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  • 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

  • Sam Gordy: IBM to Provide Army IaaS Support, Build Private Cloud Platform Under $62M Task Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sam Gordy: IBM to Provide Army IaaS Support, Build Private Cloud Platform Under $62M Task Order

    IBM will build and operate an on-premise private cloud platform and provide infrastructure-as-a-service support under a potential five-year, $62 million task order with the U.S. Army. The company said Wednesday it will design the cloud platform for the service branch’s Redstone Arsenal facility in Alabama as part of the Army Private Cloud Enterprise program. The task order […] More

  • UltiSat Awarded DISA Task Order to Support NGA Deployable Comm Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    UltiSat Awarded DISA Task Order to Support NGA Deployable Comm Systems

    UltiSat has received a task order from the Defense Information Systems Agency to provide Ku-band bandwidth capacity to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency‘s deployable communications systems. The company said Friday it will offer Ku-band bandwidth and backhaul services in both continental and outside continental U.S. to support NDCS GEOINT operations around the world. The commercial satellite communications […] More

  • Defense News: Raytheon Protests Army Artillery Tactical Data System Award to Leidos - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Defense News: Raytheon Protests Army Artillery Tactical Data System Award to Leidos

    Raytheon has filed a protest with the Government Accountability Office regarding a U.S. Army contract awarded to Leidos for the delivery of a new joint and coalition command and control fires support system, Defense News reported Friday. Jen Judson writes Leidos will not be able to proceed on the terms of the Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System contract until GAO renders […] More

  • Microsoft's Azure Govt Cloud Gets DoD Impact Level 5 Provisional Authorization - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft’s Azure Govt Cloud Gets DoD Impact Level 5 Provisional Authorization

    The Defense Information Systems Agency has granted Microsoft‘s government cloud platform an information level impact 5 provisional authorization that offers Defense Department personnel an option to use the cloud service to manage controlled unclassified data. Tom Keane, Microsoft Azure general manager, wrote in a blog post published Friday the company worked with DISA and other mission partners to help Azure Government meet cloud computing […] More

  • CenturyLink to Implement Additional Network Services Under DoD Fiber Optic Net Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CenturyLink to Implement Additional Network Services Under DoD Fiber Optic Net Contract

    CenturyLink has added software-defined networking and network functions virtualization services to a previously awarded contract that requires the company to install a fiber-optic network for the Defense Department. The company said Wednesday it will implement SDN and NFV services at Defense Research and Engineering Network sites to help DoD transition to a “scalable” software workload that could accommodate on-demand […] More

  • BlackMesh Debuts Security-Focused Cloud Offering for Govt Agencies; Jason Ford Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BlackMesh Debuts Security-Focused Cloud Offering for Govt Agencies; Jason Ford Comments

    BlackMesh has introduced a new cloud platform that focuses on security services as part of efforts to extend technology offerings to the government sector. The company said Tuesday its new government-focused cloud platform is designed to comply with federal and state requirements for data storage and security. The offering also seeks to address various industry compliance standards such […] More

  • Leidos to Update Army Field Artillery Tactical Data Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos to Update Army Field Artillery Tactical Data Systems

    Leidos has won a potential five-year, $98.1 million contract to provide updated field artillery tactical data systems to support mission requirements of the Army’s program executive office for command, control, communication-tactical. The contract, awarded by the Defense Information Systems Agency, contains a three-year base term valued at $58.1 million and one two-year option, the Defense Department said Thursday. Work is […] More

  • Niksoft to Support DHA App Migration to DISA Capacity Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Niksoft to Support DHA App Migration to DISA Capacity Services

    The Defense Health Agency has awarded Niksoft Systems a potential three-year, $27 million contract to help migrate DHA applications to the Defense Information Systems Agency‘s capacity services. Niksoft will provide information technology, program management, operations, planning, scheduling and coordination services to support the transfer of products and applications managed by DHA’s solutions delivery division to DISA’s infrastructure, the Defense Department […] More

  • Rockwell Collins Awarded 5-Year DISA Data Link Service Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins Awarded 5-Year DISA Data Link Service Contract

    Rockwell Collins has secured a potential five-year contract from the Defense Information System Agency to provide data link services to U.S. government and military aircraft. The Data Link Service Provider 4 contract covers command-and-control communications, global flight planning, flight deck safety and broadband cabin services for vehicles such as the U.S. Air Force Air Mobility Command Transport and Very Important Person Special […] More

  • MobileIron Cloud Platform Gets FedRAMP ATO From Postal Service; Barry Mainz Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MobileIron Cloud Platform Gets FedRAMP ATO From Postal Service; Barry Mainz Comments

    MobileIron has received a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program  authority-to-operate designation from the U.S. Postal Service for the company’s cloud-based enterprise mobility management platform. The FedRAMP Agency ATO status recognizes that the MobileIron Cloud platform has met security standard requirements in the program’s federal risk management process, the company said Monday. “MobileIron has helped government agencies secure their mobile deployments […] More

  • FirstNet Senior Manager Steven Smith Joins Sevatec's Advisory Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FirstNet Senior Manager Steven Smith Joins Sevatec’s Advisory Board

    Steven Smith, senior manager of the First Responder Network Authority, has joined the board of advisers of Fairfax, Virginia-based technology services contractor Sevatec. He brings to Sevatec’s advisory board three decades of information technology management experience in both the public and private sectors, the company said Thursday. “We are fortunate to have [Smith] lending his broad federal government […] More