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  • Boeing, Orbital Finish Last 2 Satellites for Mexico; Ron Dukat Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing, Orbital Finish Last 2 Satellites for Mexico; Ron Dukat Comments

    Boeing and Orbital Sciences Corp. have finished building three satellites that will be used to support police, military and emergency services in Mexico as part of the Mexsat project, the Orange County Register reported Monday. William D’Urso writes Boeing has completed two 702HP geomobile satellites named Centenario and Morelos-3, while subcontractor Orbital made one GEOStar-2 satellite named Bicentenario for […] More

  • France Picks Thales to Build Internet Setup for Gov't Users - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    France Picks Thales to Build Internet Setup for Gov’t Users

    Thales has been selected by the French prime minister’s office to implement service platforms to offer secure Internet connections for nearly one million future users of the French government. The company plans to build the IT setup, provide managed services and carry out round-the-clock network supervision, the company said Thursday. According to Thales, the service platforms will work to enable connections […] More

  • Oracle Introduces New Virtual Compute Appliance; Wim Coekaerts Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Oracle Introduces New Virtual Compute Appliance; Wim Coekaerts Comments

    Oracle has unveiled a new integrated infrastructure product that will aim to consolidate data workloads into tolerant and manageable platform for users. With the Virtual Compute Appliance, the company intends for customers to get a product that will integrate compute, network and storage infrastructure into one system, Oracle said Tuesday. According to Oracle, application and service deployment is […] More

  • Lockheed, Chinese Nuclear Power Company to Build Reactor Safety Systems; Jim Gribschaw Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, Chinese Nuclear Power Company to Build Reactor Safety Systems; Jim Gribschaw Comments

    Lockheed Martin and China’s State Nuclear Power Automation System Engineering Company will collaborate to manufacture prototype protection systems for the country’s third-generation nuclear power plant reactors by using field programmable gate array technology. The FPGA-based nuclear safety instrumentation and control platform will work to monitor and identify potential system failures and be part of a new deployment or an […] More

  • Verizon Unveils 'Smart Credential' Enterprise Security Service; Johan Sys Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Verizon Unveils ‘Smart Credential’ Enterprise Security Service; Johan Sys Comments

    Verizon has released a cloud-based credentialing service to clients in the U.S., European and Asia-Pacific regions that want to consolidate their physical and virtual worlds to help prevent data breaches. “Smart Credential” offers a single identity that will work to secure access to buildings and facilities, provide logical access to workstations and networks, provide authentication to online […] More

  • Raytheon Completes Blimp-Borne Radar for Army; Dave Gulla Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Completes Blimp-Borne Radar for Army; Dave Gulla Comments

    Raytheon has completed a blimp-borne radar system for the U.S. Army to use as a line of defense against incoming threats. The JLENS airborne radar system floats at altitudes of up to 10,000 feet and is built to defend assets and infrastructures against manned- and unmanned- aircraft and missiles,the company said Tuesday. The Army has acquired two of its […] More

  • Mary Ann Hopkins: Parsons-BHEF Team Aims to Help DC Region Build Cyber Workforce - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mary Ann Hopkins: Parsons-BHEF Team Aims to Help DC Region Build Cyber Workforce

    Parsons is collaborating with the Business-Higher Education Forum to create a Greater Washington Cyber Network of cybersecurity professionals from academia, industry and government from Maryland, Northern Virginia and Washington, D.C. The company said Friday the network will be an expansion of the BHEF Undergraduate Cybersecurity Network of the University System of Maryland. The expanded network aimsto bring more opportunities for business disciplines and policies supporting […] More

  • 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 within a single […] 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