The 20-year software industry veteran said in a release that the company will continue to hone its focus on big data, adding that leveraging it is the industry’s biggest challenge.

Prior to joining MarkLogic, he served as president and CEO at smart grid management software firm eMeter, which was recently acquired by Siemens Corp. (NYSE: SI).

Before eMeter, he was a consultant for the private investment firm TPG.

He also has previously served as vice chairman and president at Symantec Corp. (NYSE: SYMC) where he led the company’s line of business organizations and corporate development efforts.

Bloom joined Symantec upon its merger with Veritas Software, where he served as chairman and CEO.

Prior to joining Veritas, he served in senior executive positions at Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) during a 14-year career there, including having responsibility for mergers and acquisitions.

He also led the company’s database business, worldwide marketing, support, education and alliance organizations.

In September 2011, the company also moved Ron Avnur to chief technology officer and named Gary Lang its senior vice president of engineering.

TAPE

The company said he will work to expand logistics and force development and modernization.

He will provide the company with expertise regarding the Army G3 Training Directorate, said Jim Bradley, a senior vice president.

Prior to entering the private sector, he served in the Army for 26 years and his last assignment was assistant deputy director for training at the Pentagon.

There, the company said he managed a nearly $13 billion training budget.

He is also a recipient of the Army’s Legion of Merit, Meritorious Service Medal, Army Commendation Medal and the Army Staff Badge.

Before joining TAPE, he worked at JB&A Inc. as a principal program analyst for the foreign terrorist tracking task force, supporting the Justice Department

He also managed the organization’s annual spending plan and an estimated $15 million in contracts.

ATK

The company will provide the Army its Spider XM-7 munitions and the Pentagon expects contract work to finish by April 30, 2013.

Work will occur in Plymouth, Minn.; Wilmington, Mass.; and Rocket Center, W.Va.

The Army Contracting Command’s office in Picatinny Arsenal, N.J. is the contracting activity.

In April, the company announced that it won $266 million in delivery orders from the Army to provide the branch with 5.56- and 7.62-milimeter and .50-caliber military ammunition.

Military customers have received nearly 11 billion rounds from the company since 2000.

The Army received 13 bids through an Internet solicitation and will determine work locations based on each individual task order.

The Pentagon expects work under the firm-fixed-price contract to finish by May 7, 2017 and the Army Corps of Engineers‘ office in Baltimore is the contracting activity.

In March, SAIC announced that it won a $46 million contract from the Transportation Security Administration to help that agency manage hazardous materials and waste.

Work will occur at airport facilities in the continental U.S., Hawaii, Alaska, U.S. Virgin Islands and South Pacific.

Marcus Collier, GDIT

General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) information technology unit has won two contracts potentially worth $500 million combined to provide information technology support to the Office of Personnel Management.

The company said Wednesday that the multiple-award, blanket purchase agreements have one base year and four year options.

Marcus Collier, GDIT’s vice president of the health and civilian solutions unit, said the unit will help OPM address needs in areas of infrastructure, cloud computing, unified communications and cybersecurity.

Collier added that the unit will design, develop, deploy and maintain applications.

Work will also include:

• network operations and security support, including help desk services
• server management and computer troubleshooting
• local and wide area network management
• network engineering and security
• teleworking support

For more than 27 years, the company has provided OPM with website development and maintenance, contact center and interactive voice response support.

The company has also helped manage data to support the federal government’s open enrollment period for health benefits.

General Dynamics is partnering with Computer Sciences Corp. (NYSE: CSC), Harris Corp. (NYSE: HRS) and Verizon (NYSE: VZ) to bid on the Navy’s Next Generation Enterprise Network contract.

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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security will soon award a potential $22 billion information technology services contract, a top DHS official recently said, according to Federal Computer Week.

Kevin Boshears, director of the office of small and disadvantaged business utilization, said contracts under the original Enterprise Acquisition Gateway for Leading Edge Solutions vehicle will continue with EAGLE II.

EAGLE II will have a five base-year period and a one-year option, according to a request for proposals on FedBizOpps.

DHS is conducting a source selection restricted to small business and a separate, open selection.

Boshear added that DHS has $8 billion in contract funds left to award for fiscal year 2012, including awards for IT, security services and office supplies.

Recently, DHS awarded a potential $3 billion contract for communications equipment, through which other agencies such as the White House Communications Agency can purchase equipment.

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TASC has received a six-month extension for work on a Defense Information Systems Agency omnibus contract, increasing the ceiling for all awardees to $1.25 billion.

The Defense Department said the completion date of the Joint Interoperability Test Command contract is now Feb. 28, 2013.

DISA received eight offers for the contract through a full and open competition.

The company will provide test, evaluation and certification services for acquiring and fielding warfighter capabilities and operations at the Fort Huachuca-based JITC, Fort Meade, Md. and Indian Head, Md.

The Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization at Scott Air Force Base, Ill. is the contracting activity for the multiple-award contract.

TASC also holds a spot on a potential $476 million contract to provide multiple agencies with engineering and communications services.

The Melbourne, Fla.-based firm announced Wednesday the Falcon III AN/PRC-152A wideband handheld tactical radios will support the USSOCOM Capital Equipment Replacement Program and tactical radio modernization.

The initial delivery will be made under the company’s recently awarded $400 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, which also includes provisions for AN/PRC-117G multiband manpack radio orders.

The AN/PRC-152A uses the company’s Adaptive Networking Wideband Waveform to deliver real-time Type-1 secure voice, video and data, according to the announcement.

Harris also said it will add the Joint Tactical Radio System Soldier Radio Waveform to the AN/PRC-152A radio later this year.

SAIC Inc.

The Defense Department announced Tuesday the move exercises the seventh option year on the economic price adjustment, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract.

Work will occur in the southwest region and will support the four military branches and federal civilian agencies.

The Pentagon expects the work to finish by May 18, 2013 and the DLA’s troop support office in Philadelphia is the contracting activity.

In December 2011, the McLean, Va.-based engineering and science contractor also won a prime contract valued around $1 billion to supply and recycle aircraft tires.

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NASA has awarded nearly $10 billion in funds through the popular Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement vehicle, which will expire in 2014, Federal News Radio reports.

Joanne Woytek, SEWP program manager, told the station NASA is conducting market research on the next SEWP vehicle and said the entire process takes around two years to complete.

Other agencies can use the vehicle to purchase technology products and the space agency is also working with industry vendors for additional feedback.

NASA will submit a business case to the Office of Management and Budget for approval of SEWP V and publish the case online for feedback from other agencies.