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  • General Dynamics to Help Sandia National Laboratories Design Cloud Infrastructure - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics to Help Sandia National Laboratories Design Cloud Infrastructure

    General Dynamics’ information technology business has received a three-year, $1.3 million task order to develop cloud infrastructure for the federally funded Sandia National Laboratories. General Dynamics Information Technology will design the business framework, processes, service models, technical architecture and implementation plans to guide Sandia’s staff in deploying the information technology model, General Dynamics said Tuesday. […] More

  • Greg Wenzel: Booz Allen Works with US Navy on Integration, Interoperability Areas - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Greg Wenzel: Booz Allen Works with US Navy on Integration, Interoperability Areas

    Greg Wenzel, an executive vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton, has said the company is working with the U.S. Navy to implement the service’s interconnectedness goals, the Daily Transcript reported Wednesday. Wenzel noted that there are Navy officers who say they need to operate in a networked system “rather than as individual ships, doing their own thing,” Tony Lovitt […] More

  • IBM, If Join Forces to Protect Commercial Clients from Cyber Attacks; Julian Meyrick Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM, If Join Forces to Protect Commercial Clients from Cyber Attacks; Julian Meyrick Comments

    IBM’s security business and If Property and Casualty Insurance have partnered to help If’s business area commercial clients in risk management using IBM’s cyber insurance offering. If’s claim agents will collaborate with IBM personnel to evaluate the security status of a company following detection of malware, virus, distributed denial of service and hacking attacks, IBM said Monday. “Awareness about […] More

  • Ohio County Avails of Oracle Security for NG9-1-1 Emergency System; Steve Aulds Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ohio County Avails of Oracle Security for NG9-1-1 Emergency System; Steve Aulds Comments

    Morgan County in Ohio has selected Oracle to deploy its communication service for the  9-1-1 emergency system with the goal of helping the local government secure its Internet protocol-based infrastructure. Morgan County implemented the Oracle communications session border controller to protect the 9-1-1 service against denial-of-service attacks, service overloads and failures, Oracle said Monday. Steve Aulds, vice president of […] More

  • DARPA Seeks Vendors to Develop Military Wireless Data Link - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Seeks Vendors to Develop Military Wireless Data Link

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is looking for companies to develop a military wireless data link under a $27 million project, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Monday. John Keller writes the agency issued a solicitation for the second and third phases of the 100-gigabit-per-second RF backbone project intended to transmit data within a single RF and microwave […] More

  • TeleCommunication Systems Unveils New Tracking Antenna System; Michael Bristol Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TeleCommunication Systems Unveils New Tracking Antenna System; Michael Bristol Comments

    TeleCommunication Systems has introduced a new tracking antenna system intended for low-Earth orbit and medium-Earth orbit satellite missions. The deployable X/Y antenna system is built to support Earth observation, remote sensing, telemetry, tracking and control operations for tactical applications, TCS said Monday. Michael Bristol, TCS government solutions group president, said the company incorporated lessons learned from TCS’ […] More

  • Concurrent Technologies to Continue Work on NGA’s Remote Hosted Desktop Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Concurrent Technologies to Continue Work on NGA’s Remote Hosted Desktop Project

    Concurrent Technologies Corp. has received a go-signal to continue its work on the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s unclassified remote hosted desktop pilot project, Defense Systems reported Thursday. Mark Pomerleau writes NGA issued the three-month extension to complete the last two phases of the URHD project after Concurrent Technologies renewed its Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program […] More

  • Solar Impulse Electric Aircraft Incorporates Inmarsat’s Satellite Connectivity; Johan Gericke Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Solar Impulse Electric Aircraft Incorporates Inmarsat’s Satellite Connectivity; Johan Gericke Comments

    The Solar Impulse 2 electric aircraft has incorporated Inmarsat-developed satellite connectivity system as it began its solar-powered round-the-world flight. Solar Impulse 2 took off from Abu Dhabi on March 9 and will make stops in Oman, India, Myanmar and China throughout its route, Inmarsat said Friday. Inmarsat partner Cobham SATCOM developed the Aviator 300SP (special […] More

  • Leidos to Manage Trinity Health’s IT Security Systems; Brad Wilber Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos to Manage Trinity Health’s IT Security Systems; Brad Wilber Comments

    Trinity Health has selected Leidos to manage the healthcare provider’s cybersecurity systems in an effort to protect patient health data. Leidos will work to detect vulnerabilities and monitor critical assets within the Minot, North Dakota-based hospital’s infrastructure, Leidos said Thursday. “Leidos Health is pleased to provide managed security services for Trinity Health to help keep their […] More

  • Carahsoft to Offer Paxata’s Data Preparation Platform in Gov't Sector; Michael Shrader Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft to Offer Paxata’s Data Preparation Platform in Gov’t Sector; Michael Shrader Comments

    Carahsoft Technology Corp. will offer Paxata’s adaptive data preparation application and platform to government customers. Paxata built the platform to automate and govern data integration and enrichment process functions, Paxata said Thursday. Michael Shrader, vice president of intelligence and innovative solutions at Carahsoft, said Paxata sought to fill a technology gap between a data management system provided by Cloudera […] More

  • US Air Force Seeks Commercial Partner to Handle Wideband Satcom Ops; Dave Madden Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    US Air Force Seeks Commercial Partner to Handle Wideband Satcom Ops; Dave Madden Comments

    The U.S. Air Force is looking to outsource the operations of its wideband global satellite communications network to a commercial company by 2016, Defense News reported Thursday. Aaron Mehta writes that the goal is to allow Air Force crews to focus on the battle management aspect of the satellite constellation. Crew members at present work to track […] More