A Bloomberg Government webinar revealed that a Department of Defense component agency, two service branches and a civilian agency plan to recompete six of the largest contracts this year, Federal News Network reported Thursday.

Greg Simons, vice president of support services and business development at SAP National Security Services, has said improving customer experience should be part of federal agencies’ digital transformation efforts.

Kevin Richards, vice president and head of U.S. government relations at SAP (NYSE: SAP), has said using data could help agencies track and understand the effectiveness of platforms.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, December 23, 2019 — Shaun Bierweiler, vice president and general manager of public sector business at Cloudera, said agencies should develop a data strategy that is independent from service providers in order to sustain ownership over information, ExecutiveBiz reported Dec. 11.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 10, 2019 — Bob Fortna, president of Fortinet’s (Nasdaq: FTNT) federal business, urged federal agencies to consider security while updating information technology systems to be compatible with cloud technology instead of adding features to secure IT infrastructure after modernization efforts have already taken place, ExecutiveBiz reported Dec. 4.

Tom Topping, senior director of strategic programs at FireEye (Nasdaq: FEYE), has said threat intelligence and continuous visibility into their networks could allow agencies to focus their efforts and resources on adversaries that are most likely to attack them.

Dennis Reilly, vice president of federal at Gigamon, has said government agencies should have pervasive visibility into their virtual and physical networks, cloud environments and encrypted traffic to quickly detect breaches and defend their information technology infrastructure against adversaries.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 19, 2019 — Steve Harris, senior vice president and general manager of Dell EMC's federal unit, said adopting a multicloud strategy can offer security, transparency and flexibility advantages to agencies, ExecutiveBiz reported Nov. 6.

Katherine Gronberg, vice president of government affairs at Forescout Technologies (Nasdaq: FSCT), has said federal agencies should have better visibility of nontraditional endpoints within their information technology systems to help ensure network security.

I’ve previously written about a procurement for suicide prevention locks and associated printing services that was undertaken for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) by the Government Publishing Office (GPO). A veteran-owned small business challenged the VA and the GPO procurement at the Government Accountability Office (GAO), at the Court …