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  • General Dynamics to Help Air Force Implement Cloud Enterprise Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics to Help Air Force Implement Cloud Enterprise Platform

    General Dynamics‘ information technology business has received a $9 million sole-source contract to help the U.S. Air Force implement a cloud services environment. The Cloud Hosted Enterprise Services infrastructure is designed to provide the military branch access to Microsoft Office 365 services and additional services from Amazon Web Services, Oracle and SAP, General Dynamics said Tuesday. GDIT will work to […] More

  • DoD Issues Final Draft Cloud Procurement Solicitation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD Issues Final Draft Cloud Procurement Solicitation

    The Defense Department has issued the second draft solicitation for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud procurement program, Nextgov reported Monday. A FedBizOpps notice posted Monday says the final draft request for proposals covers responses to at least 1,000 industry and government questions submitted in March after DoD released the initial draft solicitation for the single-award contract for […] More

  • ViON to Provide Storage, Back-Up Systems to University of Wisconsin; Tom Frana Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ViON to Provide Storage, Back-Up Systems to University of Wisconsin; Tom Frana Comments

    The University of Wisconsin has selected ViON to help the UW system’s chief information officers implement storage and back-up platforms to support their information technology projects. ViON said Thursday it will supply the company’s switches, tapes and tape libraries to UW’s 26 campuses worldwide along with storage systems from Oracle, Fujitsu and Hitachi. Tom Frana, CEO and […] More

  • P&S Market Research: North America's Government Cloud Revenue to Hit $15B by 2023 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    P&S Market Research: North America’s Government Cloud Revenue to Hit $15B by 2023

    A new report by P&S Market Research says the government cloud market in North America is estimated to generate more than $15 billion in revenue by 2023. Increased demand and investments in cloud-based systems from government agencies will drive the projected revenue growth in the region, P&S Market Research said Monday. Key players in the government cloud market […] More

  • Boeing Subsidiary Teams With Accenture, Oracle, Mannai to Build Qatar Military's ERP/Logistics System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Subsidiary Teams With Accenture, Oracle, Mannai to Build Qatar Military’s ERP/Logistics System

    A Boeing subsidiary has partnered with Accenture, Oracle and Mannai to build an enterprise resource planning and logistics management information system for Qatar’s armed forces under a five-year contract. Boeing said Wednesday its Tapestry Solutions business will provide the GOLDesp maintenance, repair and overhaul software platform while Oracle will supply its E-Business suite for integration into the ERP/LMIS platform. GOLDesp is designed […] More

  • DoD Issues Draft Solicitation for Cloud Procurement Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD Issues Draft Solicitation for Cloud Procurement Contract

    The Defense Department has issued a draft request for proposals for a single-award contract to procure commercial enterprise-level cloud services in support of agencies within DoD and service branches. A FedBizOpps notice posted Wednesday says the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud program is a potential 10-year, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract that has a base term of two […] More

  • Oracle's Cloud Service Gets DISA Impact Level 5 Authorization - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Oracle’s Cloud Service Gets DISA Impact Level 5 Authorization

    Oracle‘s federal managed cloud services business has received an 18-month provisional authorization from the Defense Information Systems Agency‘s risk assessment and certification office. DISA said Tuesday it granted the conditional approval to the company’s cloud service offering for impact-level 5 data workloads. Oracle CSO is platform-as-a-service delivery model that employs shared service zones intended for a […] More

  • Former Comtech SVP Jay Icard Named XTAR President, CEO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former Comtech SVP Jay Icard Named XTAR President, CEO

    Jay Icard, former senior vice president of strategic sales at Comtech Telecommunications‘ command and control technologies business, has joined XTAR as president and CEO of the Ashburn, Virginia-based commercial satellite operator. The 13-year industry veteran succeeds outgoing President Philip Harlow, who has led XTAR over the past eight years and will help ensure a smooth transition, the company said Monday. […] More

  • Darius Adamczyk to Become Honeywell Chairman in April; Duncan Angove Named Independent Director - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Darius Adamczyk to Become Honeywell Chairman in April; Duncan Angove Named Independent Director

    Darius Adamczyk, president and CEO of Honeywell, will succeed the retiring Dave Cote as chairman by the end of April. “The board concluded that Darius will provide decisive strategic leadership and strong execution of Honeywell’s significant portfolio change and deployment of our core technological strengths related to software, data analytics and the industrial internet of […] More

  • Oracle to Launch 12 Data Centers in Cloud Footprint Expansion Push - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Oracle to Launch 12 Data Centers in Cloud Footprint Expansion Push

    Oracle has announced plans to open 12 new data centers across Asia, Europe and the Americas region in a push to expand the geographic reach of the technology firm’s cloud services. The company said Monday it will establish two facilities in the U.S. to serve Defense Department customers and another two in Canada. Other data center locations will […] More

  • INSA Names 26 Members of Newly Formed Advisory Committee - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    INSA Names 26 Members of Newly Formed Advisory Committee

    The Intelligence and National Security Alliance has created an advisory committee to offer recommendations and guidance on events, policies and other matters related to INSA and its charitable organization. INSA said Tuesday the panel consists of 26 members who have held senior-level roles within the government or industry and previously served on former INSA advisory […] More