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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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