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  • SAP, NTT Group Form Enterprise Cloud Partnership; Kevin Ichhpurani Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAP, NTT Group Form Enterprise Cloud Partnership; Kevin Ichhpurani Comments

    SAP and NTT Group have extended their alliance to provide enterprise cloud services to customers. The partnership is intended to offer the joint NTT and Dimension Data cloud platform and NTT‘s information technology infrastructure services to customers in South Africa and the Asia-Pacific region, NTT said Thursday. “NTT Group provides SAP with a critical component of enterprise-grade cloud services […] More

  • Casey Coleman: IT Procurement Process Needs Industry-Gov't Dialogue - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Casey Coleman: IT Procurement Process Needs Industry-Gov’t Dialogue

    Casey Coleman, vice president of Unisys‘ federal civilian business group, government and industry need more communication in order to help fulfill information technology procurements. Coleman wrote in a blog post published Tuesday that some companies may not understand the government’s desired outcome when dialogue is absent. “Without effective dialogue between government and industry, contractors cannot understand the outcomes […] More

  • Deltek: Agencies Increased Use of LPTA Method to Evaluate IT Bid Proposals - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deltek: Agencies Increased Use of LPTA Method to Evaluate IT Bid Proposals

    A new Deltek report indicates that federal agencies’ use of the “lowest price-technically acceptable” methodology to acquire professional services and information technology offerings rose from 29 percent in fiscal 2012 to 32 percent during fiscal 2014. Overall, the U.S. government adopted an LPTA source selection process in 5,740 acquisition activities last year, a 24 percent […] More

  • Navy Taps Capstone for CNIC IT Support Task Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Taps Capstone for CNIC IT Support Task Order

    Capstone has received a task order to continue its Tier II information technology services to the Commander, Navy Installations Command’s headquarters. The Naval Supply Systems Command Fleet Logistics Center Norfolk’s Philadelphia office awarded the task order to Capstone through CNIC’s Program Management Oversight Services indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, multiple-award contract, Capstone said Sunday. The contract covers data, voice and video teleconferencing […] More

  • David Wennergren: Agencies Need IT-Savvy Acquisition Personnel - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    David Wennergren: Agencies Need IT-Savvy Acquisition Personnel

    David Wennergren, senior vice president of technology at the Professional Services Council, believes government agencies need what he called information technology-savvy acquisition professionals to achieve their goals, FCW reported Friday. Wennergren said the government lacks enough federal technology professionals to perform IT development works at present, Sean Lyngaas and Mark Rockwell report. He told FCW […] More

  • Teradata: Industries Report ‘Significant’ ROI from Big Data Initiatives - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Teradata: Industries Report ‘Significant’ ROI from Big Data Initiatives

    Teradata Corp. has released the findings from a survey of executives across six industries that saw what they described as “significant” return on investments from big data analytics. The survey reveals that nearly two-thirds of respondents have reported “significant, measurable impact on revenues” from big data investments, Teradata said Tuesday. “Companies aren’t just committed to […] More

  • DNC to Update Census Bureau's Data Collection System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DNC to Update Census Bureau’s Data Collection System

    DNC has won a six-year, $13 million contract to design a new model the U.S. Census Bureau will use to centralize the agency’s functions to collect and process survey data. DNC said Tuesday. it will work to manage the program, associated risks, information technology investments, schedule, budget, configuration, quality control, communication and technical writing, DNC […] More

  • SIA-SRC Report: US Should Bolster IT Research Investments Through N-CITE - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SIA-SRC Report: US Should Bolster IT Research Investments Through N-CITE

    A report from Semiconductor Research Corporation and Semiconductor Industry Association says the U.S. needs to boost investments in information technology research with an emphasis on future Internet-of-Things and big data usage. SIA and SRC said Tuesday those investments should go through the National Computing and Insight Technologies Ecosystem program, a research initiative between the government and industry partners to promote technological advancements […] More

  • Phacil Awarded Task Order for Army Installation Data Repository IT Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Phacil Awarded Task Order for Army Installation Data Repository IT Support

    Phacil has secured a task order from the U.S. Army’s Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Installation Management to provide information technology support services for the Headquarters Installation Information System. The service branch uses HQISS as a data repository for its real property, bases, enclaves, sites and installations, Phacil said Wednesday. Phacil will […] More

  • Intel Security: Ransomware Rose by 127% from 2Qs in 2014-15 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Intel Security: Ransomware Rose by 127% from 2Qs in 2014-15

    A new Intel Security report has found a 127 percent growth in ransomware samples between the second quarter of 2014 and 2015 due to the emergence of CryptoWall, CTB-Locker and other forms of malware that restrict access to computer systems. The McAfee Labs Threats Report says computer networks with MacAfee security software encountered at least 19.2 million infected […] More

  • Red Hat's Adam Clater: PaaS Helps Shorten Application Deployment Time - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Red Hat’s Adam Clater: PaaS Helps Shorten Application Deployment Time

    Adam Clater, principal cloud architect at Red Hat‘s North America Public Sector organization, has said platform-as-a-service is helping federal information technology professionals shorten the time it takes to deploy applications. Clater wrote in an opinion piece for GCN published Monday that federal IT personnel are able to develop virtual machines and migrate the systems to […] More

  • FireEye, Cybergy Labs Form Gov't-Commercial Sector Cyber Defense Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FireEye, Cybergy Labs Form Gov’t-Commercial Sector Cyber Defense Partnership

    FireEye and a Cybergy Partners subsidiary have teamed up to combine their technology offerings and services in an effort to help government and commercial enterprises protect their information technology infrastructures from cyber threats. FireEye will work to integrate its Multi-Vector Virtual Execution tool and Mandiant’s endpoint security and incident response services with Cybergy Labs’ SmartFile system under […] More