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  • Wayne Lewandowski on Building Out Vormetric's Federal Practice, Protecting Data Rather than Perimeters, and the Role of Collaboration in Cybersecurity - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Wayne Lewandowski on Building Out Vormetric’s Federal Practice, Protecting Data Rather than Perimeters, and the Role of Collaboration in Cybersecurity

    Wayne Lewandowski serves as vice president of Vormetric‘s federal operations, where he works to drive growth with the company’s customers in the Defense, civilian and intelligence communities. Lewandowski has spent more-than-20-years working in the federal market with emerging integrators and technology companies, most recently helping establish virtualization and storage consulting company Plan B Government Systems‘ […] More

  • George Newstrom on Disruptive Technologies in Government, Securing the Cloud & Improving Private-Public Collaboration - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    George Newstrom on Disruptive Technologies in Government, Securing the Cloud & Improving Private-Public Collaboration

    George Newstrom leads Dell Services Federal Government as its vice president and general manager, a position he rose to after joining the firm in 2011 to help expand its reach in the cybersecurity and intelligence spaces. Newstrom is a retired U.S. Marine Corps electronics and communications officer and also served as secretary of technology for the […] More

  • NC County Adopts Microsoft Cloud, Mobile Tools - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NC County Adopts Microsoft Cloud, Mobile Tools

    Microsoft is helping government employees in North Carolina’s Mecklenburg County perform business transactions and public services with the company’s software suite, cloud and mobile offerings. Mecklenburg County is using the Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Surface Pro devices and Windows Azure cloud platform, Microsoft said Wednesday. The county’s Food Services Department uses Microsoft’s products for food and restaurant inspectors to run state applications and medical examiners […] More

  • Kronos to Build Gov’t Purchasing Workforce Mgmt Tech; Greg Smith Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kronos to Build Gov’t Purchasing Workforce Mgmt Tech; Greg Smith Comments

    Kronos has been selected to develop a workforce management technology for the U.S. Communities Government Purchasing Alliance, a cooperative that acquires resources for public sector entities at the state and local levels. Maryland’s Harford County Public Schools district conducted the solicitation and evaluation process on behalf of the alliance, Kronos said Tuesday. Greg Smith, public sector […] More

  • ICF Forecasts Natural Gas Prices to Increase Through 2020 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ICF Forecasts Natural Gas Prices to Increase Through 2020

    ICF International forecasts natural gas prices to increase between 2015 and 2020 as demand increases from new petrochemical plants, liquefied natural gas export terminals and pipeline exports to Mexico. The Fairfax, Va.-based consulting contractor attributes the increase to the cold winter in the Eastern U.S. and also predicts more drilling for energy to occur in response […] More

  • Dennis Muilenburg to Congress: Boeing Plans Aircraft Production Rate Increase - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dennis Muilenburg to Congress: Boeing Plans Aircraft Production Rate Increase

    Boeing Chief Operating Officer Dennis Muilenburg outlined the company’s approach to production of commercial airplanes in response to global market competition before Senate lawmakers on Thursday, Herald Net reported Sunday. Dan Catchpole writes that Muilenburg also detailed Boeing’s plan to increase production rates for the 737 and 787 aircraft lines and to introduce the fresh 787-9 and -10, […] More

  • Catapult Technology Appoints Hélène Courard as VP of Capture and Proposals; Shawn Bethea Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Catapult Technology Appoints Hélène Courard as VP of Capture and Proposals; Shawn Bethea Comments

    Catapult Technology has named Hélène J. Courard vice president of capture and proposals. The more than 20-year industry veteran will be responsible for process improvement and execution of business capture and proposal program elements as well as lead business growth strategy, Catapult said Tuesday. “Hélène has an impressive win rate over the course of her career, and […] More

  • Sonya Cork of Verizon Named to TechAmerica Public Sector Board of Directors; Shawn Osborne Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sonya Cork of Verizon Named to TechAmerica Public Sector Board of Directors; Shawn Osborne Comments

    Sonya Cork, Verizon Enterprise Solutions vice president of public sector markets, has been appointed to the TechAmerica public sector board of directors, TechAmerica said Wednesday. The public sector board focuses on issues that are of the most importance to federal and state government contractors, according to TechAmerica. “Sonya brings an extensive background in the world of government […] More

  • Peter Weber: Carpathia, VMware Team Aims for New Hybrid Federal Cloud to Fulfill FedRAMP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Peter Weber: Carpathia, VMware Team Aims for New Hybrid Federal Cloud to Fulfill FedRAMP

    VMware and Carpathia will collaborate to provide federal agencies a hybrid cloud computing service as both companies seek to acquire an authority-to-operate provision under the governmentwide FedRAMP program. The VMware vCloud Government Service will be designed to run legacy and new applications in order to help agencies extend their data centers into a cloud computing environment that holds […] More

  • IBM to Tap Mobile Software Makers for Watson Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM to Tap Mobile Software Makers for Watson Project

    IBM will seek the help of software developers worldwide to make mobile applications that use Watson’s data analysis and machine learning tools, Wired reported Feb. 26. Klint Finley writes that the IBM Watson Mobile Developer Challenge will kick off March 31 and the company will select 25 finalists to use Watson’s developer application programming interface in order […] More

  • Ball Aerospace, Infoscitex Picked for Air Force Lethality R&D IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ball Aerospace, Infoscitex Picked for Air Force Lethality R&D IDIQ

    Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. and Infoscitex will compete for task orders to perform research and development work in areas of warfighter lethality and combat survivability for the Air Force under a potential six-year, $60.1 million contract. The Air Force Research Laboratory received three offers for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract as the 711th Human Performance Wing pushes to use […] More

  • Andrew Russette: BAE Extends Govt Big Data Storage System to Commercial Market - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Andrew Russette: BAE Extends Govt Big Data Storage System to Commercial Market

    BAE Systems will offer a big data storage system originally developed for government and military agencies to commercial customers. TeraStar is built to store large amounts of data gathered from sensors and be compatible with different types of storage media devices, BAE said Monday. “We originally developed the TeraStar data storage system to fit the […] More