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  • Verizon's Steve Lefrancois: Cloud, 'Internet of Things' to Grow in Public Sector - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Verizon’s Steve Lefrancois: Cloud, ‘Internet of Things’ to Grow in Public Sector

    Steve Lefrancois, chief technology officer of Verizon‘s public sector markets, highlighted several technologies that he believes will see increasing rates of adoption within the public sector in an interview published Thursday on Verizon’s website. Lefrancois cited cloud computing, mobile, big data and the Internet of Things or machine-to-machine technologies as among several potential growth areas for the public sector market. He […] More

  • Lockheed's Steve Betza: Public-Private Partnerships Key to Manufacturing Innovation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed’s Steve Betza: Public-Private Partnerships Key to Manufacturing Innovation

    Lockheed Martin‘s Steve Betza has pointed to collaboration between industry, government and academia in the field of manufacturing as a method he believes could accelerate the time-to-market of new technologies. Betza, director of advanced manufacturing and development at Lockheed, wrote in a guest post published Wednesday on the Commerce Department‘s blog that participation in public-private partnerships could lead to a significant transformation […] More

  • DoD Customer Takes in Harris Falcon III Wideband Radio - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD Customer Takes in Harris Falcon III Wideband Radio

    Harris Corp. has delivered the first Falcon III RF-330E-TR production units to a Defense Department customer as part of its programs for handheld, manpack and small form factor radios. The company said Thursday the RF-330E-TR is a wideband team radio used for tactical communications in theater with functions to monitor radio status and network availability. It is compliant with DoD’s Rifleman Radio […] More

  • Army Tests Northrop's Handheld Laser Targeting Device; Gordon Stewart Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Tests Northrop’s Handheld Laser Targeting Device; Gordon Stewart Comments

    The U.S. Army has conducted developmental testing on the Northrop Grumman-developed Hand Held Precision Targeting Device at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico to demonstrate the device’s target engagement functions. The company said Wednesday that the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force and Program Executive Office’s Project Manager – Soldier Sensors and Lasers evaluated the digitally connected device in environments with […] More

  • NASA: Gravity Anomalies on Moon May Indicate Ancient Volcanic Activity, Not Asteroid Impact - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA: Gravity Anomalies on Moon May Indicate Ancient Volcanic Activity, Not Asteroid Impact

    NASA has collected evidence that the topography of the Oceanus Procellarum region of the moon believed to be the result of an asteroid impact may have been caused instead by the formation of rift valleys. The agency said Wednesday it used the Lockheed Martin-built Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory to observe the gravity gradients of the moon’s surface and found gravitational anomalies. The GRAIL gravity […] More

  • ATK, NASA Put Orion's Launch Abort Motor Igniter Through Qualification Test; Charlie Precourt Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ATK, NASA Put Orion’s Launch Abort Motor Igniter Through Qualification Test; Charlie Precourt Comments

    ATK and NASA have conducted a static test on the Orion crew transport spacecraft’s launch abort motor igniter at the company’s facility in Promontory, Utah as the company seeks to move toward production. The igniter is part of Orion’s Launch Abort System and designed to activate the abort motor for the crew module in case of any problems during […] More

  • James Peake: SPAWAR Taps CGI Federal for Data Consolidation Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    James Peake: SPAWAR Taps CGI Federal for Data Consolidation Support

    CGI Federal has won a potential five-year, $50.3 million contract to provide project management and IT support services for the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command‘s data center consolidation program. The company said Wednesday that it will support the Navy Data Center and Application Optimization program, which aims to consolidate the U.S. Navy‘s 61 legacy websites and 5,614 servers. James Peake, CGI Federal president, […] More

  • Charles Onstott: SAIC to Expand Partnership With VMware Through Partner Network - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Charles Onstott: SAIC to Expand Partnership With VMware Through Partner Network

    Science Applications International Corp. is now able to resell VMware technologies and bring cloud, virtualization and end user tools to its customers as a member of the VMware Partner Network. SAIC said Sept. 8 that it has been providing customers with VMware technologies – including VMware vCloud Director, VMware vCloud Automation Center for Desktop and VMware vCloud Automation Center for Server – for […] More

  • Alion Lands $34M Contract for Support Services to NSWC Crane; Greg Bryant Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Alion Lands $34M Contract for Support Services to NSWC Crane; Greg Bryant Comments

    Alion Science and Technology will provide the Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane in Indiana with engineering, quality assurance and project, configuration and data management services under a potential five-year, $34 million contract. The company said Tuesday the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covers services and associated test equipment in support of the Polymer Engineering and Underwater Sensor and Logistics branches of […] More

  • General Dynamics Canada Opens Undersea Warfare Tech Hub; David Ibbetson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Canada Opens Undersea Warfare Tech Hub; David Ibbetson Comments

    General Dynamics‘ business arm in Canada has opened a new EDGE facility in Nova Scotia to facilitate further collaboration between academia, government and naval technology makers as they work with Canada’s navy. The Undersea Warfare EDGE Innovation Center is the 17th facility in the global EDGE Innovation Network and will primarily focus on defense and security functions for […] More

  • Nexa Capital Partners Seeks $2B for Drone Application Fund; Jim Hughey Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Nexa Capital Partners Seeks $2B for Drone Application Fund; Jim Hughey Comments

    Investment banking firm Nexa Capital Partners has started a fund that intends to raise $2.2 billion from the aerospace industry to support development of new drone applications, the Washington Business Journal reported Monday. Jill Aitoro writes that the “UAS America Fund” aims to secure financial backing from defense companies to help boost technologies for integration into their unmanned systems […] More

  • Diana Gowen: Telecom Industry Faces Market 'Pivot' to Cyber, Cloud Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Diana Gowen: Telecom Industry Faces Market ‘Pivot’ to Cyber, Cloud Tech

    Diana Gowen believes the telecommunications industry faces a challenge in getting both business and personnel to adjust to the market pivot toward cloud computing, managed services and other emerging technologies, she told FCW in an interview published Monday. Gowen, who retired in July as senior vice president and general manager of CenturyLink’s public sector business, spoke with reporter Nick Wakeman about […] More