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  • Wes Bush: Northrop Grumman Maintains Focus on Targeted Areas - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Wes Bush: Northrop Grumman Maintains Focus on Targeted Areas

    Northrop Grumman CEO Wes Bush has said the company remains focused on expanding its services in targeted growth areas, Reuters reported Wednesday. “I’m excited about growing our company with what we have. We get the biggest return on the things we do inside the company,” Bush told the news agency. He noted the Defense Department’s reluctance to support […] More

  • MeriTalk Report Examines Challenges to Federal Cloud Adoption; Mike Younkers Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MeriTalk Report Examines Challenges to Federal Cloud Adoption; Mike Younkers Comments

    MeriTalk has released a new report that highlights potential challenges to federal cloud adoption and opportunities to increase the migration rate. The study finds that 75 percent and 53 percent of federal cloud users cite data control retention and long-term contracts, respectively, as factors that prevent them from moving other services into the cloud, MeriTalk said […] More

  • ICF Continues to Administer Reimbursement Claims of Pennsylvania Storage Tank Owners; David Bauer Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ICF Continues to Administer Reimbursement Claims of Pennsylvania Storage Tank Owners; David Bauer Comments

    ICF International will continue to administer reimbursement claims from storage and heating oil tank operators in Pennsylvania under a $14.5 million re-compete contract. The payments for the owners of regulated underground storage tanks and designated non-regulated commercial heating oil tanks will be collected through the Underground Storage Tank Indemnification Fund, ICF said Tuesday. The contract […] More

  • ReportsnReports: Global Military Fixed-Wing Aircraft Market to Reach $87B by 2025 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ReportsnReports: Global Military Fixed-Wing Aircraft Market to Reach $87B by 2025

    ReportsnReports has released a new study that predicts the global military fixed-wing aircraft market will reach $87.5 billion by 2025. The increase represents a compound annual growth rate of 3.64 percent from 2015 to 2025, with North America as the dominant market, ReportsnReports said Friday. The U.S. is expected to spend $260.9 billion total over the next 10 years on […] More

  • European Space Agency Combines Cloud Infrastructure with Red Hat Linux; Gianni Anguilletti Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    European Space Agency Combines Cloud Infrastructure with Red Hat Linux; Gianni Anguilletti Comments

    The European Space Agency has incorporated Red Hat’s Linux platform into the agency’s private cloud infrastructure that is intended to provide information technology services to multiple users. The ESA cloud infrastructure is developed based on VCE systems and a blade x86 architecture, Red Hat said Tuesday. Gianni Anguilletti, Red Hat’s country manager in Italy, said […] More

  • Lockheed, Navy to Launch MUOS Satellite; Iris Bombelyn Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, Navy to Launch MUOS Satellite; Iris Bombelyn Comments

    Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Navy are set to launch the third Mobile User Objective System satellite on Tuesday from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The satellite system will take off on board a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, Lockheed said Monday. ULA says the 44-minute launch window will begin at 7:43 […] More

  • Stu Fleagle: DISA to 'Piecemeal' Security Restriction Rollback - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Stu Fleagle: DISA to ‘Piecemeal’ Security Restriction Rollback

    The Defense Information Systems Agency has eased security restrictions on certain data classes in order to shorten the period of cloud services procurements, Federal Times reported Monday. Gregory Garcia, executive director of the Army Information Technology Agency, expects Defense Department to migrate its applications to the cloud five years from now, Aaron Boyd reports. “This will […] More

  • Cisco Report: Companies Should Organize Security Priorities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cisco Report: Companies Should Organize Security Priorities

    Cisco has released a new report that analyzes threat intelligence and cybersecurity trends and examines how organizations must respond to cyber attacks. The company said Tuesday cyber criminals are expanding their tactics to conduct cyber attacks using methods that Cisco says are hard to detect. “Attackers have become more proficient at taking advantage of gaps […] More

  • Northrop to Develop Supply Chain Authentication System for DARPA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Develop Supply Chain Authentication System for DARPA

    Northrop Grumman’s electronic systems business unit has been awarded a contract worth at least $12 million with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop a supply chain hardware authentication system. The system will work to verify the trustworthiness of an electronic component and identify counterfeit parts in the supply chain, the Defense Department said Tuesday. […] More

  • Pragmatics to Update US Patent and Trademark Office Applications; Joe Brock Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Pragmatics to Update US Patent and Trademark Office Applications; Joe Brock Comments

    Pragmatics has been awarded more than $10 million in multiple task orders during the last six months to modernize the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s applications. The company will work to maintain applications, develop software and manage content under the contract with the Commerce Department, Pragmatics said Wednesday. “Since 2012, we have leveraged agile development practices […] More