Twenty-four companies have won spots on a potential $3B indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide professional and technical services for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s efforts to address environmental, social and economic pressures on U.S. oceans and coasts. NOAA announced the winning contractors ...
Dewberry has promoted a dozen staff members within the company’s office in Fairfax, Va., in a series of executive moves that coincides with an expansion of its engineering, architectural and consulting service lines within the D.C. metropolitan region. Phil Thiel took the role of executive vice president with responsibility over Dewberry’...
The Professional Services Council has announced its board of directors and executive committee elected new members and re-elected existing members during PSC™s board of directors annual membership meeting. œPSC is excited to welcome our new and returning members to the Board of Directors, and we looking forward to the leadership they ...
Tom Padgett and Laura Grant of SAP (NYSE: SAP) have said agencies should partner with a cloud service provider with a capability to innovate and offer security. Grant and Padgett wrote about the potential benefits to agencies of handing the responsibility to innovate to cloud providers. œBy shifting that responsibility to a cloud service provid...
Tony D’Angelo, vice president of federal business at Proofpoint (Nasdaq: PFPT), has said cloud migration and other information technology modernization initiatives provide agencies an opportunity to redirect their cybersecurity focus toward efforts aimed at protecting users from cyber threats. Agencies allocate only 8 percent of their cybersec...
Cloudera (NYSE: CLDR) and Hortonworks have completed their merger to offer an enterprise data cloud platform designed to help organizations carry out data analytics and machine learning functions in hybrid and multicloud environments. Cloudera CEO Tom Reilly said in a statement published Thursday the combined entity will deliver a set...
Dennis Reilly, vice president of federal sales at Gigamon, has said government agencies should have the right balance of technology, people and processes to defend and protect their information technology systems from cyber threats. Reilly wrote that one of the difficult challenges facing agencies is recruiting and retaining cybersecurity profe...
Niels Jensen, senior vice president of Americas sales at ForeScout Technologies (Nasdaq: FSCT), has said federal agencies should have visibility of their internet-of-things-based devices in order to protect their network infrastructure from cyber threats. He wrote that information technology administrators at agencies should deploy tools designed to...
On Thursday, Nov. 29th, GovCon leaders from the public and private sector gathered for the Potomac Officers Club™s Are We There Yet? Your Journey to the Cloud and the Pit Stops Along the Way Agenda, featuring an expert panel consisting of Dr. Emma Alexander and Kshemendra Paul of the Department of Homeland Security, Don Parente...
Chris Townsend, vice president of federal business at Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC), has said agencies should work with industry to standardize cyber tools used to secure networks, endpoints and data in order to facilitate information sharing with other platforms. œReducing complexity through standardization can enhance protection at every level and ...
