Deltek has forecast the U.S. Defense Department will increase spending on big data platforms and services by 8.7 percent year-over-year from fiscal 2016 to fiscal 2019. Alex Rossino, a Deltek principal research analyst, wrote in a piece published Tuesday on C4ISR & Networks that the research firm expects DoD’s efforts to manage cybersecurity threats and […] More

New U.S. Office of Management and Budget guidelines on government information technology cybersecurity would raise the cost of compliance to reporting and auditing rules for contractors, John Slye, an advisory research analyst at Deltek, wrote in a blog post published Friday. Slye said OMB developed the guide to help federal agencies bolster the security of […] More

A House Energy and Commerce Committee report’s suggestion to require an agency’s chief information security officer to directly report to the Office of the General or Chief Counsel rather than the chief information officer reflects a trend that is common in the private sector, Angie Petty writes in a blog post for Deltek. Petty, a senior […] More

Deltek has highlighted the growing number of security incidents and high-risk areas in federal information systems in reports by the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team and Government Accountability Office. Kyra Fussell, a senior research analyst at Deltek, writes Tuesday that the recent addition to the high-risk list is the privacy of personally identifiable information. According to Fussell, […] More

Deltek‘s Alex Rossino reports that the state of cloud spending at the Department of Homeland Security is unclear amid inconsistencies between verifiable spending data and data reported to the Office of Management and Budget. Rossino wrote in an blog entry posted Tuesday that while he was able to verify $22.31 million spent on cloud computing for fiscal […] More

The Defense Department’s Better Buying Power program has spurred the adoption of “lowest price-technically acceptable” methods to procure supplies and services across DoD, Alex Rossino writes in a blog post for Deltek. Rossino, a principal research analyst at Deltek, says BBP aims to speed up acquisitions and help the DoD integrate platforms with its information technology infrastructure through “short term procurements with […] More

Deltek‘s John Slye has urged the Office of Personnel Management to work on the consistency of its information technology budget reporting as it moves to modernize its cybersecurity measures in the aftermath of data breaches at the agency. Slye, an advisory research analyst at Deltek, wrote in a blog entry posted Thursday that OPM seeks an additional […] More

Deltek has found that 38 cloud computing platforms from industry are certified under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to date. Kyra Fussell, a senior research analyst at Deltek, writes in a blog post published Tuesday that vendors provide their FedRAMP-compliant offerings to government clients using infrastructure-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service and software-as-a-service delivery models. Eighteen cloud […] More

Federal spending on cloud computing technologies will grow around 26.5 percent fiscal year 2015 compared to fiscal 2014, Alex Rossino of Deltek writes in a blog entry posted Tuesday. Rossino, a principal research analyst at the company, predicts agencies to see an increase in spending from $1.58 billion in fiscal 2014 to $2 billion in the current fiscal year. He […] More

Susan Eggleston, formerly a vice president at Deltek, has joined accounting and advisory firm Baker Tilly Virchow Krause LLP as a director within the business information systems practice. She will oversee Baker Tilly’s team that develops technology services for government contractors, Baker Tilly said Thursday. Peter Lauria, Baker Tilly’s business information systems practice lead, said […] 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

A new Deltek report says that President Barack Obama’s proposed fiscal 2016 budget reflects the administration’s efforts to increase spending on priority programs across the government. The company has estimated that overall contractor-addressable spending will grow 2 percent to $660 billion in FY 2016 if Congress approves the budget plan, Deltek said Wednesday. Federal spending […] More