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  • Army Takes in Lockheed Digital Air Ground Integration Range; Jim Weitzel Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Takes in Lockheed Digital Air Ground Integration Range; Jim Weitzel Comments

    Lockheed Martin has delivered an initial digital air ground integration range to the U.S. Army‘s program executive office simulation, training and instrumentation at Fort Bliss, Texas. The company demonstrated the range in an arms live fire exercise during the government’s acceptance test, Lockheed said Thursday. “The digital air ground integration range offers more realistic training, helping soldiers, crews and platoons build […] More

  • Team DecisionSim to Develop Clinical Simulations for VA Training Program; James McGee Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Team DecisionSim to Develop Clinical Simulations for VA Training Program; James McGee Comments

    Team DecisionSim will continue to develop clinical simulations for the Veterans Affairs Department‘s simulation training and education program. VA has been applying the DecisionSim platform on patient safety, women’s health, palliative care, specialty care, team and communication skills training, human resources and operations areas, Decision Simulation said Wednesday. “We are excited about the VA’s continued expansion of DecisionSim and are honored to be a […] More

  • Grant Thornton's Philip Higginbotham: Businesses Need 'Forward-Thinking' Analytics Approach - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Grant Thornton’s Philip Higginbotham: Businesses Need ‘Forward-Thinking’ Analytics Approach

    Philip Higginbotham, Grant Thornton’s national director of analytic services, has called on business leaders to “understand and implement a more sophisticated, forward-thinking form of analytics to get ahead.” Grant Thornton and the Financial Executives Research Foundation released on Tuesday a new report, which says organizations that adopt prescriptive data analytics improve their business performance. FERF and Grant Thornton conducted interviews with senior-level executives to […] More

  • Craneware Buys Kestros, Appoints Russ Rudish to Board; Keith Neilson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Craneware Buys Kestros, Appoints Russ Rudish to Board; Keith Neilson Comments

    Craneware has bought Kestros Ltd. for $2.08 million in a move to bolster Craneware’s presence in the patient access market, Daily Record reported. Scott McCulloch writes that Edinburgh-based medical billing software developer Craneware plans to expand the use of Kestros’ technology platform from the National Health Service Trusts to the growing healthcare market. “This investment […] More

  • Tableau Software Offers MarkLogic NoSQL Connector; Joe Pasqua, Dan Jewett Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tableau Software Offers MarkLogic NoSQL Connector; Joe Pasqua, Dan Jewett Comment

    MarkLogic and Tableau Software have forged a partnership, under which Tableau will offer MarkLogic’s NoSQL connector for organizations to analyze data. The companies seek to help business analysts gain insight into business performance through a Tableau-connected MarkLogic enterprise NoSQL database, MarkLogic said Tuesday. “Through the partnership with Tableau, we are helping businesses find the information that matters, so that it can be visualized and […] More

  • European Space Agency Taps QinetiQ Baffle for Euclid Telescope; Malika De Ridder Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    European Space Agency Taps QinetiQ Baffle for Euclid Telescope; Malika De Ridder Comments

    QinetiQ has received a $2.9 million contract to build a baffle for the European Space Agency‘s Airbus-built Euclid space telescope. The baffle is a black cylindrical structure and is built to prevent stray light from entering into the telescope’s optics, QinetiQ said Sept. 30. ESA led the development of the Euclid mission with Thales Alenia Space Turin in an effort to probe the “dark energy” that some […] More

  • General Dynamics Starts USSOCOM Ground Vehicle Low-Rate Production; Tim Neaves Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Starts USSOCOM Ground Vehicle Low-Rate Production; Tim Neaves Comments

    General Dynamics is set to begin the low-rate initial production phase under a contract to build ground mobility vehicles for the U.S. Special Operations Command. General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems is contracted to build 72 vehicles through 2016 under the Ground Mobility Vehicle 1.1 program, which the company won in August 2013, General Dynamics said Tuesday. “We look forward to continuing this strong partnership […] More

  • Ranaan Horowitz: Elbit Systems to Help DHS Demo Broadband Services in Interoperability Push - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ranaan Horowitz: Elbit Systems to Help DHS Demo Broadband Services in Interoperability Push

    An Elbit Systems subsidiary has been selected to test the Department of Homeland Security‘s broadband services for public safety operations. Elbit Systems of America will demonstrate WideBridge, which works to combine mission systems with the Federal Information Processing Standards-approved BlackBerry BES10 workspace and Etherstack’s P.25 networks, Elbit Systems said Tuesday. “Ongoing efforts to establish important interoperable broadband solutions for the FirstNet […] More

  • Northrop to Unveil New SATCOM Terminals - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Unveil New SATCOM Terminals

    Northrop Grumman will introduce new protected terminals for satellite communications that the company built to help the U.S. military protect warfighters. The company will unveil three variants of the terminals at the MILCOM 2014 conference between Oct. 6 and 8 at the Baltimore Convention Center, Northrop Grumman said Monday. Northrop is scheduled to demonstrate the terminals in 2015 and the systems are intended to go […] More

  • Exelis to Launch New Electronic Warfare Offering; Joe Rambala Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Exelis to Launch New Electronic Warfare Offering; Joe Rambala Comments

    Exelis will unveil a multifunctional electronic warfare system at a symposium Tuesday in Washington. The Disruptor SRx EW technology works to respond to changing mission requirements in real time, Exelis said Monday. “Disruptor SRx is an important milestone in the company’s long history of innovating to protect against evolving electronic threats,” said Joe Rambala, vice president and general […] More

  • Pentagon to Examine Commercial Cloud-Data Center Integration Ideas - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Pentagon to Examine Commercial Cloud-Data Center Integration Ideas

    The Defense Department is exploring two options to integrate commercial cloud services into the agency’s data centers, Information Week reported Friday. Jai Vijayan writes the Defense Information Systems Agency has released a request for information in search of ideas from industry on ways to have cloud vendors deliver services to the U.S. military using DoD’s network and facilities. Under a potential data […] More

  • General Dynamics to Open Operations Center in Florida - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics to Open Operations Center in Florida

    A General Dynamics business unit plans to open an operations center at One Imeson Center with $500,000 in funding to meet the growing operational requirements for government clients, The Daily record reported Friday. Karen Brune Mathis writes General Dynamics Information Technology will start to train approximately 100 employees in December to man the center at the Imeson International Industrial Park in […] More