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  • Dave Schmitz: Cubic Wins $35M Contract to Support UK Combat Simulation System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dave Schmitz: Cubic Wins $35M Contract to Support UK Combat Simulation System

    A Cubic Corp. business unit has won a three-year follow-on contract valued at an estimated $35 million to provide support and repair services for the Area Weapons Effects Simulator system. Cubic Defense Systems will perform work at the Salisbury Plain Training Area in the U.K. and the British Army Training Unit Suffield in Alberta, Canada, the company said Tuesday. […] More

  • CSC, Amazon Web Services to Establish Global Cloud Center; Terry Wise, Dan Hushon Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSC, Amazon Web Services to Establish Global Cloud Center; Terry Wise, Dan Hushon Comment

    CSC and Amazon Web Services have partnered to establish a CSC Global Cloud Center of Excellence that will cater to enterprise and public-sector cloud services needs by leveraging the companies’ cloud technologies. CSC said Tuesday they will set up the initial Global Cloud CoE in Austin, Texas, to deliver enterprise workload migration and private and hybrid cloud integration services, such as […] More

  • Telemar SpA to Resell Inmarsat's Global Xpress Service; Bruno Musella Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Telemar SpA to Resell Inmarsat’s Global Xpress Service; Bruno Musella Comments

    Telemar SpA will act as a value added reseller of Inmarsat‘s mobile broadband satellite network to government customers in Europe. Inmarsat appointed Telemar as a Global Xpress value added reseller for the maritime sector in 2012 and the companies have worked together for more than 30 years, Telemar said Tuesday. Bruno Musella, Telemar CEO, said his company also will […] More

  • Deloitte's ConvergeHEALTH Learning Network to Facilitate Healthcare Research; Brett Davis Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deloitte’s ConvergeHEALTH Learning Network to Facilitate Healthcare Research; Brett Davis Comments

    Under ConvergeHEALTH by Deloitte‘s rapid learning network, Forest Laboratories will collaborate with Intermountain Healthcare to research outcomes by using an analytics platform designed to generate healthcare services insights. Deloitte said Monday the collaborative project initially focused on respiratory diseases and will deploy OutcomesMiner on electronic medical records to establish healthcare outcomes data and develop new products and treatments based on them. “At ConvergeHEALTH […] More

  • FireEye Adds New Android App to Mobile Threat Prevention Platform; Manish Gupta Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FireEye Adds New Android App to Mobile Threat Prevention Platform; Manish Gupta Comments

    FireEye has added an application that works to protect Android-based devices from malware into the company’s Mobile Threat Prevention platform. The company said Tuesday the hybrid-cloud-based FireEye Mobile Security App will work to provide real-time visibility into existing mobile threats in the network through signature-less apps analysis to block and alert users to unsafe apps. “Mobile security, like advanced persistent threat […] More

  • Battelle Unveils 'Smart' Biodefense, Hazard Detection Tech; Matthew Shaw Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle Unveils ‘Smart’ Biodefense, Hazard Detection Tech; Matthew Shaw Comments

    Battelle has begun production of a chemical and biological hazard sensor system for federal biodefense programs and commercial industry applications, with self-contained capabilities designed to limit operating costs and time to identify threats. The company said Monday the Resource Effective BioIdentification System is equipped with aerosol collection, optical spectroscopy capabilities and Internet connectivity. “Our warfighters, first responders, security […] More

  • Saab Continues to Supply Component Parts to Aircraft Manufacturers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Saab Continues to Supply Component Parts to Aircraft Manufacturers

    Saab continues to support aircraft manufacturers Airbus and Boeing by supplying composite and metal components, such as wing parts, doors and hatches under Saab’s civil aircraft production business based in Linköping, Sweden. Saab most recently signed a contract to supply the attachment structure for Airbus A350XWB-1000‘s landing flaps, the company said Sunday. The December 2013 contract extends Saab’s support […] More

  • SAP Plans to Hire 100 People at Romania IT Consultancy Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAP Plans to Hire 100 People at Romania IT Consultancy Center

    SAP is looking to fill 100 open positions at a newly-opened information technology consultancy center in Romania by the end of this year, Romania Insider reported Tuesday.  The company aims to have 125 employees at the SAP Nearshore Delivery Unit Cluj-Napoca center by the end of 2015, according to the report. Nearly 30 employees currently work at the center with […] More

  • Steve Bruce: Lockheed, Raytheon Could Learn Air Force 'Space Fence' Contract Winner by May - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Steve Bruce: Lockheed, Raytheon Could Learn Air Force ‘Space Fence’ Contract Winner by May

    The U.S. Air Force could award a contract by the end of May to either Lockheed Martin or Raytheon for a radar to track debris in low-Earth orbit, a Lockheed vice president told Defense News in a story published Sunday. “The (operational) date would be in 2018 for site 1,” Steve Bruce, VP for advanced systems in Lockheed’s mission systems […] More

  • Microsoft to Invest $274M, Add Cloud Infrastructure at Wyoming Data Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft to Invest $274M, Add Cloud Infrastructure at Wyoming Data Center

    Microsoft will allocate $274 million in investments to expand the company’s operations in Cheyenne, Wyo. and add a new cloud computing infrastructure there, Data Center Knowledge reported Saturday. Rich Miller writes that the plan would increase the company’s total spending in Wyoming to nearly $500 million. The company plans to start construction of the new […] More

  • Lockheed's Marillyn Hewson, MBDA's Thomas Homberg Discuss MEADS Technology - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed’s Marillyn Hewson, MBDA’s Thomas Homberg Discuss MEADS Technology

    Lockheed Martin President and CEO Marillyn Hewson and MBDA Germany Managing Director Thomas Homberg spoke at a German Council on Foreign Relations event Monday to discuss an air and missile defense system program. “For Germany as well as its co-operation partners, the MEADS technology development results create the prerequisites for building sustainable air and missile defense tailored to current and […] More