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  • PwC Public Sector Rebrands as 'Guidehouse' Under Veritas Ownership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PwC Public Sector Rebrands as ‘Guidehouse’ Under Veritas Ownership

    The PwC Public Sector business acquired by investment firm Veritas Capital in May now operates under the name Guidehouse, ExecutiveBiz has learned. Guidehouse’s website says the company will offer technology, management and strategy consulting services to multiple sectors that include the defense, national security and state and local government markets. The consulting firm is led […] More

  • DRT Obtains AWS Consulting Partner Designation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DRT Obtains AWS Consulting Partner Designation

    Amazon Web Services has granted a Standard-Tier Consulting Partner status to DRT Strategies through the cloud infrastructure provider’s partner network. Arlington, Va.-based DRT said Monday it has supported customers in the design, development, migration and management of applications and workloads with the AWS platform. Chris Zeiders, managing director of DRT’ technology solutions business, said the company works to help […] More

  • Booz Allen Eyes Growth With Tech Talent; Horacio Rozanski Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen Eyes Growth With Tech Talent; Horacio Rozanski Comments

    Booz Allen Hamilton executives believe talent recruitment and retention efforts will serve as a growth driver for the company moving forward, The Washington Business Journal reported Tuesday. “We feel really good about our overall capacity to attract and retain the right kind of talent,” Booz Allen CEO Horacio Rozanski told analysts during an earnings call Tuesday. […] More

  • CGI Eyes Business Expansion Via Acquisitions; George Schindler Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CGI Eyes Business Expansion Via Acquisitions; George Schindler Comments

    CGI intends to make more acquisitions as part of its business expansion efforts and the Canada-based information technology consulting firm indicated it has at least 780 companies in its “active” pipeline, CRN reported Wednesday. “Over 80 percent of that current funnel, and we’ll be adding to that, is generated from clients and business leaders, not […] More

  • Convergence Technology Joins M7 Global Partners' IT Consulting Network - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Convergence Technology Joins M7 Global Partners’ IT Consulting Network

    M7 Global Partners has added Convergence Technology Consulting to the consortium’s roster of information technology consulting companies. Columbia, Maryland-based Convergence Technology’s cyber and enterprise infrastructure consulting experience will help grow M7 Global Partners’ presence in the public sector, the consortium said Tuesday. Convergence Technology offers data security, enterprise IT, support and recovery services across multiple industries and […] More

  • IBM to Offer Free Consulting Services Via 'Smarter Cities' Challenge - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM to Offer Free Consulting Services Via ‘Smarter Cities’ Challenge

    IBM has selected five municipalities across the world to receive pro bono consulting services from the company’s teams of experts on issues related to public safety, immigration, economic development and affordable housing as part of the Smarter Cities Challenge program. The company picked San Jose, California; Busan, South Korea; San Isidro, Argentina; Yamagata City, Japan; […] More

  • Nation Analytics-Celero Team Seeks to Offer Analytics-Based Consulting Service to GovCon Investors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Nation Analytics-Celero Team Seeks to Offer Analytics-Based Consulting Service to GovCon Investors

    Nation Analytics and Celero Strategies have teamed up to provide a consulting service to investors in the government contracting sector. The service offering combines Nation Analytics’ intelligence data analytics platforms with Celero’s consulting support services designed to provide users updates on custom market reports and analyses as well as competitor performance data, Nation Analytics said […] More

  • Former Honeywell Exec Pete Costa Named as Jensen Hughes' Global Operations President - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former Honeywell Exec Pete Costa Named as Jensen Hughes’ Global Operations President

    Pete Costa, a former vice president and general manager at Honeywell‘s building solutions business, has joined Jensen Hughes as president of global operations at the Baltimore, Maryland-based fire protection systems and engineering consulting services provider. Jensen Hughes said Tuesday Costa brings more than 25 years of general management and operations experience in the fields of safety, regulatory compliance and security to his new role. He will be responsible for […] More

  • Former NASA CTO Deborah Diaz Named Principal at Deep Water Point - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former NASA CTO Deborah Diaz Named Principal at Deep Water Point

    Deborah Diaz, formerly chief technology officer and deputy chief information officer of  NASA, has joined federal market consulting firm Deep Water Point as a principal. She will provide assistance in strategy development, implementation planning, information technology investment planning and technologies projects to Deep Water Point clients in her new role, the company said Wednesday. “Deborah brings a wealth […] More

  • Siemens, IBM Launch Alliance to Help Promote Application of Population Health Management - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Siemens, IBM Launch Alliance to Help Promote Application of Population Health Management

    IBM and Siemens have launched a global alliance to support efforts by health providers to treat patients with complex and chronic illnesses such as heart diseases and cancer. The alliance seeks to assist hospitals, health systems, integrated delivery networks and other providers in value-based patient care through the Population Health Management platforms, IBM said Tuesday. Siemen’s Healthineers subsidiary will offer PHM services […] More

  • Onvia Report Shows 2Q Decline on State, Local, Educational Procurements - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Onvia Report Shows 2Q Decline on State, Local, Educational Procurements

    An Onvia study has revealed nationwide state, local and educational procurements including bids and requests-for-proposals has declined by 1.4 percent in the second quarter of 2016 from Q2 of 2015. Onvia said Thursday its “State & Local Procurement Snapshot for Q2 2016” report showed the year’s first half showed an 0.6 percent increase compared to the same period in 2015. “Onvia […] More

  • Unisys Achieves AWS Govt Competency Status for Cloud Platform Delivery; PV Puvvada Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Unisys Achieves AWS Govt Competency Status for Cloud Platform Delivery; PV Puvvada Comments

    Unisys has achieved Amazon Web Services’ Government Competency designation in recognition of the former company’s efforts to deliver cloud-based platforms to federal, local and state government agencies through AWS. Unisys said Monday the designation is part of the AWS Competency Program designed to recognize corporate partners that have showed technical proficiency in the deployment of […] More