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  • Catherine Abate: NY Healthcare Org Chooses Microsoft Office 365 for Emergency Connectivity - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Catherine Abate: NY Healthcare Org Chooses Microsoft Office 365 for Emergency Connectivity

    A group of nonprofit community health centers in the state of New York will use Microsoft‘s Office 365 software and cloud email platform to maintain connections and communications during crises. Community Healthcare Network works with more than 75,000 patients per year across 11 health centers in four boroughs, Microsoft said Feb. 25. Catherine Abate, CHN […] More

  • Paul Dalglish: Serco Extends Canada Military Base Maintenance Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Paul Dalglish: Serco Extends Canada Military Base Maintenance Contract

    Serco Inc. will continue to carry out non-military operation and maintenance functions at a military base in Canada under a two-year contract extension worth just under $100 million. The British contractor’s North American subsidiary will continue the work through at least March 2016 under the current 11-year deal, Serco announced Jan. 9. “Working with the department of […] More

  • KCG Establishes New Corporate Headquarters in Reston, VA; Dusty Wince Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    KCG Establishes New Corporate Headquarters in Reston, VA; Dusty Wince Comments

    Knowledge Consulting Group has  announced the relocation of its corporate headquarters, effective march 1. The new building will be in Reston, Va. and will be 17,000 square feet, KCG said Monday “Relocating our office to a larger facility marks an important milestone for KCG,” said Dusty Wince, KCG founder and CEO. “The company has experienced […] More

  • Dave Shrum: QinetiQ NA to Help Northrop-Led Team Pursue Saudi Arabia Chopper Maintenance Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dave Shrum: QinetiQ NA to Help Northrop-Led Team Pursue Saudi Arabia Chopper Maintenance Program

    Saudi Arabia’s national guard ministry plans to award a contract in September 2014 for maintenance work on 60 helicopters stationed in the country’s capital of Riyadh. QinetiQ North America said Thursday it is a member of a Northrop Grumman-led team competing for that contract and additional members include the PAE-owned subsidiary DS2, AAR and Vinnell Arabia. […] More

  • Andrew Crouch of Level 3: Security Tops Health IT Industry Concerns for Cloud Adoption - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Andrew Crouch of Level 3: Security Tops Health IT Industry Concerns for Cloud Adoption

    Andrew Crouch of Level 3 Communications has urged the healthcare industry to do more to help enterprises trust cloud environments to keep their systems and information, noting that security remains a top concern for companies wanting to adopt the platform. He cited a recent Level 3-commissioned report, where 42 percent of more than 50 healthcare […] More

  • CSC Extends Govt Market Cyber Service to Commercial Markets; Samuel Visner Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSC Extends Govt Market Cyber Service to Commercial Markets; Samuel Visner Comments

    Computer Sciences Corp. will offer a commercially-available incident response service to companies that are seeking to acquire tools for combating persistent and evolving threats. The incident and breach management product has been available to government clients over 20 years and is now on offer to other markets worldwide, CSC said Tuesday. “While it is not […] More

  • Martin Sutherland: BAE Eyes Demand for Tools Against Digital Criminality - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Martin Sutherland: BAE Eyes Demand for Tools Against Digital Criminality

    Growing awareness from U.K. enterprises on digital criminality could increase demand for methods to repel cyber attacks, according to Martin Sutherland, managing director for BAE Systems Applied Intelligence. Ninety percent of U.K. firms responding to a BAE survey believe that attacks will increase over the next two years, the company said Monday. “We’re starting to […] More

  • Tony Cole on FireEye's Mandiant Acquisition, Nature of Cyber Threats - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tony Cole on FireEye’s Mandiant Acquisition, Nature of Cyber Threats

    Tony Cole serves as vice president and global government chief technology officer at FireEye, where he works with public sector agencies and other systems integrators to gain knowledge of the global cyber threat landscape and adapt enterprise approaches to address the threats. The former U.S. Army officer and Symantec business development leader addresses security conferences […] More

  • Lockheed's Stephanie Hill Recognized for Promoting STEM; CEO Marillyn Hewson on Hill's Leadership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed’s Stephanie Hill Recognized for Promoting STEM; CEO Marillyn Hewson on Hill’s Leadership

    Stephanie C. Hill, vice president and general manager of the civil business within Lockheed Martin‘s Information Systems and Global Solutions line, has been selected to receive the 2014 Black Engineer of the Year award from the Career Communications Group. The group recognized Hill for her 27-year career in engineering and leadership roles at Lockheed Martin […] More

  • Octo Consulting Group to Compete on $400M FBI IT Services BPA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Octo Consulting Group to Compete on $400M FBI IT Services BPA

    Octo Consulting Group holds a prime position on a potential five-year, $400 million information technology services blanket purchase agreement awarded by the FBI. The company will compete for task orders to assist in software deployments, infrastructure and other technology processes for FBI missions, Octo said Wednesday. Octo supported previous FBI programs in national security, cyber, science and […] More

  • ICF Forecasts North American Oil, Gas Production Trends Through 2035 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ICF Forecasts North American Oil, Gas Production Trends Through 2035

    ICF International has released projections for natural gas, natural gas liquids and oil production across the U.S. and Canada through 2035. The first-quarter 2014 Detailed Production Report forecasts slowed gas production rates across the Haynesville Shale, the Greater Green River Basin, the Barnett Shale and the Fayetteville Shale due to a decrease in gas drilling activity, ICF said Thursday. […] More

  • Carol Mowder Named CH2M Hill Remediation Strategies Expert; John Mogge Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carol Mowder Named CH2M Hill Remediation Strategies Expert; John Mogge Comments

    Carol Mowder has joined CH2M Hill as a subject matter expert in remediation strategies and bioremediation where she will help develop client site strategies and cleanup solutions for the company’s site remediation and revitalization practice. For the past 12 years, Mowder was with ARCADIS where she handled the company’s remediation strategies, bioremediation and performance-based remediation […] More