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  • Tim Hoechst: Agilex Joins AWS' Govt Cloud Reseller Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tim Hoechst: Agilex Joins AWS’ Govt Cloud Reseller Program

    Agilex has agreed to offer professional services for U.S. government customers of an Amazon Web Services cloud offering. The partnership allows Agilex to deliver consulting, development, engineering and operational services to agencies that aim to leverage the AWS GovCloud (US) system, Agilex said Tuesday. AWS designed the GovCloud region platform for public-sector organizations to transfer sensitive […] More

  • InfoReliance to Help Build HHS Enterprise Apps Through AWS Cloud Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    InfoReliance to Help Build HHS Enterprise Apps Through AWS Cloud Platform

    InfoReliance has been awarded a 12-month contract to help the Department of Health and Human Services create and test enterprise applications with Amazon Web Services cloud technology. The technology consulting firm said Monday it will provide AWS cloud computing services as well as app development and testing support to HHS’ office of the chief information officer. The […] More

  • Altamira, ATIC Form Analytics Collaboration; Jonathan Moneymaker Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Altamira, ATIC Form Analytics Collaboration; Jonathan Moneymaker Comments

    Altamira Technologies and the Advanced Technical Intelligence Center have signed a partnership agreement to develop analytics tools and offer workforce development services for the U.S. government sector. The alliance will focus on developing technologies and methods to address the analytical workforce needs of intelligence, defense and law enforcement agencies, Altamira said Monday. Jonathan Moneymaker, chief […] More

  • Booz Allen's Grant McLaughlin: Consumers to Drive Healthcare IT Adoption - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen’s Grant McLaughlin: Consumers to Drive Healthcare IT Adoption

    Grant McLaughlin, a Booz Allen Hamilton vice president, predicts that consumers’ perceived advantages of information technology will drive electronic health systems adoption among clinicians and patients, HealthITAnalytics reported Monday. “The expectation is, ‘Well, if I can get it in the rest of my life, why can’t I get it here too?’  I think consumers are […] More

  • Ralph White: GAO Upholds NASA's Commercial Space Transportation Contracts Decision - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ralph White: GAO Upholds NASA’s Commercial Space Transportation Contracts Decision

    The Government Accountability Office has denied Sierra Nevada‘s protest against the award of contracts for the NASA Commercial Crew Transportation Capability program to Boeing and SpaceX. Ralph White, managing associate general counsel for procurement law at GAO, said Monday the agency found NASA clearly notified CCtCap program bidders that their proposals would be evaluated against a […] More

  • Jim Jensen: Satcom Direct's New Data Center to Offer Multiplatform Security Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jim Jensen: Satcom Direct’s New Data Center to Offer Multiplatform Security Services

    Satcom Direct has launched a data center services company that offers cybersecurity, colocation and cloud computing services to enterprise customers, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Monday. John Keller writes TerraCom Direct runs a facility in Melbourne, Florida, and aims to help organizations monitor data traffic and detect malicious threats. Jim Jensen, founder and CEO of […] More

  • Software AG's Chris Borneman: IT Governance, Security Frameworks Key to Data Center Consolidation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Software AG’s Chris Borneman: IT Governance, Security Frameworks Key to Data Center Consolidation

    Chris Borneman, vice president of Software AG‘s government solutions business, has projected changes for data center technologies and operations in the next five years. In an FCW opinion piece published Thursday, Borneman predicts the future data center infrastructure will comprise of processing, memory and storage hardware tiers and that applications will have an elasticity feature […] More

  • Iridium's Matt Desch: Industry Seeks to Bolster Flight Tracking with Satellite Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iridium’s Matt Desch: Industry Seeks to Bolster Flight Tracking with Satellite Tech

    Iridium Communications CEO Matt Desch said the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 incident has prompted the aviation industry to consider using satellite technologies for commercial aircraft tracking, Air Traffic Management magazine reported Tuesday. Aimee Turner writes Desch told the magazine that air navigation service providers are also moving down a path to implement automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast. “I […] More

  • Study: Data-Sharing Programs to Drive Federal IT Market Growth - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Study: Data-Sharing Programs to Drive Federal IT Market Growth

    The federal information technology sector is forecast to experience an annual growth rate of 1.67 percent over the next five years, according to a market report from Reportstack. Reportstack said Monday data sharing and collaboration among government agencies are among the key trends that will drive the market through 2019. The departments of Homeland Security, […] More

  • Accenture Survey: 50% of US Adults Seek Mobile Access to Social Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Accenture Survey: 50% of US Adults Seek Mobile Access to Social Services

    A survey conducted by Accenture indicates almost half of social service recipients in the U.S. would download and use mobile applications to seek assistance from caseworkers. The research also found that telephone and in-person visits are the primary methods for human services agencies and their clients to communicate, Accenture said Tuesday. Only nine percent of […] More

  • AT&T's Chris Smith: New Cyber Laws Could Pave Way for Unified Threat Defense - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AT&T’s Chris Smith: New Cyber Laws Could Pave Way for Unified Threat Defense

    Chris Smith, vice president of technology for AT&T‘s government solutions business, has told Federal News Radio that five recently passed cybersecurity bills could help U.S. government agencies develop a unified approach to infrastructure security. Smith told Francis Rose in an interview aired Tuesday that the Federal Information Security Modernization Act brings clarity about what roles […] More

  • Reportstack: Health IT Outsourcing Market to See 9% Annual Growth Through 2019 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Reportstack: Health IT Outsourcing Market to See 9% Annual Growth Through 2019

    A new market report has projected an 8.60 percent compound annual growth rate for the healthcare and life sciences information technology outsourcing market from 2015 to 2019. Reportstack said Tuesday healthcare providers enlist third-party vendors to provide enterprise IT infrastructure and application management services. According to the report, cloud computing is among the outsourced technologies […] More