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  • Dan Allen: Serco Lands C4ISR Systems Work for USS Ronald Reagan, USS Carl Vinson - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dan Allen: Serco Lands C4ISR Systems Work for USS Ronald Reagan, USS Carl Vinson

    Serco Inc., the U.K.-based services contractor’s North American arm, will work with the U.S. Navy‘s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command to install a shipboard network on the USS Ronald Reagan. The company said Tuesday that it will perform the work under a potential two-and-a-half year, $17.5 million contract that includes an option for installation work on the […] More

  • Brad Medairy: Booz Allen Receives NSA Recognition for Cyber Response Service - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Brad Medairy: Booz Allen Receives NSA Recognition for Cyber Response Service

    Booz Allen Hamilton has received a cyber incident response certification from the National Security Agency for the firm’s work to provide cyber response aid to national security systems customers. The firm went through 21 reviews to demonstrate the incident response processes of its CyberReady Incident Response technologies for the NSA’s National Security Cyber Assistance Program CIRA accreditation, Booz […] More

  • AT&T to Offer HP Cloud Services; Andy Geisse, Martin Fink Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AT&T to Offer HP Cloud Services; Andy Geisse, Martin Fink Comment

    AT&T has moved to grow its cloud ecosystem with the addition of Hewlett-Packard’s cloud services offerings. Clients of AT&T will gain access to HP’s Helion cloud portfolio through AT&T NetBond by using virtual private networks, AT&T said Monday. Andy Geisse, CEO of AT&T Business Solutions, said the company intends to meet customer demand for security […] More

  • Boeing Eyes Late 2014 Finish Line for First Electric Commercial Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Eyes Late 2014 Finish Line for First Electric Commercial Satellite

    Boeing has developed an electric satellite in an effort to help customers reduce launch costs, Daily Breeze reported Saturday. Jordan England-Nelson writes that Boeing is set to complete two electric 702SP satellites in late 2014 for Asia Broadcast Satellite. Boeing will then transport the commercial satellites to Cape Canaveral, Fla., where SpaceX will launch the spacecraft […] More

  • VMware Unveils Analytics System for Healthcare Industry; Drew Koerner Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VMware Unveils Analytics System for Healthcare Industry; Drew Koerner Comments

    VMware has introduced an analytics system for healthcare industry customers to gather and analyze electronic medical records data, InformationWeek reported Friday. Charles Babcock writes the Care Systems Analytics technology is built to work with the Epic electronic medical records system in exchanging patient data. The company adapted its vCenter Operations Manager to collect data from Epic […] More

  • Finmeccanica Launches Cyber Defense Center in Central Italy; Andrea Biraghi Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Finmeccanica Launches Cyber Defense Center in Central Italy; Andrea Biraghi Comments

    Finmeccanica’s Selex ES business unit has opened a cyber defense center in central Italy in a move to expand its cybersecurity offerings for government and commercial clients, Defense News reported Sunday. Tom Kington writes Selex ES managers are expecting the cyber monitoring center to help increase Finmeccanica’s annual cyber revenue by 12-13 percent. Selex ES […] More

  • QinetiQ to Build Docking System for Europe's Space Agency; Erik Masure Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    QinetiQ to Build Docking System for Europe’s Space Agency; Erik Masure Comments

    QinetiQ’s space division has won a contract from the European Space Agency to develop a soft berthing system for spacecraft to dock at the International Space Station. The company will design and build a model for the International Berthing Docking Mechanism through 2015 before ground testing of the work begins, QinetiQ said Tuesday. Erik Masure, […] More

  • Marco Pluijm: Bechtel, Partners Develop Software Program for Port Safety Guidelines - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Marco Pluijm: Bechtel, Partners Develop Software Program for Port Safety Guidelines

    Bechtel has collaborated with industry partners to develop a software program in order to build up port safety measures following research into the impact of passing ships on moored vessels. Marco Pluijm, Bechtel’s ports sector manager and chairman of the Research on the Passing Effects on Ships project, said Monday the research determined that the effect of wash […] More

  • John Wright: Unisys Unveils Data Collection Tool for Law Enforcement, Intell Agencies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    John Wright: Unisys Unveils Data Collection Tool for Law Enforcement, Intell Agencies

    Unisys has introduced a new data collection tool for police authorities and public safety agencies to perform investigations and gather intelligence. The Unisys Law Enforcement Application Framework is designed to help users log criminal investigation-related evidence and intelligence data, Unisys said Tuesday. John Wright, global director of public safety and justice at Unisys, said the tool […] More

  • NCI Wins $30M National Guard Training Services Contract; Brian Clark Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NCI Wins $30M National Guard Training Services Contract; Brian Clark Comments

    NCI Inc. has won a $30 million contract to provide training services for the Army National Guard Training Systems Integration Branch. Work includes distributed learning content development, online portal management and facilities management in line with the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command’s Army Learning Concept 2015, NCI said Tuesday. Brian Clark, NCI’s president, said […] More

  • Diana Gowen: CenturyLink to Build Private Data Network for Marine Corps - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Diana Gowen: CenturyLink to Build Private Data Network for Marine Corps

    CenturyLink will develop a virtual private network for the U.S. Marine Corps Community Services organization under a potential five-year, $3.5 million contract. The company will work to design, configure and modernize the tools for developing a network in support of the MCCS’ quality-of-life services for Mariness and their families, the company said Tuesday. “CenturyLink is […] More

  • Lockheed to Oversee Highway Agency’s Applications Tower; Robert Greaves Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Oversee Highway Agency’s Applications Tower; Robert Greaves Comments

    Lockheed Martin Corp. has been awarded a $5.4 million contract to maintain the applications estate of England’s Highways Agency, Government Computing Network reported Friday. David Bicknell writes Lockheed will work to provide information technology services to the Highways Agency and modernize its applications tower for two years under the G-Cloud III framework. “Lockheed Martin understands […] More