Business and technology consulting firm G2M Insights has entered into a partnership with Microsoft to leverage the latter’s cloud computing service. The partnership allows G2M Insights to use Microsoft’s Azure cloud to deliver tailored analytics solutions at machine speed and scale across all industry verticals. Pierre Elisseeff, the company’s co-founder and business analytics practice lead, […]
The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program has granted Palo Alto Networks an “in Process” designation for its Prisma Access solution. The milestone is expected to accelerate the deployment of consistent and secure connections to branch offices and government employees with scalable, cloud-delivered networking and security. Prisma Access is designed to address the networking and […]
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Weather Service has awarded KBR a five-year, $128M contract to provide weather data services to the National Mesonet Program, an observational weather network of networks. Together with Synoptic Data PBC, Earth Networks, WeatherFlow and the University of Oklahoma, KBR will send data collected from over 50K surface-based, mobile […]
James “Hondo” Geurts, the assistant secretary of the Navy for research, development and acquisition, has affirmed that the service is working to accelerate research and development initiatives by amending some of its business processes and switching to a distributed research model. Speaking at the Navy’s League’s Sea-Air-Space conference, the 2020 Wash100 winner said the Navy […]
Lisa Talcott has been serving as the vice president of federal civilian programs at NTT DATA Federal since October 2018. In her current role, Talcott manages NTT DATA federal’s civilian accounts, including the Department of Justice, Department of Interior, Administrative Office of the US Courts, World Bank Group, Securities and Exchange Commission, U.S. Patent and […]
The Department of Defense is requesting a $2.86B budget from Congress for hypersonic weapons in 2021, marking a nearly 14 percent increase from the department’s 2020 budget. As indicated in budget documents obtained by Breaking Defense, the U.S. Navy’s 2021 budget will jump from $526M to just over $1B, most of which will be allocated […]
Karen Brazell has moved up as assistant secretary of the Office of Enterprise Integration within the Department of Veterans Affairs. Brazell will succeed Melissa Glynn, who has opted to pursue a career in the private sector. She will transition into her new role after serving as the agency’s chief acquisition officer and principal executive director […]
The U.S. Special Operations Command has awarded Mississippi-based United States Marine Inc. a five-year, $108M indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity delivery order contract. Under the terms of the contract, USMI will deliver products needed for the production of the USSOCOM’s combatant craft assault. Work for the sole-source contract will be performed in Gulfport, Mississippi, through April 13, 2025, the Department […]
The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to use some of its 3D printing resources, which it shares with the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration, to produce ventilator parts. In an interview with Nextgov, Beth Ripley, VA’s representative for the 3D-printing partnership with the NIH and the FDA, said the shift […]
Michael Breslin is the director of strategic client relationships for federal law enforcement at LexisNexis Risk Solutions, an information technology and services company based in Alpharetta, Georgia. Since taking on the role in October 2018, Breslin has been supporting the LexisNexis federal government team by managing and establishing the executive relationships across federal law enforcement and public […]
