Posts from GovConDaily for 02/11/2016

Veterans Affairs Secretary Bob McDonald, Inducted Into 2016 Wash100 for Health Services Delivery Vision

Executive Mosaic is honored to introduce Veterans Affairs Secretary Bob McDonald, for a second consecutive year, as the newest inductee into the 2016 edition of the Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of influential leaders in the government contracting arena…

February 11 Market Close: GovCon Index, S&P 500 Fall to 10% YTD Plunges on Growth Fears & Boeing SEC Probe Report

The GovCon Index fell victim to across-the-board selloffs in global financial markets Thursday with a decline of 2.113 percent to 68.747, a figure that puts the Index at a decline of 11.34 percent from the start of the year…

IDC: Cloud to Represent 8% of FY 2016 Federal IT Spend, Could Reach 50% Share by 2018

A new report by IDC Government Insights predicts overall agency spend on cloud computing technologies for fiscal year 2016 will represent 8.5 percent of the federal government’s overall information technology budget…

Unisys’ Casey Coleman: DevOps Key to Agile Federal IT Platform Deployment

Casey Coleman, vice president of the federal civilian business group at Unisys, has said she believes the adoption of the development-operations concept can help federal information technology executives achieve efficiency and advance agile processes…

DIA’s Vincent Stewart: Cyber, Hostile Intell, Terrorism Key Global Security Challenges

Lt. Gen. Vincent Stewart, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, has informed the Senate Armed Services Committee that regional security issues, malicious intrusion, transnational terrorism and hostile foreign intelligence activities remain as the biggest threats to the U…

James Clapper Addresses Cyber Threats, Anti-Satellite Systems Before Senate Panel

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has said the U.S. continues to face cyber espionage-related threats from countries such as China, North Korea, Iran and Russia. Clapper said in his testimony Tuesday before the Senate Armed Services Committee that the Islamic State organization also poses cyber threats to the U…

Patrick Gallagher: Carahsoft, HPE Form Info Governance Partnership for Big Data Clients

Carahsoft and Hewlett Packard Enterprise have partnered in a bid to help government clients manage risks associated with big data through the companies’ information governance strategy. Patrick Gallagher, a vice president at Carahsoft, wrote in an article published Wednesday that information governance refers to technologies and functions that organizations implement in order to obtain value from their enterprise data…

ULA, Tyvak Ink CubeSat Rideshare Agreement; Tory Bruno Comments

United Launch Alliance has selected Tyvak Nanosatellite Systems to serve as an auxiliary payload customer on ULA’s CubeSat rideshare program under a memorandum of understanding between the two companies…