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Celeste O’Dea, business development director for public sector technology at Oracle, has said cloud-based technologies could help federal agencies recruit a new generation of public sector workers and retain existing workforce. O’Dea wrote in a Nextgov article published Friday that human capital management and talent acquisition systems on the cloud could aid agencies in streamlining recruitment procedures and outcomes.

Bill Rowan, vice president of federal sales at VMware, told MeriTalk in an interview published Wednesday that federal agencies that plan to migrate to the cloud should build a “zero-trust environment.” “In a cloud environment, there is a need to micro-segment a network, so every single app has its own …

A new survey backed by Dell EMC says 91 percent of federal market information technology leaders consider cloud computing as the top technology trend at their agencies. Dell said Wednesday it commissioned market research firm Penn Schoen Berland to conduct an online survey of 100 federal IT and business decision makers in May as an extension …

A new study by Deltek says the value of fixed-price contracts used by federal agencies to procure information technology platforms and services rose from $43.5 billion in fiscal year 2014 to $44.9 billion in FY 2015, driven by IT professional services. Deltek said Friday task orders accounted for approximately 40 percent of …

A Forcepoint study says that millennials’ attitudes toward the use of technology platforms could pose a security risk to the U.S. federal government’s information technology infrastructure. Forcepoint said Tuesday it surveyed over 670 millennials who were born between 1977 and 1994 and found that nearly 25 percent of respondents said …

Casey Coleman, group vice president for federal civilian agencies at Unisys, has said the adoption of internet of things could help federal agencies change the way they deliver government services. Coleman wrote in a Federal Times article published Friday that IoT offers opportunities for agencies to update aging infrastructure as well as …

John Lee, vice president of cloud services at Carahsoft Technology, has said federal agencies should use NASA’s Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement vehicle to buy information technology products and services in order to facilitate their transition to cloud computing environments. Lee wrote in an article published Tuesday that agencies can also leverage SEWP’s statements …

Bill Rowan, vice president of federal sales at VMware, has said federal agencies should work to converge private and off-premises cloud platforms through hybrid clouds as they adopt the as-a-service business model. Rowan wrote in an article published in the March/April 2016 issue of GCN magazine that a hybrid cloud is …

Cambridge International Systems has received a five-year contract from NASA to provide information technology management and other technical services in support of the Johnson Space Center’s Base Information Technology Security Program. The space agency made the award under the National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center Chief Information …

Exabeam, a security intelligence platforms provider, has created a federal advisory board in an effort to help federal and state government agencies detect and respond to cyber threats. The company said Monday the board will consist of Robert Lentz, president of Cyber Security Strategies and former chief information security officer …

The General Services Administration plans to issue a request for proposals on the potential 10-year Veterans Technology Services 2 contract vehicle April 21. GSA said in a FedBizOpps presolicitation notice posted Tuesday the VETS 2 contract will cover information technology products and support services for federal agencies and will be …

Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and CSRA are in the process of securing high baseline certifications for their cloud platforms under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, Federal Times reported March 21. Aaron Boyd writes the cloud service providers are scheduled to receive their authorizations in April following their involvement in …

Upsite Technologies has teamed up with Access Floor Systems.com to offer federal agencies a line of airflow management systems for data centers through a General Services Administration schedule contract. The Upsite Technologies-built AisleLok suite of modular containment platforms and airflow management tools will be available for purchase on the GSA Advantage ordering …

The U.S. Coast Guard has awarded eGlobalTech a three-year contract to help the service branch’s management programs and policy division handle Freedom of Information Act-related requests. Work includes management of FOIA-related inquiries, status updates request and process coordination, eGlobalTech said Tuesday. The contract also covers support for the management of FOIA appeals, including the assessment …

A new Dell survey has found that 82 percent of federal information technology personnel say their agencies use the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity in efforts to improve security of computer networks. The NIST cybersecurity framework aims to help agencies “identify, detect, protect, respond and recover …