TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 16, 2016 ” Amazon Web Services (Nasdaq: AMZN) will provide cloud services to facilitate the migration of the Government Publishing Office‘s Integrated Library System Web portals to the cloud, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. GPO said Thursday AWS’ cloud infrastructure will host GPO’s public-fac...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 16, 2016 ” Mike Tanner, president and CEO of Hitachi Data Systems‘ federal business, has urged government agencies to adopt software-defined networks and tiered storage tools to address big data challenges, Executive Gov reported March 7. Tanner wrote in a guest piece published March 3 on FedTech that SDN works to...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 16, 2016 ” Steve Harris, vice president and general manager of Dell‘s federal systems business, has said a “future-ready” organization will utilize employee engagement to drive the implementation of the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act, Executive Gov reported March 3. Har...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 16, 2016 ” Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has entered into an agreement with the Department of Veterans Affairs to boost the company’s data security role in the Million Veteran Program, GovCon Executive reported March 4. The company said March 3 the cooperative research and development agreement covers precision...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 16, 2016 ” Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) will work to provide cybersecurity support to the Defense Department‘s Information Analysis Centers as part of a $5 billion U.S. Air Force contract awarded in November, GovCon Executive reported March 4. The company said March 3 it will deliver analytics, engineering...
Jacksonville, Florida-based engineering and infrastructure services company Haskell has agreed to purchase Leidos‘ (NYSE: LDOS) heavy construction business and some design assets of the latter’s engineering business for an undisclosed sum. Haskell said Wednesday the transaction is scheduled to clos...
Retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho, a former army surgeon general and head of the branch’s medical command, will join Accenture‘s (NYSE: ACN) U.S. government services subsidiary on April 6 as leader of the defense health practice. Accenture Federal Services said Wednesday she will oversee the pr...
Bechtel has appointed Barbara Rusinko, a three-decade engineering veteran and a former manager at Bechtel, to the role of president for the Reston, Virginia-based infrastructure management services contractor’s U.S. government business and to the rank of executive vice president. The company said Tuesday Rusinko will oversee the Bech...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has secured a potential $897 million contract modification to build and deliver to the U.S. Army a total of 39 CH-47F Chinook helicopters under production lot 14. The multiyear contract covers 12 new-build Chinooks and 27 renew helicopters, the Defense Department said Tuesday. The Boeing-built CH-47F Chinook is a vertical-lift heli...
Colorado Springs, Colorado-based engineering consultant firm Aleut O&M Services has landed a $395 million contract to provide launch operations and infrastructure support to the U.S. Air Force. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract calls for Aleut O&M to provide facility and system operations, maintenance and enginee...
