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  • Nick Leontidis: CAE Expands Dallas Pilot Training Facility to Meet Client Demand - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Nick Leontidis: CAE Expands Dallas Pilot Training Facility to Meet Client Demand

    CAE has expanded its pilot training complex in Dallas with the addition of new training programs and a 60,000-square-foot business aviation training center near the Dallas Fort Worth Airport. The new CAE Dallas East facility brings CAE’s total training area in the region to 486,000 square feet that includes 114 classrooms, 80 briefing rooms and 40 flight simulators, the company said Tuesday. Nick Leontidis, group […] More

  • Joe Tucci: EMC to Buy Controlling Interest in VCE - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Joe Tucci: EMC to Buy Controlling Interest in VCE

    VCE, a joint venture of EMC and Cisco, will become an EMC company by the end of the quarter and Cisco will continue to be a partner and investor in the business alongside VMware. EMC said Wednesday that it will acquire a controlling interest in VCE as part of a reorganization agreed upon between all arties to build on the business’ hybrid […] More

  • Lockheed to Build Vehicle Turrets for General Dynamics UK; Stephen Ball Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Build Vehicle Turrets for General Dynamics UK; Stephen Ball Comments

    Lockheed Martin‘s U.K. business has received a $1 billion subcontract from General Dynamics UK to design, produce, test and integrate 245 turrets for General Dynamics‘ SCOUT Specialist Vehicles that are used by the British military. Stephen Ball, CEO of Lockheed Martin UK, said Tuesday the company plans to sustain almost 900 jobs at its site in Ampthill, Bedfordshire, and collaborate with small and midsize […] More

  • Peter Redman: CAE Expands NZ Military Support Through Training Device Update Work - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Peter Redman: CAE Expands NZ Military Support Through Training Device Update Work

    CAE will provide New Zealand’s defense forces with updates and life-cycle and maintenance support for their Kaman SH-2G(I) Super Seasprite synthetic pilot training devices for 15 years. The company said Tuesday it will update NZDF’s SH-2G(I) Full Mission Flight Simulator and SH-2G(I) Part Task Trainer, which Kaman will deliver along with 10 SH-2G(I) helicopters to the New Zealand air force base […] More

  • Teradata Offers Connection Analytics to Identify Linkages in Data; Scott Gnau Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Teradata Offers Connection Analytics to Identify Linkages in Data; Scott Gnau Comments

    Teradata has launched a new data analytics tool that works to leverage the Teradata Aster Discovery Platform and help users learn about relationships between people, products and processes across data sets to guide business decision-making. Businesses can utilize Connection Analytics to identify influencers in consumer activity, prevent customer churn, monitor the system for cyberthreats and detect fraudulent activity, the company said Monday. Scott Gnau, president of […] More

  • Red Hat, SAP Release Mobile Data Mgmt Cartridge; Julio Tapia Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Red Hat, SAP Release Mobile Data Mgmt Cartridge; Julio Tapia Comments

    Red Hat and SAP have released a mobile data management cartridge for SAP SQL Anywhere that works to support remote and mobile application development and synchronization with MySQL-based applications in Red Hat’s OpenShift. Red Hat said Monday the cartridge is part of its ongoing partnership with SAP to support database and application development for different operating systems, services and […] More

  • Hitachi Offers Logical Partitioning Tech for SAP HANA; Mike Walkey Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hitachi Offers Logical Partitioning Tech for SAP HANA; Mike Walkey Comments

    Hitachi and its subsidiary Hitachi Data Systems have unveiled an x86-based logical partitioning solution for SAP HANA to support server virtualization and network consolidation on-premise, in the cloud or in a hybrid cloud environment. The company said Sunday Hitachi LPAR works to provide computing and storage functions for system utilization and to streamline operations with a consolidated infrastructure. Mike Walkey, senior vice president for […] More

  • MITRE's Lillian Ryals: FAA-Stakeholder Collaboration Key to NextGen Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MITRE’s Lillian Ryals: FAA-Stakeholder Collaboration Key to NextGen Program

    MITRE has sought to help the aviation community collaborate with the Federal Aviation Administration meet the goals of the Next Generation Air Transportation System program, Aviation Today reported Thursday. Juliet Van Wagenen writes that the company’s Center for Advanced Aviation System Development has released a report to assess the progress of the program based on the FAA’s implementation plan and midterm concept of operations […] More

  • Ken Torok: Boeing's Reusable Space Drone Program Achieves 1,367 Days in Orbit - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ken Torok: Boeing’s Reusable Space Drone Program Achieves 1,367 Days in Orbit

    Boeing‘s X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle landed at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California late last week after spending 674 days in orbit and completing its third test mission for the U.S. Air Force. Ken Torok, the company’s director of experimental systems, said Friday the reusable unmanned space plane’s latest experimental mission for the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office brings the program’s total […] More

  • Sevatec Awarded USCIS Business Intell, Data Analytics Contract; Sonny Kakar Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sevatec Awarded USCIS Business Intell, Data Analytics Contract; Sonny Kakar Comments

    Sevatec will provide business intelligence, data analytics and other support services to the data and business intelligence section of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services under an estimated $25 million prime contract. The firm said Friday the contract was awarded through the Chief Information Officer – Solutions and Partners 3 vehicle and includes systems development and architectural support for bolstering the […] More

  • Russell Katz: Lockheed's Lightning Mapper Sensor to Support NOAA Weather Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Russell Katz: Lockheed’s Lightning Mapper Sensor to Support NOAA Weather Services

    Lockheed Martin has completed the Geostationary Lightning Mapper for the first Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite that will support the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s weather services and meteorological research work. The company said Wednesday the GLM sensor works as an early-warning instrument for severe storm such as tornadoes and will fly on the GOES-R spacecraft, which is scheduled to launch early in 2016. Russell Katz, […] More

  • Jim Anderson: BAE Platform Aims to Secure Ops-IT Link in Industrial Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jim Anderson: BAE Platform Aims to Secure Ops-IT Link in Industrial Systems

    BAE Systems‘ applied intelligence division has developed an offering to protect industrial systems and critical national infrastructure, particularly in the energy and utilities sector, from cyberattacks and other security concerns. The company said Wednesday that IndustrialProtect works to provide a network segmentation gateway to secure the link supporting data transmission between operational technology and corporate IT networks. “Since we […] More