Washington Technology

Booz Allen acquires PAR Government Systems for $95M

Booz Allen Hamilton has acquired the PAR Government Systems Corp. business for approximately $95 million in a move by the former to further build out its digital battlespace business in the defense ...
FedTech Magazine

Cloud-Based HR Systems for Government Modernization: A $1 Billion Opportunity

The government could save about $1 billion in productivity improvements by modernizing outdated legacy HR systems across ...
Government Technology

The Case for a Return to On-Premise Government IT Systems

For more than a decade, government agencies have been urged to move their data and infrastructure to the cloud, sold on promises of scalability, agility and simplified operations. And while the cloud ...
GovCon Wire

NCR Government Systems to Maintain DeCA Network Under $335M DISA Contract

NCR Government Systems has secured a potential $335 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the Defense Information Systems Agency to provide ...
PBS

Trump takes steps to shutter USAID and gives Musk unprecedented access to federal systems

Editor's note: If you’re a current or former career civil service employee in the federal government, we’d like to hear from you. Specifically, we’re looking to speak with government tech workers and ...
Nextgov

Threat intel firms on alert for government systems impacted by Microsoft SharePoint vulnerability

A vulnerability in Microsoft’s SharePoint Server is under active review by threat intelligence researchers as some have found evidence that U.S. government systems have been exposed and potentially ...
GovCon Wire

Booz Allen Buys PAR Government Systems to Expand Defense Portfolio

Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) has acquired PAR Technology’s government systems business arm in a move to expand the former’s portfolio of defense offerings. PAR Government Systems Corp. will operate ...
Nextgov

NIST issues new guidelines on protecting unclassified data in government systems

The federal ecosystem was supplied with a new set of security standards on Tuesday aimed at protecting the unauthorized transmission of sensitive unclassified information that’s frequently exchanged ...
ssir.org

Embedding Private Sector Innovations in Government Systems

Global education funding was broken long before the recent cutbacks to international aid. Even at peak levels, traditional financing models that relied on donors delivered a frustrating cycle: ...
Washington Technology

Booz Allen's blueprint for integrating PAR Government Systems

In June, Booz Allen Hamilton touted its $95 million acquisition of the PAR Government Systems Corp. business as a move intended to further expand across the digital battlespace landscape. Now fast ...
Fierce Healthcare

'Full and prompt access': Trump orders entry to sensitive government data systems

President Donald Trump signed an executive order March 20 to give more latitude to federal agency heads seeking access to government data systems. The order, titled Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by ...
The New York Times

DOGE Accesses Federal Payroll System Over Objections of Career Staff

Elon Musk’s team gains visibility into sensitive information about hundreds of thousands of government workers despite security concerns raised by IT officials. By Coral Davenport Members of Elon Musk ...