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  • Lockheed Hands Navy 3rd MUOS Satellite; Iris Bombelyn Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Hands Navy 3rd MUOS Satellite; Iris Bombelyn Comments

    Lockheed Martin has turned over a third Mobile User Objective System satellite to the U.S. Navy after the company completed on-orbit testing on the spacecraft. MUOS-3 is part of a network of satellites and relay ground stations designed to provide secure mobile communications to military users, Lockheed Martin said Wednesday. “This latest satellite will expand the MUOS network’s coverage […] More

  • LexisNexis to Help AultCare Process Health Insurance, Benefits Claims; Lee Rivas Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    LexisNexis to Help AultCare Process Health Insurance, Benefits Claims; Lee Rivas Comments

    AultCare has selected LexisNexis to provide a suite of clinical analytics services in order to help process health insurance and benefits claims. LexisNexis will help AultCare identify risk and measuring performance for commercial, Medicare Advantage, individual and patient-centered medical home members, LexisNexis said Tuesday. Lee Rivas, public sector and healthcare CEO at LexisNexis, said the predictive analytics services […] More

  • Cyveillance Unveils Image-Based Search, Retrieval Tool; Eric Olson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cyveillance Unveils Image-Based Search, Retrieval Tool; Eric Olson Comments

    Cyveillance has introduced new search and intelligence offerings in its cyber threat center intended to help security professionals protect their organizations from threats. The QinetiQ company said Monday the content-based search and retrieval systems work to find trademarks, fake accounts and counterfeit products in the web by scanning brand marks, logos, images of physical locations […] More

  • Northrop Grumman to Update US Air Force’s Aircraft IR Countermeasure System; Carl Smith Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Grumman to Update US Air Force’s Aircraft IR Countermeasure System; Carl Smith Comments

    Northrop Grumman has received a $111 million contract modification to deliver additional hardware and support equipment for the U.S. Air Force’s aircraft infrared countermeasure system. The company will supply transmitters, missile warning sensors, processors, lasers and control interface units to the Air Force and international clients through April 2017, Northrop said Monday. Carl Smith, vice […] More

  • Microsoft Unveils New Cloud Security Tool; Manuel Costa Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft Unveils New Cloud Security Tool; Manuel Costa Comments

    Microsoft has developed a cloud security tool intended to help security providers safeguard data stored in the cloud. The Verifiable Confidential Cloud Computing technology works to protect data while an authorized user gains access to the storage system for calculations, Microsoft said May 18. “The cloud provider cannot see the data or the code that the […] More

  • Lisa Bruch, Mike Leff: GSA Eyes Telecom Evolution for Agencies Under EIS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lisa Bruch, Mike Leff: GSA Eyes Telecom Evolution for Agencies Under EIS

    CenturyLink’s Lisa Bruch and AT&T’s Mike Leff both view the General Services Administration’s Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract vehicle as a way to meet changing federal telecommunications requirements, FCW reported Saturday. Bruch, CenturyLink’s vice president of federal sales and marketing, told FCW she thought GSA succeeded in its last effort to manage evolving technological requirements of agencies under […] More

  • Level 3 Severs Data Flow to Servers in China; Brett Wentworth Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Level 3 Severs Data Flow to Servers in China; Brett Wentworth Comments

    Level 3 Communications has moved to thwart what it believes is a form of cyber attack by blocking data traffic to a network of servers in China, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday. The company detected a group of malicious computers that Level 3 says is responsible for denial-of-service-attacks on various websites, Drew Fitzgerald reports. […] More

  • Lockheed-Backed Lab, Armed Response Jointly Develop Outdoor Security System; Dave Furgal Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Backed Lab, Armed Response Jointly Develop Outdoor Security System; Dave Furgal Comments

    A laboratory run by Lockheed Martin’s Sandia subsidiary and Armed Response Team have collaborated to develop an outdoor security system. Sandia National Laboratories said May 19 it has configured and tested the security system through the state-funded New Mexico Small Business Assistance program, run by the New Mexico legislature in an effort to offer lab support to […] More

  • Level 3, Comcast Forge Network Interconnection Partnership; Jack Waters Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Level 3, Comcast Forge Network Interconnection Partnership; Jack Waters Comments

    Level 3 Communications and Comcast have inked a multi-year agreement to interconnect their networks in an effort to fulfill future customer requirements. The companies said Thursday the partnership is meant to expand both companies’ existing network capacity to exchange Internet traffic between the two networks at present and in the future. “We believe the agreement […] More

  • Mississippi Pumps $20M into Huntington Ingalls Shipyard Development; Brian Cuccias Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mississippi Pumps $20M into Huntington Ingalls Shipyard Development; Brian Cuccias Comments

    The state government of Mississippi has invested $20 million in Huntington Ingalls Industries’ shipyard development project. Gov. Phil Bryant joined other state officials and Ingalls Shipbuilding President Brian Cuccias in a ceremonial signing of the bond bill that supports the Shipyard of the Future project, Huntington Ingalls said Friday. “Mississippi’s financial investment in our Shipyard […] More

  • US Navy Completes Maritime Tests on Raytheon-Built Missile Defense System; Rick Nelson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    US Navy Completes Maritime Tests on Raytheon-Built Missile Defense System; Rick Nelson Comments

    The U.S. Navy has completed a series of maritime tests on an upgraded Raytheon-built missile defense system that is designed to help protect warfighters from anti-ship missiles. Raytheon said Friday the Navy can now integrate the Rolling Airframe Missile Block 2 missile into ships after the service achieved initial operational capability with the technology. RAM […] More

  • Red Hat, Tata Consultancy Services Form NFV Service Alliance; Radhesh Balakrishnan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Red Hat, Tata Consultancy Services Form NFV Service Alliance; Radhesh Balakrishnan Comments

    Red Hat and Tata Consultancy Services have forged a partnership to perform verification services on network function virtualization platforms for customers. Based on Red Hat’s enterprise Linux OpenStack platform, the alliance will assist clients in validating service design, orchestration, functional testing and characterization of NFV services, TCS said Wednesday. “The combination of consulting services from TCS […] More