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  • Mike Rhodin: IBM Watson to Help Mayo Clinic Offer Patients Trial Options - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mike Rhodin: IBM Watson to Help Mayo Clinic Offer Patients Trial Options

    IBM and Mayo Clinic have partnered to expand the database of IBM’s Watson cognitive computer in an effort to develop clinical trials and provide individual medical options to patients. IBM Watson will work to analyze Mayo’s clinical data in order to match trials with specific patients, IBM said Monday. “Using Watson’s cognitive computing capabilities, Mayo Clinic can consistently […] More

  • Ken Asbury: CACI Extends Support for LCS Program Logistics, Acquisition - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ken Asbury: CACI Extends Support for LCS Program Logistics, Acquisition

    CACI International has received $44 million contract to provide logistics and acquisition management services for the U.S. Navy‘s Littoral Combat Ship program. The contract contains an eight-month base period and two three-month options, CACI said Monday. “With our ongoing support for this program countering asymmetric challenges close to shore, we will continue to help provide the multi-dimensional, nuanced approaches […] More

  • Verizon's Darryl Shaw: Enterprises Seek Cloud Tools for Healthcare Delivery - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Verizon’s Darryl Shaw: Enterprises Seek Cloud Tools for Healthcare Delivery

    Darryl Shaw, director of healthcare solutions and new product development at Verizon Enterprise, says his company is seeing higher rates adoption of cloud services for healthcare delivery among customers. Carlos Arcila, external communications manager for Verizon Enterprise, wrote Thursday that chief information officers are moving to migrate their services to cloud environments in order to fulfill Health Insurance Portability […] More

  • SANS Survey Outlines Challenges to Critical Security Controls Adoption; James Tarala Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SANS Survey Outlines Challenges to Critical Security Controls Adoption; James Tarala Comments

    SANS has released the results of a new survey that highlights the challenges organizations are facing as they move to adopt critical security controls. The report shows that 63 percent of organizations cited insufficient staffing as barriers to their CSC transition, 54 percent attributed it to budget scarcity and 36 percent pointed to operational and security gaps, SANS said Wednesday. “Organizations across […] More

  • Padmasree Warrior: Cisco, Red Hat Expand Cloud Deployment Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Padmasree Warrior: Cisco, Red Hat Expand Cloud Deployment Partnership

    Cisco and Red Hat have introduced a new suite of integrated infrastructure service to deploy cloud environments for customers. Padmasree Warrior, chief technology and strategy officer at Cisco, said Thursday that the companies are also “expanding their relationship and accelerating collaboration around OpenStack, Application Centric Infrastructure and Intercloud.” Cisco’s UCS integrated infrastructure services work to streamline OpenStack-based private cloud operations for customers […] More

  • Dave DeYoung: Boeing, Army Test High Energy Laser Demonstrator in 'Challenging' Weather - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dave DeYoung: Boeing, Army Test High Energy Laser Demonstrator in ‘Challenging’ Weather

    Boeing and the U.S. Army have tested a company-built laser system to evaluate how the technology targets aerial objects through rough conditions. The High Energy Laser Mobile Demonstrator used an Oshkosh-vehicle-installed laser to destroy targets during the demonstration at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, Boeing said Thursday. “Under windy, rainy and foggy weather conditions in Florida, these engagements […] More

  • Rob Lipowski: Piedmont Healthcare Selects Lexmark Image Mgmt Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rob Lipowski: Piedmont Healthcare Selects Lexmark Image Mgmt Tool

    Lexmark will work with Piedmont Healthcare to consolidate the healthcare system’s medical image management by deploying the company’s content and process management tool. Atlanta-based Piedmont Healthcare selected Lexmark’s Perceptive Acuo Vendor Neutral Archive to manage diagnostic imaging studies and migrate existing research into Perceptive Acuo, Lexmark said Wednesday. “The Perceptive Acuo Vendor Neutral Archive was selected to initially work with Piedmont Healthcare’s radiology and cardiology […] More

  • Verizon's Kevin King Outlines Strategies to Counter Cyber Attacks on Cloud Platforms - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Verizon’s Kevin King Outlines Strategies to Counter Cyber Attacks on Cloud Platforms

    Kevin King, external communications director at Verizon Enterprise Solutions, has laid out strategies for enterprises to protect their cloud infrastructure from cyber attacks. King wrote in a blog post published Wednesday that businesses must develop security protocols such as multifactor authentication, role-based access controls, log monitoring, application vulnerability scanning and security governance. He urged enterprises to provide information on […] More

  • John O'Brien: Raytheon-Built Small Diameter Bomb Hit Targets During Flight Tests - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    John O’Brien: Raytheon-Built Small Diameter Bomb Hit Targets During Flight Tests

    Raytheon Co. and the U.S. Air Force have demonstrated the Small Diameter Bomb II tri-mode seeker to target stationary and moving objects during three guided tests. The SDB II worked to identify wheeled and tracked targets using sensor data during the tests, Raytheon said Thursday. “These guided tests were successfully accomplished against separate targets in both moving and […] More

  • LLNL-Whitewood Team to Commercialize Quantum Data Encryption Tool; Duncan McBranch, John Serafini Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    LLNL-Whitewood Team to Commercialize Quantum Data Encryption Tool; Duncan McBranch, John Serafini Comment

    Los Alamos National Laboratory has agreed to a deal with Allied Minds subsidiary Whitewood Encryption Systems to commercialize the laboratory’s quantum-based data encryption technology. The compact random-number-generation tool works to generate cryptographic keys based on the random polarization state of photons for high data rate encryption, Los Alamos National Laboratory said Tuesday. “Quantum systems represent the best hope for truly secure data […] More

  • Gartner: Global Info Security Spending to Hit $76.9B by 2015 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Gartner: Global Info Security Spending to Hit $76.9B by 2015

    Gartner has predicted in a forecast that global spending on information security will reach $76.9 billion by 2015, up 7.9 percent from the firm’s recorded figure for 2014, George Koroneos of Verizon said Tuesday. The research firm said at a summit in Australia that businesses are increasing their information security investments due to the rise in adoption of cloud […] More

  • Battelle to Help EPA Run Ocean, Coastal Restoration Programs; Mark Curran Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle to Help EPA Run Ocean, Coastal Restoration Programs; Mark Curran Comments

    Battelle has been awarded a nearly $6 million contract to provide technical support services for the Environmental Protection Agency‘s project to restore ocean and coastal environments in the U.S. Battelle scientists and engineers will work with the EPA’s oceans and coastal protection division for the next five years to conduct research and strategic planning in several watersheds across the […] More