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  • Research and Markets: Military Radar Market to Hit $8.4B by 2019 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Research and Markets: Military Radar Market to Hit $8.4B by 2019

    Research and Markets has released a new report that predicts the military radar global market could reach a total value of $8.4 billion by 2019 from the $6.9 billion recorded in 2012. Increased demands from the army, navy and air force services, as well as emergency responders have spurred the military radar market’s growth worldwide, Research and […] More

  • Chris Petersen, Sameer Bhalotra to Discuss Cyber Threat Impact on Critical Infrastructure - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Chris Petersen, Sameer Bhalotra to Discuss Cyber Threat Impact on Critical Infrastructure

    Sameer Bhalotra and Chris Petersen will discuss the impacts of emerging cyber threats on critical infrastructure and commercial systems at a webinar on Sept. 9. Sameer Bhalotra, former senior director for cybersecurity at the White House, and Chris Petersen, chief technology officer and a co-founder of LogRhythm, will also talk about integrating threat intelligence into security analytics to bolster […] More

  • David Nolte: Animated Dynamics to Study Cell Sample Behavior Under NSF Grant - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    David Nolte: Animated Dynamics to Study Cell Sample Behavior Under NSF Grant

    Animated Dynamics has received $150,000 in grant funds from the National Science Foundation to build a microscope attachment scientists will use to study intercellular motion and dynamics. David Nolte, president of Animated Dynamics, and John Turek, executive vice president and CFO, jointly developed the technology to examine how cells interact with their environment, Purdue University said […] More

  • Shaygan Kheradpir: Juniper Networks to Focus on Cloud Builders, High-IQ Networks - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Shaygan Kheradpir: Juniper Networks to Focus on Cloud Builders, High-IQ Networks

    Shaygan Kheradpir, Juniper Networks CEO, has outlined his plan to achieve the company’s mission goals by focusing on cloud builders and high-IQ networks, MicroScope reported Thursday. Linda Endersby writes Kheradpir considers cloud computing as an instrument to further the growth of global connectivity. Juniper intends to concentrate on cloud builders as customers turn to the […] More

  • Xerox’s Charles Brooks: Gov’t Agencies Seek to Accelerate Record Digitization - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Xerox’s Charles Brooks: Gov’t Agencies Seek to Accelerate Record Digitization

    Charles Brooks, vice president and client executive for the Department of Homeland Security at Xerox Corp., sees an increased support from the FBI and DHS in converting government records to digital form. Brooks wrote in an op-ed published in Federal Times Wednesday that he believes “digitizing records reduces costs by speeding up document capture, recognition, and retrieval.” The […] More

  • Raytheon Hands Rolling Airframe Missile System to US Navy; Rick Nelson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Hands Rolling Airframe Missile System to US Navy; Rick Nelson Comments

    Raytheon has handed the initial batch of its Rolling Airframe Missile system to the U.S. Navy under the company’s low rate production contract with the service branch. The company worked to upgrade Block 2 variant’s kinematics, radio frequency receiver and control system, Raytheon said Wednesday. “Along with demonstrating a long-standing international partnership, the RAM program has […] More

  • Mike Rhodin: IBM Extends Watson’s Cognitive Work with New Research Partnerships - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mike Rhodin: IBM Extends Watson’s Cognitive Work with New Research Partnerships

    IBM Corp. has moved to expand the cognitive offerings of its Watson supercomputer by partnering with Baylor College of Medicine, Johnson & Johnson, Sanofi and New York Genome Center on several big data research projects. Researchers will work to accelerate discoveries, test hypotheses and draw conclusions by using IBM’s Watson Discovery Advisor tool, IBM said Thursday. […] More

  • Stephen Leonard: IBM Seeks to Help Clients Adopt Big Data, Cloud Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Stephen Leonard: IBM Seeks to Help Clients Adopt Big Data, Cloud Systems

    IBM is seeing growing interest in the company’s offerings worldwide as enterprises continue to adopt cloud, analytics and mobile technologies. Stephen Leonard, general manager of sales at IBM systems and technology group, said Wednesday that the company’s new systems work to help clients “modernize their IT environments for emerging big data, cloud computing, mobile and social technologies.” “Clients […] More

  • Northrop UAS Duo Logs 100K Combat Support Hours; Jim Culmo Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop UAS Duo Logs 100K Combat Support Hours; Jim Culmo Comments

    Two Northrop Grumman-built unmanned aircraft systems have achieved more than 100,000 flight hours combined for two separate U.S. Air Force and Navy operations. The Air Force flew the Global Hawk fleet for more than 88 percent of the mission’s flight hours while the Navy’s Broad Area Maritime Surveillance demonstrator accounted for the remaining hours, Northrop […] More

  • MarketsandMarkets: Mobile Cloud Market to Grow $47B in 2019 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MarketsandMarkets: Mobile Cloud Market to Grow $47B in 2019

    MarketsandMarkets has projected the global mobile cloud market to reach $46.9 billion in value by 2019. The forecast indicates that the mobile cloud market will grow by a compound annual growth rate of 37.8 percent from $9.43 billion in 2014, the market researcher said Tuesday. MarketsandMarkets attributes the rise of the mobile cloud era to expansions in […] More

  • Doug Wagoner: New SAIC Cyber Suite Built for Persistent Cyber Threat Response - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Doug Wagoner: New SAIC Cyber Suite Built for Persistent Cyber Threat Response

    Science Applications International Corp. has introduced a new cybersecurity offering with the goal of helping clients secure enterprise data and reduce network vulnerabilities. The CyberSecurity Edge suite works to minimize disruption to operations, prevent intellectual property loss and counter cyber attacks, SAIC said Tuesday. “This solution provides maximum data security readiness and responds to advanced persistent […] More

  • DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-3 Achieves Initial Operational Capability; Jeff Tarr Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-3 Achieves Initial Operational Capability; Jeff Tarr Comments

    DigitalGlobe has reached the initial operational capability status for its WorldView-3 imagery satellite after the company completed the focusing stage of the spacecraft. The company on Tuesday released sample images of several areas in Madrid, Spain to show several usage cases for DigitalGlobe customers. “We are delighted that even in the early stages of calibration and commissioning WorldView-3 is revealing new […] More