Mary Tabb Howard, former senior proposal manager at Accenture‘s federal services subsidiary, has joined Buchanan & Edwards as director of strategic capture. BE said Tuesday Howard will oversee efforts to grow the company’s contract opportunities in the national security market. “We’re extremely excited Mary is joining our team to help us expand our support to agencies […] More

Seven companies have gained priority status to work with the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program‘s Joint Authorization Board to obtain a provisional authority-to-operate for different cloud technology and service offerings. FedRAMP said Tuesday the seven cloud service providers were selected to participate in the FedRAMP Connect initiative based on government demand for the companies’ products and a set […] More

Kay Kapoor, president of government solutions business at AT&T, has been included in FedScoop’s list of D.C.’s Top 50 Women in Technology for 2016 in recognition of her work in the federal information technology sector, FedScoop reported Thursday. Kapoor told FedScoop in an interview that women should pursue a career in the field of science, […] More

  The government contracting industry experienced a robust period of mergers and acquisitions that reshaped its composition in 2015 and continued executive transitions between companies. As companies merge and new identities enter the market, some businesses face a challenge to fill vacant leadership positions. From time to time, GovCon firms of all shape and sizes […] More

Cambridge International Systems has received a five-year, $36 million contract to maintain and update the Customs and Border Protection agency’s cargo processing systems in an effort to help secure the nation’s border. CBP uses the system to process the import and export of shipments; collect more than $20 billion in duties, tariffs and fees each year; […] More

Rocky Thurston joined the federal government business unit of AT&T in June as client executive vice president and focuses on activity in the segment’s Air Force market and others in the military. Thurston himself is a veteran of the Air Force as a retired flight engineer and held a managing director role at Accenture‘s federal services subsidiary […] More

Babs Doherty, president and CEO of information technology contractor Eagle Ray, has been selected to serve as a member of the CEO search committee of the Professional Services Council. Doherty will work with Anne Altman, general manager at IBM, in PSC’s efforts to find a successor for the trade group’s departing President and CEO Stan Soloway, Eagle […] More

Cambridge International Systems will act as a subcontractor to Leidos under a $4.3 billion contract for the modernization of the U.S. Defense Department‘s military electronic health records system. The Leidos Partnership for Defense Health comprises four primary contractors, 30 small and large member companies, and 17 technology suppliers that will work to deliver an integrated […] More

Rochester, N.Y.-based business process outsourcing and technology management services provider Sutherland Global Services will formally unveil a new unit in September that will focus on work with federal and other public sector agencies. Sutherland Government Solutions is headquartered in Reston, Va. and aims to incorporate the parent company’s practices for call center management, BPO and analytics functions at government agencies. The parent company officially […] More

Leidos will lead a health information technology consortium to build, integrate and deploy a commercial electronic medical records platform for the U.S. Defense Department under a potential $4.3 billion contract. “We are honored to have been selected as the best-value solution for the Defense Healthcare Management System Modernization contract,” Roger Krone, Leidos chairman and CEO, […] More

Govini‘s latest Federal Scorecard report points to a “highly competitive” government contracting space in 2014 with the Commerce Department leading in agency spending percentage increase and Lockheed Martin ahead in captured contract revenue. “The annual scorecard gives the market an opportunity to look at federal spending from a macro level and, through analytics, explain the trends that […] More

IDC‘s Government Insights segment has released a new report on its evaluation of 12 cloud infrastructure-as-a-service vendors in the federal marketplace against set of weighted parameters for both short-term and long-term deployments. The research firm said Friday that the “IDC MarketScape: U.S. Government Private Cloud IaaS 2014 Vendor Assessment” report used pricing, scalability, compute services, value-added services and a single […] More