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General Dynamics to Add Army Main Battle Tank System Features Under $83M Contract Modification
General Dynamics' land systems business has secured an $83.1M modification to an existing contract for modernization of the U.S. Army's Abrams tank. The company will work to increase the technological features of the Abrams System Enhancement Package's fourth version, the Department of Defense said Thursday.
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Booz Allen’s Betty Thompson: Career Mobility, Inclusion Key to Tech Talent Recruitment, Retention
Betty Thompson, chief people officer at Booz Allen Hamilton, has said there are several factors that employers can consider to attract and retain top talent in a competitive technology market. Thompson wrote in a commentary published Thursday on the Washington Business Journal that companies seeking to retain tech talent should offer flexible career paths to employees and provide them with opportunities to take part in projects that align with their personal goals and interests.
 IBM Allows Watson AI System to Run on Any Cloud
IBM has made its Watson artificial intelligence platform available across all cloud environments offered by Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and other cloud service providers, Nextgov reported Thursday. Claude Yusti, head of the AI practice at IBM’s federal branch, said the move could help federal agencies advance AI adoption and circumvent barriers to data access and information sharing.
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Parsons Transfers Corporate HQ to Washington Metro Area; Chuck Harrington Quoted
Parsons has decided to transfer its corporate headquarters from Pasadena, Calif., to the Washington, D.C. area in line with the company’s growth efforts in critical infrastructure, intelligence and defense markets. Chuck Harrington, chairman and CEO of Parsons, said in a statement published Thursday the move seeks to support the company’s concentration of employees in the Washington capital region and is driven by investments, acquisitions and other strategic actions in the past decade.
Forcepoint Unveils Converged Security Platform, Tech Partner Ecosystem
Forcepoint has introduced a cybersecurity offering designed to help government and enterprise customers secure data, applications and business processes as they move to a cloud computing environment.
Heather Wilson, Secretary of U.S. Air Force and Principal DoD Space Adviser, Added to 2019 Wash100 for Leading USAF Space Modernization Efforts
Executive Mosaic is happy to announce Heather Wilson, secretary of the U.S. Air Force and the principal space adviser for the Department of Defense, has been selected for the 2019 edition of the Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of the most influential voices in the government contracting arena — for her leadership and vision to ensure the Air Force leads the race in space modernization into the 21st century. This marks Wilson’s second consecutive win.
DNI Dan Coats Selected to 2019 Wash100 for Leading U.S. Intelligence Operations, Supporting National and Homeland Security
Executive Mosaic is pleased to introduce Dan Coats, director of national intelligence, as an inductee into the 2019 Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of the most influential voices in the government contracting arena — for leading intelligence operations and supporting U.S. national and homeland security. This marks Coats' third consecutive Wash100 award.
Virginia Contracting Activity Issues RFI on Knowledge Mgmt Tech Support for Intell Agencies
The Virginia Contracting Activity has issued a request for information on potential sources that could meet the Defense Intelligence Agency’s requirements to improve the intelligence community’s knowledge management platform. A FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday says VACA looks for potential contractors that could deploy the Intelligence Community Knowledge Management Tool across multiple networks worldwide and deliver new capabilities to users with a focus on automating analytic workflows.
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Anomali Warns Federal Contractors of Online Bidding-Themed Phishing Schemes
Researchers from Anomali's research arm have identified a malicious server linked to two phishing campaigns that try to deceive government contractors to send sensitive information to threat actors. Anomali Labs said Monday its researchers detected on Feb. 23 the online bidding-themed phishing schemes, which lead contractors to fake landing pages mimicking the Department of Labor and the Department of Transportation’s eProcurement portal.
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Former VA, FDA Program Manager Bryant Headley Appointed MasterControl Gov’t Customer Success Exec
Bryant Headley, a former program manager at the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Veterans Affairs, has joined MasterControl as head of sales and customer success initiatives for the government sector.
Army Contracting Command Seeks Advanced Computing Tech Concepts Through DoD-Funded Research Program
U.S. Army Contracting Command has begun to solicit concept papers for a Department of Defense-sponsored research program that seeks to increase DoD's knowledge of computing systems and its ability to address future challenges.