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  • A-T Solutions Building Counterterrorism Mission Support Facility in Virginia; Dennis Kelly Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    A-T Solutions Building Counterterrorism Mission Support Facility in Virginia; Dennis Kelly Comments

    A-T Solutions has begun construction on a new 43,350-square-foot warehouse facility this month in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, to house its mission support division that provides engineering and manufacturing services for government counterterrorism operations. “The new warehouse will merge three existing warehouse facilities, allowing us to increase our capabilities and the efficiency of our operations,” Dennis Kelly, A-T Solutions […] More

  • Cisco to Help Danish Hospitals Implement Video Tech; Hans Hwang Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cisco to Help Danish Hospitals Implement Video Tech; Hans Hwang Comments

    Cisco plans to help the southern region of Denmark grow its use of video technologies in hospitals in an effort to further advance health facilities in the region. Regional Council Chairman Carl Holst signed a memorandum of understanding with Cisco’s Hans Hwang Monday, agreeing to work together to expand Southern Denmark’s use of modern technology […] More

  • DataDirect Networks Unveils Cloud Tiering Platform for DDN Lustre and GPFS Domains - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DataDirect Networks Unveils Cloud Tiering Platform for DDN Lustre and GPFS Domains

    DataDirect Networks has built on its offerings in managing parallel file system data by making its WOS-Bridge platform available for DDN Lustre and GPFS domains. DDN said that the introduction of the WOS-Bridge integration with DDN’s parallel file systems aims to help users manage, distribute and retain their data from the cloud to various data centers […] More

  • CenturyLink Opens Arizona Data Center; David Meredith Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CenturyLink Opens Arizona Data Center; David Meredith Comments

    CenturyLink has built a new multi-megawatt data center in Arizona and plans to establish more storage locations this summer, the Arizona Republic reported Monday. In the early stages of 2014, the company partnered with Phoenix-based software data company IO on the construction of a new data center, one of 56 worldwide, aiming to meet the growing […] More

  • Cubic Subsidiary to Bring Predictive Analytics to Urban Transportation Industry; Matthew Cole Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic Subsidiary to Bring Predictive Analytics to Urban Transportation Industry; Matthew Cole Comments

    Cubic‘s transportation systems business has established Urban Insights Associates, a new subsidiary in Washington, D.C. to serve the urban transportation industry through data-driven offerings. The company said Monday Urban Insights will leverage predictive analytics and data science to help transportation planners and agencies collect and analyze data to make decisions regarding operations. Data coming from […] More

  • Boeing Taps Universal Space Network for Comm Gateway; John Williams Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Taps Universal Space Network for Comm Gateway; John Williams Comments

    Boeing has awarded SSC Group subsidiary Universal Space Network a five-year, $12 million contract to support Boeing’s commercial satellite services unit’s work on the Global Xpress program. USN said Thursday it will design and construct a Mil-Ka gateway and operate and maintain the system for the satellite program. “Our commercial approach allowed flexibility to meet changing requirements while maintaining a focus […] More

  • Boston Consulting Group: Gov't Online Service Users Report 'Relatively High Satisfaction Levels' - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boston Consulting Group: Gov’t Online Service Users Report ‘Relatively High Satisfaction Levels’

    The Boston Consulting Group has released a report indicating “relatively high satisfaction levels” globally among people using online government services in their country, following a survey of 12,450 digital service users, FierceGovernmentIT reported Wednesday. Dibya Sarkar writes that the respondents were from 12 countries and used 37 separate government services, with those from developed countries reporting […] More

  • Dan Kaufman: DARPA Working to Secure Internet of Things - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dan Kaufman: DARPA Working to Secure Internet of Things

    Dan Kaufman, DARPA‘s Information Innovation Office director, has revealed that the agency is looking into technology that will help secure the emerging Internet of Things, Gigaom reported Thursday. David Meyer writes Kaufman discussed such potential developments at the recent Gigaom Structure event in San Francisco attended by several technology industry leaders. Kaufman said DARPA is working on […] More

  • Nathaniel Fick: Encourage Innovation to Secure Military Systems From Cyberwarfare - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Nathaniel Fick: Encourage Innovation to Secure Military Systems From Cyberwarfare

    Nathaniel Fick, chief executive of software and security solutions company Endgame, agrees with U.S. military officials and other cyber industry leaders that with the continued use of ever-evolving information and communications technology comes the threat of cyberwarfare, the Army News Service reported Monday. Fick and colleagues highlighted this vulnerability during a panel discussion at the […] More

  • Intelligent Decisions Acquires Intellectual Property Rights for Virtual Training Software - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Intelligent Decisions Acquires Intellectual Property Rights for Virtual Training Software

    IT contracting company Intelligent Decisions has bought intellectual property rights and assets to a Quantam 3D virtual training software, the Washington Post reported Thursday. Mohana Ravindranath writes that San Jose-based software company, Quantam 3D sold rights to its Expedition DI software line to Intelligent Decisions for an undisclosed amount. The product line includes technologies like […] More

  • Thales, Other Contractors to Bid on Potential French UAV Tender - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Thales, Other Contractors to Bid on Potential French UAV Tender

    The Airbus Group‘s defense and space division and Textron have teamed to bid for a future tender offer by the French government for unmanned aerial vehicle technology, C4ISR & Networks reported Thursday. Pierre Tran writes the tender is expected in the second half of 2014 for awarding in 2015, with the Airbus Textron team facing competition from Safran‘s Sagem […] More

  • Siemens, TCS Unveil Solution to Automate Manufacturers' Engineering Processes; ARC's Ralph Rio Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Siemens, TCS Unveil Solution to Automate Manufacturers’ Engineering Processes; ARC’s Ralph Rio Comments

    Siemens and Tata Consultancy Services have combined the former’s Rulestream software and the latter’s engineering solutions to develop ETO2Win for automating engineer-to-order manufacturing processes, the ARC Advisory Group posted Wednesday on its website. Dick Slansky writes the solution is designed to streamline business processes, from inquiry to quote and from order to release; manage manufacturing costs, margins and delivery; and […] More