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  • 16 Companies Form Digital Services Coalition - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    16 Companies Form Digital Services Coalition

    Sixteen small- and medium-sized companies have established a new coalition to promote the use of Agile processes in government information technology contracting and encourage collaboration between agencies and industry. The Digital Services Coalition will work with the U.S. Digital Service, the General Services Administration’s 18F organization and other agencies to improve the delivery of government services to citizens, the coalition said Wednesday.

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  • Paul Smith Talks Open Source Tech at Red Hat Government Symposium - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Paul Smith Talks Open Source Tech at Red Hat Government Symposium

    Paul Smith, senior vice president and general manager of Red Hat’s public sector, told attendees of the company’s annual Government Symposium that he believes open-source technology “is the best source for choice and security.” Smith cited the Kubernetes project to discuss the role of open source in efforts to address information technology challenges within the government, […] More

  • 5 Ex-Presidential Innovation Fellows Join Digital Govt Consultancy Skylight - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    5 Ex-Presidential Innovation Fellows Join Digital Govt Consultancy Skylight

    Digital government consulting firm Skylight Digital has added former Presidential Innovation Fellows Chris Cairns, Robert Read, John Teeter, Geoff Mulligan and Kin Lane to its team. Cairns served as a PIF in 2013 and co-founded the General Services Administration’s 18F organization and the technology transformation service, Skylight said Tuesday. He will serve as a digital […] More

  • AWS Eyes GovCloud East Region Launch in 2018 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AWS Eyes GovCloud East Region Launch in 2018

    Amazon Web Services plans to launch in 2018 a second region for its cloud platform designed to host regulated data workloads and sensitive information. The AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region will work to provide government clients with additional disaster recovery options and help them comply with several regulatory requirements, the company said Tuesday. These government regulations include […] More

  • CSRA Holds Event to Help Startup Firms Introduce Tech Platforms in Federal Market - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA Holds Event to Help Startup Firms Introduce Tech Platforms in Federal Market

    CSRA hosted an event Wednesday to help eight startup companies showcase a range of emerging technology platforms to potential federal government clients, MeriTalk reported Wednesday. The report said CSRA selected the startups out of 120 firms to demonstrate their platforms at the Emerging Technologies Day. Companies that joined the event include Capriza, Be Informed, CloudAware, Druva, Denodo, ID.me, […] More

  • Steve Costalas Receives Executive Mosaic's Top General Counsel Executives Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Steve Costalas Receives Executive Mosaic’s Top General Counsel Executives Award

    STEVE COSTALAS SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, GENERAL COUNSEL & SECRETARY VENCORE, INC. Steve Costalas is Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Vencore, Inc.  Vencore has over 40 years of proven experience providing information solutions, engineering and analysis to the U.S. Intelligence Community, Department of Defense and Civilian Agencies.  Vencore employs more than 3,800 people focused on […] More

  • GSA Hosts Industry Day to Discuss Govt Tech Modernization Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GSA Hosts Industry Day to Discuss Govt Tech Modernization Efforts

    The General Services Administration held an event Thursday to inform vendors of GSA’s  framework to address outdated technology systems in the government. GSA Administrator Denise Turner Roth hosted the technology industry day with agency Chief Technology Officer Navin Vembar; David Shive, acting commissioner for the Technology Transformation Service; Mary Davie, assistant commissioner of integrated technology services; and 18F Executive Director Aaron Snow, GSA said Thursday. The […] More

  • TrueTandem to Build FedRAMP Dashboard Under GSA's 18F Agile BPA Task Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TrueTandem to Build FedRAMP Dashboard Under GSA’s 18F Agile BPA Task Order

    TrueTandem has secured a $150,000 task order from the General Services Administration‘s 18F organization to create a dashboard for the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, Fedscoop reported Tuesday. Billy Mitchell writes the award represents the first task order under 18F’s Agile development services blanket purchase agreement. The digital services delivery organization selected 16 companies in August 2015 to compete for […] More

  • Vencore to Offer Software Dev't Services Through GSA 18F Agile BPA Vehicle; Mac Curtis Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vencore to Offer Software Dev’t Services Through GSA 18F Agile BPA Vehicle; Mac Curtis Comments

    Vencore will work to provide software development services to government agencies under the potential $25 million Agile Delivery Services blanket purchase agreement of the General Services Administration‘s 18F digital services organization. The company said Tuesday the Agile BPA vehicle seeks to facilitate the procurement of digital products and services by government agencies in support of […] More

  • GSA’s 18F Org Issues Draft RFQ for FedRAMP Dashboard Task Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GSA’s 18F Org Issues Draft RFQ for FedRAMP Dashboard Task Order

    The General Services Administration’s 18F organization has issued a draft request for quotations under the Agile blanket purchase agreement for a task order to develop a public dashboard for the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. GSA’s draft RFQ posted Monday on GitHub says the task order is for the group of Pool 3 vendors […] More