Joni Fernbaugh, formerly director of strategic and clinical programs at IMS Health, has been named director of business development at Noblis. Fernbaugh will also serve as a subject matter expert for the nonprofit science and technology organization’s health innovation-related missions, Noblis said March 7. “Her practical experience managing oversight of federal health strategic planning and operations […] More

CSRA has won a seven-year, $54 million contract to help create simulations for research initiatives at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency‘s research and development office. The EPA re-competed task orders held by CSRA’s predecessor companies for the Scientific Models, Applications, Visualization, Computational Science and Statistical Support contract to support research at multiple locations, CSRA said Wednesday. Falls Church, Virginia-based technology services […] More

Randy James, line of service executive at CSRA, has said the company plans to introduce its in-house managed cybersecurity framework to federal government customers in an effort to help them protect their networks from cyber threats, the Washington Business Journal reported Thursday. James Bach writes CSRA’s cybersecurity model involves the use of cyber tools acquired […] More

Eric Gillespie, founder and CEO of Govini, has cited recent consolidations and acquisitions that made an impact on the federal services contracting market in 2015. Gillespie wrote in an article published Tuesday on GovExec that the formation of CSRA through the merger of Computer Sciences Corp.’s U.S. public sector business with SRA International resulted in the creation of a […] More

The Federal Aviation Administration has extended its contract with SRA International, a subsidiary of technology services contractor CSRA, to continue to provide support services for the FAA’s security operations center. The FAA said in a Jan. 14 notice posted on FedBizOpps that the contract extension is a “bridge contract action” that aims to prevent the discontinuation of […] More

SRA, a subsidiary of technology services contractor CSRA, has won a potential three-year, $35 million contract to manage and maintain the weapon system architecture of the processing, exploitation and dissemination facility of the U.S. Air Force’s Distributed Common Ground System. The service branch awarded the time-and-materials, firm-fixed-price contract through competitive procurement with four bids received, the […] More

Bill Ballhaus, former president and CEO of SRA International, has joined educational technology firm Blackboard as its chairman, president and chief executive. He replaces Jay Bhatt, who will remain with the company as a special adviser to the chairman, Blackboard said Monday. “I am excited to join Blackboard and continue its progress in helping millions of […] More

The government services market started to get a glimpse of what would eventually become an ongoing landscape shift in October 2014 when Engility Holdings announced its $1.3 billion acquisition of fellow Chantilly, Va.-based contractor TASC, a deal which closed in February 2015. Since the TASC deal was announced, companies in the government services space have […] More

Technavio has released a new report that forecasts the healthcare information technology market in the United Arab Emirates to grow 11.12 percent year over year from 2014 through 2019. Reportlinker said Nov. 12 government and international incentives and standard record format requirements help to spur investments in healthcare IT in the UAE. The report projects […] More

The Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce and the Professional Services Council will induct former DynCorp President and CEO Paul Lombardi into the Greater Washington Government Contractor Hall of Fame during an awards ceremony that will be held Nov. 5, Federal News Radio reported Tuesday. Lombardi began his career with the McLean, Virginia-based defense company as […] More

Teresa Carlson, vice president of Amazon Web Services‘ worldwide public sector business, has said many U.S. private sector and foreign government entities have adopted U.S. government baselines as the standard for cloud security, Fedscoop reported Monday. Greg Otto writes Carlson believes the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program has driven standards implementation and the use of cloud offerings […] More

Autonomic Resources has been certified under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for its ARCWRX open source platform-as-a-service cloud offering to the federal government, Nextgov reported Friday. Frank Konkel writes that ARCWRX is the first PaaS offering to achieve FedRAMP compliance. John Keese, director of government cloud solutions for Computer Sciences Corp., told Nextgov some federal agencies have expressed interest […] More