Latest Federal & Government Contracting Companies' News Coverage
A team comprising Datapipe and TechAnax have secured a potential five-year contract to provide information technology support services for the Department of Veterans Affairs. The IT firms will work with a group of contractors to plan and carry out data center migration and offer hosting services to VA, Datapipe said Tuesday. Under the contract, Datapipe will work to […] More
Brian Marvin serves as vice president of sales for the public sector at BMC Software. Marvin has been with the software company since 2007 and his prior roles include regional manager for the federal sector;Â country manager for France, Spain and Portugal; and VP of worldwide channels and data center automation. His focus areas at BMC […] More
A new TechServe Alliance report has found that U.S. companies employed 193,300 new information technology workers and created 15,000 new engineering jobs since July 2014. Employment in the IT field grew by 0.3 percent to 4,959,500 workers in July 2015, the Virginia-based trade association said Wednesday. The U.S. engineering workforce rose by at least 0.1 percent […] More
Richard Spires, CEO of Resilient Network Systems, has highlighted what he calls the root causes of insecure federal information technology infrastructure. Spires wrote in an opinion piece for FCW published Monday that the lack of IT management best practices is one of the factors that lead to data breaches and compromise in several agencies. He […] More
The Maryland-based National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence is searching for industry sources to develop a cybersecurity system intended to help control access to information technology assets. Contractors would design three projects around access control, personal identity verification credentials and mobile devices, the National Institute of Standards and Technology said Friday. One project is focused on the […] More
Knight Point Systems has made Inc. magazine’s roster of 5,000 fastest-growing companies in the U.S. for the fourth consecutive year. The Reston, Virginia-based company said it ranked 1191st in the list and that the publication has pegged the firm’s three-year growth rate at 353 percent. Knight Point offers cybersecurity, data center, cloud computing and application […] More
The General Services Administration has designated doForms Inc. as an IT Schedule 70 contractor. Government agencies will have access to doForms software and other information technology products through the vehicle, doForms said Tuesday. “This Schedule 70 contract will expand our ability to work with federal, state and local agencies,†said John Darienzo, CEO of doForms. More
The Defense Department’s increasing use of “lowest price-technically acceptable†procedures to buy information technology systems and services has raised some concerns among some IT defense contractors, National Defense reported Wednesday. Sandra Erwin writes DoD’s use of LPTA bids to award contracts rose from 26 percent of total awards in fiscal year 2009 to 36 percent in fiscal year 2013. Kevin […] More
Serco‘s North American subsidiary has received a nine-month, $13 million task order to install new command, communication, control, computer, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platforms for the U.S. Navy. The contract also covers certification and testing services related to C4ISR systems, Serco Inc. said Thursday. Dan Allen, chairman and CEO of Serco Inc., said the company’s work under the […] More
Airbus Defense and Space will work to update the information technology infrastructure of NATO’s Allied Air Command headquarters at Ramstein Air Base in Germany. Airbus said Tuesday it will install new Secret LAN, Mission Secret LAN and Public LAN for NATO in order to virtualize user workstations and implement a voice over Internet Protocol system. Germany’s […] More
Zalmai Azmi, formerly CIO at FBI, has joined management consulting firm IMTAS as president and chief operating officer. “He has exceptional experience in law enforcement, security and intelligence and has an excellent background and senior level expertise in both the government and private sectors,†Ajay Bhatia, CEO and chairman of the board at IMTAS, said July […] More
QTS Realty Trust has updated the company’s managed security services intended to help clients address network threats. The Alert Logic-powered cloud-based services work with hybrid information technology ecosystems for customers to detect and mitigate vulnerabilities in the network, QTS said Friday. “QTS managed security is built to help customers rapidly respond to and mitigate threats […] More
