ASGN (NYSE: AGN), the parent organization of ECS Federal, has acquired technical risk management services provider Iron Vine Security in a push to grow ECS’ cybersecurity offerings in the government health market. Thirty-six Iron Vine employees will receive restricted stock unit awards covering about $7 million worth of acquirer shares by Jan....
Anthony Robbins, vice president of the federal business at NVIDIA, accepted his 2022 Wash100 Award, the highest honor in government contracting (GovCon), from Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson during a recent visit to the company’s office in Herndon, VA. “Anthony Robbins is an artificial intelligence evangelist known to almost everyone in t...
Jason Payne, chief technology officer for Microsoft’s (Nasdaq: MSFT) federal business, said government agencies looking to accelerate information technology modernization while advancing cybersecurity and collaboration and seeking to leverage analytical capabilities should understand the role of cloud technology in such efforts. “There is widesp...
Mike Sullivan, a vice president with Dell Financial Services, said adopting an on-demand technology offering could help government agencies manage digital transformation-related costs while enabling them to transition to a hybrid, multicloud environment. Sullivan wrote that Dell Technologies has provided agencies options in order for them to “achi...
Jason Proctor, advisory systems engineer for cyber resilience at Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL), said government agencies looking to achieve cyber resilience should develop a strategy that takes into consideration data isolation and immutability. “In fact, isolation and immutability are essential techniques that can help agencies protect critical ...
GovCon Expert Steve Orrin, chief technology officer and senior principal engineer at Intel Federal, recently spoke with GovCon Wire regarding the challenges that government agencies and federal organizations are facing to implement zero-trust architectures and refocus their data security. In addition, GovCon Expert Steve Orrin also discussed the v...
The federal government gives away hundreds of billions of dollars in contracts each year. In fact, government spending on contracts amounted to $682 billion in 2020, which is the highest one recorded in the last five years. However, spending data is hard to find, and it isn’t easy to get an accurate picture of where...
Kevin Bearden, a more than 25-year government market veteran, has joined Cherokee Federal as vice president of humanitarian solutions. In his new position, Bearden will spearhead the Tulsa, Oklahoma-based contractor’s work with various agencies across immigration, refugee and emergency response programs, the federal division of Chero...
B&A, a McLean, Virginia-based information technology systems integrator, has partnered with cybersecurity software company Trend Micro to provide a set of platforms meant to help federal government customers improve their security posture through rapid threat detection and response. “Trend Micro provides our customers with a better way to ...
The General Services Administration announced that the upcoming Federal Marketplace Spring 2022 release will include information on a new platform for the buyer experience that was developed using human centered design principles and feedback from federal agency buyers, acquisition professionals and suppliers. GSA said Wednesday the updated buyer ex...
