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  • Transparency Market Research: Global Military Radar Market to Reach $8.4B in 2019 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Transparency Market Research: Global Military Radar Market to Reach $8.4B in 2019

    Transparency Market Research has released a report that predicts the global military radar market will reach $8.44 billion in worth in 2019. The increase represents a 2.9 percent compound annual growth rate from the $6.9 billion recorded in 2012, Transparency Market Research said Thursday. Security and economic concerns, strategic alliances, border protection issues, growing government defense investments and increasing demand […] More

  • Rob Smith: Lockheed Updates Missile Defense Integration, Ops Center for Tests - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rob Smith: Lockheed Updates Missile Defense Integration, Ops Center for Tests

    Lockheed Martin has updated a command and control system for the Missile Defense Agency to evaluate at MDA’s missile defense integration and operations center. The Command Control, Battle Management and Communications System is designed to help commanders view missile threats, Lockheed said Wednesday. Rob Smith, vice president of C4ISR at Lockheed, said the company gave the system an update in order to […] More

  • DLT Highlights Cyber Threats to Gov't in 2014 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DLT Highlights Cyber Threats to Gov’t in 2014

    DLT Solutions has highlighted what it sees as the top cybersecurity threats the U.S. government faced in 2014 and the countermeasures agencies have adopted to combat those threats. Caron Beesley wrote in an analysis piece published Wednesday the lack of awareness and cyber training among federal employees hampers government efforts to counter sophisticated attacks. Beesley, editor of DLT Solutions’ […] More

  • Autonomic Resources Approved to Authorize Commercial Data Centers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Autonomic Resources Approved to Authorize Commercial Data Centers

    Autonomic Resources has been approved to authorize commercial data center facility space under a provisional authority-to-operate through the FedRAMP program. The ARC-P Secure Data Center offering is intended to help agencies and government contractors secure their non-virtualized and legacy information technology systems to meet regulatory requirements, Autonomic Resources said Tuesday. Autonomic Resources and an accredited third-party assessment team will validate the […] More

  • IBM Study Indicates Cyber Concerns of CISOs; Brendan Hannigan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Study Indicates Cyber Concerns of CISOs; Brendan Hannigan Comments

    A new IBM study indicates a growing concern among security leaders over what they perceive as rising external threats. The survey of chief information security officers and other leaders says 60 percent of respondents believe their organizations lack the necessary resources to engage in a cyber war, IBM said Tuesday. Organizations see big data, cloud and mobile as critical components in […] More

  • Boeing Completes NASA Certification Baseline Review for Crew Transportation Systems; John Mulholland Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Completes NASA Certification Baseline Review for Crew Transportation Systems; John Mulholland Comments

    Boeing has completed a certification baseline review of NASA‘s human space transportation systems as part of a series of preparations for crewed missions to the International Space Station. NASA approved the review to validate the baseline design of the Crew Space Transportation-100 spacecraft, United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket and related components, NASA said Dec. 1. “It’s important for us to […] More

  • Lockheed-Solid Power Team to Build Air Force ICBM Battery; Doug Campbell Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Solid Power Team to Build Air Force ICBM Battery; Doug Campbell Comments

    Lockheed Martin and Solid Power have partnered to develop intercontinental ballistic missile battery systems under a two-year, $2.9 million U.S. Air Force contract awarded to Solid Power. Lockheed will help Solid Power perform electrochemical and environmental tests on the power cell units in order to comply with program requirements, Solid Power said Monday. Doug Campbell, president and CEO of Solid Power, said the companies intend […] More

  • Airbus to Build Ocean Topography Measurement Satellite for ESA; Francois Auque Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Airbus to Build Ocean Topography Measurement Satellite for ESA; Francois Auque Comments

    Airbus‘ defense and space business unit has been selected to develop a satellite system for ocean surface topography measurements under a contract with the European Space Agency. The Jason-CS/Sentinel-6 satellite will work to measure the distance between the ocean surface and the satellite, and map the global ocean topography every 10 days, Airbus said Friday. The satellite will orbit […] More

  • Praescient's James Spencer: Data Analyst-Engineer Coordination Needed to Derive Insights - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Praescient’s James Spencer: Data Analyst-Engineer Coordination Needed to Derive Insights

    James Spencer, analyst consultant at Praescient, believes coordination between the data analyst and data engineer is key in work to extract insights from big data. “The problem as I see it is that many enterprises deal with analysis and engineering as two separate entities that don’t really talk to each other,” Spencer said Friday. He said the data scientists […] More

  • CenturyLink Lands DHS Task Order for Cyber Services to Civilian Agencies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CenturyLink Lands DHS Task Order for Cyber Services to Civilian Agencies

    CenturyLink will continue to deliver cybersecurity services to U.S. federal civilian agencies under a one-year task order from the Department of Homeland Security‘s office of cybersecurity and communications. The company said Monday the task order is part of a four-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for cybersecurity services that CenturyLink won in March 2013. DHS awarded the order under its EINSTEIN program, which aims to help agencies […] More

  • Nubity Joins IBM Cloud Program; Rita Radi Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Nubity Joins IBM Cloud Program; Rita Radi Comments

    Nubity has joined IBM‘s cloud entrepreneur program in a move to expand Nubity’s cloud services worldwide. The Mexico City-based startup company partners with IBM’s SoftLayer Catalyst program to access an open cloud infrastructure, executive mentorship and an ecosystem of customers, IBM said Friday. “Through a comprehensive mix of consulting, a robust ecosystem and scalable global cloud infrastructure, Nubity is helping its clients […] More

  • IBM Rolls Out Beta Version of Watson Analytics - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Rolls Out Beta Version of Watson Analytics

    IBM has released a beta version of the Watson Analytics cognitive service for business clients. IBM Watson is now available to customers as a cloud-based free premium service via desktop computers and mobile devices, IBM said Thursday. Business users will have access to the Watson Analytics community to share news, best practices, technical support and training services. The cognitive system is designed to […] More