Hello, Guest!
  • Friday, April 19, 2024

Salient CRGT Wins $105M USAID IT Program Support Contract; Tom Ferrando Quoted

Salient CRGT has secured a five-year, $105 million contract to help the U.S. Agency for International Development manage information technology portfolio, consolidate IT services, adopt cloud computing approaches, update networks and secure systems.

The single-award USAID Strategic Programs contract covers support for the agency’s Office of the Chief Information Officer across six functional areas, Salient CRGT said Tuesday.

OCIO will work with the company to manage enterprise architecture, projects, quality, investments, audit work and Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act compliance.

Tom Ferrando, CEO of Salient CRGT, said the company aims to assist USAID in addressing the agency’s international development and disaster assistance mission.

USAID awarded the contract under the General Services Administration’s Alliant 2 contract vehicle.

Video of the Day

Related Articles

Red Hat’s Mark Anderson: Everything-as-Code Approach, Automation Could Help Agencies Advance Cloud Security News

Red Hat’s Mark Anderson: Everything-as-Code Approach, Automation Could Help Agencies Advance Cloud Security

Mark Anderson, an associate principal solutions architect at Red Hat, said government agencies looking to manage and ensure the security of hybrid cloud environments should implement an everything-as-code approach and automation. In an article published in Carahsoft.com, Anderson wrote that the everything-as-code approach “means thinking about how to approach operations in a way in which

Palo Alto Networks’ David Kubicki on Future-Proofing Cloud Security News

Palo Alto Networks’ David Kubicki on Future-Proofing Cloud Security

David Kubicki, senior manager of solution architects for the public sector at Palo Alto Networks (Nasdaq: PANW), said an ideal cloud security platform enables government agencies to address security requirements “while enabling them to expand for additional use cases as their cloud maturity increases.” “Adopting a platform designed with flexibility and choice in its architecture

USDA Selects 37 Vendors for STRATUS Cloud Basic Ordering Agreement Pool 2 Contract Awards

USDA Selects 37 Vendors for STRATUS Cloud Basic Ordering Agreement Pool 2

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded basic ordering agreements to 37 companies as part of the second pool of the STRATUS program for cloud integration and development support services. USDA issued a request for quotes in late September and received 122 quotes for STRATUS Cloud BOA Pool 2, according to a special notice published