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Report: Partial Gov’t Shutdown Freezes Contract Obligations
The ongoing partial shutdown of federal agencies could cost $245M in delayed or lost revenue for contracting firms per day, Bloomberg reported Tuesday.
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USAF Sources for Information on Architect-Engineer Services
The U.S. Air Force is seeking market information regarding construction services as the branch plans to award potential architect-engineer contracts cumulatively valued at $1B over five years. The sought services will support USAF's multibillion-dollar construction program, which would run over the next several years, the branch said Tuesday in a FedBizOpps notice.
Microsoft to Include Automated Breach Analysis Tool in Gov’t, Top-End Office Bundles
Microsoft plans to add the Auto-Investigation with Threat Playbooks feature to two of its Office productivity suite bundles: Office 365 Enterprise E5 and, potentially, Office 365 Government GCC.
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Air Force Posts Solicitation for DevOps PaaS Platform
The U.S. Air Force's AFWERX organization seeks a platform-as-a-service offering that can help Joint Force Space Component Commander-led operations centers to  process data sources for space situational awareness efforts and implement systems to aid space command-and-control mission.Â
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Envistacom to Help Update Army Tactical Satcom Terminal
Envistacom has received subcontract from Consortium Management Group to develop prototypes of an updated tactical satellite communications terminal for the U.S. Army under an other transaction agreement.
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Booz Allen Vet Stefanie Lehmann Named Atlas Research VP
Stefanie Lehmann, formerly a principal and director at Booz Allen Hamilton, has joined Atlas Research as a vice president. She will oversee the development and implementation of strategies to drive business growth in terms of revenue and business efficiency, Atlas said Monday.
Execs Talk Satcom Industry Trends at Kratos Conference; Phil Carrai Quoted
Industry executives at the 2018 Kratos Global Users Conference discussed some of the trends in the satellite telecommunications sector and cited the need for companies to adapt to such trends to thrive, Via Satellite reported Monday. Some of the trends discussed include the drop in bandwidth prices and commoditization of satellite hardware.
AWS’ Brett McMillen, Leidos’ Keith Johnson on How Federal Gov’t Can Make Cloud-Based Data Usable
Brett McMillen of Amazon Web Services and Keith Johnson of Leidos discussed in an article published Tuesday on Federal News Network the presence of data in the cloud and how to leverage data to build up citizen services. “The question is how do you make that data usable, not only for the agency that collected it but throughout the agencies of the federal government? … It should be available to commercial entities and citizens,†said McMillen, director of federal government at AWS.
ExxonMobil, Research Labs Join IBM-Led Network to Advance Quantum Computing
ExxonMobil and five research laboratories have joined an IBM-led network to explore potential scientific and business applications of quantum computing. The IBM Q Network is a community of companies, research labs, startups and academic institutions and works to accelerate research into quantum computing by providing access to quantum software, developer tools and other resources, IBM said Tuesday.