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  • Telos ID, Carillon Federal Services Partner on Gov't Channeling Programs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Telos ID, Carillon Federal Services Partner on Gov’t Channeling Programs

    Telos‘ identity management solutions company has partnered with Carillon Federal Services for the use of  interoperable Personal Identity Verification credentials with Telos ID’s channeling programs with the FBI and Transportation Security Administration. Telos said Tuesday Carillon will issue PIV-I credentials, which Telos ID will use for authentication functions with TSA Designated Aviation Channeling and FBI’s IDVetting. Telos’ TSA and FBI programs […] More

  • AWS, Community Energy to Build Solar Farm in Virginia; Jerry Hunter Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AWS, Community Energy to Build Solar Farm in Virginia; Jerry Hunter Comments

    Amazon Web Services and Community Energy will build and operate a new solar farm in Accomack County, Virginia, that will work to generate 170,000 megawatt hours of solar energy a year beginning October 2016. AWS said Wednesday the future 80-megawatt Amazon Solar Farm US East facility will power AWS Cloud data centers in the region under a power purchase agreement. […] More

  • Deltek's Alex Rossino: Federal Cloud Spend to Hit $2B in FY 2015 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deltek’s Alex Rossino: Federal Cloud Spend to Hit $2B in FY 2015

    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

  • Amit Yoran: Detection, Response Should Be Industry's Cyber Focus Areas - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Amit Yoran: Detection, Response Should Be Industry’s Cyber Focus Areas

    RSA‘s inaugural report on the “Cybersecurity Poverty Index” says a majority of large organizations see themselves as lacking in cyber maturity based on the National Institute of Standards and Technology‘s cybersecurity framework. The company said Tuesday its survey of at least 400 security professionals around the world says 83 percent of large organizations and 75 percent of […] More

  • FDA Seeks Small Business Sources for Safety Reporting Portal Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FDA Seeks Small Business Sources for Safety Reporting Portal Services

    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is conducting market research on the availability of potential sources of operations, maintenance, development modernization and enhancement services for the agency’s Safety Reporting Portal system. In a notice posted Sunday on FedBizOpps, FDA said it targets small business sources such as those under the 8(a) Business Development Program and Historically Underutilized Business Zone […] More

  • DataDirect Networks to Provide Storage for UK Agency's Genome-Sequencing Service - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DataDirect Networks to Provide Storage for UK Agency’s Genome-Sequencing Service

    DataDirect Networks will provide its cloud and big data storage technologies and other tools to Public Health England for the U.K. agency’s genome sequencing service on pathogenic bacteria and viruses. The company said Tuesday PHE will use its Storage Fusion Architecture engine, EXAScaler Lustre File System Appliance and WOS Object Storage platform to deliver the Next-Generation Sequencing Processing and […] More

  • Globecomm to Resell Inmarsat's Global Xpress for Maritime Market - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Globecomm to Resell Inmarsat’s Global Xpress for Maritime Market

    Inmarsat has chosen Globecomm Systems as a reseller of Global Xpress satellite services for the global maritime market as the companies push to expand their partnership in the enterprise and global government markets. Inmarsat said Tuesday the agreement adds its GX offering to Globecomm’s satellite communications portfolio for maritime customers. “I’m delighted to welcome [Globecomm] as a maritime GX VAR […] More

  • IRS Eyes Own ID Verification Service With Planned $129M Acquisition - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IRS Eyes Own ID Verification Service With Planned $129M Acquisition

    The Internal Revenue Service plans to award three blanket purchase agreements worth $129 million combined in July for a new identity verification service separate from Connect.gov, Federal News Radio reported Monday. Jared Serbu writes that the agency issued a request for quotations at the end of April as it transitions away from the governmentwide use of Connect.gov. […] More

  • NASA Taps Exceed Resources for Admin, Secretarial Support at Johnson Space Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Taps Exceed Resources for Admin, Secretarial Support at Johnson Space Center

    Exceed Resources has received a $73 million performance-based, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from NASA for administrative and secretarial support services at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. NASA said Friday the contract has a five-year period of performance that starts Aug. 2, 2015 and ends in May 2020. According to the space agency, Exceed Resources Inc. will perform work under the JSC Administrative Support Services […] More

  • BLS Report: Nonfarm Payroll Employment Up in May, Unemployment Rate Unchanged - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BLS Report: Nonfarm Payroll Employment Up in May, Unemployment Rate Unchanged

    The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that nonfarm payroll employment in the U.S. increased by 280,000 during May and unemployment rate held at 5.5 percent. BLS said in its latest jobs report released Friday the unemployment rate has been stable since February alongside the number of unemployed persons, with the long-term unemployed number at 2.5 million. BLS said the increase in nonfarm […] More

  • Consortium With Vinci, Parsons Named Preferred Bidder on Motorway Construction Project in Canada - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Consortium With Vinci, Parsons Named Preferred Bidder on Motorway Construction Project in Canada

    Parsons, Vinci and other partners in the SaskLink Global Transportation Partners consortium will partner with Saskatchewan’s ministry of highways and infrastructure on the $160.1 million construction project for the Regina Bypass in Canada. The provincial government said May 29 that it selected SGTP as the preferred bidder or proponent on the Regina Bypass Project as part […] More

  • FireEye, Visa Co-Develop Service to Help Secure Payments; David DeWalt Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FireEye, Visa Co-Develop Service to Help Secure Payments; David DeWalt Comments

    FireEye has partnered with Visa to jointly develop a Web-based service and associated tools that will work to secure payment data and infrastructure through the use of shared threat intelligence. The companies said Wednesday the Visa and FireEye Community Threat Intelligence service is part of their overall partnership, which includes the release of tools for threat monitoring. “The threat environment […] More