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  • ViON, Virtustream Form Government Cloud Services Partnership; Tom Frana Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ViON, Virtustream Form Government Cloud Services Partnership; Tom Frana Comments

    ViON Corp. and Virtustream have teamed up to jointly offer enterprise cloud services to government clients. The companies will also provide application sizing and migration technologies for customers that want to transition applications into a cloud-based information technology system, Virtustream said Wednesday. Tom Frana, ViON president and CEO, said the company intends for the partnership […] More

  • Kronos to Build Gov’t Purchasing Workforce Mgmt Tech; Greg Smith Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kronos to Build Gov’t Purchasing Workforce Mgmt Tech; Greg Smith Comments

    Kronos has been selected to develop a workforce management technology for the U.S. Communities Government Purchasing Alliance, a cooperative that acquires resources for public sector entities at the state and local levels. Maryland’s Harford County Public Schools district conducted the solicitation and evaluation process on behalf of the alliance, Kronos said Tuesday. Greg Smith, public sector […] More

  • Diana Gowen: CenturyLink Lands 3rd Quantico Base Network, Telecom Services Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Diana Gowen: CenturyLink Lands 3rd Quantico Base Network, Telecom Services Contract

    CenturyLink has won a potential two-year, $8.5 million contract to design, plan and install a telecommunications system for the Marine Corps in Quantico, Va. and Washington. The company said Wednesday that it will also work to support Marine Corps tenants such as the Navy Criminal Investigations Service and Marine Helicopter Squadron One, which flies the U.S. president onboard a helicopter. Diana […] More

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  • FireEye White Paper Aims to Help Enterprises Manage Security Breaches; Jason Steer Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FireEye White Paper Aims to Help Enterprises Manage Security Breaches; Jason Steer Comments

    FireEye has released a white paper that suggests cybersecurity measures for helping enterprise IT personnel identify and address zero-day threats. The report was a collaboration between executives from FireEye, Mandiant, LogRhythm and Imperva, FireEye said Wednesday. Authors recommend that businesses establish cybersecurity teams, use technology to protect data and make incident response part of the business […] More

  • North Star Group to Help DOI Create IT Services Delivery Arm; Robert Olsen Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    North Star Group to Help DOI Create IT Services Delivery Arm; Robert Olsen Comments

    North Star Group will help the Interior Department build a new information technology service delivery organization under a potential five-year, $22.2 million blanket purchase agreement with DOI’s office of the chief information officer. The company said Monday it will provide cybersecurity, cloud computing, financial analysis, organizational change management and other support services to DOI’s CIO under the department’s […] More

  • Kratos to Help East Regional School District Deploy Security Tools; Ben Goodwin Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kratos to Help East Regional School District Deploy Security Tools; Ben Goodwin Comments

    A division of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has won a $4.5 million contract to provide security and surveillance services and products to an unidentified public school system in the eastern U.S. The contract with Kratos Public Safety & Security is worth up to $10 million if the school system issues follow-on orders within the next 30 days, the […] More

  • Tom Moore: McAfee-Schneider Electric Team to Help Energy Clients 'Whitelist' Applications - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tom Moore: McAfee-Schneider Electric Team to Help Energy Clients ‘Whitelist’ Applications

    McAfee and Schneider Electric have formed a partnership that will offer whitelisting, cybersecurity and change control services to the utility and critical infrastructure industry for customers’ energy management tools. The companies said Tuesday that McAfee will offer embedded, integrity and application control products with Schneider’s water, oil and gas, electric networks and transportation services with the goal of preventing malware […] More

  • Cisco, Optus Launch Unified Communications Platform; Ian Smith Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cisco, Optus Launch Unified Communications Platform; Ian Smith Comments

    Cisco and Australia’s SingTel Optus has launched a unified communications platform that Optus Business ICT Solutions Vice President Ian Smith said offers businesses with upgrades and integrated options, Business Spectator reported today. Supratim Adhikari writes the unified communications-as-a-service platform is built to combine voice, video, messaging and telepresence tools that are integrated into the Optus Evolve IP network. The services include enterprise […] More

  • Bill Thomas Named KPMG Americas Region Chair - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bill Thomas Named KPMG Americas Region Chair

    Bill Thomas, KPMG LLP CEO in Canada, has been appointed chairman of the board of KPMG’s Americas region that includes the U.S., Canada, Central and South America and Israel. Thomas will continue with his role as chief executive of KPMG’s operations in Canada, the company announced Tuesday. He will succeed John Veihmeyer, who was promoted […] More

  • SAS Opens New R&D Facility in Glasgow; Mikael Hagstrom Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAS Opens New R&D Facility in Glasgow; Mikael Hagstrom Comments

    SAS is working to help clients combat financial crime and fraud through a new facility in Glasglow that will focus on big data analytics, company executive Mikael Hagstrom said, according to a Tuesday report from CBR. Hagstrom — Europe, Middle East and Africa and Asia Pacific executive vice president — was talking about the company’s […] More

  • ICF Forecasts Natural Gas Prices to Increase Through 2020 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ICF Forecasts Natural Gas Prices to Increase Through 2020

    ICF International forecasts natural gas prices to increase between 2015 and 2020 as demand increases from new petrochemical plants, liquefied natural gas export terminals and pipeline exports to Mexico. The Fairfax, Va.-based consulting contractor attributes the increase to the cold winter in the Eastern U.S. and also predicts more drilling for energy to occur in response […] More

  • Exelis Tests Air Force GPS III Transmitter Assemblies; Mark Pisani Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Exelis Tests Air Force GPS III Transmitter Assemblies; Mark Pisani Comments

    Exelis has demonstrated six transmitter assemblies that are built to function as payload components for the U.S. Air Force’s first set of GPS satellites. The transmitters were tested in a simulated space environment for random vibration, pyroshock and thermal vacuum to qualify for the GPS III’s mission requirements, Exelis said Tuesday. McLean, Va.-based Exelis built the […] More