Pragmatics taps new VP, GM of civilian business

Pragmatics has named Christopher Hegedus vice president and general manager of the company's federal civilian division where he'll oversee work with customers such as the State Department, DHS, FAA and the Patent & Trademarket Office.

  • By Mark Hoover

Give your boss your FB password? Yes, under CISPA

An amendment to CISPA that would have prevented employers from asking their employees to release their Facebook passwords has been blocked, The Huffington Post reports.

  • By Washington Technology staff

Rockwell Collins wins $85M contract to augment Army helicopters

Rockwell Collins has won a contract with the Defense Logistics Agency to provide spare parts and navigation systems for Army helicopters

  • By Mark Hoover

Air Force makes NetCents 2 awards, now what?

The Air Force has made awards for its $6.9 billion NetCents 2 Products contract, a year rescinding awards to nine companies. Some of those companies won again, but five lost. And most of the protesting companies lost again as well. That begs the question: Are more protests imminent?

  • By Nick Wakeman

3 questions every market newcomer has to answer

Box.com, a cloud-based collaboration platform, is making a run at the federal market, but are they patient enough, and are they making the right investments to succeed? Those are the critical questions to ask any newcomer to the federal market.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Is the $6.9B NetCents 2 merry-go-round about to start again?

The word is out that the Air Force is about to make awards for its $6.9 billion NetCents 2 Products contract, a year after getting chased off the field by a slew of protests. Will there luck be better this time around?

  • By Nick Wakeman

Stottlemyer explains Acentia's vision for acquisitions

The pursuit of the perfect acquisition of Acentia started with 150 prospects before narrowing down to three targets and finally the closing of one deal, for 2020 Company. But it all started with a clear-eyed vision that CEO Todd Stottlemyer explains step-by-step.

  • By David Hubler
Opinion

Winning is a team sport. Are you getting everyone to play?

Today we are in a bear market, so everyone in operations and program managers need to learn their role business development and sales. Are your employees firing on all cylinders?

  • By Robert Davis

Objectives revised for $10B NIH CIO-CS contract

The National Institutes of Health expands the number of product categories and changes the cloud services to be offered under its $10 billion Chief Information Officer – Commodity Solutions contract, via a revised statement of objectives.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Who are the D.C.-areas' top women tech leaders?

Women in Technology has announced 13 winners for its 14th Annual Leadership Awards, honoring leading female professionals who have excelled as mentors and who embody the WIT mission. Who took the top honors?

  • By Mark Hoover

OFPP goes full speed ahead with strategic sourcing

The Office of Federal Procurement Policy wants to move forward with strategic sourcing efforts, and has delivered a set of proposals for how and where to expand the Federal Strategic Sourcing Initiative.

  • By Washington Technology staff

OMB continues call for better past performance reports

Contracting officials across government do not have enough information related to contractors' procurement policy, and this needs to change, according to Joe Jordan, administrator for federal procurement policy at OMB.

  • By Washington Technology staff

Agencies want OMB to let them reprogram dollars

Now that the 2013 spending bill is completed, agencies have been submitting requests to the OMB to reprogram funds, softening the effect that sequestration would have on them.

  • By Washington Technology staff

KEYW evolves its strategy on way to dealmaker of the year award

The four deals KEYW closed last year aren't about critical mass. The company's M&A focus now as a more strategic focus as it builds out its cyber and intell portfolios

  • By Mark Hoover

ManTech wins $96M contract to support Customs and Border Protection

ManTech International has won a blanket purchase agreement to provide the U.S. Customs and Border Protection organization with information and enforcement training services, including a varity of inspection devices.

  • By Mark Hoover

Big data fuels cross-country acquisition

Haystax builds on its big data chops with the acquisition of Digital Sandbox and the addition of monitoring and risk and threat analysis capabilities.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Catapult takes on IT capital planning, investment services for NSF

Catapult Technology has won a contract with the National Science Foundation for IT capital planning and other portfolio and strategy services. Win gives boost to firm's strategic consulting division.

  • By Mark Hoover

Four win Air Force acqusition contracts worth millions

The Air Force has awarded four companies contracts for professional acquisition support contracts to support work at Hanscom, Wright-Patterson, Maxwell, and Randolph and Lackland Air Force bases.

  • By Mark Hoover

Big data makes for a better game, and a better Army

Georgia Tech researchers have found that, by using big data, video games can adapt the level of challenge to a user's performance, which is tracked over time. Turns out, this kind of big data is also useful with training simulations in the Army.

  • By Washington Technology staff

There's more to big data than just social media

Through an interview it had with HP Autonomy, Cloud Pro learned that big data isn't all about social media; in fact, it has some time-saving company communication applications.

  • By Washington Technology staff
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