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  • Textron-AirLand JV Demos Scorpion Aircraft at Kansas National Guard Exercise - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Textron-AirLand JV Demos Scorpion Aircraft at Kansas National Guard Exercise

    A joint venture between Textron Inc. and AirLand Enterprises LLC has kicked off operational testing for its reconnaissance aircraft during a Northern Command and Kansas National Guard training exercise. Textron AirLand LLC’s Scorpion aircraft provided multi-spectral full motion video and communications with other aircraft and ground stations at VIGILANT GUARD 2014 from Aug. 4 to […] More

  • Gerald Cohen: Information Builders Partners With Arrow to Extend BI Offering - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Gerald Cohen: Information Builders Partners With Arrow to Extend BI Offering

    Information Builders and Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions have forged a partnership in which Arrow will market Information Builders’ business intelligence service offering. The business computing provider will distribute Information Builders’ WebFOCUS Express offering, Information Builders said Wednesday. Gerald Cohen, president and CEO of Information Builders, said the companies intend for the partnership “to extend the […] More

  • Juniper Research Forecasts Location Services Market to Hit $43.3B by 2019 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Juniper Research Forecasts Location Services Market to Hit $43.3B by 2019

    Juniper Research has released a forecast report that projects the location-based services market to grow to a total revenue of $43.3 billion by 2019 from the approximately $12.2 billion recorded in 2014. Context aware ad-supported apps will drive more than two-thirds of the mobile context and location services market’s revenues by 2019, Juniper Research said Thursday. Local search apps […] More

  • Northrop to Build Army Black Hawk's Avionics System; Ike Song Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Build Army Black Hawk’s Avionics System; Ike Song Comments

    Redstone Defense Systems has selected Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) to modernize the digital cockpit of the U.S. Army‘s new fleet of Black Hawk helicopters. Northrop will work to produce and integrate the avionics system of UH-60L Black Hawk helicopters in order to replace analog gauges of the legacy model, Northrop said Friday. “We are committed to this […] More

  • Interactive Intelligence Group Comms Software Receives JITC Certification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Interactive Intelligence Group Comms Software Receives JITC Certification

    Interactive Intelligence Group has obtained a certification from the Joint Interoperability Test Command for the companys Internet protocol-based communications software offering. BROOKMAN LLC assisted Interactive Intelligence in the certification process for the fourth version of its Customer Interaction Center suite’s sixth update, Interactive Intelligence said Thursday. “CIC’s JITC certification helps government agencies speed sales cycles […] More

  • John Rader: Boeing Gets FAA Approval for Tactical Surveillance Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    John Rader: Boeing Gets FAA Approval for Tactical Surveillance Aircraft

    Boeing has obtained a certification from the Federal Aviation Administration for the company’s reconnaissance and surveillance aircraft. The company is now allowed to deliver the Enhanced Medium Altitude Reconnaissance and Surveillance System Risk Reduction Prototype to global customers, Boeing said Tuesday. “ERRP is a high-end signals intelligence aircraft that delivers near-real-time SIGINT to the warfighter, a capability in […] More

  • IBM to Refresh Narayana Health’s IT Infrastructure; Anmol Nautiyal Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM to Refresh Narayana Health’s IT Infrastructure; Anmol Nautiyal Comments

    IBM will deploy email and collaboration tools at Narayana Health in an effort to help the medical institution’s employees and stakeholders connect to a centralized information technology infrastructure. Narayana Health administrators and employees will have access to business class email, a calendar and contact management tool through a cloud environment by using IBM iNotes via Cloud, IBM […] More

  • Bill Ruh: GE-Pivotal Team Creates Industrial Data Lake Approach - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bill Ruh: GE-Pivotal Team Creates Industrial Data Lake Approach

    GE has collaborated with Pivotal to develop an industrial data lake approach in an effort to help customers analyze large volumes of data. Bill Ruh, vice president of GE Software, said Monday that the company and Pivotal designed the industrial data approach to combine information technology with operational technology so that customers will be able […] More

  • Iridium Delivers Services with SunTec’s Revenue Mgmt System; Jose Varela Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iridium Delivers Services with SunTec’s Revenue Mgmt System; Jose Varela Comments

    Iridium has selected SunTec’s revenue management system to deploy end-to-end services in real time, PCC Mobile Broadband reported Saturday. Ray Sharma writes Iridium is using SunTec’s Xelerate to provision its GO!TM service offering for integrated voice, data and tracking capabilities. “With our Iridium NEXT satellites scheduled to begin launching in 2015, Iridium is readying our […] More

  • RnR Market Research: IoT, M2M Comm Market to Grow 24% Through 2019 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    RnR Market Research: IoT, M2M Comm Market to Grow 24% Through 2019

    RnR Market Research has projected the Internet of Things and machine-to-machine communication market to grow 24.42 percent in value to $498.92 billion in 2019 from $128.7 billion in 2014. The March 2014 worldwide market forecast projects that a trillion interconnected devices will hit the market by 2025 and demand for sensors, wireless networks and cloud apps will […] More

  • TCS Becomes O3b Networks Satellite Service Partner; Michael Bristol Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TCS Becomes O3b Networks Satellite Service Partner; Michael Bristol Comments

    TeleCommunication Systems Inc. has teamed up with O3b Networks to provide O3b’s satellite network services to TCS’ government and commercial clients through contract vehicles. “D” D’Ambrosio, O3b Networks executive vice president of government solutions, said Monday TCS will deploy communications services to remote areas with “O3b’s fiber speed and satellite reach.” O3b’s medium Earth-orbit constellation […] More

  • KPMG’s Tom Franks: Global M&A Appetite ‘Remains Strong’ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    KPMG’s Tom Franks: Global M&A Appetite ‘Remains Strong’

    KPMG has released the firm’s latest mergers and acquisitions global trends report that indicates M&A deals rose 26 percent between January and June of 2014. Tom Franks, global head of corporate finance at KPMG, said Thursday that “appetite for M&A deals remains strong, capacity is going up and we are starting to see an increasing number of deals […] More