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  • William Meaney: Iron Mountain Makes Acquisitions to Target Int'l, Storage Rental Revenue Growth - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    William Meaney: Iron Mountain Makes Acquisitions to Target Int’l, Storage Rental Revenue Growth

    Iron Mountain has completed approximately $65 million in domestic and international acquisitions to further build its presence in the document storage and data management markets and among small- and medium-sized business clients. The records management company closed $60 million in purchases of five international companies and an additional five U.S. companies between January and early April, […] More

  • Hughes to Help Manage Kazakhstan's National Digital TV Network; Arunas Slekys Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hughes to Help Manage Kazakhstan’s National Digital TV Network; Arunas Slekys Comments

    Hughes Network Systems will provide its HX broadband satellite system to manage Kazakhstan’s national digital terrestrial television network, which is operated by Kazteleradio. Hughes said Tuesday that it will install more than 800 contract HX260 mesh terminals at DVB-T2 Standard television towers across the country for Kazakhstan’s national broadcasting operator. “It represents one of the largest mesh TDMA networks deployed anywhere, supporting a […] More

  • General Dynamics Subsidiary Wins $33M Contract to Operate Navy Vessels; Thomas Merrell Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Subsidiary Wins $33M Contract to Operate Navy Vessels; Thomas Merrell Comments

    General Dynamics‘ ship operating subsidiary has been awarded by the U.S. Navy with a contract modification worth $32.7 million to provide operations and maintenance services for the Military Sealift Command‘s seven large, medium-speed, roll-on/roll-off ships. General Dynamics American Overseas Marine will provide crewing, engineering, procurement and provisioning support for the vessels as part of the potential seven-year, $238 million contract originally awarded […] More

  • Verizon's Janet Brumfield: Enterprises Should Consider Partnering With MSSPs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Verizon’s Janet Brumfield: Enterprises Should Consider Partnering With MSSPs

    Verizon Enterprise Solutions recommends that companies partner with a managed security service provider to defend their networks against cyberattacks as they turn to technologies such as mobility, big data and cloud. Janet Brumfield, the company’s director of corporate communications, said Tuesday that hybrid cybersecurity-management model is seen as the solution to meet these c0mpanies’ needs. Such needs involve “more sophisticated […] More

  • Susan Arthur: HP to Implement Colorado's Medicaid Mgmt System for CMS Platform Transition - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Susan Arthur: HP to Implement Colorado’s Medicaid Mgmt System for CMS Platform Transition

    HP Enterprise Services will help configure and implement a new Medicaid management system for the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing under a five-year, $116.9 million contract. As Colorado’s Medicaid fiscal agent, the company will also manage maintenance and upgrade work for the Medicaid Management Information System that is based on HP’s interChange Healthcare platform, HP said Tuesday. “The […] More

  • Microsoft, Motorola Solutions Ink Patent License Deal for Android Devices; Nick Psyhogeos, Joe White Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft, Motorola Solutions Ink Patent License Deal for Android Devices; Nick Psyhogeos, Joe White Comment

    Microsoft has entered into a patent licensing agreement with Motorola Solutions that provides global coverage for the latter’s devices that run on Android or Chrome operating systems. The agreement is part of Microsoft’s intellectual property licensing program that includes patent licensing for Android device-makers such as Samsung, Acer and Motorola Mobility, Microsoft said Monday. “Microsoft and Motorola Solutions share a respect for […] More

  • CRGT to Mentor 2 Small Businesses for DHS Protege Program; Tom Ferrando Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CRGT to Mentor 2 Small Businesses for DHS Protege Program; Tom Ferrando Comments

    CRGT will act as a mentor to two small businesses in the big data, cybersecurity and agile development industries – Novel Applications of Vital Information and EnProVera. CRGT will work with Novel Applications and EnProVera through the Department of Homeland Security‘s Mentor-Protege program, CRGT said Tuesday. “CRGT embraces our small business partners and considers these two firms as […] More

  • Andrew Sukawaty: Inmarsat to Provide Satellite Tracking Services for Commercial Jets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Andrew Sukawaty: Inmarsat to Provide Satellite Tracking Services for Commercial Jets

    Inmarsat Chairman Andrew Sukawaty has announced the company’s plans to provide airlines with free satellite tracking services for commercial aircraft following the recent disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The plan is intended to be part of a future global satellite tracking system for commercial jetliners, which mainly use ground-based […] More

  • Leidos Subsidiary to Manage NATO Fuel Monitoring System; Larry Hill Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Subsidiary to Manage NATO Fuel Monitoring System; Larry Hill Comments

    A subsidiary of Leidos will manage the NATO Fuel Monitoring System and its enterprise- and facility-level subsystems under an estimated $13 million, 10-month prime contract with the NATO Support Agency. Varec will oversee the implementation, testing and maintenance of NFMS to support petroleum oils, lubricants and fuel sales, inventory and governance activities at NATO military installations, Leidos said Monday. “The contract […] More

  • URS to Help Convert Milwaukee Power Plant From Coal to Natural Gas; Art Lembo Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    URS to Help Convert Milwaukee Power Plant From Coal to Natural Gas; Art Lembo Comments

    URS Corp. will work with We Energies to convert Milwaukee-based Valley Power Plant into a natural gas production facility from a coal plant. URS said Monday that the team will replace the plant’s coal-burning equipment with natural-gas piping and burners, as well asw modify combustion controls and other auxiliary equipment and plant controls. Art Lembo, general manager for URS’ power […] More

  • Cambridge to Help Army Update IP Router Network - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cambridge to Help Army Update IP Router Network

    Cambridge International Systems will help the U.S. Army work to increase the branch’s Internet Protocol transport router network from 10 gigabits to 100 gigabits. The Defense Information Systems Agency awarded a potential three-year, $30 million task order to Cambridge for the work under the Global Information Grid Services and Management-Engineering, Transition and Implementation vehicle, Cambridge said Wednesday. This is […] More