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  • Farm Credit Administration Taps Xgility for System Devt Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Farm Credit Administration Taps Xgility for System Devt Support

    Information technology provider Xgility has received a task order from the Farm Credit Administration to perform systems development support. Xgility said Tuesday the order was issued through the General Services Administration‘s IT Schedule 70 contract vehicle. The Ashburn, Viginia-based company offers collaboration technologies and on-premise, hybrid and cloud-based IT services to government and commercial clients. Xgility has provided Microsoft services such as […] More

  • Cubic to Help Migrate Atlanta's Fare Collection System to Cloud - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic to Help Migrate Atlanta’s Fare Collection System to Cloud

    A Cubic business unit has received a potential $6.5 million contract to help the  Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority implement a cloud-based back office system to process transit fare payments. Cubic Transportation Systems partnered with Microsoft to migrate the city of Atlanta’s Breeze Card automated fare collection system to the Azure cloud platform,  Cubic said Tuesday. CTS will also leverage the NextFare central […] More

  • Logicalis US to Help Migrate Client Workloads to Microsoft Azure Cloud - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Logicalis US to Help Migrate Client Workloads to Microsoft Azure Cloud

    Logicalis US has expanded its cloud-first infrastructure-as-a-service capacities to help enterprise clients migrate workloads to the Microsoft Azure cloud. Microsoft asked partners such as Logicalis to guide customers on the development of strategic roadmaps to the cloud and assist information technology professionals on the acquisition of relevant hardware and software that can help meet business […] More

  • Tech Trade Group Issues Policy Principles to Promote Responsible AI R&D, Deployment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tech Trade Group Issues Policy Principles to Promote Responsible AI R&D, Deployment

    A technology trade group has issued policy principles that aim to advance responsible design and adoption of artificial intelligence platforms, The Hill reported Tuesday. “As we develop and design AI, human safety will be at the center of that deployment,” said Dean Garfield, president and CEO of the Information Technology Industry Council. The policy principles […] More

  • Microsoft Azure Govt Cloud Gets FedRAMP High ATO Certifications From DOJ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft Azure Govt Cloud Gets FedRAMP High ATO Certifications From DOJ

    Microsoft has received two Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program authority-to-operate certifications from the Justice Department for its Azure Government cloud platform. The company said Tuesday it received the FedRAMP High ATO authorizations for Azure Government through DOJ’s justice management division responsible for the agency’s information resources, policy guidance, financial and human resources management. The certifications seek […] More

  • Microsoft Unveils New Azure Govt Cloud Offerings - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft Unveils New Azure Govt Cloud Offerings

    Microsoft has introduced a range of new offerings on the Azure Government cloud platform for public sector customers. Tom Keane, global infrastructure lead at Microsoft’s Azure segment, wrote in an article published Tuesday that the company will launch the Azure Government Secret service for government clients that handle secret-level classified data. Azure Government Secret is designed to […] More

  • Microsoft Obtains FedRAMP Certification for Intelligent Business App Suite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft Obtains FedRAMP Certification for Intelligent Business App Suite

    Microsoft has received a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification to offer its line of intelligent business applications to U.S. government customers. James Townsend, founder and CEO of Microsoft partner company Infostrat, wrote in article published Monday that the Department of Housing and Urban Development granted a FedRAMP authority to operate at the “moderate impact level” to […] More

  • Former Commerce Sec Penny Pritzker Nominated to Microsoft Board of Directors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former Commerce Sec Penny Pritzker Nominated to Microsoft Board of Directors

    Penny Pritzker, former secretary of the Commerce Department, has been nominated to serve on Microsoft‘s board of directors. The company said Monday Pritzker will be presented for election at its annual meeting for shareholders on Nov. 29 alongside Arne Sorenson, president and CEO of Marriott International. “Penny and Arne are both strong leaders with impressive accomplishments and contributions […] More

  • AWS, Microsoft Launch Deep Learning Library for Developers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AWS, Microsoft Launch Deep Learning Library for Developers

    Amazon Web Services and Microsoft have introduced a deep learning library to help developers prototype, create, train and deploy machine learning models for cloud computing tools, edge devices and mobile applications. The Gluon library currently serves as an interface for the Apache MXNet deep learning framework and will be updated to support Microsoft’s open-source, deep-learning toolkit called Microsoft Cognitive […] More

  • Progeny to Help DHS Create Mobile App Development Security Framework - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Progeny to Help DHS Create Mobile App Development Security Framework

    Progeny Systems has received a $749,928 grant from the Department of Homeland Security‘s science and technology directorate to craft a framework to secure mobile application development and deployment processes. DHS said Wednesday Progeny will collaborate with Microsoft‘s Xamarin subsidiary to produce the framework for enterprise organizations to safeguard iOS, Windows and Android mobile applications. “This project will help […] More

  • NIC Launches Personal Assistant Platform for Gov't Services in 50 States - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NIC Launches Personal Assistant Platform for Gov’t Services in 50 States

    NIC has released its personal assistant platform for digital government services in all 50 states. The company said Monday the Gov2Go tool works to combine a user’s interactions with all levels of government in one platform to eliminate the need to navigate different websites, mobile applications and platforms for federal, state, county and city government. Gov2Go’s initial set […] More

  • Cameron Chehreh: Dell EMC Team Aims to Offer 'Complete' Platform Under $1B USAF Cloud Migration Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cameron Chehreh: Dell EMC Team Aims to Offer ‘Complete’ Platform Under $1B USAF Cloud Migration Contract

    Cameron Chehreh, chief technology officer of Dell EMC‘s federal business, told SDxCentral in an interview published Thursday the company can help offer a complete technology platform to support the business transformation phase of the U.S. Air Force‘s cloud migration project. The Air Force awarded the team of Dell EMC, Microsoft and General Dynamics a potential five-year, $1 billion […] More