Posts from GovConWire for 05/19/2016

James Clapper: Cyber Attacks Target US Presidential Campaigns

James Clapper, director of national intelligence, has warned about what he calls indications of cyber threats against the 2016 U.S. presidential campaigns, Politico reported Wednesday. Clapper told his audience at an event hosted by the Bipartisan Policy Center that authorities have discovered actors who are waging cyber attacks against campaign-associated organizations and individuals, Darren Goode reports…

PSI Helps DoD Implement Military Blood Donor Mgmt System; Terry Lin Comments

Planned Systems International Inc. has completed the deployment of the company’s blood donor management system for the Defense Department‘s Armed Services Blood Program at various military medical facilities worldwide…

Former HDS GM Jeff Henry Appointed as ViON Strategic Initiatives SVP

Jeff Henry has joined ViON as senior vice president of strategic initiatives and a member of the company’s executive leadership team. Henry, who served as SVP and general manager of the Americas sales and services division at Hitachi Data Systems, will oversee ViON’s strategic programs and help develop new processes for the company and its partners, ViON said Wednesday…

Lockheed’s Sikorsky Unit Receives $88M Contract Modification for 8 Black Hawk Helicopters

Sikorsky Aircraft, a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), has received a contract modification worth $88 million from the U.S. Army for the delivery of eight additional UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters…

Carahsoft Wins Integration Support IDIQ for USSOCOM Distributed Common Ground/Surface System

Carahsoft Technology has won a potential $42 million contract to provide development, operational support and integration testing services for the U.S. Special Operations Command’s Distributed Common Ground/Surface System Integration Backbone Metadata Catalog…

SAS Names JR Helmig as Chief Analytics Officer for Federal Gov’t Business

SAS Institute has appointed J.R. Helmig to lead the company’s analytics strategy as chief analytics officer for the federal government business. The analytics firm said Wednesday Helmig will work to determine federal trends in analytics and sources of disruption, maintain public-private partnerships and support research and development efforts…

USCIS Eyes Commercial Web-Based Platform to Process Workers’ Compensation Claims

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services looks to procure commercial software that can be modified to help the agency implement a workers compensation case management system. USCIS is looking for potential sources of a web-based platform that will work to process, analyze, compile and generate reports for the agency’s Workers’ Compensation Program, the Department of Homeland Security said in a notice posted Wednesday on FedBizOpps…

General Dynamics to Support Air Force’s GPS Signal Generation Tech Project

General Dynamics will collaborate with the Air Force Research Laboratory to develop GPS satellite digital waveform generation technology under a potential $10.1 million contract the company has won from the U…

House Passes Bill to Help State, Local Agencies Address Cyber Risks

The House voted 394-3 Monday to pass a bill that aims to increase cyber defenses at the state and local levels of government. The National Cybersecurity Preparedness Consortium Act , sponsored by Joaquin Castro (D-Texas), would authorize the Department of Homeland Security to partner with universities and nonprofit to offer cyber risk and incident management training, courses and technical assistance to state and local agency officials and first responders, Castro’s office said Monday…

House Committee Proposes $56B Commerce, Justice, Science Budget for Fiscal 2017

The House Appropriations Committee has unveiled a bill that would provide $56B in discretionary funding for the departments of Commerce and Justice as well as federal science agencies for fiscal year 2017…

May 18 Market Close: GovCon Index Nudges Gain on Booz Allen, McKesson Boosts

The GovCon Index hovered in neutral territory during the final two hours of trade Wednesday and closed at a gain of 0.220 points to 77.591 despite its descent from a strong early afternoon session…