TeleCommunication Systems has received 11 domestic patents from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in the third quarter of 2014 for the company’s location-based services and communications and messaging technology. Bob Held, TCS vice president of intellectual asset management, said Tuesday the patents are part of a monetization campaign on the company’s intellectual property. USPTO issued patents for TCS technology in prepaid short […] More

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation worked with Hewlett Packard to implement a technology infrastructure designed to process, manage and share data on prison inmates, GCN reported Thursday. Karen Schwartz writes HP acts as the system integrator under the $400 million project and has helped agency personnel build the state’s integrated Electronic Offender Management […] More

Dave McClure made the jump from the public sector to business earlier this year when he joined cybersecurity firm Veris Group as chief strategist. McClure brings more than two decades of federal service to his role and retired from government in the spring as head of the General Services Administration‘s Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies. […] More

AtHoc-built emergency mass notification systems will be deployed to U.S. Army installations outside the continental U.S. under a Leidos-led modernization program. The Army extended the use of AtHoc’s IWSAlerts systems for communications in order to send emergency alerts to service personnel and their families at garrisons in Europe, the company said. “With increasing threats worldwide, AtHoc […] More

Deltek expects three federal agencies to launch solicitations for recompete contracts worth almost $30 billion combined in the next three months, the Washington Post reported Sunday. Ashley Bergander, research manager at Deltek, writes the contract vehicles from the Air Force as well as the departments of Energy and Veterans Affairs will be open to both […] More

Deloitte has become the latest company to join the Industrial Internet Consortium, a group dedicated to push the possibilities the Internet of Things can bring to the market sector. The company said Thursday that it aims to bring value to members and industry with unique insights on how to tap IoT technologies to innovate, create savings […] More

CenturyLink‘s data hosting segment has tapped ComEd to support an energy-efficiency project that aims to reduce the energy consumption of CenturyLink’s 125,000-square-foot Chicago CH2 data center by 7.4 million kilowatt hours. In support of CenturyLink Technology Solutions‘ global green data center initiative, ComEd said Sunday it will implement its “Smart Ideas for Your Business” program that offers technical assistance and […] More

Tarik Reyes oversees program delivery, strategy and execution in his role as operating unit director for civil information solutions at Northrop Grumman‘s information systems sector. Prior to this role, Reyes held a business development leadership role for Northrop’s civil federal and select defense markets and his career also includes stops at Microsoft, Visalign and Bechtel. In this […] More

Strategic sourcing is changing the federal acquisitions process as government agencies turn to such practices amid declining budgets, according to Kyra Fussell, a senior research analyst at Deltek. Fussell wrote Sunday in The Washington Post that Deltek sees a $7 billion decline in the government IT market from 2014 to 2019 with agencies adopting strategic sourcing initiatives […] More

Cindy Walker serves as VP of Salient Federal’s Data Analytics Center of Excellence and oversees the development and implementation of Salient’s data analytics strategy as well as predictive analytics, agile business intelligence and big data offerings. The more than 25 year industry veteran  is the author of numerous articles and white papers on enterprise data management topics. She […] More

Terrence Blair oversees technology strategy and technology-related consulting work for federal agencies as chief technology officer at Tetra Tech AMT – the information technology, aerospace and safety management arm of Tetra Tech. Blair, a more-than 25-year GovCon veteran, joined Tetra Tech after spending eight-and-a-half years at Sapient as technical lead for that company’s federal government consulting business unit […] More

Jonna Ward is the founder and CEO of Visionary Integration Professionals, a government contracting firm with more than 700 staff members. She most recently served as a partner at Accenture before starting VIP in 1996 and previously worked for Andersen Consulting. In her conversation with ExecutiveBiz, Ward discussed the beginnings of the firm, the importance of STEM education and […] More