Dan Fallon, senior director of public sector systems engineers at Nutanix (Nasdaq: NTNX), said agencies should tap the power of software as they take a unified approach to edge computing and manage large volumes of data. “Agencies need a platform that seamlessly unifies all elements of their enterprise IT. In …
Read More »SolarWinds Hires Consulting Firm Krebs Stamos Group to Assist in Cybersecurity Assessment
SolarWinds (NYSE: SWI) has enlisted the help of a consulting firm Christopher Krebs, former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and a two-time Wash100 awardee, established with Alex Stamos, former chief security officer at Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), to support the software vendor’s intrusion review process, Reuters reported Friday. …
Read More »Army Exercises $114M Option to Extend Palantir’s Work on ‘Vantage’ Data Analytics Program
The U.S. Army has awarded Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) a potential $113.8M contract option to continue work on a program that seeks to facilitate the decision-making process through a data analytics platform. The award made by the service’s program executive office for enterprise information systems represents the first option year under a potential four-year, $458M production agreement the Army awarded in December 2019 in support of the Vantage program.
Read More »Perspecta’s Jeff Bohling to Serve as Keynote Moderator at GovConWire’s Air Force: IT Plans and Priorities Forum
Jeff Bohling, senior vice president and general manager of the defense group at Perspecta, will participate in GovConWire’s Air Force: IT Plans and Priorities Forum on January 5th as the keynote moderator. Lauren Knausenberger, deputy chief information officer of the U.S. Air Force, will deliver the keynote address at the virtual event. To register for the Air Force: IT Plans and Priorities Forum, as well as view upcoming opportunities, visit GovConWire’s Event Page.
Read More »Palantir to Help FDA Review, Approve Drugs Under Three-Year Contract
Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) has received a potential three-year, $44.4M contract from the Food and Drug Administration to provide software that could be used to analyze data associated with drug reviews and inspections, Bloomberg reported Monday.
Read More »Palantir Helps HHS Develop ‘Tiberius’ System to Track COVID-19 Vaccine Production, Distribution
Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) is working on software for a new system that could help federal health officials track the production, administration and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
Read More »Carlyle Group Buys Procurement Software Provider Unison From Abry Partners
The Carlyle Group (Nasdaq: CG) has acquired Unison, a Dulles, Va.-based provider of contract management, supply chain and procurement software to federal agencies and contractors, from private equity investment firm Abry Partners for an undisclosed sum.
Cerner Gets Potential $99M VA Software, Hardware Sustainment Task Order
Cerner (Nasdaq: CERN) has received a potential one-year, $98.6M task order from the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide sustainment support for VA’s software and hardware platforms. FedHealthIT reported the task order was awarded through an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for the modernization of an electronic health record system.
Read More »Vertosoft Partners with Zimperium to Provide FedRAMP Authorized Mobile Threat Defense; Jim Kovach, Jay Colavita Quoted
Vertosoft has partnered with Zimperium, the global leader in mobile threat defense (MTD) and the first MTD provider that is FedRAMP Authorized, to serve as Zimperium’s public sector distributor, Vertosoft reported on Wednesday.
Read More »George Mason University Wins $321M Air Force MUDLAN Tech Demonstration Contract
George Mason University has won a potential five-year, $320.7M contract from the U.S. Air Force to develop and demonstrate software and hardware under the Mobile Unmanned/Manned Distributed Lethality Airborne Network program.
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