Efforts

    Computer Sciences Corp. will provide support to the Defense Threat Reduction Agency for efforts to address the threat of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and high-yield explosives under a $10.3 million contract. The Defense Department said Friday CSC will contribute its technical expertise, operational proficiency, policy knowledge, assistance teams and services for collective training and process development. According to DoD, […] More

  • CSC, HCL Forge Banking Software Services JV; Anant Gupta, Mike Lawrie Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSC, HCL Forge Banking Software Services JV; Anant Gupta, Mike Lawrie Comment

    Computer Sciences Corp. and HCL Technologies have formed a banking software and services joint venture with the goal of helping clients modernize their platforms. CSC will combine its banking, cards, payments, software and product development with HCL’s product engineering and application implementation services to establish the business, the companies said Thursday. Anant Gupta, president and […] More

  • Research and Markets: Analytics-as-a-Service Market Worth $23B by 2020 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Research and Markets: Analytics-as-a-Service Market Worth $23B by 2020

    A Research and Markets report indicates that the analytics-as-a-service market will grow at a 40.3-percent compound annual growth rate from $4.23 billion this year to $23 billion in 2020. The company said July 13 the growth of the market over the five-year forecast period is due to the increasing agility and scalability of businesses, lower total cost […] More