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  • NRC Eyes Software License, Hosting Services Contract Award to CGI’s Federal Business - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NRC Eyes Software License, Hosting Services Contract Award to CGI’s Federal Business

    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has announced its intent to award CGI’s federal business a potential five-year contract to provide software licenses for NRC’s financial system. A FedBizOpps notice posted Friday says the sole-source contract will cover licenses for CGI Federal’s Momentum software as well as hosting, help desk support, operations and maintenance services. NRC said […] More

  • Avaya's Govt Arm, collab9 Form Cloud Unified Comms Partnership; Jerry Dotson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Avaya’s Govt Arm, collab9 Form Cloud Unified Comms Partnership; Jerry Dotson Comments

    Avaya‘s government solutions business and collab9 have signed a partnership agreement to offer unified communications services to federal agencies. Avaya said Wednesday its Aura Communication Manager product suite is part of collab9’s unified communications-as-a-service platform certified through the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. Jerry Dotson, vice president of Avaya Government Solutions, said the partnership aims to […] More

  • Avaya, collab9 Partner to Offer FedRAMP-Compliant Unified Comms Products; Jerry Dotson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Avaya, collab9 Partner to Offer FedRAMP-Compliant Unified Comms Products; Jerry Dotson Comments

    Avaya‘s government solutions business has achieved Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification for its unified communications product line through a partnership with collab9. The Avaya Aura Communication Manager product portfolio is now available to government agencies as a FedRAMP-compliant offering with an authority to operate at the moderate level, Avaya said Thursday. Jerry Dotson, vice president of Avaya […] More

  • Microsoft Azure Govt Cloud Gets FedRAMP High ATO Certifications From DOJ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft Azure Govt Cloud Gets FedRAMP High ATO Certifications From DOJ

    Microsoft has received two Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program authority-to-operate certifications from the Justice Department for its Azure Government cloud platform. The company said Tuesday it received the FedRAMP High ATO authorizations for Azure Government through DOJ’s justice management division responsible for the agency’s information resources, policy guidance, financial and human resources management. The certifications seek […] More

  • AVST, collab9 Unveil Joint Cloud Unified Communications Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AVST, collab9 Unveil Joint Cloud Unified Communications Platform

    Applied Voice & Speech Technologies has integrated a unified communications technology with collab9 with cloud-based UC infrastructure to offer a UC-as-a-service platform to government organizations. AVST said Tuesday both companies aim to help public sector customers accelerate migration to cloud environments through the UCaaS offering as part of a partnership announced in August. Steve Boberski, vice […] More

  • Microsoft Obtains FedRAMP Certification for Intelligent Business App Suite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft Obtains FedRAMP Certification for Intelligent Business App Suite

    Microsoft has received a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification to offer its line of intelligent business applications to U.S. government customers. James Townsend, founder and CEO of Microsoft partner company Infostrat, wrote in article published Monday that the Department of Housing and Urban Development granted a FedRAMP authority to operate at the “moderate impact level” to […] More

  • Cisco’s Larry Payne: FedRAMP ‘Tailored’ Reduces Security Control Requirements for Low-Impact Cloud Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cisco’s Larry Payne: FedRAMP ‘Tailored’ Reduces Security Control Requirements for Low-Impact Cloud Services

    The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program‘s new “tailored” baseline process is designed to accelerate security assessments and certification of cloud service providers with software-as-a-service platforms, Cisco‘s Larry Payne wrote in a blog entry posted Thursday. Payne, vice president of public sector sales at Cisco, said the FedRAMP Tailored program seeks to reduce from 125 to 36 the number of security controls […] More

  • Zovy Offers SaaS Through ByteGrid Data Centers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Zovy Offers SaaS Through ByteGrid Data Centers

     Zovy has announced the availability of its software-as-a-service platform at multiple data centers through a partnership with ByteGrid. The alliance seeks to help public and private sector clients save on hardware and software ownership costs through the Zovy Enterprise managed data compliance and eDiscovery service, Zovy said Thursday. Jason Silva, chief technology officer of ByteGrid, said the company secured a Federal […] More

  • ID.me Platform Gets FedRAMP Ready Status - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ID.me Platform Gets FedRAMP Ready Status

    ID.me has received a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification to deliver an identity proofing platform to U.S. government agencies. The company said Thursday it secured the FedRAMP Ready status for its remote identity verification platform a month after it received the FIDO U2F certification in September. FedRAMP granted a moderate-impact level status to […] More

  • QTS Deploys Cloud-Based Unemployment Insurance System; David McOmber Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    QTS Deploys Cloud-Based Unemployment Insurance System; David McOmber Comments

    QTS Realty Trust has deployed a cloud-based platform designed to help states process and deliver unemployment insurance benefits and comply with the Labor Department’s requirement to develop practices that seek to reduce costs in the workforce system. The unemployment insurance and single state tax system complies with the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program and is […] More

  • IRS Seeks Potential SaaS Cloud Application Sources - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IRS Seeks Potential SaaS Cloud Application Sources

    The Internal Revenue Service has begun its search for potential sources of software-as-a-service applications designed to run on a Microsoft-built cloud platform. A presolicitation notice posted Thursday on FedBizOpps says IRS plans to buy several SaaS cloud offerings that include PowerBI, Project Online, Office applications, SharePoint Online, Cloud Private Branch Exchange, Skype for Business, Visio, […] More

  • SAIC, Vazata Partner to Offer FedRAMP-Compliant Cloud Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAIC, Vazata Partner to Offer FedRAMP-Compliant Cloud Platform

    Science Applications International Corp. and Vazata have partnered to offer government agencies a cloud technology platform certified under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. SAIC can distribute Virtual Secure Cloud Platform, for which Vazata secured provisional authority to operate through FedRAMP, as part of the partnership deal, Vazata said Wednesday. The agreement also designates Vazata as the exclusive […] More