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  • ReportBuyer: Global Mobile Satellite Services Market to Grow 7.4% by 2018 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ReportBuyer: Global Mobile Satellite Services Market to Grow 7.4% by 2018

    ReportBuyer has released a report that forecasts the global mobile satellite services market to grow 7.39 percent by 2018. The report factors in the wholesale mobile satellite services revenue in order to calculate the market size, ReportBuyer said Sept. 23. Key regions covered in the report are the Americas, the Asia-Pacific and Europe-Middle East-Africa. ReportBuyer also cites the following companies as key […] More

  • Lockheed-Built Orion Spacecraft Enters Final Integration Phase; Michael Hawes Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Built Orion Spacecraft Enters Final Integration Phase; Michael Hawes Comments

    Lockheed Martin and NASA have transferred the Orion spacecraft to the agency’s launch abort system facility at Kennedy Space Center. The company will integrate Orion with the launch abort system after Lockheed completes the ammonia, hydrazine and high pressure helium fueling of the spacecraft, the company said Monday. “Once the launch abort system is integrated and functional testing concludes, the spacecraft is considered […] More

  • Battelle’s Jason Black Outlines Best Practices for Grid Security - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle’s Jason Black Outlines Best Practices for Grid Security

    Jason Black, research lead of Battelle’s energy systems business, has urged utilities to go beyond the minimum grid security requirements outlined by North American Electric Reliability Corp. in a piece for Intelligent Utility published Thursday. He says utilities must factor in all potential risks such as equipment failure, weather-related disaster and man-made threats when developing a complete physical security plan. Each utility […] More

  • Louis Berger to Redesign Maryland Water, Sewer Facility; Anwer Hasan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Louis Berger to Redesign Maryland Water, Sewer Facility; Anwer Hasan Comments

    Louis Berger has won a potential six-year, $8 million contract with the Washington Sanitary Suburban Commission to help rehabilitate a water and sewer facility in Prince George’s and Montgomery Counties, Maryland. The company will also work to relocate the facility’s transmission and distribution water pipelines, sewer pipelines and large meter vaults, Louis Berger said Wednesday. This contract contains a three-year, $4 […] More

  • Carpathia Recommends Steps to Find Enterprise's 'Best Fit Cloud' - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carpathia Recommends Steps to Find Enterprise’s ‘Best Fit Cloud’

    Carpathia has proposed a series of steps for companies to discover what they see as a suitable cloud strategy for their business. The company released an infographic on Wednesday that recommends focusing on cloud deployment goals based on what benefits an organization wants to gain. Carpathia believes companies should develop a migration path in a secure environment after […] More

  • In-Q-Tel Eyes MemSQL's In-Memory Database for Gov't Agencies; George Hoyem Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    In-Q-Tel Eyes MemSQL’s In-Memory Database for Gov’t Agencies; George Hoyem Comments

    In-Q-Tel has invested in MemSQL to develop in-memory distributed database for U.S. government applications. Customers of MemSQL’s database work to combine in-memory row and flash-optimized column stores in order to store and search large volumes of data, IQT said Wednesday. “MemSQL’s unique offering delivers fast data processing to allow organizations instant access to key information, while effectively managing their […] More

  • IronPlanet Launches Online Marketplace for Surplus DoD Assets; Gregory Owens Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IronPlanet Launches Online Marketplace for Surplus DoD Assets; Gregory Owens Comments

    IronPlanet has unveiled an online marketplace for users to buy and sell surplus Defense Department assets. The first online auction of surplus trucks, trailers, generators, wheel loaders, cranes, crawler tractors and other government equipment on the GovPlanet marketplace is scheduled for Nov. 19, IronPlanet said Wednesday. “GovPlanet is a compelling new platform for fast and efficient disposal of government surplus equipment […] More

  • Pepco Stockholders OK Exelon Merger; Joseph Rigby Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Pepco Stockholders OK Exelon Merger; Joseph Rigby Comments

    Pepco Holdings‘ stockholders have approved the power provider’s proposed merger with Exelon Corp. The merger would combine Pepco Holdings’ Atlantic City Electric, Delmarva Power and Pepco electric and gas utilities and Exelon’s BGE, ComEd and PECO utilities,  Exelon said Tuesday. Exelon said the transaction is scheduled to complete in the second or third quarter of its 2015 fiscal year and […] More

  • Joseph Comberiate: APL Builds Model to Track RF Interference From 'Space Bubbles' - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Joseph Comberiate: APL Builds Model to Track RF Interference From ‘Space Bubbles’

    Phycisists at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory have developed a computer model to predict how radio interference source in the atmosphere could affect communications. APL physicists designed the model to detect the movement of “space bubbles” after they form and predict the plasma bubble’s course by collecting data from satellite-based systems and using wind models, Johns Hopkins APL […] More

  • ReportsnReports Pegs Traffic Mgmt Market Growth at 36% Through 2019 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ReportsnReports Pegs Traffic Mgmt Market Growth at 36% Through 2019

    ReportsnReports has released a new report that predicts the global traffic management market will reach $16.89 billion in value by 2019 from the $3.56 billion recorded in 2014, an increase of 36.5 percent. The report also contains analysis of market opportunity and technology adoption across cloud services, traffic management services and intelligent transport system, ReportsnReports said Monday. ReportsnReports cites North […] More

  • HP to Refresh Northern Ireland's Health Data Center Infrastructure; Jackie Crooks Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HP to Refresh Northern Ireland’s Health Data Center Infrastructure; Jackie Crooks Comments

    HP Enterprise Services UK Ltd. has been awarded a $163.8 million contract to refresh the regional health data center infrastructure of Northern Ireland and add new information technology services. HP will collaborate with the U.K.’s business services agency to extend the health and care number services of the region and implement an e-prescribing system for patient safety over the next four […] More

  • MEADS Completes Fire Control Radar Performance Test; Siegfried Bucheler, Marco Riccetti Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MEADS Completes Fire Control Radar Performance Test; Siegfried Bucheler, Marco Riccetti Comment

    MEADS International has demonstrated its multifunction fire control radar at Pratica di Mare Air Base near Rome and at the Freinhause, Germany-based MBDA air defense center. The Medium Extended Air Defense System program completed the performance test for the radar system’s functions to track and jam signals, search in ground clutter and identifying target using kinematic data, Lockheed Martin said […] More