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Andy Maner: Oregon College a ‘Building Block’ for IBM-Epic Military EHR Bid Team

Leaders fromÂ IBMÂ and EpicÂ visitedÂ Oregon Health & Science University to evaluateÂ how the school could supportÂ theÂ consortium’sÂ bid for a multibillion dollarÂ contract to modernize the Defense Department‘s healthcare management systems, the Portland Business Journal reported Thursday. Elizabeth Hayes writesÂ the university’s simulation centerÂ could serve as a training facility for DoD can practice protocolsÂ for the future electronic health record system if the […] More

by Anna Forrester January 16, 2015, 10:27 am
in News, Products & Service

Pragmatics to Update US Patent and Trademark Office Applications; Joe Brock Comments

Pragmatics has been awardedÂ more than $10 million in multiple task orders during the last six months to modernize the U.S. Patent and Trademark Officeâ€™s applications. The company will work to maintain applications, develop software and manage content under the contract with the Commerce Department, Pragmatics said Wednesday. â€œSince 2012, we have leveraged agile development practices […] More

by Jay Clemens January 16, 2015, 6:17 am
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Johns Hopkins APL to Develop Retinal Prosthesis System; Kapil Katyal Comments

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory willÂ develop a retinal prosthesis system with $4 million in funding from Mann Fund. The lab willÂ will work with Second Sight Medical Products Inc. toÂ embed vision and eye tracking sensors into the glasses for the system to identify obstacles, doorways, hallways and objects within a household, Johns Hopkins APL said […] More

by Jay Clemens January 16, 2015, 5:58 am
in Government Cloud, News

Carahsoft Adds QTS Data Center, Cloud Offerings to GSA Schedule; John Lind, John Lee Comment

QTS has partnered with Carahsoft Technology Corp. to offer U.S. government customers access to QTS’s information technology service offerings through a General Services Administration acquisition program. QTS said Thursday its data center, colocation and cloud offerings have been added to Carahsoft’s GSA Schedule 70 contract. The QTS 3Cs suite includes a FedRAMP-certified platform designed to […] More

by Mary-Louise Hoffman January 16, 2015, 5:56 am
in Industry News, News

Ray Mabus, Mark Welsh: Lockheed’s F-35 to Meet Initial Combat Readiness Schedule

Military officials say the Lockheed Martin F-35 program is on schedule to meet U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Air ForceÂ targetsÂ for initial combat readiness, Reuters reported Thursday. Andrea Shalal writes that U.S.Â Navy Secretary Ray Mabus andÂ Air ForceÂ Chief of Staff Gen. Mark WelshÂ have both saidÂ that they are confident the fighter jets will be readyÂ by their respective July […] More

by Anna Forrester January 16, 2015, 5:37 am
in News, Products & Service

Mike Feldman: Xerox to Combine Managed Print Service with Kofax’s BPM Offering

Xerox has agreed to offer a Kofax business process management product in conjunction with Xerox’s suite of document management and managed print offerings. The agreement calls for Xerox to sell and market the Kofax-made TotalAgility platform as well as to provide customers with product deployment and support services, Kofax said Thursday. Mike Feldman, president of […] More

by Mary-Louise Hoffman January 16, 2015, 5:00 am
in Industry News, News

Cisco, IBM Form IoT/M2M Alliance with Industry; Thorsten Kramp Comments

Cisco and IBM have forged a partnership with other companies to develop and deliver Internet of Things and machine-to-machine services, PCC Mobile Broadband reported Friday. The LoRa alliance will focus on providing M2M, smart city, sensor network and industrial automation applications through wireless area network standards, according to the report. â€œIn addition to IBM’s support […] More

by Jay Clemens January 16, 2015, 3:30 am
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NVTC to Auction Meetings With C-Level GovCon, Business Leaders

The Northern Virginia Technology Council will auction off regional and industry c-level executives in a fundraising event scheduled on Feb. 4. Attendees will bid electronically for a chanceÂ with c-level executives within 12 months and gain insights, forge business connections and learn about future plans of various companies, the NVTC said. The NVTC CXO Auction event […] More

by Neel Mehta January 16, 2015, 12:00 am
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Andy Green, Michael Smith Take VP Roles at HII

Huntington Ingalls Industries has named Andy Green and Michael S. Smith as the newest members of its corporate development team. Green is now vice president of shipbuilding while Smith takes on the VP role for nuclear and environmental services, working closely with Newport News Energy to execute projects for clients in the public and private […] More

by Neel Mehta January 16, 2015, 12:00 am
in C4ISR News, News

Greg Mandt: NOAA Completes Installation of 6 Key Instruments Onboard GOES-R

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration moved closer to its March 2016 launch date for the next-generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R-Series with the completed integration of all instruments aboard the weather forecasting platform. The GOES-R now carries an advanced baseline imager, a geostationary lightning mapper, the Space Environment In-Situ Suite, Extreme Ultraviolet and X-ray […] More

by Elizabeth Leigh January 15, 2015, 2:55 pm
in Industry News, News

Research Firm ExecRank Puts GovCon Leaders on ‘Top CIO for 2014â€™ List

Research and advisory firm ExecRankÂ has unveiled its annual list of 250 of the “Top CIOs for 2014,”Â a ranking of chief information officers across all industries that evaluates these leaders across 24 different categories. For this exercise, ExecRank says it developed a series of algorithms over three years to measure executive performance and predict future executive […] More

by Jay Clemens January 15, 2015, 11:02 am
in Government Cloud, News

Arrow Offers CenturyLink Cloud for Resale; Dee Dee Lear, Blake Wetzel Comment

CenturyLink‘s cloud platform is now available to managed service providers, independent software vendors and other resellersÂ in the U.S. and Canada via Arrow Electronics‘ ArrowSphere cloud services marketplace. “Solution providers, MSPs and ISVs … are now able to utilize CenturyLink Cloud global services for building public, private and hybrid cloud solutions for their business, government and […] More

by Anna Forrester January 15, 2015, 10:37 am