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  • Ephesoft Gets In-Q-Tel Investment to Offer Doc Analytics Platform to Intelligence Community - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ephesoft Gets In-Q-Tel Investment to Offer Doc Analytics Platform to Intelligence Community

    Ephesoft and In-Q-Tel have formed a strategic alliance to offer a document analysis platform to the U.S. intelligence community. IQT invested in Ephesoft for the deployment of Ephesoft Universe, which is designed to help organizations utilize unstructured data using the open source Apache Spark data loading technology and Hadoop to cluster multiple PCs, Ephesoft said Tuesday. George Hoyem, an investments partner at […] More

  • CEO John Heller Outlines PAE's Priorities, Vision Under Platinum Equity Ownership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CEO John Heller Outlines PAE’s Priorities, Vision Under Platinum Equity Ownership

    Arlington, Virginia-based government services contractor PAE entered a new chapter in the company’s six-decade history upon its purchase by Platinum Equity and leaders on both sides are now planning investments with an eye toward short- and long-term growth. Despite budget uncertainties and shifting priorities at agencies, PAE CEO John Heller views Los Angeles-headquartered private equity firm Platinum Equity’s move […] More

  • Vencore, Partners Pursue R&D Project Via Activity-Based Intelligence Method; Mac Curtis Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vencore, Partners Pursue R&D Project Via Activity-Based Intelligence Method; Mac Curtis Comments

    Vencore has unveiled an internal research and development project that utilizes the company’s Activity-Based Intelligence processing and analysis technique. The information, engineering and analytics provider said Tuesday it aims to use the ABI methodology to process and analyze large-scale open-source data as well as accelerate the extraction of actionable intelligence. ABI works to support the Intelligence Community’s efforts to streamline the analysis […] More

  • IGS Adds Intell Community Vet David Shedd to Board of Directors; Michael Maples Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IGS Adds Intell Community Vet David Shedd to Board of Directors; Michael Maples Comments

    David Shedd, formerly acting director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, has joined the board of directors of Huntsville, Alabama-based geospatial software provider Intergraph Government Solutions. Michael Maples, IGS board chairman and a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general, said Tuesday the company will leverage Shedd’s insights and experience in the intelligence community to support growth strategies. […] More

  • Mitre Vice Chairman Donald Kerr Receives AFCEA Award for Intelligence Community Contributions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mitre Vice Chairman Donald Kerr Receives AFCEA Award for Intelligence Community Contributions

    The Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association International has selected Mitre Corp. Vice Chairman Donald Kerr as a recipient of the 2016 Charlie Allen Award for Distinguished Intelligence Service. AFCEA said Wednesday the award recognizes senior-level intelligence leaders whose contributions have supported the intelligence community. Kerr’s career includes roles as principal deputy national intelligence director, director of the National Reconnaissance Office and assistant […] More

  • Engility Lands 4 Contracts With Intelligence Community; Lynn Dugle Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Engility Lands 4 Contracts With Intelligence Community; Lynn Dugle Comments

    Engility has received four contracts worth approximately $102 million combined from the Intelligence Community during the first quarter of 2016. Intelligence agencies made the awards in the form of recompete, sole-source and new contracts, Engility said Wednesday. The contracts are in addition to a potential five-year, $82 million contract awarded by the Defense Department to Engility in […] More

  • Orlando Figueredo on HPE's Entry to GovCon Market & Tech Trends in US Public Sector, Intell Agencies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orlando Figueredo on HPE’s Entry to GovCon Market & Tech Trends in US Public Sector, Intell Agencies

    Orlando Figueredo leads the intelligence community and public sector consulting services business segments at global information technology company Hewlett Packard Enterprise, one of the two companies that formed through the November 2015 separation of the former Hewlett-Packard. The 15-year veteran of HPE and its predecessor who manages business performance for IC accounts and integration of consulting services for U.S. […] More

  • ManTech Receives DoD Intell Operations Support Task Order Under GSA OASIS Vehicle - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ManTech Receives DoD Intell Operations Support Task Order Under GSA OASIS Vehicle

    ManTech International has been awarded a potential five-year, $33 million task order by a U.S. Defense Department organization to provide systems engineering, technical assessment and subject matter support for intelligence operations. The company said Tuesday it received the firm-fixed-price task order through the General Services Administration’s One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services contract vehicle. DoD’s Battlefield Information Collection and Exploitation Systems program office coordinates with […] More

  • HyTrust Adds Intelligence Community Vet Joanne Isham to Federal Advisory Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HyTrust Adds Intelligence Community Vet Joanne Isham to Federal Advisory Board

    Joanne Isham, an independent defense and intelligence consultant and former career officer with CIA, has joined the federal advisory board of HyTrust. The federal advisory board will work to help HyTrust build on its cloud and virtualization offerings to the public sector, the company said Monday. “We’re privileged to have Joanne join our federal advisory board […] More

  • IARPA Solicits Research Proposals for Chemical Analysis Tool Dev't Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IARPA Solicits Research Proposals for Chemical Analysis Tool Dev’t Program

    The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has released a solicitation for research proposals on a tool designed to help the Intelligence Community detect and identify various types of chemicals in remote areas. IARPA said in a broad agency announcement posted March 11 it intends to build a low-power system designed to detect chemical weapons, explosives and narcotics under the Molecular […] More

  • Fulcrum Appoints Laura Smith as GSA OASIS, DoD Program Manager; Jeff Handy Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Fulcrum Appoints Laura Smith as GSA OASIS, DoD Program Manager; Jeff Handy Comments

    Laura Smith has joined Fulcrum as program manager for the company’s business pursuits with the Defense Department and the General Services Administration‘s One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services. Smith previously served in the U.S Navy for more than 20 years before her retirement from military service as an intelligence officer, the company said Jan. 3. “Laura fits right […] More

  • Steve Marker to Present at 2016 Insider Threat Summit - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Steve Marker to Present at 2016 Insider Threat Summit

    General Dynamics Senior Technical Lead for cyber systems unit Steve Marker will present at the 2016 Insider Threat Summit in Monterey, California on March 29 and 30. The event themed “Insider Threat Detection: Defending from Actors within the Network” will tackle personal security issues such as cyber security challenges, evaluation of privileged identities and ethical physical […] More