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  • Jim Myles: DynCorp to Help Maintain Air Force C-5 Aircraft Engines
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    Jim Myles: DynCorp to Help Maintain Air Force C-5 Aircraft Engines

    DynCorp International has been awarded a potential one-year, $8.5 million task order to help maintain engines and components for the U.S. Air Force‘s C-5 aircraft. Jim Myles, senior vice president of the DynAviation business, said Wednesday that the company will perform “intermediate level engine overhaul services on one of the largest military aircraft ever built.” The […] More

  • Array-Led Team to Help Operate Air Force Financial Systems; Mark Douglas Comments
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    Array-Led Team to Help Operate Air Force Financial Systems; Mark Douglas Comments

    Array Information Technology will help the U.S. Air Force operate and manage two financial systems based at Air Force Materiel Command’s headquarters at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The company said Wednesday that its team, which includes CACI International, will support at least 1,600 users of the Keystone Decision Support System and Command Management System. “KDSS and CMS represent vital financial […] More

  • Marcus Collier: General Dynamics to Help CMS Collect, Crunch Medicare Data Sets
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    Marcus Collier: General Dynamics to Help CMS Collect, Crunch Medicare Data Sets

    A General Dynamics business unit will provide information technology services to support the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services‘ Virtual Research Data Center, which contains electronic Medicare data sets. General Dynamics Information Technology will work on data analytics, infrastructure development and maintenance functions, as well as provide training and technical assistance, the company said Wednesday. “CMS is the nation’s […] More

  • Rob Zitz on Leidos’ Transition to a Standalone Business, Cyber Trends and Infrastructure Support for DHS
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    Rob Zitz on Leidos’ Transition to a Standalone Business, Cyber Trends and Infrastructure Support for DHS

    Rob Zitz joined Leidos in August 2011 – when it was known as Science Applications International Corp. – as senior vice president and chief ISR systems architect after a three-decade government career that culminated in a deputy director role at the National Reconnaissance Office. The Wash100 inductee and former senior Secret Service deputy associate director leads Leidos’ work to help intelligence […] More

  • CGI, EDP Sign $55M IT Services Contract Extension; Paulo Magro da Luz Comments
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    CGI, EDP Sign $55M IT Services Contract Extension; Paulo Magro da Luz Comments

    CGI Group and European energy producer EDP have signed a four-year, $55.1 million contract extension for CGI to continue performing data center, infrastructure management and application operations work. CGI said Wednesday it will also provide local team support to EDP in order to implement application operation and infrastructure management models . “[This] consolidates current data center and infrastructure management agreements into […] More

  • Julian Cracknell: BAE Helps London Transport Agency Launch New Website
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    Julian Cracknell: BAE Helps London Transport Agency Launch New Website

    BAE Systems has helped to launch Transport for London’s new website as part of the agency’s project to offer more public services through digitized systems and platforms, BAE UK Services Managing Director Julian Cracknell says. Cracknell said Tuesday that the company and TfL aim to help up to millions of people each month plan their journeys through London. […] More

  • Jacobs, UK Nuclear Regulation Office Ink 5-Year Technical Support Deal
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    Jacobs, UK Nuclear Regulation Office Ink 5-Year Technical Support Deal

    Jacobs Engineering Group will provide the the U.K.’s nuclear regulation office with technical support for safety and operations of current and future nuclear facilities under a five-year framework agreement. The company will support ONR’s civil engineering, internal and external hazards, radioactive waste and decommissioning programs, Jacobs said Tuesday. ONR was established in 2011 to oversee the U.K.’s nuclear regulations. More

  • CMS Office of the Actuary’s Rick Andrews Presents at 2014 SAS Global Forum
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    CMS Office of the Actuary’s Rick Andrews Presents at 2014 SAS Global Forum

    Rick Andrews, a programmer and analyst from the Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, has presented at the 2014 SAS Global Forum Executive Conference on the agency’s use of SAS and Teradata software. Teradata said Mar. 20 that Andrews delivered his presentation entitled, “How SAS and Teradata Dramatically Improve Data Analysis at CMS” during a […] More

  • EMCOR Group Subsidiary to Construct Miami Sewer Pump Station; Pat Carr Comments
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    EMCOR Group Subsidiary to Construct Miami Sewer Pump Station; Pat Carr Comments

    An EMCOR Group subsidiary has won a construction contract for Miami-Dade County’s Master Pump Station No. 3 project that aims to expand the capacity of the sewer system in downtown Miami’s Brickell area. Florida-based Poole & Kent Company will construct a multilevel pump station building housing the four centrifugal pumps and a multilevel generator building housing the standby emergency diesel generator, the company said March […] More

  • DNC to Help CDC Assess Anti-Fraud, Abuse Work
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    DNC to Help CDC Assess Anti-Fraud, Abuse Work

    Data Networks Corporation will work with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to conduct a baseline assessment and form recommendations for a program intended to help detect and prevent healthcare fraud, waste and abuse. DNC will also include risk mitigation in its services in order to comply with the inspector general’s five principles on combating fraud, […] More

  • Mike Sabin: D&B Business Data to Boost SugarCRM Users’ Sales, Marketing Efforts
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    Mike Sabin: D&B Business Data to Boost SugarCRM Users’ Sales, Marketing Efforts

    Dun & Bradstreet will integrate its global business content into SugarCRM as part of a partnership intended to boost the customer relationship management practice with access to information on prospects, customers and opportunities. D&B’s global business data, which covers 230 million companies and 100 million contacts, will be available to Sugar UX users in April, the […] More

  • Erik Buice on Accelerating Scientific Discovery Through Bioinformatics, the Goals of Northrop’s Health IT Partnerships & Applying an Engineering Approach to Healthcare Innovation
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    Erik Buice on Accelerating Scientific Discovery Through Bioinformatics, the Goals of Northrop’s Health IT Partnerships & Applying an Engineering Approach to Healthcare Innovation

    Erik Buice leads Northrop Grumman‘s health systems management unit as vice president and leads a team of more than 800 personnel who help federal health agencies manage their information technology systems. Buice’s career has included stops at firms ranging from large to small, including IT and consulting roles at companies such as CGI, Patriot Technologies, […] More