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  • Qualtrics to Provide GSA Customer Insights Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Qualtrics to Provide GSA Customer Insights Tool

    Qualtrics has been selected to provide a new customer insights system to the General Services Administration as part of GSA’s efforts to measure and manage the quality of its services. GSA will implement the enterprise-grade platform to collect, analyze and distribute customer feedback in real time through web-based, mobile-responsive collection tools, Qualtrics said Thursday. The system will […] More

  • Veris Group Concludes FedRAMP High-Impact Level Assessment of 3 New AWS GovCloud (US) Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Veris Group Concludes FedRAMP High-Impact Level Assessment of 3 New AWS GovCloud (US) Services

    Veris Group, which now operates under cyber risk management services provider Coalfire, has completed the review of three additional service offerings within Amazon Web Services’ GovCloud (US) platform as a third-party independent assessment organization for AWS under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. Coalfire said Tuesday the Amazon CloudWatch Logs, AWS CloudTrail and Amazon Relational […] More

  • FedRAMP Board Approves 3 New AWS GovCloud Services; Teresa Carlson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FedRAMP Board Approves 3 New AWS GovCloud Services; Teresa Carlson Comments

    Amazon Web Services has received a provisional authority-to-operate from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program‘s joint authorization board for three of the company’s GovCloud service offerings for U.S. government clients. The board issued high baseline certifications for AWS’ Relational Database Service for MySQL, Oracle, and PostgresSQL; Amazon CloudWatch Logs; and AWS CloudTrail, the company said Friday. “We are […] More

  • FEMA Seeks Info on Cloud Infrastructure Modernization Support Sources - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FEMA Seeks Info on Cloud Infrastructure Modernization Support Sources

    The Federal Emergency Management Agency has extended the deadline for submission of responses to its sources sought notice that seeks to obtain industry information on cloud management and hosting services in support of FEMA’s cloud infrastructure modernization efforts. US Federal Contractor Registration said Thursday that FEMA wants potential contractors to submit information on a scalable cloud platform based […] More

  • Microsoft Gets FedRAMP Board Approval to Add 8 Services to Azure Govt Cloud’s P-ATO Certification Scope - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft Gets FedRAMP Board Approval to Add 8 Services to Azure Govt Cloud’s P-ATO Certification Scope

    Microsoft has added eight service offerings to the Azure Government cloud platform’s provisional authority-to-operate certification coverage under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. The company said Wednesday it secured clearance from FedRAMP’s Joint Authorization Board to add the services to the cloud’s P-ATO at the “high impact level.” The addition of the services brings […] More

  • Microsoft Unveils New Azure FedRAMP High Baseline Guide - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft Unveils New Azure FedRAMP High Baseline Guide

    Microsoft‘s Azure Government Engineering unit has released a new platform for the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program High Baseline system that will serve as a guide to receive authority-to-operate designations. A blog post published Tuesday says the Azure Blueprint is now available on the FedRAMP High Baseline system and will work to help facilitate the use […] More

  • MobileIron Cloud Platform Gets FedRAMP ATO From Postal Service; Barry Mainz Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MobileIron Cloud Platform Gets FedRAMP ATO From Postal Service; Barry Mainz Comments

    MobileIron has received a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program  authority-to-operate designation from the U.S. Postal Service for the company’s cloud-based enterprise mobility management platform. The FedRAMP Agency ATO status recognizes that the MobileIron Cloud platform has met security standard requirements in the program’s federal risk management process, the company said Monday. “MobileIron has helped government agencies secure their mobile deployments […] More

  • eGlobalTech to Deploy EPA’s Data Collection System on AWS Cloud - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    eGlobalTech to Deploy EPA’s Data Collection System on AWS Cloud

    The Environmental Protection Agency has selected consulting firm eGlobalTech to deploy the agency’s information collection system on Amazon Web Services’ cloud platform. EGlobalTech said Wednesday it will work to update, restore, operate and maintain EPA’s Information Collection Request, Review and Approval System under a new task order. The electronic system is used to prepare, monitor, report […] More

  • NetComm Part of ATARC Federal Big Data Test Lab; Louise White Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NetComm Part of ATARC Federal Big Data Test Lab; Louise White Comments

    Cloud-based data analytics provider NetComm has signed up for the Advanced Technology Academic Research Center’s Federal Big Data Test Lab in a push to help the government address challenges through data and analytics technology. NetComm said Wednesday the ATARC Federal Big Data Test Lab program will work to provide preconfigured data and analytics tools to government agencies […] More

  • Telos to Support DHS Info Security Policy Applications; Ben Taylor Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Telos to Support DHS Info Security Policy Applications; Ben Taylor Comments

    Telos Corp. has been selected to operate and maintain software applications the Department of Homeland Security procured from the company to implement information security policies and monitor security programs and compliance functions. Telos said Tuesday it will extend support for Xacta Assessment Engine and Xacta Continuum to help DHS manage the agency’s Federal Information Security […] More

  • Red Hat's Paul Smith Talks Open Source Tech for Govt Digital Transformation Initiatives - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Red Hat’s Paul Smith Talks Open Source Tech for Govt Digital Transformation Initiatives

    Paul Smith, senior vice president and general manager of Red Hat‘s U.S. public sector business, has identified the use of open source in development models as a “de facto setting” for digital transformation initiatives at agencies. Smith said Nov. 2 at the 2016 Red Hat Government Symposium in Arlington, Virginia that the government’s open-first strategy toward digital transformation “is absolute foundation for […] More

  • Veritas Updates Cloud-Based Data Archiving Platform for Govt Clients - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Veritas Updates Cloud-Based Data Archiving Platform for Govt Clients

    Veritas Technologies has launched a new version of its software-as-a-service data archiving platform for government customers to manage email records electronically. Enterprise Vault 12.1 is designed to help federal agencies comply with the Managing Government Records Directive as well as support the National Archives and Records Administration‘s Capstone approach for email management, Veritas said Wednesday. “Our federal customers […] More