Tag Archives: IT

Nicolas Nowinski, formerly a technical architect at Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), has joined ViON as vice president of information technology and security. “Nicolas understands how best to blend IT with business strategy, which is an important set of skills that mirrors how our customers and all modern organizations are approaching IT,” Tom …

Federal contract spending has increased by 5.8 percent per year in the past five fiscal years driven by agencies’ rising use of simplified acquisition procedures and governmentwide procurement contracts, Bloomberg Government reported Wednesday. Contract spending in FY 2018 reached $560B, according to the report. Federal agencies obligated $15B on government …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 8, 2018 — David Egts, chief technologist for the North American public sector business at Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), has identified open source training as an approach that the federal government can take to advance the cybersecurity and information technology skills of its workforce, ExecutiveBiz reported …

The National Institutes of Health has released a list of awardees on the Section 8(a) track of a potential four-year, $20B governmentwide acquisition contract for information technology and health IT support services. A FedBizOpps notice published Wednesday says there are four confirmed 8(a) awardees on the on-ramp Chief Information Officer-Solutions and Partners …

General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) information technology business has received a potential $159.6M contract modification to continue to provide IT services for the U.S. Navy‘s naval enterprise network outside the continental U.S. The ONE-Net contract modification has a one-year base term worth $78.8M and an option that could extend work through May …

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 professionals. “Therefore, …

Ro Dhanda, an information technology industry veteran, has joined Snowflake Computing as regional vice president of U.S. federal business, GovConWire has learned. He spent eight years at Dell EMC, where most recently served as director of federal sales at the company’s Isilon business and head of federal sales for the …

The U.S. Army has selected four small businesses to provide information technology services to the branch’s Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center under a potential five-year, $72M contract. Army Contracting Command received seven bids for the firm-fixed-price contract that will run through Nov. 8, 2023, the Defense Department said Friday. ARDEC builds and engineers armament …

E3 Federal Solutions and Washington, D.C.-based government services contractor The Sentinel Company have merged to form a combined firm that seeks to support clients in the federal services market. Sentinel CEO Andy Maner will lead the combined entity as CEO and Everett Johnson will continue to oversee E3’s daily operations as president, the companies …

Tom Topping, senior director of strategic programs at FireEye (Nasdaq: FEYE), has said agencies should leverage cyber threat intelligence to manage risks and protect information technology systems from adversaries. Topping wrote that security teams can determine potential attackers as well as their tactics, techniques and procedures used to compromise data …