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  • DRS Launches Small Signals Intell Sensors; Stephen Robillard Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DRS Launches Small Signals Intell Sensors; Stephen Robillard Comments

    DRS Technologies has introduced a new small signals intelligence sensor system, Breaking Defense reported Thursday. Colin Clark writes the Finmeccanica subsidiary designed the ruggedized sensor to fulfill the combat requirements of U.S. troops. Stephen Robillard, DRS vice president for SIGINT business development, told Breaking Defense that he sees the the SIGINT market to grow by tens of millions […] More

  • CA Technologies Updates Unified Infrastructure Mgmt Offering; John Smith Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CA Technologies Updates Unified Infrastructure Mgmt Offering; John Smith Comments

    CA Technologies has updated its unified infrastructure management offering in an effort to help customers monitor critical information technology assets. The company rolled out updates to the tool’s analytics, alerting and cloud monitoring systems for users to avoid problems through predictive identification of threats in performance, CA said Thursday. “CA UIM’s scalable, end-to-end monitoring capabilities help IT organizations and service […] More

  • Drew Morin: TCS-LR Kimball Team to Offer Gov't Agencies Net Security Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Drew Morin: TCS-LR Kimball Team to Offer Gov’t Agencies Net Security Services

    TeleCommunication Systems has partnered with CDI Engineering Solutions‘ infrastructure services business unit L.R. Kimball to offer cybersecurity services for government customer networks at the state and local levels. The team will work to review and assess policies and procedures, network security and security awareness training functions for public sector agencies, TCS said Monday. Drew Morin, TCS’ senior vice president and chief […] More

  • Boeing, SpaceX Get NASA Green Light for Commercial Crew Contract Work - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing, SpaceX Get NASA Green Light for Commercial Crew Contract Work

    Boeing and SpaceX have been told by NASA to continue work under the agency’s Commercial Crew Transportation Capability program to help transport U.S. astronauts to and from the International Space Station. The agency said Thursday it instructed the companies to proceed despite a pending protest with the Government Accountability Office because a halt to work could “delay meeting critical crew size requirements, and may result […] More

  • Troy Brunk: Rockwell Collins, Elbit Systems Launch Aircraft Night Vision Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Troy Brunk: Rockwell Collins, Elbit Systems Launch Aircraft Night Vision Tool

    Rockwell Collins and Elbit Systems of America have jointly launched a new night vision tool for pilots of fixed-wing aircraft. The digital eye piece night vision cueing display is built to be compatible with all joint helmet-mounted cueing system displays, Elbit Systems said Monday. “Providing this key capability will enable pilots with a greater ability to perform successful nighttime missions,” […] More

  • Report: Contractor Teams Form to Chase Australia's $9B Fighting Vehicle Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Contractor Teams Form to Chase Australia’s $9B Fighting Vehicle Program

    BAE Systems plans to team up with Patria to bid for Australia’s potential $9.28 billion armored fighting vehicle program, Defense News reported Sunday. Nigel Pittaway writes Boeing Defense Australia and Iveco-Oto Melara also plan to forge a partnership to participate in the Land 400 initiative. Australia wants to procure military-off-the-shelf combat reconnaissance vehicles, infantry fighting vehicles and maneuver support vehicles in order […] More

  • Cisco, Viscosity North America to Discuss UCS Migration of Data, Applications - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cisco, Viscosity North America to Discuss UCS Migration of Data, Applications

    Cisco and Viscosity North America have teamed up to discuss how to move data and applications into Cisco’s unified computing system platform during a round table discussion on Oct. 22. The team consists of Oracle ACE directors Charles Kim and Nitin Vengurlekar and Cisco’s Danny Dunn, who will investigate Viscosity’s approach for zero risk and zero downtime Oracle migrations, Viscosity […] More

  • CACI Updates Location Planning, Customer Analysis Tool; Martin Salisbury Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI Updates Location Planning, Customer Analysis Tool; Martin Salisbury Comments

    CACI International has updated its location planning and customer analysis offering for customers to access the software from different types of web-enabled devices. The company wants users to plan their location and customer targeting strategies with the InSite Vision product, CACI said Wednesday. “InSite Vision is the next generation of InSite and will provide bespoke solutions to businesses on a whole […] More

  • GE, Verizon Partner on Industrial Internet Expansion Plan; Bill Ruh, Mark Bartolomeo Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GE, Verizon Partner on Industrial Internet Expansion Plan; Bill Ruh, Mark Bartolomeo Comment

    General Electric and Verizon have partnered to develop an integrated wireless communications system in an effort to expand the scope of industrial Internet. GE will connect its machines and devices to Verizon’s machine-to-machine connectivity and cloud platforms under the partnership, the companies said Thursday. “We look forward to using the power of our network and cloud platforms to enhance our […] More

  • 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