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Latest Federal & Government Contracting Companies' News Coverage
Learn about the latest developments regarding the use of big data and analytics in the public sector as well as insights from experts in the government contracting industry.
SAS Institute has been selected for a “lead partner” role with the Smart Cities Council as the latter organization seeks to help jurisdictions worldwide update their city management and public safety tasks in addition to others. SAS will work with SCC to aid cities that aim to be awarded with the “Smart Cities” distinction that is given to cities with high-analytic […] More
SAS has been chosen by the U.S. Defense Department, Small Business Administration and Consumer Product Safety Commission to provide technology platforms that will work to help the agencies examine huge amounts of data. The company said Monday agencies are increasingly adopting big data analytics, visualization, text mining and Hadoop technologies to help address their data collection, storage and management […] More
Carahsoft and Hewlett Packard Enterprise have partnered in a bid to help government clients manage risks associated with big data through the companies’ information governance strategy. Patrick Gallagher, a vice president at Carahsoft, wrote in an article published Wednesday that information governance refers to technologies and functions that organizations implement in order to obtain value from […] More
Vistronix Intelligence & Technology Solutions has been awarded a five-year, $30 million contract to provide information technology and data analytics support to the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. The company said Friday it aims to help build analytical tools for NIEHS researchers to collect, integrate and visualize data on chemical agents under the National Toxicology Program. The National […] More
Booz Allen Hamilton and software firm Hortonworks have forged an alliance to help commercial and government clients manage big data workloads and their operations through the adoption of an Apache Hadoop platform. McLean, Va.-based Booz Allen said Thursday it will integrate its analytics, data science and cloud architecture offerings with Hortonworks Data Platform through the partnership. HDP is […] More
Altamira Technologies has secured a potential five-year, $35 million contract to provide classified analytics development and deployment support services for the Defense Department. Work under the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract also covers big data visualization, logistics, subject-matter expertise and data science support for DoD’s military operations, the company said Wednesday. Altamira said it expects the contract to help […] More
TeleCommunications Systems and analytics software provider Intersec have forged a partnership in an effort to further build up their location-based service offerings. TCS and Intersec have started to provide LBS platforms to operators in Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia and Angola for use in mobile advertising and movement analysis through the strategic partnership, TCS said Tuesday. Both companies […] More
Commonwealth Informatics and the Food and Drug Administration have forged a two-year agreement to utilize the Commonwealth Clinical Data Analytics platform designed to help FDA assess drug safety data. The company will work under the research collaboration agreement to help FDA reviewers detect and investigate safety signals when new drug applications are being tested, Commonwealth […] More
A Deltek report predicts that federal spending on big data management software, hardware and services will increase from $1.5 billion in fiscal 2015 at a 14 percent compound annual growth rate to hit $3.2 billion by fiscal 2020. Deltek said Friday it forecasts agencies to increasingly use big data platforms for healthcare, national security, and […] More
Microsoft and the Agriculture Department have selected seven winners of a competition for the development of online applications that aim to help improve the U.S. food system’s resiliency to climate change. The USDA-Microsoft Innovation Challenge required participants to design new tools that work to analyze the agency’s open data on food production available on Microsoft’s […] More
The Department of Homeland Security is soliciting information on open-source and social media analytics technology that can be used to facilitate agency efforts to guard the U.S. against threats. DHS said Monday in a FedBizOpps notice its science and technology directorate and social media task force are interested in deploying analytics tools to support criminal investigations, screening of travelers or organizations that seek government […] More
Data storage company Seagate started its new U.S. government-focused business with the goal to help federal agencies establish and carry out their roadmaps for the adoption of technologies and new methods to store increasing volumes of data, unit leaders have told ExecutiveBiz. Seagate unveiled the business in November and said the unit will also focus on work with agencies on […] More
