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  • AT&T's Chris Smith: Managed Services From Industry Can Help Agencies Handle Cyber Issues - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AT&T’s Chris Smith: Managed Services From Industry Can Help Agencies Handle Cyber Issues

    Chris Smith, global public sector solutions vice president of technology for AT&T‘s global public sector business, has said federal agencies with limited information technology budgets should team up with industry partners to address cybersecurity issues, Channelnomics reported Wednesday. Scharon Harding writes the government allocated $80.4 billion on IT spending last year with cybersecurity concerns as a prime focus for many agencies. Smith […] More

  • AT&T’s Kay Kapoor Among 2016 Women in Technology Leadership Award Winners - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AT&T’s Kay Kapoor Among 2016 Women in Technology Leadership Award Winners

    Kay Kapoor, president of government solutions business at AT&T, has won the Women in Technology’s 2016 Leadership Award for the corporate large market sector category in recognition of her work in the technology industry. WIT held the 17th Annual Leadership Awards Thursday at the Hyatt Regency in Reston, Virginia, in an effort to acknowledge the mentorship, […] More

  • Hitachi Launches New Business Group in Silicon Valley for Internet-of-Things Market Push - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hitachi Launches New Business Group in Silicon Valley for Internet-of-Things Market Push

    Japan-based industrial conglomerate Hitachi Ltd. has established a business unit to help drive the company’s Internet of Things research-and-development and go-to-market  strategic efforts. Hitachi Insight Group, led by Keiji Kojima, will offer IoT-based technologies and services meant to help government and enterprise customers achieve smart city, energy, healthcare and industrial goals through actionable insights, Hitachi said May 10. […] More

  • Former Savanture CEO Doug Howard Joins RSA as VP of Global Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former Savanture CEO Doug Howard Joins RSA as VP of Global Services

    EMC Corp.‘s security division has appointed Dough Howard as its new vice president of global services. Howard joins RSA and brings his sales, service and executive management experience and will work to assist the company in its mission to gain exposure in the security industry, the company said Monday. Amit Yoran, RSA president, said that the company has […] More

  • AT&T Lands Award for Option Year 2 of Homeland Security Emergency Comms Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AT&T Lands Award for Option Year 2 of Homeland Security Emergency Comms Contract

    AT&T has received $11.7 million from the Defense Information Systems Agency to exercise a contract option to provide emergency communications services to the Department of Homeland Security. The new work supports the DHS Office of Emergency Communications’ Priority Telecommunication Service program that intended to meet communications requirements for crisis, attack, recovery and reconstitution missions, the Defense […] More

  • Dennis Huber, Kevin Peters Join Cartesian as Advisory Board Members; Peter Woodward Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dennis Huber, Kevin Peters Join Cartesian as Advisory Board Members; Peter Woodward Comments

    Kevin Peters and Dennis Huber, respectively former executives at AT&T and CenturyLink, has joined the advisory board of management consulting and managed technology services company Cartesian. Both appointees will support and provide advice to the company’s leadership team on strategic planning, business development and operations management efforts, Cartesian said Thursday. “Dennis and Kevin bring tremendous experience […] More

  • Inder Singh Joins Unisys as SVP, Chief Marketing & Strategy Officer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inder Singh Joins Unisys as SVP, Chief Marketing & Strategy Officer

    Unisys has appointed Inder Singh to the roles of senior vice president and chief marketing and strategy officer at the Blue Bell, Pa.-based technology services provider. Singh will lead the company’s global marketing and communications group that includes investor relations functions and directly report to Unisys CEO Peter Altabef, Unisys said Monday. Prior to Unisys, he was a managing director at […] More

  • Genesys Works Expands IT Internship Program to National Capital Region; George Newstrom Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Genesys Works Expands IT Internship Program to National Capital Region; George Newstrom Comments

    Genesys Works has expanded its information technology internship program for high school students from low-income families to Northern Virginia and Washington D.C. metropolitan area. The non-profit organization will collaborate with Fairfax County public schools to carry out the expansion which was made possible partly through AT&T‘s $500,000 contribution, Genesys said Monday. George Newstrom, Dell Services Federal Government vice […] More

  • Verisign Lands GSA '.Gov' Domain Mgmt Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Verisign Lands GSA ‘.Gov’ Domain Mgmt Contract

    Verisign has received a one-year, $2.1 million bridge contract from the U.S. General Services Administration‘s Federal Acquisition Service to continue the company’s management, operations and maintenance services for the generic “.gov” Top Level Domain. Contract services online domain name registration, billing, help desk functions, reporting and daily operations of the root domain name servers for .gov websites, according to a justification […] More

  • AT&T to Provide Comm Support Via DISA's Global Networking Services Contract; Kay Kapoor Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AT&T to Provide Comm Support Via DISA’s Global Networking Services Contract; Kay Kapoor Comments

    AT&T plans to bid on task orders to provide communication services to the Defense Information Systems Agency as part of the $4.3 billion Global Networking Services contract the agency awarded in December. The company said Tuesday it can deliver software-defined networking, Ethernet, network integration as well as global and regional transport services through the contract. Kay Kapoor, president […] More