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  • TechNavio Forecasts 3% CAGR for Global Aerospace, Defense Telemetry Market in 2014-2019 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TechNavio Forecasts 3% CAGR for Global Aerospace, Defense Telemetry Market in 2014-2019

    A new TechNavio report projects the global aerospace and defense telemetry market to witness a 2.57 percent compound annual growth rate from 2014 through 2019. The report indicates that a surge in aerospace research and development activities would propel the market to the projected year-over-year growth, Reportlinker said Thursday. TechNavio sees the market facing particular challenge […] More

  • Transparency Market Research: LIDAR Market to Hit $605M by 2020 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Transparency Market Research: LIDAR Market to Hit $605M by 2020

    A new Transparency Market Research report forecasts the LIDAR market to reach $605.5 million by 2020 from $225 million in 2013 and be driven by growing demand for three-dimensional imagery from government, commercial and consumer clients. The report indicates that the transmission lines segment is poised to achieve “robust growth in the forthcoming years,” Transparency Market […] More

  • Boeing-Built Unmanned Aircraft Set for Flight in 2017; John Launchbury, Lee Pike Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing-Built Unmanned Aircraft Set for Flight in 2017; John Launchbury, Lee Pike Comment

    Defense industry programmers are working to rewrite software on a Boeing-built unmanned aircraft prior to the drone’s flight in 2017 in order to protect the system from hacking, Nextgov reported Wednesday. John Launchbury, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s lead for the program, told the publication the program aims “to conduct an experiment to prove […] More

  • Lockheed Buys 3-D Printers from Vader Systems; Scott Vader Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Buys 3-D Printers from Vader Systems; Scott Vader Comments

    Lockheed Martin will purchase commercial three-dimensional printers from Vader Systems worth up to $400,000 each, Buffalo Business First reported Tuesday. Dan Miner writes Lockheed will also give feedback on the 3-D printer’s performance as a development customer of Vader Systems. Scott Vader, president of Vader Systems, told the publication the company intends to get its technology started with […] More

  • Orbital ATK Completes Ground Test for NASA’s Rocket Booster; William Gerstenmaier Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Completes Ground Test for NASA’s Rocket Booster; William Gerstenmaier Comments

    Orbital ATK has completed the ground test for NASA’s rocket booster as part of efforts to qualify the system for missions to thrust the agency’s Space Launch System and the Orion spacecraft into space. During the test conducted at Orbital ATK’s Promontory, Utah-based facility, the rocket booster fired for the same span of time required […] More

  • IBM Opens New SoftLayer Cloud Center in Australia; Greg Furlong Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Opens New SoftLayer Cloud Center in Australia; Greg Furlong Comments

    IBM has opened a new cloud center in Sydney, Australia as part of efforts to expand the company’s cloud services in the country amid growing demand. The SoftLayer cloud center is meant to broaden data redundancy options within Australia and the Asia Pacific region for enterprise and Web infrastructure services, IBM said Tuesday. IBM is offering […] More

  • HP’s Security Software Offering Gets FedRAMP Board OK; Rob Roy Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HP’s Security Software Offering Gets FedRAMP Board OK; Rob Roy Comments

    Hewlett-Packard has received approval from the Joint Authorization Board for the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to sell the company’s security software-as-a-service to government clients. HP’s Fortify on Demand offering is designed to help users assess the security status of application code, web services and mobile applications, HP said Wednesday. Rob Roy, chief technology officer of enterprise security […] More

  • Boeing Buys Stake in SoftBank’s SATCOM JV; Craig Cooning, Mark Spiwak Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Buys Stake in SoftBank’s SATCOM JV; Craig Cooning, Mark Spiwak Comment

    Boeing has purchased an equity stake in a SoftBank-backed joint venture that develops satellite-based disaster response communications concepts for Japan. SoftBank Satellite Planning Corp. will work to develop, assess and forward satellite concepts to Japan’s ministry of internal affairs and communications, Boeing said Monday. Craig Cooning, president of Boeing’s network and space systems business, said the company intends to […] More

  • Matt Desch: Thales Joins Iridium’s Broadband Service Manufacturing Partner Network - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Matt Desch: Thales Joins Iridium’s Broadband Service Manufacturing Partner Network

    Thales has partnered with Iridium Communications to develop and distribute products for Iridium’s Certus broadband service. Iridium is constructing Certus to use the NEXT platform to deliver enterprise-grade communications to corporate and individual users worldwide, Iridium said Wednesday. Matt Desch, CEO of Iridium and an inductee into Executive Mosaic‘s Wash100 list for 2015, said Iridium looks to manufactures […] More

  • Frost and Sullivan: Image, Navigation Sensors to Drive Unmanned Vehicle Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Frost and Sullivan: Image, Navigation Sensors to Drive Unmanned Vehicle Development

    Frost and Sullivan has released a new report that indicates high-quality image and navigation sensors are driving the development of unmanned vehicles. Unmanned systems will gain capability improvements from integration of sensors, signal processing and computer vision software, Frost and Sullivan said Monday. “Though various driver assistance systems are available today, improved obstacle and navigation technologies […] More

  • BAE to Fund Post-Graduate Cybersecurity Program at Malaysian University; Lena Gillstrom Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE to Fund Post-Graduate Cybersecurity Program at Malaysian University; Lena Gillstrom Comments

    BAE Systems has agreed to finance a new post-graduate cybersecurity program at the National Defense University of Malaysia. The company collaborated with Warwick Manufacturing Group at England’s University of Warwick and the University of Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur to develop the program, BAE Systems said Thursday. Under the program, NDUM will offer a master of science […] More

  • Deloitte Unveils New Analytics Platform for Internal Auditors; Carey Oven Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deloitte Unveils New Analytics Platform for Internal Auditors; Carey Oven Comments

    Deloitte has launched a new analytics platform intended to provide end-to-end audit processing using data visualization, risk sensing and analytic techniques. The platform is designed to assist auditors in identifying and reporting on organizational risk, monitoring transactions and determining the root cause of issues, Deloitte said Monday. “This new analytics platform is just one way that […] More