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  • KippsDeSanto's Marc Marlin: 2015 to Continue 2014 GovCon M&A Trends - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    KippsDeSanto’s Marc Marlin: 2015 to Continue 2014 GovCon M&A Trends

    Marc Marlin, a director at investment bank KippsDeSanto, believes that the government contracting industry will see companies looking to bolster their market posture and drive business growth through mergers and acquisitions in 2015. Marlin wrote in a guest piece published Thursday on Federal Times that large, pure-play businesses in fields such as cyber, health, cloud, C4ISR and big data analytics will see […] More

  • FedRAMP Board Approves SecureKey's ID Authentication Tool; Charles Walton Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FedRAMP Board Approves SecureKey’s ID Authentication Tool; Charles Walton Comments

    SecureKey Technologies has received the FedRAMP Joint Authorization Board provisional authority to operate for the company’s briidge.net exchange cloud-based identity and authentication platform after a review by third-party assessor Veris Group. The platform will work to help citizens use Connect.gov and access digital government services with government-approved, commercially issued online credentials, SecureKey said Tuesday. “Looking ahead to a digital future, identity services will be vital […] More

  • ManTech Subsidiary Completes Shape Test on Webb Telescope's 1st Sunshield Layer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ManTech Subsidiary Completes Shape Test on Webb Telescope’s 1st Sunshield Layer

    A subsidiary of ManTech International has finished the shape testing of the first sunshield membrane layer of NASA‘s James Webb Space Telescope as a subcontractor to Northrop Grumman. NeXolve assembled and tested the layer’s three-dimensional shape with laser beams to confirm if it meets shape specifications, ManTech said Thursday. “We are now proceeding with the remaining layers and will test each […] More

  • Carahsoft Adds Gigamon Traffic Visibility Product to GSA Schedule - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft Adds Gigamon Traffic Visibility Product to GSA Schedule

    Carahsoft Technology will offer Gigamon‘s Unified Visibility Fabric product to government clients via a GSA Schedule contract and act as the master government aggregator for the traffic visibility networking provider. “IT network and security teams at the federal level face the unparalleled challenge of protecting information as a matter of national security,” Dennis Reilly, vice president of Gigamon’s federal business, said […] More

  • Transparency Market Research: Global PaaS Market Worth $8B by 2020 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Transparency Market Research: Global PaaS Market Worth $8B by 2020

    A new Transparency Market Research report predicts that the global platform-as-a-service market will achieve a compound annual growth rate of 25.7 percent through 2020 to reach a market value of $7.98 billion. The firm said Tuesday that the growth is due to companies adopting PaaS to lower capital expenses while allowing increased operational expenses. It added that other perceived benefits to PaaS include scalability, […] More

  • PMC, Oceus, Fujitsu to Build NJ First Responder Net; Randy Fuerst on Broadband Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PMC, Oceus, Fujitsu to Build NJ First Responder Net; Randy Fuerst on Broadband Tech

    Oceus Networks, PMC Associates and Fujitsu‘s network communications business have partnered to build New Jersey’s 4G LTE broadband network for first responders – called JerseyNet — to facilitate public safety communications during emergencies, disasters and similar incidents. The companies said Wednesday PMC will provide network integration and support services, Fujitsu will oversee the network’s wireless and wireline backhaul while Oceus will provide its Xiphos […] More

  • immixGroup to Offer Brocade Network Subscription Product on GSA Schedule - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    immixGroup to Offer Brocade Network Subscription Product on GSA Schedule

    ImmixGroup will offer Brocade‘s network subscription product to federal government clients through its GSA Schedule contract as agencies turn to on-demand acquisition of IT products and services. “Federal agencies face both financial and acquisition challenges when it comes to buying IT,” Steve Charles, a co-founder and executive vice president at immixGroup, said Wednesday. The company said Brocade Network Subscription is a network-as-a-service offering that works to let […] More

  • BAE's Scott McVicar: Companies Seek to Boost Cyber Measures Against New Tactics - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE’s Scott McVicar: Companies Seek to Boost Cyber Measures Against New Tactics

    BAE Systems predicts that 2015 will see developments in technology, regulation and other cybersecurity aspects as cyber threats continue to evolve and impact efforts to combat digital crime. The company said Wednesday that Scott McVicar, managing director for cybersecurity at BAE’s applied intelligence unit, noted that cyber crime will use fragmentation and deception tools to challenge investigation and detection. The […] More

  • Scott Smith: Iridium NEXT Platform Software Completes Tests Ahead of Launch - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Scott Smith: Iridium NEXT Platform Software Completes Tests Ahead of Launch

    Iridium Communications has completed the initial test phase on the primary functions of the Thales Alenia Space-developed Iridium NEXT platform software ahead of the first satellite launch this year. Iridium said Tuesday this testing phase is the first of a series of tests on the platform software’s systems integration and other functions to check Iridium NEXT’s operational autonomy. “Completion […] More

  • GC Micro Taps DriveSavers as Partner on NASA GWAC for IT Products, Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GC Micro Taps DriveSavers as Partner on NASA GWAC for IT Products, Services

    DriveSavers and GC Micro have partnered to deliver e-discovery, data recovery and digital forensics services to federal agencies under the latter’s position on the NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement IV governmentwide acquisition contract. DriveSavers said Monday GC Micro’s SEWP IV contract will facilitate government procurement of the partners’ IT products and product-based services. “Partnering with GC Micro is an honor, and we look forward […] More

  • Lockheed's Horace Blackman: Health IT, Info Security, Cloud Commodification Are Top Trends in 2015 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed’s Horace Blackman: Health IT, Info Security, Cloud Commodification Are Top Trends in 2015

    Horace Blackman, vice president of health and life sciences at Lockheed Martin, has highlighted health IT, information security and infrastructure commodification as key trends in the federal market for 2015 in an interview with Federal News Radio posted Monday. Blackman told anchor Francis Rose that trends in medical devices and applications, cloud and the security and integrity of medical data will increase in […] More

  • Boeing Completes NASA Critical Design Review on CST-100's Ground Segment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Completes NASA Critical Design Review on CST-100’s Ground Segment

    Boeing has completed NASA’s ground segment critical design review of its CST-100 crew space transportation system as part of the Commercial Crew Transportation Capability contract for the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. NASA said Dec. 10 that Boeing underwent a three-week review of its ground-based operation processes and system designs for the spacecraft, including planned assembly and processing facilities at the Kennedy […] More