Pat Finn, senior vice president for the U.S. public sector at Cisco, has proposed a two-pronged approach to dealing with potential mobile security risks in government. He writes in a blog post published Monday that the first step is to train the workforce, noting a recent Cisco poll that 25 percent of civil servants have […] More

Philips has been chosen to support Partners HealthCare At Home in providing telemonitoring services for patients with chronic illnesses and those who are newly discharged, the companies said Wednesday. The telemonitoring program is intended to remotely track a patient’s health status and alert nursing staff when preemptive medical intervention is needed to avoid hospital readmission for the […] More

DynCorp International has been selected to receive the Diamond Award for Excellence from the Federal Aviation Administration for the second consecutive year. Diamond Awards are presented to companies of which 100 percent of all eligible maintenance technicians complete FAA aircraft systems training in systems and regulations over one year, DynCorp announced Monday. The company was […] More

Stephanie C. Hill, vice president and general manager of the civil business within Lockheed Martin‘s Information Systems and Global Solutions line, has been selected to receive the 2014 Black Engineer of the Year award from the Career Communications Group. The group recognized Hill for her 27-year career in engineering and leadership roles at Lockheed Martin […] More

Neil Albert serves as vice chairman of MCR‘s board of directors where he oversees strategic growth, business development, community outreach and a number of other company functions. The 26-year company veteran is the former president and CEO and has served in many leadership roles at the McLean,Va.- based firm including VP and director. Albert caught […] More

Siemens Government Technologies will work to install new heating and cooling plants at three federal buildings under a $37.2 million General Services Administration contract, Federal Times reported Wednesday. Andy Medici writes that Siemens will pay upfront costs of energy-savings retrofits for 13 projects spread across the Anthony J. Celebrezze Federal Building, Howard M. Metzenbaum U.S. […] More

QinetiQ North America has been awarded two task orders worth $15 million combined from the General Services Administration for information technology and software development services. The agency’s Public Buildings Service issued the orders through GSA’s Information Technology and Development Services blanket purchase agreement, QNA said Tuesday. For the Enterprise Data Repository Management task order, the […] More

Carahsoft Technology has added cyber threat product provider ReversingLabs to its General Services Administration schedule as part of a partnership on bringing ReversingLabs’ solutions to public-sector customers. ReversingLabs’ threat detection, analysis and classification tools will be available through Carahsoft’s GSA Schedule No. GS-35F-0119Y, Carahsoft said Tuesday. Michael Shrader, vice president for intelligence and innovative solutions at […] More

A-T Solutions Inc. was awarded a $6.5 million five-year firm-fixed contract to assess and recommend the best security practices to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Under the security auditing program, the company will provide the Port Authority’s security managers with a “repeatable, scalable and proven methodology” for conducting security audits, A-T […] More

Accenture has updated its software program that is intended to help state health and human service agencies in the U.S. comply with federal healthcare requirements. The Public Health Platform version 3.1 is built for state agencies to administer health assistance and manage services for Medicaid, Accenture said Monday. David McCurley, managing director for health and public […] More

An international portable sanitation equipment manufacturer is set to invest $6.9 million for building a new distribution and operations center in Bristol, Ind., aiming to add 70 new jobs in the town. Satellite Industries will lease a 13,000 square-foot temporary facility in Elkhart before constructing the future 106,000-square-foot center on 22 acres of space in Bristol, […] More

The University of Utah in Salt Lake City used an Oracle-built project management system to help run two construction projects, according to a Friday report from Automated Trader. Melissa Centurio Lopes writes that the university used the Primavera Unifier to manage the large-scale projects and help deliver them before the scheduled deadlines. Paul Bender, Oracle director of […] More