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  • MarketsandMarkets: Mobile Data Protection Market to Grow at 22.4% CAGR Through 2019 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MarketsandMarkets: Mobile Data Protection Market to Grow at 22.4% CAGR Through 2019

    A new MarketsandMarkets report indicates that the mobile data protection market will be worth $3.54 billion by 2019 due to the demand for measures that protect enterprise data as companies adopt bring-your-own-device and other mobility practices. The firm said Friday that the market value will climb at a compound annual growth rate of 22.4 percent over the next five years, […] More

  • Transparency Market Research: Big Data Market Worth $48B by 2019 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Transparency Market Research: Big Data Market Worth $48B by 2019

    Transparency Market Research (TMR) stated in a new report that it expects the global big data market to grow at a 40.5-percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from 2012 through 2019, reaching a market value of $48.3 billion. Growing at a CAGR of 45.3-percent the storage sector represents the largest share of revenues. The report stated that technology applications in […] More

  • IBM Develops Analytics-Based Cloud Management Tech; Leonard Hand Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Develops Analytics-Based Cloud Management Tech; Leonard Hand Comments

    IBM has developed and patented an automated, analytics-based technique for the movement of workloads between cloud centers in an effort to help bolster the performance of cloud computing systems. The company said Tuesday the “dynamic” cloud management technology uses analytics to determine the optimal allocation of cloud resources and works to provide greater control over deployments and workloads. “Cloud delivery models are […] More

  • QTS Secures FedRAMP Compliance Via CSP Supplied Path; Chad Williams Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    QTS Secures FedRAMP Compliance Via CSP Supplied Path; Chad Williams Comments

    QTS has established Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program compliance for its QTS Federal Cloud offering following a third-party security assessment by Veris Group. The company said Wednesday it secured FedRAMP compliance through the CSP Supplied path, allowing federal agencies to assess the company’s security package for agency-specific security authorization. Chad Williams, chairman and CEO of QTS, said FedRAMP compliance enables […] More

  • 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

  • Red Hat-Logi Analytics Form BI, Data Virtualization Team; Rob Cardwell Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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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