David Egts, chief technologist for North America public sector at Red Hat, wrote in an FCW commentary piece published Thursday that there are four best practices federal information technology administrators should consider adopting to support their agencies’ IT modernization efforts and one is focusing on people and processes....
Anne Hughes, a more than 30-year health care industry veteran, has been named vice president of business development at Cognosante's civilian health unit, FedHealthIT reported Thursday. Cognosante is headquartered in Falls Church, Va., and offers technology and business process outsourcing services to government health organizations....
VMware (NYSE: VMW) has agreed to acquire Pivotal Software (NYSE: PVTL) for approximately $2.7B and cybersecurity firm Carbon Black (Nasdaq: CBLK) for about $2.1B....
NASA has launched a full and open competition for a potential 15-year, $7B commercial supply services contract to send cargo, supplies and scientific instruments to a proposed moon-orbiting outpost. “Working with industry to deliver supplies necessary to support our lunar missions is a critical step to accelerate our return to the Moon under the...
The General Services Administration has added Whitespace Innovations Inc. and Engaging E-Learning Solutions as awardees on a potential $3.45B governmentwide contract vehicle for human capital and training services, GSA said Friday in a FedBizOpps notice....
Textron's (NYSE: TXT) Bell subsidiary has received Federal Aviation Administration certification under instrument flight rules for single-engine aircraft being offered to the U.S. Navy's Advanced Helicopter Training System....
Honeywell (NYSE: HON) has received a potential $110.9M contract modification to provide hardware required to overhaul engines that power the U.S. Army's Abrams tanks. Services under the contract are intended to address Advanced Gas Turbine 1500 production requirements at Anniston Army Depot and support field repair efforts under the Total ...
Amyx has won a pair of fixed-price contracts worth $104.7M combined to support procurement and program management functions at the Defense Health Agency....
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has finalized its acquisition of Malvern, Pa.-based IMX Medical Management Services and its affiliated business segments for an undisclosed sum....
Federal agencies have long been troubled with what to do when there is an expectation that multiple proposals will be submitted in response to a solicitation but only one offer is actually received....
