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  • Jim Sponnick: ULA to Launch Orbital's Cygnus Cargo Delivery Spacecraft to ISS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jim Sponnick: ULA to Launch Orbital’s Cygnus Cargo Delivery Spacecraft to ISS

    United Launch Alliance has partnered with Orbital Sciences to provide launch services for the transportation of cargo to the International Space Station as part of NASA‘s Commercial Resupply Services program. ULA said Tuesday the agreement includes one cargo mission that will launch late next year from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station with the Atlas V 401 vehicle as well as an optional mission in 2016. […] More

  • SunPower Lands 1st Task Order Under Army Energy IDIQ's Solar Portion; Amanda Simpson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SunPower Lands 1st Task Order Under Army Energy IDIQ’s Solar Portion; Amanda Simpson Comments

    The U.S. Army plans to award SunPower a task order to execute a large-scale renewable energy project at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama with the intent to produce up to 18,000 megawatt-hours of power per year. The Office of Energy Initiatives writes Friday that the proposed solar project is the first under the solar technology portion of the Army’s renewable and alternative energy program, a […] More

  • Bob Mehltretter: Lockheed Taps Northrop Attitude Control Instrument for 5th SBIRS Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bob Mehltretter: Lockheed Taps Northrop Attitude Control Instrument for 5th SBIRS Satellite

    Lockheed Martin has selected Northrop Grumman‘s Scalable Space Inertial Reference Unit to bring attitude control and sensor stabilization functions to the U.S. Air Force‘s fifth Space-Based Infrared System geosynchronous Earth orbit satellite. Bob Mehltretter, vice president of navigation and positioning systems at Northrop’s electronic systems sector, said Tuesday that the award continues his company’s support for the SBIRS program, with Lockheed as […] More

  • AWS Marketplace to Offer Optensity's App Mgmt Web Interface; Pamela Arya Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AWS Marketplace to Offer Optensity’s App Mgmt Web Interface; Pamela Arya Comments

    Amazon Web Services will offer Optensity‘s AppSymphony Web Personal Edition via the AWS Marketplace to facilitate the development and deployment of applications for big data analytics using a single-user web interface. “This personal edition introduces the user to the App Composition web interface and provides a limited number of prebuilt components for creating workflows,” Pamela Arya, CEO and co-founder […] More

  • Dave Schmitz: Cubic to Help Canadian Forces Train for Urban Operations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dave Schmitz: Cubic to Help Canadian Forces Train for Urban Operations

    Cubic will provide its Urban Operations Training System to Canada’s defense department under a $12 million contract modification for an initial training instrumentation phase that runs through December 2015. The company said Tuesday it will perform system integration and validation as UOTS expands the Weapon Effects Simulation system with training capability using an urban village environment. Dave Schmitz, president of Cubic Defense Applications, said that UOTS […] More

  • Satya Nadella: Accenture-Microsoft Team Aims to Help Foster 'Mobile, Cloud-First' World - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Satya Nadella: Accenture-Microsoft Team Aims to Help Foster ‘Mobile, Cloud-First’ World

    Accenture and Microsoft have teamed to co-fund and co-engineer hybrid cloud functions with the Accenture Hybrid Cloud Solution for Microsoft Azure platform with support from their joint venture Avanade. “With new demands being placed on IT departments every day, enterprises need to smartly connect their infrastructure, software applications, data and operations capabilities in order to become agile, intelligent, […] More

  • Northrop Hands Lockheed 4th Payload for AEHF Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Hands Lockheed 4th Payload for AEHF Satellite

    Northrop Grumman has delivered the fourth protected military communications payload for the U.S. Air Force‘s Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite to prime contractor Lockheed Martin ahead of its integration with the AEHF payload module. Northrop said Monday it will perform payload integration while Lockheed works on satellite bus unit integration as part of a hybrid satellite integration and test approach. The […] More

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    Red Hat-Logi Analytics Form BI, Data Virtualization Team; Rob Cardwell Comments

    Logi Analytics has partnered with Red Hat to facilitate the integration and transformation of huge volumes of data from multiple sources into actionable insights in an effort to generate business value for organizations. The companies said Monday that the Logi Info business intelligence platform will operate alongside Red Hat’s JBoss Data Virtualization software to produce reports that contain virtual data models. “We’re pleased to […] More

  • IDC Evaluates 12 IaaS Vendors as Gov't Cloud Adoption Continues - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IDC Evaluates 12 IaaS Vendors as Gov’t Cloud Adoption Continues

    IDC‘s Government Insights segment has released a new report on its evaluation of 12 cloud infrastructure-as-a-service vendors in the federal marketplace against set of weighted parameters for both short-term and long-term deployments. The research firm said Friday that the “IDC MarketScape: U.S. Government Private Cloud IaaS 2014 Vendor Assessment” report used pricing, scalability, compute services, value-added services and a single […] More

  • NASA Preps for Orion Unmanned Test Flight Today; Richard Boitnott Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Preps for Orion Unmanned Test Flight Today; Richard Boitnott Comments

    NASA will launch the Lockheed Martin-built Orion unmanned spacecraft this week as part of the agency’s efforts to build capability for future space missions that would bring humans to Mars, Bloomberg Businessweek reported Tuesday. Justin Bachman writes that this first test flight will bring Orion 3,600 miles into space with the help of United Launch Alliance‘s Delta IV rocket. […] More

  • Richard Daniel: Raytheon to Partner With Industry, Academia at New UK Cyber Hub - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Richard Daniel: Raytheon to Partner With Industry, Academia at New UK Cyber Hub

    Raytheon plans to open a Cyber Innovation Center in the U.K. as part of a push to grow its global cyber research, development and test footprint and expand its investment in the country. Raytheon said Tuesday the center will operate as a hub for research, development and innovation work and house more than 100 professionals in the cyber field. Richard Daniel, CEO of Raytheon UK, […] More

  • Iridium, Thales to Offer UK Search-Rescue Rotorcraft Broadband Connectivity - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iridium, Thales to Offer UK Search-Rescue Rotorcraft Broadband Connectivity

    Iridium Communications‘ OpenPort broadband service will operate with Thales‘ LiveAero systems to provide Bristow Helicopters‘ Sikorsky S-92 aircraft with broadband voice and data connectivity functions to support search-and-rescue missions. The companies said Tuesday that the combination of OpenPort and LiveAero aims to help facilitate in-flight care and triage functions such as real-time exchange of electronic patient data with on-ground medical teams. Bristow plans to deploy this mobile […] More