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  • Charles River Analytics to Help NASA Analysts Estimate Device Life; Avi Pfeffer Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Charles River Analytics to Help NASA Analysts Estimate Device Life; Avi Pfeffer Comments

    Charles River Analytics will develop a probabilistic modeling system for NASA researchers to evaluate flight systems with a focus on aviation safety. NASA analysts will work to estimate the remaining useful life of components with Charles River’s prediction technique under the Programming Useful Life Prediction program, Charles River said Wednesday. “We will be developing a new approach to RUL prediction by using […] More

  • Iridium, Trimble Ink SATCOM Integration Deal; David Wigglesworth, Ron Konezny Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iridium, Trimble Ink SATCOM Integration Deal; David Wigglesworth, Ron Konezny Comment

    Iridium Communications has agreed to integrate its satellite communications system into the core transportation and logistics offering of Trimble. Trimble will offer the product with Iridium’s satellite machine-to-machine connectivity services in Europe and other regions worldwide, Iridium said Thursday. David Wigglesworth, vice president and general manager for Americas and global M2M services at Iridium, said Iridium’s global coverage “will play an important role in Trimble’s […] More

  • LexisNexis Surveys Consumer Willingness to Share Personal Data with Industries, Gov't; Dennis Becker Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    LexisNexis Surveys Consumer Willingness to Share Personal Data with Industries, Gov’t; Dennis Becker Comments

    LexisNexis Risk Solutions has conducted a survey on how government and commercial collection of personal identification information impacts consumer behavior. The company polled more than 3,000 consumers over their willingness to share personal information with the financial, healthcare, retail and government sectors in low, medium and high risk transactions, LexisNexis said Tuesday. “Organizations need to be cognizant of how […] More

  • IBM Launches Crowdsourced Supercomputer to Analyze Genomic Big Data - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Launches Crowdsourced Supercomputer to Analyze Genomic Big Data

    IBM has introduced a crowdsourced supercomputing system in an effort to help scientists develop new medicinal compounds based on genomic data analysis. The World Community Grid supercomputer works to access the computer power of thousands of volunteers worldwide in order to compare 200 million proteins registered from the genes of various life forms, IBM said Wednesday. […] More

  • Bassim Shebaro: Jacobs to Help Saudi Arabia Build Industrial Cities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bassim Shebaro: Jacobs to Help Saudi Arabia Build Industrial Cities

    Jacobs Engineering Group has won a two-year contract of an undisclosed amount with the Saudi Industry Property Authority to design and develop industrial cities in the country. The company will provide concept and design services for three new industrial cities in Saudi Arabia, the company said Tuesday. “We look forward to supporting MODON’s goal to create a lasting and […] More

  • SAIC Launches E-Ticketing Tool for Law Enforcers; Terry Hicks Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAIC Launches E-Ticketing Tool for Law Enforcers; Terry Hicks Comments

    Science Applications International Corp. has unveiled an electronic ticketing tool that the company designed to help law enforcement clients process and issue tickets to violators. The Qwik-e-Ticket system works to create and send tickets electronically through Saltus Technologies LLC’s digiTICKET software, SAIC said Tuesday. “Our solution can scan IDs and licenses, issue tickets, capture GPS coordinates, electronic signatures, voice notes and […] More

  • Force 3's Jason Parry: Enterprises See Value in 'Software-Defined Everything' - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Force 3’s Jason Parry: Enterprises See Value in ‘Software-Defined Everything’

    Jason Parry, vice president of client solutions at consulting and integration firm Force 3, believes “software-defined everything” provides value and return on investment for enterprises, ChannelPro Network reported Oct. 10. Parry told the publication that companies have adopted SDE tools for automated information technology tasks and provisioning work, Samuel Greengard reports. He recommends that channel professionals focus on […] More

  • Capgemini, Altimeter Combine Research and Thought Leadership; Xavier Hochet Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Capgemini, Altimeter Combine Research and Thought Leadership; Xavier Hochet Comments

    Capgemini Consulting and Altimeter Group have forged a partnership to develop research, thought leadership and technology offerings. Altimeter and Capgemini will jointly create content in innovation, digital transformation and digital customer experience and share their methodologies, frameworks and tools, Altimeter said Monday. “We see this partnership as a big win for our clients and the industry at large,” said Xavier Hochet, CEO of Capgemini […] More

  • Maryann Hirsch: Agencies' Cyber Budget Requests to Continue Growth - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Maryann Hirsch: Agencies’ Cyber Budget Requests to Continue Growth

    Government agencies will continue to see an increase in their budget requests for cyber operations even as overall budgets remain flat, according to KCG President Maryann Hirsch. In a piece for Security Magazine published Friday, Hirsch wrote that U.S. Cyber Command more than doubled its funding to $447 million in 2013 and the Department of Homeland Security‘s cybersecurity operations funding grew $792 million […] More

  • Space Systems/Loral Launches New Satellite for Intelsat; John Celli Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Space Systems/Loral Launches New Satellite for Intelsat; John Celli Comments

    Space Systems/Loral has launched a new satellite built for Intelsat into space for an initiative to provide distribution services in South America and the Caribbean regions. The Intelsat 30 satellite also achieved post-launch maneuvering in orbit after its launch on board Ariane 5 from the European Spaceport in the French Guiana, SSL said Friday. SSL designed the Intelsat 30 based on the 1300 platform to […] More

  • Alan Chvotkin: Gov't Has Sped Up Clearance Process in 2014 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Alan Chvotkin: Gov’t Has Sped Up Clearance Process in 2014

    The Human Resources Association of the National Capital Region has released new data that indicates demand for employees with security clearances dropped in 2014, The Washington Post reported Sunday. Aaron Gregg writes the HRA-NCA report also suggests the number of contractors offering pay differentials for security-cleared personnel could decline to 37 percent in 2014 from the 72 percent recorded in 2010. […] More

  • Defence IQ: Global Airborne ISR Market to Hit $43B in Value by 2020 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Defence IQ: Global Airborne ISR Market to Hit $43B in Value by 2020

    Defence IQ has released a new report that forecasts the global airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance market to reach $43 billion by 2020. The report indicates that the airborne ISR market sees strong acquisition worldwide and pegs its current value at nearly $20 billion, Defence IQ said Monday. The market’s growth is also attributed to an increase in civil ISR spending, […] More