Xerox will implement an electronic pricing system for the Veterans Health Administration to manage Medicare reimbursement coverage for veterans. VHA intends for the Xerox’ web-based tool to automatically calculate Medicare payment rates of non-contracted hospice and home health services, Xerox said Tuesday. “Claims pricing is a growing segment of the VHA’s health services offerings,” said Mike […] More

Jacobs Engineering Group will work with the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center to oversee a Federal Railroad Administration program under a potential five-year, $70 million contract. Jacobs will provide monitoring, technical assistance, review and training to grantees and borrowers of the FRA Grant and Loan program, Jacobs said Tuesday. “Passenger and freight rail systems are vital components […] More

At ODNI, I was asked to become the program executive for security clearance reform in 2009, and then I became the deputy assistant director for special security and had pretty frequent interactions with Director Clapper, the director of National Intelligence. Those posts gave me real learning experience for the impact of security across the government. […] More

Jeffery Baker has been named the new assistant vice president at the Broomfield, Colo., office of S.M. Stoller Corp., a subsidiary of Huntington Ingalls Industries, effective Feb. 10. Baker is currently the deputy director of the project management coordination office for the U.S. Department of Energy, the company announced Monday. He will be in-charge of […] More

Lynne Chamberlain serves as vice president of business development for Red Hat‘s public sector. The more than 20-year industry veteran has been at Red Hat since 2004 and has previously held leadership roles at Unisys, HP and NetApp. In her Q&A with ExecutiveBiz, Chamberlain discussed her work with systems integrators, some of the newest cloud offerings […] More

An independent panel of experts has completed the critical design review on the spacecraft for the James Webb Space Telescope, which Northrop Grumman is building for NASA. The review finished five months ahead of schedule and took place after 76 preceding reviews of the telescope’s spacecraft, Northrop announced Friday. Northrop is building the spacecraft to point the […] More

Global Security & Intelligence Strategies has become a strategic partner in a coalition that works to utilize intelligence and security services, decision support, strategic counsel and design offerings for public sector operations. The Government Technology & Services Coalition added GSIS to help develop policies and set direction for thought leadership, concepts and ideas in homeland security, […] More

As we recently covered, SAIC is continuing to hone in on its management structure as the company moves forward after the legacy SAIC separated into two companies – the ‘new’ SAIC (Science Applications International Corp.), and Leidos. As a new brand, Leidos leaders have needed to introduce and position the firm to the GovCon marketplace, […] More

The U.S. Navy is set to take over operations of three satellite ground stations developed by General Dynamics for the Mobile User Objective System program. The ground control systems relay radio calls from service personnel to Defense Department communication networks in any location using the MUOS satellite array, the company said Thursday. “All they will need […] More

General Electric Co. has moved to grow its smart grid services customer base by adding new municipal and rural utilities clients for the subscription-based offering, Greentech Media reported Thursday. Jeff St. John writes at least six more customers have subscribed to GE’s Grid IQ solutions-as-a-service unit in addition to existing clients such as the municipal […] More

Raytheon UK has selected MWR InfoSecurity as the winner of a technical research competition in cybersecurity for small medium enterprise, with the latter company taking home a $66,600 prize. MWR InfoSecurity was selected out of three short-listed SMEs and was recognized for its work develop an analysis tool for rogue code detection in Android applications, […] More

Digital Management Inc. has delivered an enterprise mobility infrastructure to the U.S. Agriculture Department for monitoring devices and applications across the 29-unit agency. DMI built the system under a potential five-year, $20 million contract, the company said Wednesday. USDA’s system is comprised of a mobile device management, an app store and a data encryption platform […] More