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  • Deloitte's Dan Helfrich: Federal Civilian Sector to See Opportunities in Gov't Transformation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deloitte’s Dan Helfrich: Federal Civilian Sector to See Opportunities in Gov’t Transformation

    Dan Helfrich, federal civilian sector leader at Deloitte‘s consulting practice, believes that the GovCon sector will see opportunities in areas such as back-office operations, mobility and human capital programs in 2015 to support government modernization efforts. He noted that agencies can adopt a shared services model to help with the delivery of citizen services and drive cost efficiency. […] More

  • Amit Yoran: RSA to Hone Strategy to Address Emerging Threats, Industry Challenges - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Amit Yoran: RSA to Hone Strategy to Address Emerging Threats, Industry Challenges

    RSA President Amit Yoran has outlined his plans to hone the company’s vision and growth strategy and leverage new technology amid the emergence of advanced threat actors, GovInfoSecurity reported Thursday. Tom Field writes that Yoran, an inductee into Executive Mosaic‘s Wash100 for 2015, also discussed challenges to the security industry, including the shortage of staff skilled […] More

  • Research and Markets: Military Electro-Optical/Infrared Systems Market Worth $16B by 2020 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Research and Markets: Military Electro-Optical/Infrared Systems Market Worth $16B by 2020

    A new Research and Markets report forecasts that the market for military electro-optical and infrared systems will climb in value at a 7.71 percent compound annual growth rate to reach $16.35 billion revenues by 2020. The company said Thursday that strategies to establish uncontested market space and increased military spending will drive fast-paced growth for the EO/IR market, particularly in the […] More

  • Reuters: BAE CEO Ian King Forecasts Stability for US Defense Industry - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Reuters: BAE CEO Ian King Forecasts Stability for US Defense Industry

    BAE Systems CEO Ian King believes that the U.S. defense industry is making a recovery in 2015 and forecasts a shift in government defense spending toward stability then a “modest” increase in the coming years, Reuters reported Thursday. Sarah Young writes the company sees a return to earnings growth this year due to a potential increase in demand for aircraft and […] More

  • Lockheed's Marillyn Hewson Outlines Efforts to Address Challenges in Global Security Landscape - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed’s Marillyn Hewson Outlines Efforts to Address Challenges in Global Security Landscape

    Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson has stated that the company’s business growth strategy works to align with current trends in the global security landscape to address industry challenges and meet customer needs. Hewson outlined the strategy in a media day event to highlight its technology investments and product and service portfolio in line with these trends, Lockheed said Wednesday. “The global landscape […] More

  • IBM Unveils Analytics Offering for Hadoop; Beth Smith Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Unveils Analytics Offering for Hadoop; Beth Smith Comments

    IBM has launched its new in-Hadoop analytics offering that works to leverage the R language, machine learning and data science functions to help enterprises extract business insights from their data. The company said Tuesday the IBM BigInsights for Apache Hadoop product supports data querying and visualization at an enterprise scale. “In our fast-paced world, the ability to turn data […] More

  • David DeWalt: FireEye's Threat Intell Sharing Initiative Eyes Cyber Automation, Customization - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    David DeWalt: FireEye’s Threat Intell Sharing Initiative Eyes Cyber Automation, Customization

    FireEye has unveiled its Global Threat Intelligence Sharing initiative to help customers exchange threat intelligence with community members such as industry partners and establish a unified cyber defense effort. The company said Friday the initiative aims to leverage FireEye’s Community Threat Intelligence platform, the FireEye Dynamic Threat Intelligence cloud and Adaptive Defense strategy in order to enable real-time sharing […] More

  • IBM, CenturyLink to Open New App Innovation Center in Louisiana - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM, CenturyLink to Open New App Innovation Center in Louisiana

    IBM and CenturyLink have formed a public-private partnership with the state of Louisiana to open an application development innovation center in the region and facilitate high-tech job opportunities for local graduates. IBM said Monday the Monroe-based center will perform services in cloud computing, big data, analytics, security and mobility as part of the company’s 10-year business transformation […] More

  • Carpathia's Stu Fleagle: Public/Hybrid Cloud, Privacy, Automation, Data to Drive Tech Investments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carpathia’s Stu Fleagle: Public/Hybrid Cloud, Privacy, Automation, Data to Drive Tech Investments

    Stu Fleagle, vice president of Carpathia‘s government solutions business, believes that hybrid and public cloud, automated compliance, privacy and data-driven decision-making will drive government technology investments in 2015. Fleagle said in a guest post published Monday on Federal News Radio that these trends will facilitate a transformation among government agencies as they seek to keep pace with changing […] More

  • Northrop Taps Saab US Subsidiary for Radar Components - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Taps Saab US Subsidiary for Radar Components

    Northrop Grumman has selected a U.S.-based Saab subsidiary to provide components for the AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar system of the U.S. Marine Corps for a $32 million subcontract. Saab Defense and Security USA will develop subsystems, software and assemblies for the first four G/ATOR units under the low-rate initial production contract, the company said Thursday. “We are proud to […] More