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  • Kevin Plexico: Deltek Rolls Out GovCon Tool for Bid Decision-Making - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kevin Plexico: Deltek Rolls Out GovCon Tool for Bid Decision-Making

    Deltek has developed a web-based tool that is designed to help government contractors make bid decisions on new government projects, Information Solutions Vice President Kevin Plexico said. “Making fast and effective bid decisions is paramount for success in government contracting,” Plexico said Thursday. Deltek’s interactive GovWin Opportunity Assessment works to ask targeted questions and match […] More

  • Boeing, root9B Offer Updated Cyber Training Tool; Per Beith Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing, root9B Offer Updated Cyber Training Tool; Per Beith Comments

    Boeing has integrated its simulation and intelligence training platform with root9B‘s cybersecurity training content to help users develop new cyber tools. The Boeing Cyber Range-in-a-Box is built to contain virtual scenarios from more than 120 courses on cyberattacks and help users customize material for information security professionals in training, Boeing said Thursday. “As cybersecurity threats grow in […] More

  • BAE, University Develop Material for Flat Antenna Lens; Sajad Haq Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE, University Develop Material for Flat Antenna Lens; Sajad Haq Comments

    BAE Systems has created a new material that uses transformational optics technology with the goal of extending antenna bandwidth performance. The artificially-engineered composite metamaterial developed in collaboration with Queen Mary University of London scientists is intended to help develop a flat antenna lens, BAE said Wednesday. Transformational optics controls work to light in a way […] More

  • Louis Berger to Design North Carolina Interstate's HOT Lanes; Mike Kirk Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Louis Berger to Design North Carolina Interstate’s HOT Lanes; Mike Kirk Comments

    The Louis Berger Group will lead design work on a $655 million project to add high-occupancy-toll lanes on a 26-mile stretch of Interstate 77 in North Carolina. This is the North Carolina Department of Transportation’s first foray into a public-private partnership contract, Louis Berger said Wednesday. Mike Kirk, vice president for Louis Berger’s design-build practice, said the […] More

  • DigitalGlobe-MDA Team to Offer Satellite Data Tools; Jeff Kerridge, Don Osborne Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DigitalGlobe-MDA Team to Offer Satellite Data Tools; Jeff Kerridge, Don Osborne Comment

    DigitalGlobe and MDA have combined their optical and radar satellite products to offer a common ground system for the defense and intelligence community. Jeff Kerridge, DigitalGlobe’s senior vice president for international defense and intelligence programs, said Tuesday the collaboration is intended to help customers pull images from RADARSAT-2 earth observation satellite in near real time. Don […] More

  • MarkLogic, MicroStrategy Integrate Analytics and Database Tools - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MarkLogic, MicroStrategy Integrate Analytics and Database Tools

    MarkLogic now offers an enterprise-class NoSQL database platform that the company built to be compatible with a MicroStrategy analytics platform. The companies have partnered to offer secure, real-time data analysis services for the financial and federal sectors, MicroStrategy said Friday. Both companies intend for the integrated offering to help process both structured and unstructured information […] More

  • FireEye IDs Malware Evasion Tactics; Abhishek Singh Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FireEye IDs Malware Evasion Tactics; Abhishek Singh Comments

    FireEye has updated a report that outlines techniques some malware authors use to evade a network infrastructure’s traditional defenses. The latest release of “Hot Knives Through Butter: Evading File-Based Sandboxes” adds four new stealth and evasion practices to the 11 already included in the August 2013 list, FireEye said Tuesday. The report says sandboxes isolate, […] More

  • DDN Offers Business Agility Tool for Media, Entertainment Firms; Molly Rector Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DDN Offers Business Agility Tool for Media, Entertainment Firms; Molly Rector Comments

    DataDirect Networks has released an information storage solution that targets performance, scalability and efficiency gains for media and entertainment customers with content-intensive work processes. According to DDN Chief Marketing Officer Molly Rector, the solution is intended to give users room to “create without limitations, collaborate more confidently and shorten time to market.” The storage infrastructure, […] More

  • Deltek: Federal, State, Local CIOs Prioritize Cybersecurity - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deltek: Federal, State, Local CIOs Prioritize Cybersecurity

    Cybersecurity has taken a higher place on the agendas of federal chief information officers in 2014 against a backdrop of emerging technologies, threat landscapes and IT workforce rosters, the Washington Post reported Monday. Derek Johnson of Deltek writes that a push from state and local governments to update their security was observed in the aftermath […] More

  • FireEye's Greg Day: Knowing the Source of an Attack is Key to Finding Cybersecurity Solution - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FireEye’s Greg Day: Knowing the Source of an Attack is Key to Finding Cybersecurity Solution

    Greg Day, FireEye vice president and chief technology officer, said knowing the source of a cyberattack, what type of data is being compromised and how the security threat landscape is evolving over time are keys to developing an effective solution against data theft. “Was it somebody who was state sponsored, was it somebody who is maybe a […] More

  • Dean Allemang: Health IT Industry Needs to Change Tech Expectations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dean Allemang: Health IT Industry Needs to Change Tech Expectations

    Learning how to manage different sets of healthcare data to get insights may be more realistic than trying to get everyone to agree on one interoperable format, Dean Allemang writes in a March 24 piece on the Yarc Data blog. Allemang believes survival tools are more appropriate given the current technical, political and business challenges that could impact medical […] More

  • University of Virginia Adopts Oracle Profitability, Cost Mgmt Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    University of Virginia Adopts Oracle Profitability, Cost Mgmt Tool

    Oracle has deployed an enterprise performance management tool at the University of Virginia as the academic institution looks to migrate its financial functions into a new technology platform. The public research university selected Oracle Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management, which has tools designed to provide transparency and insights into budget, acquisition, cost and profitability data, […] More