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  • Jeremy Ward: Qinetiq Puts Signals Intelligence on Airborne Surveillance System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jeremy Ward: Qinetiq Puts Signals Intelligence on Airborne Surveillance System

    Qinetiq has unveiled a new line of surveillance systems for mounted onboard aircraft that Jeremy Ward, managing director for the company’s C4ISR business, says are designed to help security teams with coverage, HSToday reported Wednesday. Kylie Bull writes the ASX family, launched at the Farnborough Airshow, works to use signal processing technology for command and control functions to pinpoint suspected suspicious activity. […] More

  • Georgia Tech Unveils Cybersecurity Intelligence Gathering System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Georgia Tech Unveils Cybersecurity Intelligence Gathering System

    Cybersecurity specialists at the Georgia Tech Research Institute have developed a system that uses big data to aggregate threat information that seeks to forewarn organizations of an impending attack. According to GTRI, BlackForest works by tapping into various sources online to gather data and comparing these to other information and historical data to predict patterns […] More

  • Verizon’s Carlos Arcila: Cyber Strategy Needed for Energy Grids - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Verizon’s Carlos Arcila: Cyber Strategy Needed for Energy Grids

    Carlos Arcila, external communications manager for Verizon Enterprise Solutions, has recommended several ways to safeguarding the country’s energy infrastructure from cyber attacks. He noted on the Verizon blog Tuesday that organizations that operate and monitor U.S. energy and utility systems need cybersecurity framework especially now that the grid has become modernized and connected. “As new technologies […] More

  • Northrop CEO Wes Bush: Gov't Acquisition Leaders Need Flexibility, Efficiency in Buying - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop CEO Wes Bush: Gov’t Acquisition Leaders Need Flexibility, Efficiency in Buying

    Northrop Grumman CEO Wes Bush has urged acquisition officials to be more open to new ways of completing mission tasks, the Washington Post reported Tuesday. Amrita Jayakumar writes that Bush believes public procurement professionals should have flexibility in a domain where they are asked to do more with less. “The predicate of negotiating a good contract must […] More

  • Douglas Steil: BAE Adds Mach 1 File Tracking Tool to Document Manager - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Douglas Steil: BAE Adds Mach 1 File Tracking Tool to Document Manager

    Douglas Steil, general manager of cybersecurity products at BAE Systems, said the company has updated its document manager with watermarking technology to further build up the security product’s features. The company worked on its SIBA data collaboration and dissemination tool in cooperation with Mach 1 Development, the maker of the DocuTRACER technology that tracks where each file was shared […] More

  • Esri, OSIsoft Agree on Unified Geographic Info Product Approach; Jeff Peters Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Esri, OSIsoft Agree on Unified Geographic Info Product Approach; Jeff Peters Comments

    Government customers will be able to purchase unified products from GIS mapping software maker Esri and operational intelligence provider OSIsoft through the immixGroup marketplace. The two companies announced Tuesday that they have agreed to make their PI System and ArcGIS tools available under the General Services Administration’s IT Schedule 70 for commercial technology vendors. Esri and […] More

  • Phebe Novakovic: General Dynamics Cost Restructuring Paying Off - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Phebe Novakovic: General Dynamics Cost Restructuring Paying Off

    General Dynamics CEO Phebe Novakovic said major restructuring within her company has led to backlog and margin increases despite reporting modest earnings early in her tenure, Washington Business Journal reported Wednesday. Jill Aitoro writes Novakovic has been busy “right-sizing” the firm since she assumed the top post in January 2013, consolidating functions and reorganizing workflows and systems, as well […] More

  • New Research Sees 10% CAGR for U.S. Healthcare IT Market - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    New Research Sees 10% CAGR for U.S. Healthcare IT Market

    New RNCOS research has earmarked a compound annual growth rate of 10% for healthcare information technology in the U.S. from 2014 to 2018, thanks to greater collaboration among industry players, updated systems and tighter compliance rules. Increasing mergers and acquisitions activity also plays a role in the upbeat forecast as competing companies close ranks over […] More

  • Urban Observatory Updates Interactive Exhibit on Big Data Usage - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Urban Observatory Updates Interactive Exhibit on Big Data Usage

    Makers of the Urban Observatory interactive exhibit, a project to demonstrate how large amounts of data could be turned into useful information, will unveil the next version of the initiative in San Diego next week. The exhibit underwent an overhaul by inputting data from close to 60 cities this year from the 10 metropolitan areas featured during its launch year, […] More

  • EMC, Pivotal Deploy New Enterprise Big Data Offering - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    EMC, Pivotal Deploy New Enterprise Big Data Offering

    EMC has unveiled a new enterprise-grade big data offering equipped with Pivotal HD that seeks to combine analytics capabilities and a highly scalable infrastructure. The new Data Lake Hadoop storage arrays include EMC Isilon X410 nodes that have been preconfigured for quick deployment as well as the SQL-compliant Pivotal HAWQ query tool for HDFS file […] More

  • Tony Smeraglinolo: Engility Lands New Navy Logistics Services Work - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tony Smeraglinolo: Engility Lands New Navy Logistics Services Work

    Engility Holdings has won an $11 million recompete order to provide technical support for the U.S. Navy’s military command in Florida, a contract award that Engility President and CEO Tony Smeraglinolo says is part of the company’s logistics services portfolio. The contract covers logistics assistance work for the Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division’s landing craft air cushion […] More

  • Jim Kaskade: CSC Built Big Data Platform to Offer 'Quick, Efficient' Deployment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jim Kaskade: CSC Built Big Data Platform to Offer ‘Quick, Efficient’ Deployment

    CSC Vice President Jim Kaskade said the company has updated its big data platform as a service offering to include new security and compliance features for “quick, efficient and confident” deployment in various types of datacenters and cloud architectures. The open source solution provides analytics tools that clients can use with the ServiceMesh Agility Platform cloud […] More