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Jack London, CACI International‘s executive chairman and chairman of the board of directors, said during a keynote speech Wednesday at a National Contract Management Association event that ethical practices are fundamental to the government contracting process. “Trust, confidence, and integrity are what drive successful contract management … and they are driven by character,” London told […] More

A Raytheon|Websense-commissioned study has revealed that unintentional human mistakes are the primary cause of many information technology security incidents at U.S. and German companies. Seventy-percent of U.S. security professionals surveyed by Ponemon Institute attributed employee negligence to insider threat cases and 64 percent of German security personnel acknowledged the problem during the survey, Raytheon|Websense said […] More

IBM has won a $23.1 million contract from the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency to help consolidate budget, accounting and finance management systems at the Defense Department. The company will provide technical and functional support services for the Defense Agencies Initiative under the cost-plus-incentive-fee and firm-fixed-price contract, DoD said Thursday. The program’s goal is to leverage […] More

Boeing has begun construction work on a new facility in Oklahoma City as part of its plan to move the aircraft sustainment and modernization division’s headquarters there. The company said Wednesday it will open the 290,000-square-foot building in the summer of 2016 to accommodate personnel involved in research and development and engineering operations. Leanne Caret, president […] More

The Defense Department’s Better Buying Power program has spurred the adoption of “lowest price-technically acceptable” methods to procure supplies and services across DoD, Alex Rossino writes in a blog post for Deltek. Rossino, a principal research analyst at Deltek, says BBP aims to speed up acquisitions and help the DoD integrate platforms with its information technology infrastructure through “short term procurements with […] More

David King, the newly-appointed CEO at Dynetics, said the company has been “making great progress” on its initiative to enter the hardware market, AL reported Wednesday. “I want us to continue to do great work for our customers,” he told AL’s Lucy Berry in a discussion of his priorities and goals for Dynetics. “Maintaining the way we do business and […] More

A SolarWinds study indicates that some federal information technology professionals have trouble managing security risks due to an increased adoption of mobile devices and shadow applications. SolarWinds said Tuesday it collaborated with Market Connections to poll 200 federal IT leaders regarding their concerns over mobile technology, shared services and shadow IT, which refers to the […] More

ICF International has been awarded a six-year, $19.9 million contract to help the Maryland Department of Human Resources manage customer service operations with a company-made technology platform. The company said Tuesday it will provide its Connect customer relationship management product to DHR with the goal of helping the agency deliver public welfare services to state […] More

A TechNavio report released by ReportBuyer predicts that the global data-protection-as-a-service market will climb in value at a 57.03-percent compound annual growth rate from 2015 to 2019. ReportBuyer said Tuesday the growth is due to the greater ease in application development as more vendors offer DPaaS tools such as hypervisors, network virtualization and BYOD-integrated applications. […] More

The U.S. Navy has named the  joint venture of Sparton Corp. and Ultra Electronics Holdings a Tier 1 Superior Supplier based on Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System data. Sparton said Tuesday the ERAPSCO Joint Venture is among other Defense Department suppliers recognized for CPARS performance in the past three years. “The 2015 superior suppliers are […] More