The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Inspector General has awarded Excella a five-year, $9.8 million contract to continue the modernization of an online analytics portal designed to mitigate waste, abuse and fraudulent activities within HHS' discretionary initiatives.

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HackerOne and the Defense Digital Service have launched the third iteration of a competition designed to identify the U.S. Army's cybersecurity gaps. Hack the Army 3.0 challenges civilian and military parties to discover vulnerabilities within the Army's digital systems and inform the service branch about needed security changes, HackerOne said Wednesday.

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Michael Garbus, former vice president of global health business development and solutions at Maximus, has been named VP of health care information technology at TurningPoint Global Solutions. He brings 35 years of industry experience to TurningPoint and will be responsible for the Rockville, Maryland-based software engineering company's federal health care IT market area.

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Sentar has been certified as an independent third party assessment organization under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program.

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The Defense Information Systems Agency has granted Smartsheet provisional authorization for the company's collaborative work management platform to support at impact level 4 data in a cloud computing environment.

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John Zangardi, president of Redhorse Corp. and former chief information officer at the Department of Homeland Security, has been named a venture partner for technology at advisory firm Ridge-Lane. He joins 12 other federal civilian and military veterans who have been added to the Ridge-Lane team.

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James Brown, former director of business development at General Dynamics’ information technology business, has joined National Capitol Contracting as chief growth officer, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Tuesday.

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The General Services Administration is continuing efforts to consolidate its multiple-award schedules and modernize its government acquisition platforms, FCW reported Wednesday.

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Amazon Web Services has partnered with Esri to help technology startup firms do business in the state and local government markets through the Washingon, D.C.-based accelerator organization CivStart.

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Kevin Fagan, a more than 15-year government information technology services industry leader, has joined Washington, D.C.-based open-source software and IT services company Amida Technology Solutions as chief growth officer.

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Joe Lombardozzi, Roy Fleischer and Ellen Evans have joined the business development team of Easton, Md.-based government program quality management services contractor Qlarant. Qlarant said Friday Lombardozzi, formerly vice president of business growth at IBM‘s Truven Health Analytics subsidiary, will serve as VP for sales and business development. He spent nearly 17 years at CGI‘s federal business and eight […] More

Esri has received authority-to-operate certification from the Interior Department to provide cloud-based spatial analytics support to U.S. federal clients. The company said Monday its ArcGIS Online service offering obtained ATO under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for availability on the FedRAMP Marketplace and deployment in Amazon Web Services‘ and Microsoft‘s cloud environments. Jack Dangermond, founder and president of Esri, said […] More