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  • IT Vet Robert Youngjohns Joins Blueprint's Board of Directors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IT Vet Robert Youngjohns Joins Blueprint’s Board of Directors

    Robert Youngjohns, a senior adviser at management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, has joined Blueprint‘s board of directors. The Toronto, Canada-based software company said Thursday that Youngjohns brings experience in various leadership roles from his time leading the information technology industry. “Robert is a true pioneer and trailblazer in the world of software and I am very […] More

  • DXC Technology, Microsoft Seek to Facilitate Hybrid Cloud Adoption With New Service Offering - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DXC Technology, Microsoft Seek to Facilitate Hybrid Cloud Adoption With New Service Offering

    Microsoft and DXC Technology have teamed up to provide a new service offering designed to help clients manage workloads across the Microsoft Azure public cloud platform and DXC’s data centers. The DXC Services for Azure offering will work to help users facilitate hybrid and public cloud adoption as well as access Azure services in DXC’s […] More

  • Mike Lawrie: CSC, HPE Services Arm Eye 'Digital Transformation' as Post-Merger Priority - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mike Lawrie: CSC, HPE Services Arm Eye ‘Digital Transformation’ as Post-Merger Priority

    DXC Technology, the company that will result from Computer Sciences Corp.‘s merger with Hewlett Packard Enterprise‘s enterprise services segment, targets digital transformation support for customers as one of its strategic priorities, CRN reported Wednesday. Rick Saia writes Mike Lawrie, CSC chairman, president and CEO, told investors Wednesday that DXC will aim to offer clients an opportunity to manage costs within their […] More

  • GSA, HPE Ink Government-Wide Software Agreement; Mary Davie Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GSA, HPE Ink Government-Wide Software Agreement; Mary Davie Comments

    The General Services Administration and Hewlett Packard Enterprise have signed a deal that seeks to facilitate the procurement of HPE’s software platforms by federal agencies and help GSA expand federal license agreements with software publishers. The government-wide enterprise software agreement is part of the modification to Carahsoft Technology’s GSA IT Schedule 70 contract for HPE software products […] More

  • CSC to Open South Australia-Based Office After Computing Tech, Service Contract Win - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSC to Open South Australia-Based Office After Computing Tech, Service Contract Win

    Computer Sciences Corp. has announced plans to set up a new office in Adelaide, South Australia, after it received a seven-year contract to provide desktop computers, tablets, laptops and other digital devices as well as end-user computing services to government agencies in the state. CSC will make a $5 million investment to establish the new office in […] More

  • Tony Whigham Joins Hitachi Data Systems as Govt Sales Director for Australia, NZ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tony Whigham Joins Hitachi Data Systems as Govt Sales Director for Australia, NZ

    Tony Whigham, formerly director of the federal business at Hewlett Packard Enterprise‘s Aruba Networks subsidiary, has joined Hitachi Data Systems as director of government sales in Australia and New Zealand. He will work to develop strategies for HDS’ federal and state government portfolio and  explore new areas of collaboration with the company’s social innovation solutions unit, Hitachi said Thursday. The […] More

  • HPE's Rob Roy Lists 2017 Federal Cyber Priorities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HPE’s Rob Roy Lists 2017 Federal Cyber Priorities

    Rob Roy, chief technology officer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise‘s U.S. federal cybersecurity team, has listed what he sees as the top five cyber priorities across the federal government for 2017. The priorities include cyber workforce, industry partnerships, information technology acquisition and modernization, data protection and Internet of Things security, according to a company blog post published Thursday. […] More

  • HPE Unveils Demonstration Chip Designed to Bolster Optical Computation Process Speeds - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HPE Unveils Demonstration Chip Designed to Bolster Optical Computation Process Speeds

    Hewlett Packard Enterprise has developed a demonstration chip designed to speed up optical computation processes as part of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program that aims to develop communication, sensing, and computation technologies using mesoscale characteristics, IEEE reported Monday. Rachel Courtland writes the company’s Hewlett Packard Labs business developed the chip, which was created via the Mesodynamic […] More

  • HPE's Earl Matthews: Agencies Should Adopt Situational Awareness Model for Cybersecurity - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HPE’s Earl Matthews: Agencies Should Adopt Situational Awareness Model for Cybersecurity

    Earl Matthews, a vice president at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, has said public sector organizations should evolve from a continuous diagnostics and mitigation approach to a situational awareness model that can foster cybersecurity collaboration. Matthews wrote in a blog article published Sunday in Signal Magazine that a cyber SA model can be based on analysis of sensors, files and web objects as well […] More

  • BAE Invests in Australia Defense Tech R&D Network; Glynn Phillips Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Invests in Australia Defense Tech R&D Network; Glynn Phillips Comments

    BAE Systems plans invest up to $10 million over 10 years in a collaborative network that will work to facilitate development of technologies that can support the Australian military. BAE said Tuesday its Australian subsidiary partnered with the Universities of Adelaide and South Australia to establish the Joint Open Innovation Network with the goal to introduce university engineering scholarship, internship, job placement, defense-related courses […] More

  • HPE Vet Doug Oathout Joins Black Box as Strategic Partner Relations VP; E.C. Sykes Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HPE Vet Doug Oathout Joins Black Box as Strategic Partner Relations VP; E.C. Sykes Comments

    Doug Oathout, formerly vice president of converged infrastructure and alliance marketing at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, has joined Black Box Corp. as VP of strategic partner relations. Oathout will oversee the company’s holistic and innovative partner strategy with his more than 20 years of experience in partner relations and marketing, Black Box said Nov. 21. “We […] More

  • Intel Adds 3 New Partners to Cybersecurity Tech Integration Alliance - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Intel Adds 3 New Partners to Cybersecurity Tech Integration Alliance

    Intel has added Check Point, Huawei and Hewlett Packard Enterprise‘s Aruba Networks subsidiary into an alliance wherein partner companies can integrate their technologies with Intel’s cybersecurity offerings. Check Point integrated its firewall products with Intel’s McAfee DXL and McAfee Threat Intelligence Exchange to help customers scale and automate their security environments, Intel said Thursday. Aruba’s ClearPass has been combined […] More