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  • Unisys' Premkrishnan Venkatasubramanian Highlights Software-Defined Network Approaches - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Unisys’ Premkrishnan Venkatasubramanian Highlights Software-Defined Network Approaches

    Premkrishnan Venkatasubramanian of Unisys Corp. has discussed approaches toward software-defined networks as a way to secure enterprise data center. Venkatasubramanian wrote Friday that the software-defined network concept is gaining traction as protection of the data center boundary alone is insufficient. The insertion of firewalls and switches leads to increased complexity of management, he said. He said one approach to achieve […] More

  • Airbus to Build Orion Spacecraft's Service Module; Francois Auque Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Airbus to Build Orion Spacecraft’s Service Module; Francois Auque Comments

    Airbus‘ defense and space business has won a $485.7 million contract with the European Space Agency to develop and build the service module for the Lockheed Martin-built Orion spacecraft. Airbus will design the module to be based on the automated transfer vehicle the company built for ESA as a supply craft for the International Space Station, Airbus said Monday. The definition phase began […] More

  • James Moos: Leidos to Help Magellan Midstream Partners Expand Midstream Processing System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    James Moos: Leidos to Help Magellan Midstream Partners Expand Midstream Processing System

    Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has been selected to develop and install a condensate splitter for Magellan Midstream Partners. Leidos will provide engineering, procurement and construction services to Magellan’s Corpus Christi, Texas-based processing and storage terminal through a portfolio of DesignBuild services, Leidos said Monday. James Moos, president of Leidos engineering services group, said the company will work to advise Magellan on the expansion […] More

  • immixGroup's Tom O’Keefe: DHS Shoud Drive CDM Program Awareness - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    immixGroup’s Tom O’Keefe: DHS Shoud Drive CDM Program Awareness

    Tom O’Keefe, a senior market intelligence analyst for immixGroup, believes the Department of Homeland Security needs to reach out to organizations about the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation contract vehicle in order to spread awareness of the program. In an article for Washington Technology posted Friday, O’Keefe says businesses should will be able to gain opportunities to discuss their products […] More

  • Ray Johnson: Energy Presents 'Very Large Commercial Market' for Lockheed - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ray Johnson: Energy Presents ‘Very Large Commercial Market’ for Lockheed

    Lockheed Martin is looking to expand its business to the energy sector and other civilian projects as U.S. defense spending continues to decline, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Doug Cameron writes the company seeks to build a nuclear reactor, remote-controlled fish farms and a water desalination membrane. Ray Johnson, chief technology officer at Lockheed, told the journal […] More

  • Gartner's Jim Tully: Gov't to Key on Smart Street, Area Lighting for 'Internet of Things' - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Gartner’s Jim Tully: Gov’t to Key on Smart Street, Area Lighting for ‘Internet of Things’

    Gartner has predicted the number of connected devices to reach 25 billion by 2020, a nearly five-fold increase from the 4.9 billion projected for 2015. Gartner said Tuesday the automotive sector will see a 96-percent growth of connected things in 2015 and that consumer applications will drive the expansion of Internet of Things. The forecasts also says the utilities […] More

  • Louis Berger to Help Manage US Air Base Terminals, Grounds in South Korea; Andrew Bailey Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Louis Berger to Help Manage US Air Base Terminals, Grounds in South Korea; Andrew Bailey Comments

    Louis Berger has been selected to handle the air terminal and ground of U.S. air bases in South Korea. The company will perform the work at the Kunsan air base and Gimhae Republic of Korea air base for five years under the contract with the U.S. Transportation Command, Louis Berger said Wednesday. “We have a long history of strong partnerships […] More

  • Lockheed-Built Orion Spacecraft Set for Dec. 4 Launch; Mark Geyer Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Built Orion Spacecraft Set for Dec. 4 Launch; Mark Geyer Comments

    The Lockheed Martin-built Orion spacecraft is set for space launch on Dec. 4 to test its heat shield, parachutes, avionics and attitude control systems. The spacecraft arrived at NASA‘s Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, where it was lifted 200 feet onto a United Launch Alliance rocket, NASA said Wednesday. “We’ve put a lot […] More

  • Jacobs to Help Texas Dept Oversee Design-Build Projects; Randy Pierce Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jacobs to Help Texas Dept Oversee Design-Build Projects; Randy Pierce Comments

    Jacobs Engineering Group has been awarded a six-year, $20 million contract to help the Texas Department of Transportation oversee design-build and public-private partnership projects across the state. Jacobs said Tuesday it will implement design, construction oversight and owner verification testing procedures for the department under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. “Using lessons learned from our work on the Dallas-Fort Worth Connector, Chisholm […] More

  • Cubic Taps Epic Games' Code to Build Training Simulation Tool; Bill Rebarick Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic Taps Epic Games’ Code to Build Training Simulation Tool; Bill Rebarick Comments

    A Cubic Corp. subsidiary has licensed an Epic Games product from Applied Research Associates to develop training simulation tools for warfighters. Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 3 and 4 will incorporate C++ source code for Cubic Advanced Learning Solutions to build a virtual training environment, Cubic said Wednesday. “The Unreal Government Network gives us access to a professional-grade ecosystem of resources that includes […] More

  • AJ Clark: Agencies Can Tap Private Sector for Geospatial Big Data - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AJ Clark: Agencies Can Tap Private Sector for Geospatial Big Data

    A.J. Clark, president of Thermopylae Sciences and Technology, has outlined what he sees as benefits of geospatial big data to different commercial markets and the federal government. Clark wrote in a Defense Systems op-ed posted Monday that agencies can use commercial data to monitor trends and patterns instead of through their own sensors. He cited the geospatial imagery DigitalGlobe provides to the National Geospatial-Intelligence […] More

  • General Dynamics Subsidiary Starts Tanker Construction for SEA-Vista; Kevin Graney Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Subsidiary Starts Tanker Construction for SEA-Vista; Kevin Graney Comments

    General Dynamics‘ NASSCO subsidiary has kicked off construction work on crude oil and refined products tankers for SEA-Vista LLC. NASSCO will build the liquefied natural gas-conversion ready product tankers at its shipyard in San Diego in compliance with the Jones Act transportation requirements, General Dynamics said Tuesday. “We are proud and honored to partner with SEA-Vista and build three state-of-the-art Jones […] More