Posts from GovCon Daily for 06/10/2015

Acquisition Company GDEF to Buy STG in $165M Cash-Stock Deal

Acquisition company Global Defense & National Security Systems (NASDAQ: GDEF) has agreed to purchase Reston, Va.-based government contractor STG for approximately $165.5 million in cash and stock, GDEF said Wednesday…

Anne Rung to Issue New Buyers Club Adoption Guidance

Anne Rung, administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, has said her office plans to release new guidance late in the summer on how agencies can set up their own Buyers Club-type programs over the next two years, Federal News Radio reported Monday…

Deltek’s Alex Rossino: Federal Cloud Spend to Hit $2B in FY 2015

Federal spending on cloud computing technologies will grow around 26.5 percent fiscal year 2015 compared to fiscal 2014, Alex Rossino of Deltek writes in a blog entry posted Tuesday. Rossino, a principal research analyst at the company, predicts agencies to see an increase in spending from $1…

Appian Picks SAP Consulting Firm as Public Sector BPM Partner; Anthony Cecchini Comments

Appian Corp. has selected an SAP consulting company as a new service partner to help deliver business process management services to Appian public sector clients. IT Partners Inc. will work with Appian customers to implement business process tools through the use of Appian’s training resources, IT Partners said Tuesday…

Amit Yoran: Detection, Response Should Be Industry’s Cyber Focus Areas

RSA‘s inaugural report on the “Cybersecurity Poverty Index” says a majority of large organizations see themselves as lacking in cyber maturity based on the National Institute of Standards and Technology‘s cybersecurity framework…