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Tyto Athene, MicroAutomation Partnership to Roll Out ACUITY Next Generation 9-1-1 Offering; Fabian Plath Quoted

Tyto Athene has partnered with MicroAutomation to launch ACUITY Next Generation 9-1-1 Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP) offering. Tyto Atheneâ€™s ACUITY Micro Data Center was designed to provide mission-critical edge processing, analytics and unified communications. â€œAdding MicroAutomation and their Omni911 solution to our ACUITY platform is a perfect fit,â€ said Fabian Plath, vice president of Sales and Business Development at Tyto Athene.Â

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by Sarah Sybert February 26, 2021, 11:45 am
in Financial Reports, News

ICF Reports $1.5B Revenue for 2020, Posts Q4 Results; John Wasson Quoted

ICF reported fourth quarter and full year results, which ended Dec. 31, 2020, on Thursday. The company's total revenue for 2020 amounted to $1.51 billion, increasing 1.9 percent over the $1.48 billion reported for full year 2019. "In 2020, one of the most challenging business periods in recent history, ICF reported 4 percent year-on-year growth in service revenue, and won a record $2 billion in contract awards, laying the foundation for strong future growth,â€ said John Wasson, chairman and CEO of ICF and a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient.Â

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by Sarah Sybert February 26, 2021, 11:10 am
in Government Technology, News, Wash100

Shawn Purvis, President of Northrop Enterprise Services, Named to 2021 Wash100 for Business Tech, Process Support Leadership

Executive Mosaic is pleased to announce that Shawn Purvis, corporate vice president and president of enterprise services at Northrop Grumman, has received her first Wash100 Award, the most coveted award in all of government contracting (GovCon), for her leadership in enabling large-scale technology infrastructure and transactional business services throughout the corporation.

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by William McCormick February 26, 2021, 10:43 am
in Executive Moves, Government Cloud, News

Microsoft Azure Government Now Offers 142 Services With FedRAMP’s High Provisional Authorization

Microsoft now has 142 cloud services certified with high provisional authorization to operate under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, which aims to standardize the security of cloud products used in the federal government. The company said in a blog post published Thursday its offerings under the Azure Government cloud work to boost the security and compliance of federal agencies.

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by Nichols Martin February 26, 2021, 10:22 am
in Contract Awards, News

MCR Federal Working to Provide Space Force With Modernized C2 Software

MCR Federal secured a contract in May to help the U.S. Space Force implement new command and control software equipped with modernized applications in an effort to replace aging space C2 software tools.

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by Matthew Nelson February 26, 2021, 9:43 am
in Government Technology, News

NASA to Hold High-Voltage Ground Tests for X-57 Electric Aircraft

NASA is slated to conduct ground tests for high-voltage operation of an experimental plane being designed by Empirical Systems Aerospace to help the agency create certification requirements for electric aircraft units.

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by Matthew Nelson February 26, 2021, 6:14 am
in Government Cloud, Government Technology, News

Nutanix Study: Majority of Global Public Sector, US Federal Government Leaders Bullish on Hybrid Cloud

A new Nutanix study has found that 82 percent of information technology leaders in the global public sector and 87 percent of respondents in the U.S. federal government cited hybrid cloud as the ideal IT operating model. The third annual Enterprise Cloud Index Report showed that IT leaders from the U.S. federal government intend to increase that to about 74 percent penetration within five years.

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by Jane Edwards February 26, 2021, 6:03 am
in Government Technology, News

Leidos Subsidiary Concludes Preliminary Design Review of Human Landing System for NASA Program

Leidos' Dynetics subsidiary has finished the preliminary design review of a technology meant to help astronauts land on the moon as part of an upcoming NASA lunar mission. Dynetics said Thursday the PDR effort informed the space agency of the Human Landing System's design that complies with system requirements for NASA's Artemis program, which aims to revive manned space exploration.

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by Nichols Martin February 26, 2021, 5:37 am
in Contract Awards, News

New York City Taps Jacobs for Maritime Engineering Consultant Services

Jacobs will carry out on-call maritime engineering consultant services for five years under an approximately $20 million contract from the New York City Economic Development Corp.

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by Matthew Nelson February 26, 2021, 4:27 am
in Government Technology, News

Idaho National Lab Seeks to License Detection Tech for Cryptocurrency Mining Malware

Idaho National Laboratory developed a machine translation-based technology designed to detect malware that mines cryptocurrencies through compromised high-performance computing systems and is seeking to enter into a licensing agreement with a company that can bring the technology to market.

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by Jane Edwards February 26, 2021, 4:07 am
in Contract Awards, News

Leidos Books Defense Agency Contract for COVID-19 Treatment Studies

Leidos has landed a two-year, $22 million contract from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency to perform clinical studies that are meant to determine therapeutics for COVID-19 patients.

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by Matthew Nelson February 26, 2021, 4:03 am
in Government Technology, M&A Activity, News, Wash100

PAE President, CEO John Heller Receives His Sixth Wash100 Award; Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson Quoted

Executive Mosaic announced on Friday that John Heller, president and CEO of PAE, has received his sixth Wash100 Award for leading PAEâ€™s transformation from a private equity-backed company into a publicly listed company and expansion in the government services arena through acquisitions and contract wins.Â Visit GovConWire to read John Hellerâ€™s full 2021 Wash100 Award profile.

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by William McCormick February 26, 2021, 2:12 am