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  • IBM to Build Cloud Platform for South Korea's Anti-Corruption Agency - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM to Build Cloud Platform for South Korea’s Anti-Corruption Agency

    IBM will build an open-source hybrid cloud infrastructure for South Korea’s anti-corruption and civil rights commission to centralize operations and consolidate public service phone numbers into one communications channel. The company said Friday that the agency has adopted the IBM zCloud platform for electronic services such as e-People and The 110 Government Call Center, which processes complaints, civil petitions and administrative appeals. […] More

  • UTC Unit to Continue Design, Development of Undersea Drone Energy System; Allen Flynt Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    UTC Unit to Continue Design, Development of Undersea Drone Energy System; Allen Flynt Comments

    A United Technologies Corp.‘s business unit will push forward the design and development of an energy system for the Office of Naval Research‘s Long Endurance Undersea Vehicle Propulsion program. As part of the program’s next phases, UTC Aerospace Systems will create an energy system for an unmanned undersea vehicle using proton exchange membrane fuel cells to replace current […] More

  • Chris Marzilli: State Dept Uses General Dynamics VoIP Phone to 'Harden' Comm Net - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Chris Marzilli: State Dept Uses General Dynamics VoIP Phone to ‘Harden’ Comm Net

    The State Department has received its 4,000th General Dynamics-built Sectera vIPer Universal Secure Phone as part of the agency’s efforts replace legacy Secure Terminal Equipment phones and upgrade voice and data communications for government personnel. General Dynamics C4 Systems designed the Voice over Internet Protocol phones for communication of top-secret and sensitive information and to be interoperable with other government […] More

  • Harris to Add Internet in Central Asian Country's Tactical Comm System; Brendan O'Connell Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris to Add Internet in Central Asian Country’s Tactical Comm System; Brendan O’Connell Comments

    Harris Corp. has won a $78 million contract to add a mobile tactical Internet to a tactical communications system for an unnamed country based in Central Asia that seeks to bolster its military’s command-and-control capabilities. The country plans to use the expanded Harris Integrated Tactical Area Communications System to enable voice, data and video connectivity in the field, Harris said […] More

  • QinetiQ to Continue Hardware Service Work on Int'l Space Station Module - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    QinetiQ to Continue Hardware Service Work on Int’l Space Station Module

    QinetiQ will continue to help maintain hardware components the company developed for the International Space Station’s Columbus module under a contract extension through the end of this year. The company said Tuesday that it has also been working with Airbus to support the QinetiQ-developed scientific instruments for research inside the module. Airbus acts as a subcontractor and oversees replacement […] More

  • Lockheed Integrates New Ground Control Tech With Unmanned Aerial System; Jay McConville Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Integrates New Ground Control Tech With Unmanned Aerial System; Jay McConville Comments

    Lockheed Martin has integrated its Expeditionary Ground Control Station technology with the Fury unmanned aerial system to support communications, processing, payload tasking and other ground control operations. “[We] needed a ground control hardware implementation that was rugged, light-weight, and incredibly powerful,” Jay McConville, director of business development for Lockheed Martin’s Fury UAS, said Tuesday. The xGCS is built with military-rugged and […] More

  • John Heller: PAE-Interserve JV Extends Partnership With UK Defense Infrastructure Agency - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    John Heller: PAE-Interserve JV Extends Partnership With UK Defense Infrastructure Agency

    A joint venture between PAE and construction firm Interserve has won a potential 10-year, $544 million contract to help the U.K.’s defense ministry manage its 469,500-acre National Training Estate and 30 other sites across the country. Landmarc Support Services will also provide rural estate and land management services to support the ministry’s environmental stewardship and conservation efforts, PAE said Monday. […] More

  • Ian Irving: Northrop-Australian University Team Aims to Understand Gov't UAS Requirements - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ian Irving: Northrop-Australian University Team Aims to Understand Gov’t UAS Requirements

    Northrop Grumman has partnered with the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University in Australia to study airworthiness requirements of unmanned aircraft systems and develop methods to meet those requirements. “As a producer of large-scale unmanned aircraft systems, our goal is not only to provide the aircraft, but also to understand fully the Australian government’s needs to certify them […] More

  • VA, Decision Simulation Extend Training Program Partnership; Bob Yayac Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VA, Decision Simulation Extend Training Program Partnership; Bob Yayac Comments

    The Department of Veterans Affairs has exercised the first two option years of its five-year enterprise licensing agreement with Decision Simulation under agency’s Simulation, Learning, Education and Research Network program. Decision Simulation and the VA signed the potential $10 million SimLEARN contract in 2012 to connect all VA employees with the simulation training and education program built on […] More

  • IBM Develops Cloud Infrastructure for Malaysian Healthcare Provider - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Develops Cloud Infrastructure for Malaysian Healthcare Provider

    IBM has built a cloud-based computing infrastructure to house KPJ Healthcare Berhad‘s medical records and administrative data from at least 20 hospitals in Malaysia and five overseas medical facilities. The healthcare provider aims to consolidate and centralize its information technology infrastructure in order to connect with other services across the network, IBM said Monday. “By moving our IT […] More

  • NJVC's Robert Michalsky: Verizon Data Breach Report to Guide Cyber Risk Management - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NJVC’s Robert Michalsky: Verizon Data Breach Report to Guide Cyber Risk Management

    As Verizon releases the 2014 Data Breach Investigations Report, NJVC Principal Robert Michalsky notes that 92 percent of the more than 100,000 breaches and security incidents covered in the past decade can be grouped within nine attack patterns. Summarizing all of Verizon’s collected data since 2008 is expected to aid cybersecurity professionals implement smart risk management measures, Michalsky says Tuesday. The report identifies […] More