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  • SANS Survey Outlines Challenges to Critical Security Controls Adoption; James Tarala Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SANS Survey Outlines Challenges to Critical Security Controls Adoption; James Tarala Comments

    SANS has released the results of a new survey that highlights the challenges organizations are facing as they move to adopt critical security controls. The report shows that 63 percent of organizations cited insufficient staffing as barriers to their CSC transition, 54 percent attributed it to budget scarcity and 36 percent pointed to operational and security gaps, SANS said Wednesday. “Organizations across […] More

  • Xerox’s Charles Brooks: Gov’t Agencies Seek to Accelerate Record Digitization - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Xerox’s Charles Brooks: Gov’t Agencies Seek to Accelerate Record Digitization

    Charles Brooks, vice president and client executive for the Department of Homeland Security at Xerox Corp., sees an increased support from the FBI and DHS in converting government records to digital form. Brooks wrote in an op-ed published in Federal Times Wednesday that he believes “digitizing records reduces costs by speeding up document capture, recognition, and retrieval.” The […] More

  • Stephen Leonard: IBM Seeks to Help Clients Adopt Big Data, Cloud Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Stephen Leonard: IBM Seeks to Help Clients Adopt Big Data, Cloud Systems

    IBM is seeing growing interest in the company’s offerings worldwide as enterprises continue to adopt cloud, analytics and mobile technologies. Stephen Leonard, general manager of sales at IBM systems and technology group, said Wednesday that the company’s new systems work to help clients “modernize their IT environments for emerging big data, cloud computing, mobile and social technologies.” “Clients […] More

  • Deltek: IT Spending at State, Local Levels to Reach $70B in 2019 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deltek: IT Spending at State, Local Levels to Reach $70B in 2019

    Deltek forecasts that state and local government agencies will increase spending on information technology products and services by more than 3 percent annually over the next five years, the Washington Post reported Sunday. Chris Dixon, a senior manager at the Herndon-based market analysis firm, estimates IT investments at the state and local levels to grow […] More

  • Matt Calkins: GSA Public Buildings Service Deploys Appian Procurement Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Matt Calkins: GSA Public Buildings Service Deploys Appian Procurement Tool

    Appian Corp. has updated procurement request module application on the company’s work platform offering that the General Services Administration uses to perform enterprise-wide acquisition processes. GSA’s Public Building Service deployed the Electronic Acquisition System Integrated to process requests, solicitations, contracts and close-out functions, Appian said Monday. “The PRM solution is the latest example of GSA PBS’ […] More

  • New Microsoft Tool Tackles Legal Document Management, Collaboration; John Frank Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    New Microsoft Tool Tackles Legal Document Management, Collaboration; John Frank Comments

    Microsoft has unveiled a preview version of Matter Center for Office 365, a document manager and communications solution for information technology and legal professionals. The Redmond-based software company said Monday that it developed the program from its own document locator and collaboration tool, adding cloud-based processes and beefed up security capabilities. The final product saw input […] More

  • Oracle Survey Highlights Enterprises’ Mobility Goals, Challenges; Suhas Uliyar Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Oracle Survey Highlights Enterprises’ Mobility Goals, Challenges; Suhas Uliyar Comments

    Oracle Corp. has released a new survey that indicates information technology executives want to further their mobile application and device development and spending over the next few years. CIO Strategic Marketing Services and Triangle Publishing Services performed the survey on 414 IT management executives worldwide from chief information officers to senior IT professionals, Oracle said […] More

  • IBM and California Dep't of Technology present CalCloud platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM and California Dep’t of Technology present CalCloud platform

    The California Department of Technology and IBM have announced the implementation of CalCloud, a new technology model powered by cloud computing to build and deliver government services and savings. The CalCloud platform is now available to all state and local government agencies with a subscription, the first of its kind to be implemented in the U.S. […] More

  • DHS Awards Level 3 LAN Managed Services contract for End-to-End solutions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS Awards Level 3 LAN Managed Services contract for End-to-End solutions

    Level 3 Communications Inc., today announced that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has selected the company to deliver local area network managed services for the agency within the National Capital Region through the Washington Interagency Telecommunications System (WTIS) 3 contract. The global telecommunications carrier will provide end-to-end solutions–cable installation, network design, engineering, monitoring and […] More

  • Accenture Receives $48M IT, Financial Mgmt Services Task Order from Treasury Dept - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Accenture Receives $48M IT, Financial Mgmt Services Task Order from Treasury Dept

    Accenture Federal Services has received a five-year, $48 million task order to update the Treasury Department’s information technology and financial management services. The company will perform work on technology recommendations, acquisition support, security, financial systems, program management, enterprise architecture and support services, Accenture said Tuesday. The Treasury Department awarded the contract under the Internal Revenue […] More

  • Richard Breakiron Joins ViON as Cyber Solutions Senior Director; Tom Frana Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Richard Breakiron Joins ViON as Cyber Solutions Senior Director; Tom Frana Comments

    Richard Breakiron, formerly executive program director for the Joint Regional Security Stack at Defense Information Systems Agency, has joined ViON Corp. as senior director of cyber solutions. Breakiron will work to help ViON further its market presence in cloud services and information technology infrastructure for the U.S. military, DISA and U.S. security agencies, ViON said Thursday. […] More