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  • NIC Partners With Utah, Mississippi to Unveil Amazon Echo Govt Apps - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NIC Partners With Utah, Mississippi to Unveil Amazon Echo Govt Apps

    NIC has partnered with Utah and Mississippi to unveil a new series voice-activated state government apps for the Amazon Echo designed to allow users to receive license alerts and take practice exams through the Alexa Voice Services. NIC subsidiary Utah Interactive worked with the Utah’s departments of public safety and technology services to create a voice-based app that works to […] More

  • DTECH Labs Offers 2-Year Extended Warranty for Ruggedized Communications Technologies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DTECH Labs Offers 2-Year Extended Warranty for Ruggedized Communications Technologies

    DTECH Labs, a subsidiary under Cubic Global Defense, will now offer a full two-year extended warranty on all of the company’s ruggedized Mobile Modular Micro-Secure Enclave network communications products. The warranty looks to provide customers with reliable equipment that can be used by customers at any time, Cubic said Wednesday Mike Barthlow, Cubic Mission Solutions vice president […] More

  • Space and Missile Systems Center University Taps Salient CRGT for Education, Training Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Space and Missile Systems Center University Taps Salient CRGT for Education, Training Support

    The Air Force Space Command‘s Space and Missile Systems Center University has awarded Salient CRGT a $4.5 million, five-year contract to deliver education, training and facility management services in support of SMCU’s space acquisition mission. Salient CRGT’s services — including classroom instruction, computer-based training, course development and video teleconferencing — work to train SMC employees in […] More

  • Rockwell Collins Unveils New Perimeter Security Radar Offering; Claude Alber Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins Unveils New Perimeter Security Radar Offering; Claude Alber Comments

    Rockwell Collins has launched a high-resolution perimeter surveillance radar technology at the ongoing Eurosatory international defense and security trade show in Paris. The PSR-500 radar offering employs behavior analysis algorithms to identify, track and record intrusions even in rainy and foggy conditions, Rockwell Collins said Monday. “Demand for this type of radar technology is growing to address the need for surveillance of geographical […] More

  • Gemalto Study: Orgs Continue to Depend on Basic Perimeter Security Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Gemalto Study: Orgs Continue to Depend on Basic Perimeter Security Systems

    Gemalto‘s third-annual Data Security Confidence Index says a majority of organizations continue to depend on basic perimeter security systems against data breaches regardless of increased cyber threats worldwide. The company said Wednesday that 61 percent of the 1,100 IT decision maker respondents believed that their basic perimeter security methods such as firewalls, IDPS and anomaly detection were effective at preventing unauthorized network […] More

  • Avaya Government Solutions, DHA Sign Unified Communication & Contact Center Services Pact - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Avaya Government Solutions, DHA Sign Unified Communication & Contact Center Services Pact

    Avaya Government Solutions has signed an agreement with the Defense Health Agency to provide unified communications, contact center and SIP technologies in support of the DHA’s modernization efforts. The company will deliver services to help manage DHA’s enterprise conference premise technology, adapt SIP trunks at its headquarters and help maintain equipment, Avaya said Monday. DHA […] More

  • Airbus Subsidiary, RapidSOS to Demo Use of Mobile App to Deliver Emergency Location Data - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Airbus Subsidiary, RapidSOS to Demo Use of Mobile App to Deliver Emergency Location Data

    A division of Airbus‘ defense and space segment has partnered with RapidSOS to demonstrate the use of a smartphone application to deliver emergency information to public safety answering points. Airbus DS Communications will show how its VESTA 9-1-1 call processing system can work to display multimedia data from RapidSOS’ Haven app during the National Emergency Number Association’s conference in Indiana from June 11 to 16, […] More

  • Advanced Acoustic Concepts to Help Maintain Littoral Combat Ship Mission Software - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Advanced Acoustic Concepts to Help Maintain Littoral Combat Ship Mission Software

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Advanced Acoustic Concepts a $27.5 million contract modification to support the mission software package for Littoral Combat Ships. AAC will help the Navy fabricate, test, install, trouble shoot and maintain LCS mission modules, the Defense Department said Friday. Work under the modification will occur in Maryland, New York and Pennsylvania and is scheduled to be completed […] More

  • MAG Aerospace, Logos Technologies Test Airborne Wide-Area Motion Imagery Sensor - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MAG Aerospace, Logos Technologies Test Airborne Wide-Area Motion Imagery Sensor

    Logos Technologies and MAG Aerospace have conducted an airborne test on the RedKite wide-area motion imagery sensor in Carthage, North Carolina, to check the sensor’s video streaming functions. The sensor was aboard a Cessna 206 turboprop aircraft during the test and was able to send a live-streaming video to ground personnel’s Android tablets, Logos said Thursday. RedKite is […] More

  • Discover Technologies Gets Army Networthiness Certification for Mobility Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Discover Technologies Gets Army Networthiness Certification for Mobility Platform

    Discover Technologies has obtained a Certificate of Networthiness from the U.S. Army‘s Network Enterprise Technology Command for the company’s technology that works to help SharePoint users transmit data in low-bandwidth areas. Discover Access for SharePoint is designed to comply with Section 508 standards and WCAG 2.0 AA accessibility standards and seeks to accelerate the time it takes to load data from 2.6 minutes […] More

  • Kratos to Help Update Pentagon's Theater Medical Records System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kratos to Help Update Pentagon’s Theater Medical Records System

    The Defense Department‘s Joint Operational Medicine Information Systems organization has awarded Kratos Defense & Security Solutions a $23 million contract to provide integration services for a multiservice theater and shipboard medical records system. Kratos will collaborate with Planned Systems International to modernize and maintain the Theater Medical Information Program-Joint infrastructure, Kratos said Friday. The two companies will also update information technology […] More

  • Purdue Receives Research Grant on Firefighting Foam Chemical's Effect on Amphibians - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Purdue Receives Research Grant on Firefighting Foam Chemical’s Effect on Amphibians

    The Defense Department has granted a team of Purdue University researchers $2.5 million to fund their research on the effects of perfluoroalkyl, a chemical used in common commercial products and firefighting foams, on amphibians. The study aims to find the impact of different levels of perfluoroalkyl substance exposure throughout an amphibian’s lifespan, Purdue said Wednesday. Marisol […] More