Lyndon Dacuan, market analyst at Onvia, believes the challenges faced by agencies to protect healthcare data present an opportunity for contractors. Dacuan said Thursday agencies look for companies who are capable of providing network protection systems as cyber criminals continue to take interest in health information. He recommended that companies form a “strong relationship” with […] More

Vendors seeking positions on the General Services Administration‘s 18F Agile Delivery Services Blanket Purchase Agreement say the vehicle reflects the government’s transition toward an agile acquisition process, FedScoop reported Wednesday. Billy Mitchell writes that the BPA utilizes open data and technology development to facilitate a quicker evaluation of potential providers based on actual software prototypes rather […] More

Brian Neely started his career at American Systems in 1996 for his first post-college position in industry and now holds the dual roles of chief information officer and chief technical officer at the employee-owned government services contractor. Neely oversees planning and management functions for the company’s technology and information management-related resources and has also supported acquisition initiatives there. ExecutiveBiz […] More

Tom Lydon joined Reston, Va.-based information technology contractor Vistronix in January 2013 as senior vice president of business development and brings almost 25 years of defense industry experience to the company. Vistronix announced three acquisitions in December 2014 – buys of ACG, ExaTech and Objective Solutions — and said the purchases were made to grow in the intelligence sector. Lydon […] More

The U.S. Army‘s Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center is looking into commercial software and related service offerings to supplement the military branch’s mobile health information technology infrastructure. In a request for information published June 9 on FedBizOpps, the Army said its Mobile Health Care Environment System is designed to employ government and commercial off-the-shelf […] More

CACI International has chosen MicroPact‘s entellitrak software platform to support the former company’s task order contract with the Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals within the Department of Health and Human Services. MicroPact said Wednesday CACI will use entellitrak to develop an appeals case management system for OMHA as the agency’s Electronic Case Adjudication and Processing Environment. Kris Collo, president and CEO […] More

The General Services Administration‘s 18F digital services group is scheduled to issue a request for quotation for a new blanket purchase agreement the agency will use to acquire agile software development services. GSA will include this BPA contract in the agency’s Schedule 70 information technology procurement vehicle, three GSA officials said in a blog post published Wednesday. […] More

Robert Youngjohns, executive vice president and general manager of software at Hewlett-Packard Co., believes analytics tools could be instrumental in defenses against security breaches and help prevent further damage, IT Pro reported Wednesday. “I am a firm believer that the whole area of security is going to become a big data problem,” Youngjohns told an HP event. […] More

Erin Hawley serves as director of national security programs at Cloudera, an integrator of open source technologies such as Hadoop for federal agencies and commercial businesses. Hawley joined Cloudera in December 2011 after five years at Composite Software and is also a veteran of firms such as Blackboard and Sun Microsystems. In this conversation with […] More

Mike Walsh leads EMC‘s team that offers technologies and services to the Defense Department in an effort to help address application, security and infrastructure challenges. He brings over 20 years of federal contract experience to EMC and has held leadership positions with NetApp, Symantec, Sun Microsystems, and IBM. Walsh recently spoke to ExecutiveBiz for an in-depth conversation […] More

The Department of Homeland Security has issued a request for information on commercial off-the-shelf software applications that can help the agency to match, store, analyze and share biometric information. DHS said in a FedBizOpps notice posted April 27 the department’s Office of Biometric Identity Management is searching out business process management, reporting and analytics, data storage, […] More

Deltek estimates the number of solicitations for multiple public sector services at the state level were up 6 percent in April from the previous month. Alexandra Howden, an analyst at Deltek’s general government services division, said Tuesday majority of the contracting opportunities last month were for higher education, professional services and information technology. Among all […] More