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  • Groundswell Unveils New Lab for SAP-based Federal Tool Innovation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Groundswell Unveils New Lab for SAP-based Federal Tool Innovation

    Technology consulting firm Groundswell has established an innovation laboratory in order to deliver SAP offerings to its customers in the federal government. The company said Wednesday it will employ project managers, developers and architects who will collaborate with SAP to create new services aimed at addressing gaps in agencies’ operations and administration. Groundswell’s SAP Innovation […] More

  • LexisNexis' Haywood Talcove Warns of Personally Identifiable Information Theft Risks - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    LexisNexis’ Haywood Talcove Warns of Personally Identifiable Information Theft Risks

    Haywood Talcove, CEO of the government business at LexisNexis Risk Solutions, warned that transnational criminals are using new technological scams to commit financial fraud. He told GOBankingRates in an interview posted Wednesday that the U.S. government lost “hundreds of billions of dollars” to pandemic-related fraud due to accessible personally identifiable information on the dark web […] More

  • HII Unit Secures Approval for 3D-Printed NAVSEA Platform Components - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HII Unit Secures Approval for 3D-Printed NAVSEA Platform Components

    HII‘s Newport News Shipbuilding unit has received additional approval to use additive manufacturing to produce stainless steel pipefittings for the Naval Sea Systems Command’s ships and other platforms. NNS was previously authorized to fabricate other vessel components using 3D printing, HII said Tuesday. NAVSEA initially approved additive manufacturing technical standards in 2018, and installed the first […] More

  • Viasat Unveils New Cybersecurity Service With Classified Threat Intelligence - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Viasat Unveils New Cybersecurity Service With Classified Threat Intelligence

    Viasat has created a Trusted Cybersecurity Services platform that uses classified threat intelligence from the U.S. government to detect malicious cyber activity in companies, critical infrastructure and regional organizations. The company said Thursday its new hosted intrusion technology is developed to provide warning as early as six months ahead of other threat detection indicators on […] More

  • Study: Women Entrepreneurs Voice Government Business Certification, Contracting Concerns - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Study: Women Entrepreneurs Voice Government Business Certification, Contracting Concerns

    Ninety-nine percent of female small business owners who responded to a Goldman Sachs survey said they believe the U.S. government needs to improve efforts to support women-owned enterprises and 72 percent rated the effectiveness of federal programs and services for them with a “C” grade or below. The global banking investment firm polled 898 WOSBs […] More

  • Raytheon to Lead Systems Integration Work on Navy's Narcotic Detection Radar - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Lead Systems Integration Work on Navy’s Narcotic Detection Radar

    Raytheon Technologies was tapped by the U.S. Navy to integrate hardware and software for the relocatable over-the-horizon radar, which is used in long-range detection of narcotics being smuggled into the country. The company said Monday it will help improve maritime enhancements to the radar as the project’s lead systems integrator. Raytheon manufactured the ROTHR for […] More

  • NASA Begins 6th SpaceX Crew Mission Aboard ISS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Begins 6th SpaceX Crew Mission Aboard ISS

    The Crew Dragon Endeavor mission has docked at the International Space Station, carrying two astronauts from the U.S., one astronaut from Russia and one from the United Arab Emirates who are part of the sixth SpaceX commercial crew rotation program aboard the orbital laboratory. NASA announced that SpaceX Crew-6, composed of its astronauts Stephen Bowen […] More

  • Azure VMware Combines Migration, Security & Workload Modernization for Government Users - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Azure VMware Combines Migration, Security & Workload Modernization for Government Users

    Microsoft‘s Azure Government cloud platform has collaborated with VMWare to form the new Azure VMware Solution, an infrastructure-as-a-service private cloud. Azure VMware was launched on Tuesday in an effort to facilitate cloud migration of mission-critical workloads for government users, said Brett Tanzer, vice president of product management at Microsoft. The unified platform is meant to […] More

  • Yulista Subsidiary to Provide O&M, Facilities Services to 3 FCC Offices - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Yulista Subsidiary to Provide O&M, Facilities Services to 3 FCC Offices

    Tunista Operations Support Services, a Yulista Holding subsidiary, was chosen by the Federal Communications Commission to maintain its facilities in multiple locations. The National Capital Region Facility Support Services contract will be carried out at FCC’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., as well as its offices in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and Columbia, Maryland, Yulista announced Wednesday. Under […] More

  • ODNI's Stacey Dixon Selected to 2023 Wash100 for Open Source Data Vision & Intell Collaboration Leadership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ODNI’s Stacey Dixon Selected to 2023 Wash100 for Open Source Data Vision & Intell Collaboration Leadership

    Executive Mosaic is pleased to announce Stacey Dixon, principal deputy director of national intelligence, as a winner of the 2023 Wash100 Award in recognition of her accomplishments in the past year to help ensure and enhance national security. This is the fourth consecutive year Executive Mosaic has selected Dixon to the annual list of leaders […] More

  • Cloudera's Rob Carey: New White House Strategy Opens Door for Cyber Role Clarification, Accountability - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cloudera’s Rob Carey: New White House Strategy Opens Door for Cyber Role Clarification, Accountability

    Some technology sector leaders warn that implementing the National Cybersecurity Strategy could be hindered by workforce, funding and data sharing challenges, FCW reported Thursday. The White House on Thursday published the 35-page strategy in a push to defend U.S. assets in the digital space better while promoting accountability among software vendors. While the experts commended […] More