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Jenny Berarducci, regional vice president of customer success at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), has said a cloud-based tool provides government agencies the capability to improve the customer experience and earn the public’s trust, which is key to any mission. Berarducci wrote about the need for agencies to implement a flexible technology that could enable them to meet current and future needs.

The National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center issued a draft solicitation in late March for a potential 15-year, $40B follow-on IT support governmentwide acquisition contract, Bloomberg Government reported Friday.

CGI (NYSE: GIB) has agreed to acquire Reston, Va.-based information technology and management consulting firm TeraThink for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to expand its enterprise application services for federal government clients. The transaction is expected to be finalized by the end of March and will allow CGI Federal to build up its consulting capabilities and incorporate TeraThink’s data analytics, application development and agile enablement capabilities into its IT offerings portfolio, CGI said Wednesday.

The White House has asked Congress for $45.8B in additional funding for fiscal year 2020 and authorities to facilitate ongoing coronavirus preparedness and response efforts. Russ Vought, acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, wrote in a Wednesday letter to Congress that the Trump administration wants to amend its FY 2021 requested budget to increase the funding of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to $8.3B.

MeriTalk, a public-private partnership focused on improving the outcomes of government IT, today announced the results of its new report, “Smart > Lucky:  Pillars to Fed and SLED Cloud Success,” the company announced on Tuesday.   

TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 6, 2020 — Rob Davies, executive vice president of operations at ViON, urged federal information technology teams to adopt an infrastructure-as-a-service platform to increase the flexibility of their systems, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday.

Enlightenment Capital announced the launch of IntelliBridge formed through the acquisition of IntelliWare by Trowbridge. IntelliBridge is a McLean, Va.-based portfolio company of Enlightenment Capital and is focused on providing intelligence, cyber, cloud and digital support services to federal civilian, defense and intelligence agencies, the private investment firm said Thursday.

American Systems has achieved 45 years since its founding in 1975, the company reported on Monday. 

Preferred Systems Solutions has purchased Chantilly, Va.-based information technology management consulting firm Eagle Ray for an undisclosed sum. Babs Doherty, president and CEO of Eagle Ray, will bring to PSS her over three decades’ experience in the national security space as a senior vice president within the newly created Eagle Ray Technologies Group and will report directly to Randy Morgan, PSS president and CEO and a previous Wash100 award recipient, PSS said.

Executive Mosaic is honored to present Venkatapathi “PV” Puvvada, president of Unisys' federal business as an inductee into the 2020 edition of the Wash100 Award for advancing IT modernization, cloud and other capabilities for federal agencies while also driving revenue for Unisys.