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  • BGOV: Federal Contract Spending Hit $512B in Fiscal 2017 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BGOV: Federal Contract Spending Hit $512B in Fiscal 2017

    Federal contract obligations reached $512 billion in fiscal 2017, hitting the highest level since agencies spent $522 billion in fiscal 2012, Bloomberg Government reported Thursday. The 2018 BGOV200 report showed that contract obligations received by the top 200 government contractors in fiscal 2017 accounted for 64 percent, or approximately $327 billion, of the total contract spending […] More

  • Perspecta to Sponsor 7th Annual OSEHRA Open Source Summit; Mac Curtis Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Perspecta to Sponsor 7th Annual OSEHRA Open Source Summit; Mac Curtis Comments

    Perspecta will serve as the conference sponsor of the Open Source Electronic Health Record Alliance’s three-day summit that will kick off on Wednesday, July 18, at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and Conference Center in Maryland. “We look forward to a highly interactive conference, and plan to demonstrate our latest efforts in platform development and […] More

  • Raytheon’s Todd Probert: Multidomain C2 Architecture Essential for Military Decision-Makers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon’s Todd Probert: Multidomain C2 Architecture Essential for Military Decision-Makers

    Todd Probert, vice president of mission support and modernization at Raytheon’s intelligence, information and services business, has said the U.S. military needs a multidomain command-and-control platform that could help them make decisions in the future battlespace. “Developing these tools requires investing in truly open architectures, analytics, [artificial intelligence] and human/machine teaming capabilities that can connect and […] More

  • Northrop’s Cygnus Raises Space Station’s Orbit Through Reboost Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop’s Cygnus Raises Space Station’s Orbit Through Reboost Test

    Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft docked at the International Space Station tested on Tuesday its reboost capability through a 50-second engine firing activity, Spaceflight Now reported Wednesday. Ground controllers at Northrop’s Dulles, Va.-based mission operations facility transmitted commands to the spacecraft to fire its IHI Aerospace-supplied BT-4 main engine, which generated approximately 100 pounds of thrust […] More

  • Battelle’s Aimee Kennedy Joins STEM Education Advisory Panel - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle’s Aimee Kennedy Joins STEM Education Advisory Panel

    Aimee Kennedy, senior vice president of philanthropy and education at Battelle, has been appointed to a new panel authorized by Congress to advise the Committee on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education on STEM-related issues. Kennedy is one of the 18 members named by the National Science Foundation to the STEM Education Advisory Panel established through […] More

  • ORock’s Red Hat OpenStack-Based Cloud Platform Gets FedRAMP Authorization; Paul Smith Interviewed - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ORock’s Red Hat OpenStack-Based Cloud Platform Gets FedRAMP Authorization; Paul Smith Interviewed

    ORock Technologies has received a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification for its Red Hat OpenStack-based cloud platform. A Defense Department agency granted the FedRAMP authorization to operate to ORockCloud at the moderate impact level for hybrid cloud deployments and Platform-as-a-Service and Infrastructure-as-a-Service models, ORock said Tuesday. “The ORockCloud brings to market the realization of […] More

  • Bart & Associates Rebrands as B&A, Debuts New Logo; Jonathan Evans Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bart & Associates Rebrands as B&A, Debuts New Logo; Jonathan Evans Comments

    Bart & Associates has adopted the name B&A and a new corporate logo in a move to reflect the company’s commitment to deliver innovative solutions across integration and analytics, modernization and transformation, operations and enablement, agile delivery, human capital management and certified hosting areas. Jonathan Evans, president and CEO of B&A, said in a statement […] More

  • NASA Issues Final RFP for Follow-On Intelligent System R&D Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Issues Final RFP for Follow-On Intelligent System R&D Support Contract

    NASA has released the final solicitation for the third iteration of the space agency’s potential eight-year Intelligent Systems Research and Development Support program. A FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday says the ISRDS-3 contract covers R&D work across several domains such as artificial intelligence, information processing and sensors, knowledge-based systems, software verification, quantum computing and data mining. The contract […] More

  • Survey: 80% of DoD IT Leaders Call for Improved Cloud Adoption to Maintain Military Edge - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Survey: 80% of DoD IT Leaders Call for Improved Cloud Adoption to Maintain Military Edge

    A new MeriTalk report has found that 80 percent of information technology leaders at the Defense Department said their agency needs to ramp up cloud adoption to execute their missions and keep up the military’s technical edge. MeriTalk said Tuesday the “Innovation Imperative: The Drive to Modernize DoD” report underwritten by Red Hat and Amazon Web […] More

  • GSA Certifies AT&T’s Business Support Systems for EIS Tech Purchasing Program; Chris Smith Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GSA Certifies AT&T’s Business Support Systems for EIS Tech Purchasing Program; Chris Smith Comments

    The General Services Administration has verified the compliance of AT&T’s billing and ordering tools with agency requirements for the potential 15-year, $50 billion Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract vehicle. Chris Smith, vice president of shared services at AT&T Global Public Sector and Wholesale Solutions, said in a statement published Tuesday that securing support systems compliance is a “significant milestone.” […] More

  • Peraton Upgrades Global Comms Network to Support Gov't, Critical Infrastructure Operations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Peraton Upgrades Global Comms Network to Support Gov’t, Critical Infrastructure Operations

    Peraton has launched efforts to add new points-of-presence across the U.S., Middle East, Europe and Asia Pacific region and broaden its terrestrial core network in an effort to build up its global communications services. “Demand for high speed persistent communications has grown exponentially over the past few years, with today’s applications often requiring gigabit rather […] More

  • ViON-Nutanix Team Displays HCI-Based Cloud at ESRI Conference; Tom Frana Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ViON-Nutanix Team Displays HCI-Based Cloud at ESRI Conference; Tom Frana Comments

    ViON and Nutanix teamed up to present a hyperconverged infrastructure-based platform at the five-day ESRI User Conference that kicked off in San Diego on Monday. ViON said Tuesday the HCI-based Enterprise Cloud platform from Nutanix is backed by ViON’s data center-as-a-service financial model and is designed to help users of geographic information systems manage image […] More