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  • Ball Aerospace Receives Northrop's CERES Instrument for Integration Into NOAA Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ball Aerospace Receives Northrop’s CERES Instrument for Integration Into NOAA Satellite

    Ball Aerospace and Technologies has received the Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System instrument built by Northrop Grumman for integration into the Joint Polar Satellite System beginning later this year. Ball Aerospace said Thursday that CERES will help JPSS-1 support the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership‘s weather and climate measurement missions for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. CERES is designed to measure thermal radiation and […] More

  • Triple-i to Provide Web, App Hosting Services for HHS Public Websites - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Triple-i to Provide Web, App Hosting Services for HHS Public Websites

    Information Innovators Inc. has won a task order from the Department of Health and Human Services to provide web and application hosting services to the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. The company said Monday that the system is expected to host public-facing HHS websites such as Health.gov and HealthyPeople.gov. ODPHP, a unit within the Office of the Assistant Secretary for […] More

  • DLT to Offer CloudBees Continuous Delivery Tools in Public Sector; Jim Propps Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DLT to Offer CloudBees Continuous Delivery Tools in Public Sector; Jim Propps Comments

    DLT Solutions has joined CloudBees‘ partner ecosystem to leverage government contract vehicle positions and bring CloudBees’ Jenkins Enterprise and continuous delivery platform to the federal, state and local government markets. “We have seen a growing need for continuous integration in government to enable agencies to accelerate cost-effective application development and delivery,” Jim Propps, director of enterprise platform sales at DLT, said […] More

  • Lockheed-Supported Air Force Shared IT Environment Enters Next Deployment Phase - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Supported Air Force Shared IT Environment Enters Next Deployment Phase

    The Air Force National Capital Region is undertaking the second phase in the four-phase deployment of the AFNCR Shared Computing Environment with support from prime contractor Lockheed Martin, GCN reported Tuesday. William Jackson writes the SCE program, which provided AFNCR with a unified IT infrastructure and shared enterprise services, is focused on load balancing during the second deployment phase. […] More

  • Iridium Implements Oracle Billing, Revenue Mgmt System; Jose Varela Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iridium Implements Oracle Billing, Revenue Mgmt System; Jose Varela Comments

    Iridium Communications has implemented the billing and revenue management offering from Oracle‘s communications arm to support the expansion of Iridium’s service portfolio for after the launch of the Iridium NEXT constellation. The companies said Thursday Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management is expected to standardize and streamline Iridium’s billing, invoicing and revenue life-cycle management processes. “Our legacy billing systems had grown […] More

  • Verizon Launches Web Application Firewall on Cloud; Andy Bokor Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Verizon Launches Web Application Firewall on Cloud; Andy Bokor Comments

    Verizon‘s Digital Media Services arm is launching a beta version of its Web application firewall that is designed to protect Web applications and websites from cyber threats using rule sets deployed to the cloud. The company said Wednesday that it is deploying Verizon WAF to the cloud instead of on-premise in order to help users navigate command-and-control tools for access, […] More

  • ULA Wraps of Design Review of Boeing Spacecraft Launch Pad; Ellen Plese Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ULA Wraps of Design Review of Boeing Spacecraft Launch Pad; Ellen Plese Comments

    United Launch Alliance has completed the critical design review phase of work to evaluate a launch site in Florida that Boeing’s Crew Space Transportation -100 spacecraft will launch from. The CDR was supported by Boeing, NASA and the Air Force and sought to evaluate the CST-100 crew module’s and emergency systems, ULA said Tuesday. “This was a critical milestone to […] More

  • Northrop to Kick Off Construction Work on Maryland Space Assembly, Test Facility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Kick Off Construction Work on Maryland Space Assembly, Test Facility

    Northrop Grumman will start construction work this month on a $20 million, 25,000-square-foot facility in Linthicum, Maryland to carry out space payload integration programs and focus on space systems assembly, integration and testing. The facility is scheduled to begin building this month and finish by summer 2015, Northrop said Tuesday. Sen. Ben Cardin, Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger and Rep. John Sarbanes will […] More

  • Booz Allen's Tim Andrews, Joachim Roski Co-Author Article on Health Policy, Big Data Adoption - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen’s Tim Andrews, Joachim Roski Co-Author Article on Health Policy, Big Data Adoption

    Booz Allen Hamilton Vice President Tim Andrews and Principal Joachim Roski have written an article for the Health Affairs journal discussing potential health policy changes to address big data’s opportunities and challenges in the industry. The company said Tuesday “Creating Value in Health Care Through Big Data: Opportunities and Policy Implications” appears in the journal’s July issue, with Alvarez & Marsal‘s George Bo-Linn contributing […] More

  • Northrop's Global Hawk Evaluated in NATO ISR Trials; Jim Edge Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop’s Global Hawk Evaluated in NATO ISR Trials; Jim Edge Comments

    A Northrop Grumman Block 30 Global Hawk unmanned aerial system was evaluated in NATO’s recent 10-day Unified Vision 2014 trial of the alliance’s joint intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance portfolio. U.S. European Command flew the Global Hawk over three days from Orland Main Air Station in Norway alongside trials for satellites, naval vessels, ground sensors and other ISR […] More

  • Leidos to Install IT, Comm Tools at Wichita Airport - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos to Install IT, Comm Tools at Wichita Airport

    Leidos has been awarded a prime contract by the Wichita Airport Authority, formerly known as Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport, to install information technology and communications systems for a new airport terminal. Contract work will take place over up to 12 months and the company will design, install and integrate network security for the new facility, Leidos said […] More

  • IBM Launching Big Data, Analytics Programs at Chinese Universities; D.C. Chien Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Launching Big Data, Analytics Programs at Chinese Universities; D.C. Chien Comments

    IBM is donating $100 million in big data and analytics software and establishing programs at 100 universities in China as part of the IBM U-100 project to foster a future workforce skilled in big data and analytics. The company said Tuesday that U-100 is an extension of the existing partnership between the company and China’s education ministry and aims to train 40,000 […] More