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  • Michael Shrader on Carahsoft’s Federal Market Partnerships, Role of Product Resellers
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    Michael Shrader on Carahsoft’s Federal Market Partnerships, Role of Product Resellers

    Michael Shrader leads the intelligence and innovative solutions business unit at Carahsoft as a vice president for the Reston, Va.-based technology product reseller. He previously spoke to ExecutiveBiz in February 2013 for a wide-ranging discussion on his company’s partnership with Splunk to offer data analytics software in the public sector and Carahsoft’s work to help its partners market […] More

  • Accenture to Extend MicroPact Case Mgmt Product Usage for Federal Programs
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    Accenture to Extend MicroPact Case Mgmt Product Usage for Federal Programs

    Accenture‘s federal services subsidiary and MicroPact have expanded their partnership on the implementation of the latter’s entellitrak case management offering at Accenture’s federal agency clients. Accenture said Monday it will continue to deploy the entellitrak development platform to support case and process management functions for health, financial and civilian agency programs. Vanessa Godshalk, a managing director at […] More

  • TCS Unveils New 911 Communications Services; Lynne Seitz Comments
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    TCS Unveils New 911 Communications Services; Lynne Seitz Comments

    TeleCommunication Systems has unveiled a new suite of 911 communications services for emergency responders. The  Intrepid9-1-1 service is designed as a modular emergency communications tool to verify and route 9-1-1 voice calls and messages to public safety answering points, TCS said Monday. Lynne Seitz, TCS safety and security group senior vice president, said the company build […] More

  • RSA Taps Leidos for Product Managed Security Services; Lisa Roger Comments
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    RSA Taps Leidos for Product Managed Security Services; Lisa Roger Comments

    Leidos has been selected by RSA to provide managed security services for the latter’s platforms in an effort to protect government and commercial clients from potential cyber attacks. Leidos said Monday its MSS portfolio will work to support RSA’s Advanced Security Operations Center and Archer Governance, Risk and Compliance offerings. Cyber threats require “comprehensive technology and […] More

  • Iridium Names Initial Service Providers of Push-to-Talk Service
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    Iridium Names Initial Service Providers of Push-to-Talk Service

    Iridium Communications has selected seven businesses as the initial service providers to resell the Iridium Push-to-Talk service to military, search-and-rescue, law enforcement and other customers in the international market. The company said Monday the service works to support instant communication from any location via the Iridium low-earth orbit satellite system and operates as half-duplex communication. The following are […] More

  • Navy Picks L-3 to Build Poseidon’s Electro-Optical Sensor Systems
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    Navy Picks L-3 to Build Poseidon’s Electro-Optical Sensor Systems

    L-3 Communications has been selected to provide digital electro-optical sensor and infrared systems for the U.S. Navy’s maritime patrol planes, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Monday. John Keller writes L-3 will also repair services and technical assistance for the military branch as part of the installation of its MX-20HD EO/IR system on board the Boeing-built P-8A […] More

  • FCi-Oryza Group Team Lands USCIS Services Support Contract; Sharon Virts Comments
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    FCi-Oryza Group Team Lands USCIS Services Support Contract; Sharon Virts Comments

    A partnership between FCi Federal and The Oryza Group has been awarded a four-year contract to provide data management and administrative support services for service centers of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The Service Center Operations Support Services B contract awarded to the Service Center Oryza Team covers support for USCIS centers in California and Vermont, FCi […] More

  • Michael Donlan: Police Departments Cite FBI’s Security Standards Compliance for Microsoft’s Cloud Adoption
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    Michael Donlan: Police Departments Cite FBI’s Security Standards Compliance for Microsoft’s Cloud Adoption

    Law enforcement agencies in California and North Carolina have started to adopt Microsoft’s cloud platform due to the offering’s compliance with the security regulations of the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services. The Los Angeles Police Department and North Carolina-based Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department are among the agencies that access fingerprint files, surveillance videos and other criminal […] More

  • Amit Yoran: RSA to Shift Tech Investments, Eyes Telecom Partnerships
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    Amit Yoran: RSA to Shift Tech Investments, Eyes Telecom Partnerships

    Amit Yoran, president of RSA, has discussed company’s move to transform the business across its entire enterprise and plans to partner with telecommunication firms in India with Firstpost in an interview published Friday. Yoran told Firstpost’s Ivor Soans that RSA has increased its investments in identity management and authentication services, threat monitoring, security operations center and the governance, risk and compliance […] More

  • Northrop to Integrate Software Fixes into US Air Force Global Hawk
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    Northrop to Integrate Software Fixes into US Air Force Global Hawk

    Northrop Grumman has received a $16,232,399 contract modification to perform software repairs on the U.S. Air Force’s Global Hawk unmanned aircraft. Work includes development and integration of software patches and maintenance of graphical user interface into the aircraft’s ground station, the Defense Department said Friday. Northrop will carry out the work in San Diego through Dec. 30, 2016. More

  • WidePoint, Samsung Arm Form Mobile Device Mgmt Alliance; Steve Komar Comments
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    WidePoint, Samsung Arm Form Mobile Device Mgmt Alliance; Steve Komar Comments

    WidePoint has partnered with Samsung subsidiary Samsung SDS America to deploy the former’s Certificate-on-Device digital certificates on Samsung’s Galaxy S and Galaxy Note mobile devices. WidePoint said Monday the alliance also includes the integration of its Intelligent Telecommunications Management System with Samsung’s CellWe Enterprise Mobility Management software. “WidePoint looks forward to continuing work with Samsung SDSA as we work to grow […] More

  • Lockheed Gets $238M Delivery Order for Navy F-35 Spares
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    Lockheed Gets $238M Delivery Order for Navy F-35 Spares

    Lockheed Martin has received a $237.7 million delivery order to provide initial spares for the U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, non-Pentagon participants and international military clients under a basic agreement previously awarded to the firm. The Defense Department said Thursday the spares will be used in the preliminary production of F-35 jets under the order, which also covers deployment and […] More