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The General Services Administration and Dell EMC have reached a governmentwide enterprise agreement to facilitate the procurement of the company’s virtual computing environment platforms to help federal agencies advance data center modernization. The agreement allows federal, local, state and tribal government agencies to place an order for Dell EMC’s VxRail products at tiered discounts through Carahsoft Technology’s spot on GSA’s IT Schedule 70 contract, the agency said Thursday.

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Fincantieri has begun to upgrade its facility used to launch ships at its Marinette Marine business’ shipyard in Wisconsin as the U.S. Navy’s decision on its future frigate program nears, Defense News reported Wednesday. Competition for the FFG(X) frigate program is slated to commence in the summer of 2019 once the service completes a series of design assessments with top five proposers.

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Steven Demetriou, chairman and CEO of Jacobs Engineering Group, told Bloomberg in a video interview aired Thursday that he sees robust funding of state and local government agencies for infrastructure. He said most of the new governors prioritize infrastructure and funding has been unleashed across several areas such as transportation, airports, water and railways.
 

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Lockheed Martin has established a spectrum convergence business to integrate electronic warfare, signals intelligence and cyber capabilities, C4ISRNET reported Tuesday. “This was a recognition that we needed to make a significant shift in the organization structure to be able to be that much more responsive” to clients, Deon Viergutz, vice president of spectrum convergence at Lockheed, told C4ISRNET in an interview at West 2019.

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Tom Eldridge, a senior vice president at Science Applications International Corp., has said government services contractors should have a strategy in order to facilitate operations amid government shutdowns, increasing competition and policy changes. Eldridge wrote in an article published Thursday on LinkedIn that having a sense of direction is one of the three reasons why companies need to have a strategy.
 

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