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  • Iridium Caps Tests on New NEXT Satellite Solar Panel Design; Scott Smith Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iridium Caps Tests on New NEXT Satellite Solar Panel Design; Scott Smith Comments

    Iridium Communications has completed a series qualification tests on a new design Spectrolab and Mitsubishi Electric developed for the solar panel arrays that will be fitted to the Iridium NEXT satellites. Iridium said Tuesday the design consists of four panels that span approximately 30 feet and generate at least 2 kilowatts of power via triple-junction solar cells. Scott Smith, Iridium chief operating […] More

  • IDC: Tech Maturity to Slow Big Data Market Growth Through 2018 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IDC: Tech Maturity to Slow Big Data Market Growth Through 2018

    International Data Corp. projects a 26.4 percent compound annual growth rate for the big data technology and services market to $41.5 billion in value by 2018 and sees a slower pace of growth for certain individual segments. The company said Sept. 15 that its “Worldwide Big Data Technology and Services 2014-2018 Forecast” report forecasts big data to continue to lead growth in the […] More

  • Raytheon Inks Partnership Deal With Jenoptik Group Arm; Doug Patrick Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Inks Partnership Deal With Jenoptik Group Arm; Doug Patrick Comments

    Raytheon has signed an agreement with a subsidiary of German firm Jenoptik Group for cooperation in air defense and associated exporting business opportunities in Germany and around the world. Raytheon said Monday it will work with Jenoptik’s Lechmotoren, a defense and civil systems company, to explore domestic and international opportunities that leverage technology such as the Jenoptik Patriot Hybrid Power Supply. […] More

  • Research and Markets: Electro-Optics Market Valued at $14B in 2020 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Research and Markets: Electro-Optics Market Valued at $14B in 2020

    A new Research and Markets report forecasts that the value of the electro-optical market will grow from $11.76 billion in 2014 to $14.03 billion in 2020 at a compound annual growth rate of 2.98 percent. The market research firm said Monday that growth is attributed to ongoing upgrade and replacement projects in the defense, homeland security and aerospace […] More

  • Peter Weber: Carpathia to Offer VMware vCloud Gov't Service via Early Access Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Peter Weber: Carpathia to Offer VMware vCloud Gov’t Service via Early Access Program

    Carpathia will launch the Early Access Program for its VMware vCloud Government Service based on feedback from the invited participants to its earlier beta-testing program on the enterprise-class hybrid cloud service. Peter Weber, Carpathia CEO, wrote Friday on the company blog that the new program is open to federal CIOs and IT organizations that plan to develop and test cloud applications on […] More

  • Deltek's Alex Rossino: Army ITES-3S Vehicle to Be 'More Heavily Utilized' Than Predecessor - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deltek’s Alex Rossino: Army ITES-3S Vehicle to Be ‘More Heavily Utilized’ Than Predecessor

    Deltek‘s Alex Rossino has outlined his analysis of the U.S. Army‘s spending on the Information Technology Enterprise Solutions 2 – Services vehicle in an effort to help vendors prepare for the upcoming ITES-3S iteration in fiscal year 2015. “ITES-3S is expected to be even more heavily utilized than its predecessor due to the Army’s desire to push more of its IT acquisition […] More

  • Lockheed-Built MAVEN Spacecraft Enters Mars' Orbit; Charles Bolden Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Built MAVEN Spacecraft Enters Mars’ Orbit; Charles Bolden Comments

    Lockheed Martin and NASA have confirmed that the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution spacecraft has entered Mars’ orbit as they prepare for MAVEN’s primary mission to collect data on gases in the planet’s upper atmosphere. NASA said Sunday that the team used data from Lockheed’s Colorado operations center and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s California navigation facility to confirm orbit insertion. MAVEN, which Lockheed built, […] More

  • XTAR Colocation Space Hosts Leidos' Manned Aircraft Comm Tests; Andrew Ruszkowski Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    XTAR Colocation Space Hosts Leidos’ Manned Aircraft Comm Tests; Andrew Ruszkowski Comments

    Leidos selected XTAR late last year to provide colocation space in Mount Jackson, Virginia to host tests of an airborne communications system on an manned intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft used by the U.S. Army. XTAR said Aug. 20 that tests held at the Mount Jackson teleport includes Leidos’ X-band antenna and terrestrial connectivity network that leverages the XTAR-LANT satellite system. Andrew Ruszkowski, XTAR […] More

  • IBM Report: Analytics Tools Key to Enterprise Mobile Device Usage - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Report: Analytics Tools Key to Enterprise Mobile Device Usage

    IBM has released a report that aims to guide companies on how to use data analytics and enterprise mobile tools beyond customer relationship management to facilitate employee collaboration, decision-making and innovation. The IBM Institute for Business Value report titled, “The Individual Enterprise – How Mobility Redefines Business” is intended to help businesses establish the foundation for a mobile initiative, the company […] More

  • Praescient Analytics Compiles Video Demos of Workflows on Website - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Praescient Analytics Compiles Video Demos of Workflows on Website

    Praescient Analytics has unveiled a new page on its website that is for the public to view video demonstrations of the company’s workflows on projects that support government, military, law enforcement, intelligence and commercial operations. The Analysis Demo Library includes workflows for addressing issues such as cyber attacks, fraud, waste, smuggling and trafficking using Praescient technology tools, the company said. Praescient […] More