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  • Sylint Receives NSA Cyber Incident Response Assistance Accreditation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sylint Receives NSA Cyber Incident Response Assistance Accreditation

    Sylint Group has received National Security Agency accreditation after the company demonstrated its capacity to deliver cyber incident response services to government agencies, nonprofit organizations and public companies. Sylint said Tuesday it is one of 16 U.S. companies that have obtained NSA’s Cyber Incident Response Assistance accreditation status. Charles Shugg, a Sylint senior partner and retired U.S. […] More

  • DRT Awarded $52M to Help Labor Dept Build Cloud-Based Workers' Compensation System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DRT Awarded $52M to Help Labor Dept Build Cloud-Based Workers’ Compensation System

    DRT Strategies has won a seven-year, $52 million contract to build a cloud-based enterprise platform for a Labor Department office that administers disability compensation programs for certain employees and their dependents. The company said Thursday it aims to create a single platform for the department’s Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs to manage, distribute and review employee benefits. “We look forward to deploying our talented […] More

  • PwC Offers Strategies for Defense Contractors That Seek Emerging Market Opportunities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PwC Offers Strategies for Defense Contractors That Seek Emerging Market Opportunities

    PwC‘s strategy and consulting team has suggested various strategies the group believes can help defense companies win contracts in emerging countries such as Saudi Arabia, India, South Korea and Japan. PwC advisers Randy Starr and Anurag Garg wrote in a 2017 trend report they forecast that defense contractors will increasingly seek business with individual nations as military budgets in traditional defense […] More

  • Judson Brandt Named CEO of Cyber Intell Firm Cybis - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Judson Brandt Named CEO of Cyber Intell Firm Cybis

    Judson Brandt, former chief technology officer of Bridgewater Associates, has been elected by Cybis‘ board of directors to serve as CEO of the McLean, Virginia-based cybersecurity intelligence company. Cybis, a joint venture Convergint Technologies and Orbis Operations, said Monday that Brandt aims to leverage his technology and cybersecurity experience to help the company grow its position in the cybersecurity intelligence services market. […] More

  • Govini Predicts Increased Competition for IT Contracts Across Pentagon in 2017 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Govini Predicts Increased Competition for IT Contracts Across Pentagon in 2017

    A Govini report predicts competition for information technology contracts across the Defense Department and service branches to increase in 2017 as $210 billion worth of DoD contracts approach expiration in the coming year, Nextgov reported Wednesday. Frank Konkel writes the analytics firm also estimates bids for each expiring IT contract to increase to an average of […] More

  • Andrew Lewis Appointed Chemring Group Finance Director - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Andrew Lewis Appointed Chemring Group Finance Director

    Andrew Lewis, formerly group finance director at Avon Rubber, has been appointed to the same role at U.K.-based technology products and services provider Chemring Group  effective Jan. 9, 2017. Chemring said Dec. 13 Lewis will succeed Andrew Davies, who has served as the company’s interim finance director over the past two months, and will also join the board of […] More

  • PwC Report Forecasts 5 Global Trends That Could Disrupt Defense & Security Environments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PwC Report Forecasts 5 Global Trends That Could Disrupt Defense & Security Environments

    A new report from PwC details five global trends the consulting firm forecasts as set to disrupt defense and security environments across the world. PwC said Thursday the “Five Megatrends and their implications for Global Defense and Security” report analyzes the potential impacts from shifts in global economic power; demographic shifts; urbanization; the rise of technology; and climate change […] More

  • Andy Zimmerman Joins Sutherland as Digital Business President; Dilip Vellodi Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Andy Zimmerman Joins Sutherland as Digital Business President; Dilip Vellodi Comments

    Andy Zimmerman, former president of industrial design firm Frog Design, has joined Sutherland Global Services as president of the company’s digital business. He will oversee Sutherland Digital’s telecommunications and technology business units and help clients plan and implement their digital process transformation efforts following the realignment of the business’ design experience with big data analytics, […] More

  • Executive Profile: David Walker, Senior Strategic Adviser for PwC US Public Sector Practice - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: David Walker, Senior Strategic Adviser for PwC US Public Sector Practice

    David Walker serves as senior strategic adviser for the public sector practice at PwC’s U.S. arm. In this capacity, the 40-year audit industry veteran offers advice to senior government officials and PwC executives on public sector and financial restructuring issues. Before he joined PwC in 2015, Walker served as the seventh U.S. Comptroller General and head […] More

  • IDC: Systems Integrators Key to Federal IT Transformation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IDC: Systems Integrators Key to Federal IT Transformation

    A new IDC report has highlighted the role system integrators play in helping the federal government transition to digital platforms through the 3rd platform technologies mobility, cloud, big data and analytics and social business. The report evaluates the system integrators’ relationship with each other and with the factors the report finds conducive to government digital […] More

  • CRN: Australia's Defense Dept Orders 100K Dell Desktops - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CRN: Australia’s Defense Dept Orders 100K Dell Desktops

    Dell‘s Australia-based business unit has received a two-year, $56.9 million contract from that country’s defense department to deliver than 100,000 desktops across the military as part of a large-scale computer supply project, CRN reported Tuesday. Steven Kiernan writes the desktop units will run both Windows 7 and Windows 10 operating systems to support the project that aims […] More

  • GovCon Industry Pros Recognized in Trending 40's Top DC Corporate Counsels List - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GovCon Industry Pros Recognized in Trending 40’s Top DC Corporate Counsels List

    Laurence Grayer of Veterans Moving Forward, Gregory Nixon of Cerberus and Josh Petty of Booz Allen Hamilton have made Trending 40’s list of top corporate counsels in Washington, D.C. for 2016. The legal professionals will be honored during a ceremony that will be held Sept. 21 at Crystal City, Virginia. Other honorees include Mitre‘s Julie Bowen, AT&T‘s Rishi Chhatwal, PwC‘s Eliza Nagle, Northrop Grumman‘s Charlton Walker […] More