Engility Awarded 3-Year VA IT Services Contract; Tony Smeraglinolo Comments The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded Engility Holdings (NYSE: EGL) a potential three-year, $31 million contract to deliver a range of information technology services across the agency. Engility will support almost 100 IT systems that are designed to manage VA health, benefits and...
NCI Receives $11M Engineering, Info Systems Task Orders from US Army; Brian Clark Comments NCI Inc. has received task orders totaling $10.9 million to review the design of U.S. Army facilities and support the service’s information assurance certification and accreditation process. The company will also work to align information technology components of the Army’s construction, sustainment restoration and modernization...
Adm. Michael Rogers: Gov’t-Industry Alliance Needed to Protect National Info Systems Navy Adm. Michael Rogers, National Security Agency director and commander of U.S. Cyber Command, believes the government and industry must partner to secure the nation’s information systems, DoD News reported Wednesday… Read More Mark Orndorff: DISA Works with Smartphone Makers to Meet Pentagon’s Mobile Deployment Goals The...
Mike Whitaker: FAA, Industry Form Working Group on ADS-B Avionics Integration The Federal Aviation Administration and the aviation industry have created a working group to address potential barriers aircraft operators could face when they install automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast technology… Read More Richard Montoni: MAXIMUS to Add Healthcare Workers for UK Benefits Assessment Contract MAXIMUS‘ (NYSE: MMS) U.K. subsidiary...
Carson Zimmerman: MITRE Proposes Threat-Based Defense for Government, Commercial Networks Carson Zimmerman, a MITRE principal cybersecurity engineer, has written a book intended to help government, academic and commercial organizations adopt strategies to defend their cyber-dependent information technology systems… Read More DOE Pumps $2.3M into Clean Tech Lab-to-Market Effort; David Danielson Comments The Energy Department has...
Deb Alderson: Sotera Sells Expeditionary Systems Arm in ‘Pure Play Nat’l Security’ Push Sotera Defense Solutions has sold its engineered solutions division, a provider of services and components for U.S. military field kitchens and sanitary equipment, to military tent supplier Outdoor Venture Corp… Read More Daniel Zelik: Air Force Interviewed ‘Hundreds’ of Analysts to Build Intell...
Booz Allen Purchases Health Informatics Firm Epidemico; Karen Dahut Comments Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BA) has acquired Boston-based population health informatics company Epidemico for an undisclosed sum in a push to further develop analytics offerings in population health. Karen Dahut, a Booz Allen executive vice president, said Wednesday that the acquisition is “aligned to Booz Allen’s Innovation agenda,...
18F to Form Acquisitions Planning Group; Greg Godbout Comments The General Services Administration‘s digital delivery team seeks to establish an agile development and acquisitions planning group, FCW reported Monday. Adam Mazmanian writes 18F intends for 18F Consulting to serve as a solutions architect for government agencies… Read More Katrina McFarland: New DoD Document Seeks to Reform Defense IT Acquisition Mgmt...
Graham Plaster on The Intelligence Community LLC’s Freelance Marketplace, Workforce Trends The Intelligence Community LLC has sought the help of the crowd through the firm’s new marketplace for freelancers to promote their ideas in the national security and intelligence arenas. Between October 27th and December 5th, interested individuals and companies will have the opportunity to back these ideas through the open-funding platform...
Amit Yoran Promoted to President at EMC’s RSA Arm Amit Yoran, formerly a senior vice president at EMC‘s (NYSE: EMC) RSA division, has been promoted to the role of president and succeeded Art Coviello, who will continue to serve as executive chairman of RSA… Read More Aamir Hussain Joins CenturyLink as EVP, CTO Aamir Hussain,...
