The Interior Department has selected IBM (NYSE: IBM), Deloitte and Summit2Sea Consulting to provide Oracle Federal Financials accounting system support for the agency™s Financial Management Line of Business program. A FedBizOpps notice posted Friday says IBM and Deloitte’s consulting business will compete for up to $120M in task orders un...
The U.S. Army has revealed a new roster of industry partners under a potential $37.4B contract that covers knowledge-based professional engineering support services to command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance programs. The Army Contracting Command received 388 bids for the Responsive Strategic Sourci...
Google has dropped plans to compete for the Defense Department™s potential 10-year, $10B Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud procurement contract, Federal News Network reported Monday. œWe couldn™t be assured that it would be aligned with our artificial intelligence (AI) principles, Aileen Black, an executive direc...
Tom Reilly, CEO of Cloudera (NYSE: CLDR), told CNBC in an interview that aired Friday the proposed merger of the Palo Alto, Calif.-based software firm with Hortonworks (Nasdaq: HDP) will create a new company that will deliver software across all major cloud service providers. “We work on Amazon, Microsoft, Google, the IBM Cloud,...
The Food and Drug Administration has awarded four companies contracts worth up to $75M each to develop automated methods for reporting adverse drug events. IBM (NYSE: IBM), Acumen, Dovel Technologies and IQVIA Government Solutions will use artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing and other automation...
Tina Dolph, a more than two-decade government industry veteran, has been named president and CEO of Siemens™ U.S. federal arm in a move that takes effect Oct. 1. œTina™s depth of understanding in government finance, strategy and operations aligns perfectly to SGT™s continued growth, Anne Altman, board chairman at Siemens Governme...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, September 17, 2018 ” Technology companies including Dell EMC, Gemalto, HyTrust, IBM (NYSE: IBM), Intel (Nasdaq: INTC), RSA and VMware (NYSE: VMW) will work with the National Institute of Standards and Technology on a project to establish a “Trusted Cloud” that will ensure the security and privacy of work...
Four companies have each won a potential five-year, $75M contract to provide the Food and Drug Administration™s center for biologics evaluation and research with data, tools and infrastructure for use in the surveillance of vaccines, tissues, blood products and other biologics. A FedBizOpps notice posted Monday says IBM (NYSE: IBM), Acumen, Dov...
The Department of Defense has announced its $10 billion, Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud services contract will stay single sourced, the Washington Business Journal reported Thursday. The DoD revealed the decision in their final request for proposals. Single sourcing the award has been highly controversial among defense contractors and...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has chosen multiple research teams from the commercial and academic sectors to address microelectronics innovation challenges as part of an initiative worth up to $1.5 billion over five years. DARPA said Tuesday the Electronics Resurgence Initiative covers six “Page 3” programs that seek...
