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Federal spending on cloud computing technologies will grow around 26.5 percent fiscal year 2015 compared to fiscal 2014, Alex Rossino of Deltek writes in a blog entry posted Tuesday. Rossino, a principal research analyst at the company, predicts agencies to see an increase in spending from $1.58 billion in fiscal 2014 to $2 billion in the current fiscal year. He […] More
RSA‘s inaugural report on the “Cybersecurity Poverty Index” says a majority of large organizations see themselves as lacking in cyber maturity based on the National Institute of Standards and Technology‘s cybersecurity framework. The company said Tuesday its survey of at least 400 security professionals around the world says 83 percent of large organizations and 75 percent of […] More
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is conducting market research on the availability of potential sources of operations, maintenance, development modernization and enhancement services for the agency’s Safety Reporting Portal system. In a notice posted Sunday on FedBizOpps, FDA said it targets small business sources such as those under the 8(a) Business Development Program and Historically Underutilized Business Zone […] More
DataDirect Networks will provide its cloud and big data storage technologies and other tools to Public Health England for the U.K. agency’s genome sequencing service on pathogenic bacteria and viruses. The company said Tuesday PHE will use its Storage Fusion Architecture engine, EXAScaler Lustre File System Appliance and WOS Object Storage platform to deliver the Next-Generation Sequencing Processing and […] More
Inmarsat has chosen Globecomm Systems as a reseller of Global Xpress satellite services for the global maritime market as the companies push to expand their partnership in the enterprise and global government markets. Inmarsat said Tuesday the agreement adds its GX offering to Globecomm’s satellite communications portfolio for maritime customers. “I’m delighted to welcome [Globecomm] as a maritime GX VAR […] More
The Internal Revenue Service plans to award three blanket purchase agreements worth $129 million combined in July for a new identity verification service separate from Connect.gov, Federal News Radio reported Monday. Jared Serbu writes that the agency issued a request for quotations at the end of April as it transitions away from the governmentwide use of Connect.gov. […] More
Exceed Resources has received a $73 million performance-based, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from NASA for administrative and secretarial support services at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. NASA said Friday the contract has a five-year period of performance that starts Aug. 2, 2015 and ends in May 2020. According to the space agency, Exceed Resources Inc. will perform work under the JSC Administrative Support Services […] More
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that nonfarm payroll employment in the U.S. increased by 280,000 during May and unemployment rate held at 5.5 percent. BLS said in its latest jobs report released Friday the unemployment rate has been stable since February alongside the number of unemployed persons, with the long-term unemployed number at 2.5 million. BLS said the increase in nonfarm […] More
Parsons, Vinci and other partners in the SaskLink Global Transportation Partners consortium will partner with Saskatchewan’s ministry of highways and infrastructure on the $160.1 million construction project for the Regina Bypass in Canada. The provincial government said May 29 that it selected SGTP as the preferred bidder or proponent on the Regina Bypass Project as part […] More
FireEye has partnered with Visa to jointly develop a Web-based service and associated tools that will work to secure payment data and infrastructure through the use of shared threat intelligence. The companies said Wednesday the Visa and FireEye Community Threat Intelligence service is part of their overall partnership, which includes the release of tools for threat monitoring. “The threat environment […] More
Lockheed Martin has received a 12-year, $78.7 million contract from the U.K. defense ministry to design and develop a synthetic training system for the Chinook Mk6 helicopter crew of the Royal Air Force. The company said Tuesday it will deploy simulators and virtual-reality technologies at a training facility at the RAF Odiham base to help Chinook pilots and crew experience […] More
Orbital ATK has received a $27 million production order for additional DSU-33D/B proximity sensors under a follow-on contract to a 2013 full-rate production award from the U.S. Air Force. The company said Wednesday the sensor works to support precision detonation and maximize the weapon’s blast and fragmentation effects through a fire pulse to the FMU-139 and FMU-152 bomb fuzes and […] More
