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  • Deltek’s Alex Rossino: Annual Federal Spending on Comms Tech Hit $24M in Fiscal Years 2014-2016 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deltek’s Alex Rossino: Annual Federal Spending on Comms Tech Hit $24M in Fiscal Years 2014-2016

    A new Deltek report says federal agencies spent an average of at least $24.3 million annually on unified communications, virtual desktop infrastructure, messaging tools, voice over internet protocol systems and other communications platforms from fiscal 2014 to fiscal 2016. Deltek’s analysis also shows that federal agencies’ spending on cloud-based email/bundled communications tools rose to $26 million in […] More

  • Salesforce Gov't Cloud Gets DISA Impact Level 4 Provisional Authorization; Dave Rey Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Salesforce Gov’t Cloud Gets DISA Impact Level 4 Provisional Authorization; Dave Rey Comments

    Salesforce has secured provisional authorization at Impact Level 4 from the Defense Information Systems Agency for the deployment of the company’s cloud platform for the public sector. The IL4 provisional authorization serves to enable Defense Department mission owners and contractors to use Salesforce Government Cloud to manage controlled unclassified information, the company said Tuesday. “The aerospace and defense sectors are ripe for […] More

  • GENBAND, Polycom Expand DoD Unified Comms Offerings - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GENBAND, Polycom Expand DoD Unified Comms Offerings

    GENBAND and Polycom have expanded their unified communications offerings with Defense Department-approved voice and video communications platforms. GENBAND said Tuesday its Application Server was added to the DoD Information Network’s Approved Products List as an Enterprise Session Controller, which authorizes the platform to support enterprise-wide DoD deployments in the cloud. Polycom also added its RealPresence Collaboration Server and RealPresence […] More

  • DISA Issues Security Technical Implementation Guide for Crunchy Data’s PostgreSQL Database - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DISA Issues Security Technical Implementation Guide for Crunchy Data’s PostgreSQL Database

    The Defense Information Systems Agency has released a Security Technical Implementation Guide for Crunchy Data Solutions‘ relational database management platform. DISA’s STIG for Crunchy Data’s PostgreSQL database seeks to guide agencies on how to field the database platform in government-run networks in compliance with the Defense Department’s security requirements, the company said Thursday. PostgreSQL is an open-source database that comes with the […] More

  • DoD Tests Info Assurance Capacity of Unify's Enterprise Comm Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD Tests Info Assurance Capacity of Unify’s Enterprise Comm Platform

    The Defense Department‘s Joint Interoperability Test Command has tested the interoperability and information assurance capacity of Unify‘s carrier-grade enterprise communication system. Unify said Tuesday its OpenScape Voice platform is designed to comply with DoD’s Assured Services Session Initiation Protocol and cybersecurity requirements. The Defense Information Systems Agency recommended that DoD include the OpenScape Voice offering on the department’s approved […] More

  • Envistacom Helps Deploy Comm Networks at DISA Facility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Envistacom Helps Deploy Comm Networks at DISA Facility

    Envistacom has supported the deployment of communications networks and supporting infrastructure to the Defense Information Systems Agency‘s facility at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois. The company said Thursday it led the design, installation, configuration and testing of three communications networks at DISA’s 164,000-square-foot complex. Tom Proctor, vice president of operations at Envistacom, said the company also applied its network […] More

  • Navy Chooses SteelCloud Platform to Automate STIG Compliance Process - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Chooses SteelCloud Platform to Automate STIG Compliance Process

    A U.S. Navy component has awarded SteelCloud a contract through the General Services Administration‘s Schedule 70 procurement vehicle to supply the military branch with a security compliance automation platform. The company said Thursday it will provide its ConfigOS platform to the Navy in an effort to help automate the Security Technical Implementation Guide remediation process and support Risk Management Framework accreditation for federal agencies. Brian Hajost, SteelCloud […] More

  • Arista Gets JTIC Info Assurance Interoperability Certification for Cloud Networking Platforms - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Arista Gets JTIC Info Assurance Interoperability Certification for Cloud Networking Platforms

    The Joint Interoperability Command has granted Arista Networks information assurance interoperability certification for the company’s technology platforms that work to help government customers modernize and manage cloud networks. Arista said Wednesday the certification recognizes the compliance of its 7150, 7050, 7250, 7300 and 7500 Series programmable platforms with the Defense Department‘s security functional requirements and practices. Ashwin Kohli, vice president of Arista’s […] More

  • DoD Adds Pulse Secure's UC Tech to DISA-Approved Products List - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD Adds Pulse Secure’s UC Tech to DISA-Approved Products List

    Pulse Secure has obtained certification from the Defense Department to offer network access control and mobile virtual private network platforms to DoD customers. The company said Tuesday DoD added the Pulse Connect Secure 8.2 mobile VPN and Pulse Policy Secure 5.3 NAC tool to the DoD Unified Capabilities Approved Products List following a certification process run by the Defense Information Systems Agency. […] More

  • DISA to Implement RedSeal Network Modeling, Risk Scoring Platform; Ray Rothrock, Kimberly Baker Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DISA to Implement RedSeal Network Modeling, Risk Scoring Platform; Ray Rothrock, Kimberly Baker Comment

    RedSeal has secured a multi-year, $33.8 million contract to help the Defense Information Systems Agency implement a network modeling and risk scoring platform. DISA will use RedSeal’s technology to model and monitor the Defense Department‘s Joint Regional Security Stacks, gain visibility into network segmentation and measure the resiliency of the JRSS infrastructure, the company said Tuesday. Kimberly Baker, vice president and general manager […] More

  • DISA Files Notice of Corrective Action With GAO Over Army Artillery Data System Contract Award to Leidos - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DISA Files Notice of Corrective Action With GAO Over Army Artillery Data System Contract Award to Leidos

    The Defense Information Systems Agency has submitted a dismissal request and notice of corrective action to the Government Accountability Office after two companies protested the award of a contract to Leidos for a new joint and coalition command-and-control fires support platform, Defense News reported Thursday. A spokesman for DISA said the agency will release a public […] More

  • Microsoft Introduces Azure Blueprint for DoD Impact Level 5 ATO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft Introduces Azure Blueprint for DoD Impact Level 5 ATO

    Microsoft has expanded the Azure Blueprint program in efforts to help Defense Department mission owners achieve authorization to operate under the Impact Level 5 baseline. John Molesky writes in a blog post published Monday the new Azure Blueprint release covers a DoD L5 Customer Responsibility Matrix and System Security Plan template to assist personnel who implement mission-level […] More