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  • GovCon Vets Named to NVTC Board of Directors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GovCon Vets Named to NVTC Board of Directors

    The Northern Virginia Technology Council has unveiled the list of officers and members who were elected to the association’s board of directors for fiscal years 2017 and 2018. Maximus CEO Richard Montoni and Marilyn Crouther, senior vice president and general manager of DXC Technology’s U.S. public sector, will respectively serve as chairman and vice chairman of NVTC […] More

  • HPE, Mellanox to Provide Interconnect, Liquid-Cooled Platforms for NASA Ames' Supercomputer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HPE, Mellanox to Provide Interconnect, Liquid-Cooled Platforms for NASA Ames’ Supercomputer

    NASA has selected Mellanox Technologies and Hewlett Packard Enterprise to supply interconnect and liquid-cooled platforms for a high-performance computing cluster at the space agency’s Ames Research Center in California. HPE will deliver its SGI 8600 liquid-cooled system and combine it with Mellanox’s EDR InfiniBand interconnect platform for integration with Ames’ Electra supercomputer, Mellanox said Monday. Both companies will […] More

  • IT Security Market Vet Frank Mong Named Hortonworks Chief Marketing Officer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IT Security Market Vet Frank Mong Named Hortonworks Chief Marketing Officer

    Frank Mong, former senior vice president of product, industry and solutions at Palo Alto Networks, has been appointed chief marketing officer at Santa Clara, California-based open data technology provider Hortonworks. Mong will oversee Hortonworks’ global marketing strategy to build on the company’s growth efforts, according to a May 22 press release. Raj Verma, president and chief operating officer of Hortonworks, said […] More

  • Reports: HPE Unveils Regional HQ, Incubator Program in Singapore - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Reports: HPE Unveils Regional HQ, Incubator Program in Singapore

    Hewlett Packard Enterprise has established a Singapore-based regional headquarters in a push to help address a demand for new technologies across the Asia-Pacific and Japanese markets, Nikkei Asian Review reported Tuesday. HPE said it foresees “strong growth” opportunities in the internet of things and hybrid information technology sectors in Singapore, Japan, Australia and India, according to the report. The regional office has […] More

  • 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

  • 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