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  • Parsons Picked to Manage Virginia Streetcar Program; Todd Wager Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Parsons Picked to Manage Virginia Streetcar Program; Todd Wager Comments

    Parsons Transportation Group has been awarded a $7 million contract to provide management services for a streetcar program in Northern Virginia, RailwayAge reported Monday. Douglas John Bowen writes the Columbia Pike streetcar program is intended to connect two separate lines from Fairfax County to Arlington. “This high-capacity modern streetcar program for the Columbia Pike and […] More

  • IBM Helps Build Int'l Public Transport System with Fusion Analytics; Janet Ang Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Helps Build Int’l Public Transport System with Fusion Analytics; Janet Ang Comments

    IBM, SMRT Corporation Ltd., StarHub and the Land Transport Authority of Singapore have teamed up to develop a public transportation system using fusion analytics. The team will apply analytic models to build the Fusion AnalyticS for public Transport Emergency Response blueprint for crowd management and information services, IBM said Monday. Chew Hock Yong, LTA’s chief […] More

  • Bob Gourley: DigitalGlobe, Cloudera Partner on New Geospatial Big Data Analytics - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bob Gourley: DigitalGlobe, Cloudera Partner on New Geospatial Big Data Analytics

    DigitalGlobe has partnered with Cloudera to develop a new geospatial analytics technology intended to help customers fulfill security and governance requirements. Bob Gourley, former chief technology officer of the Defense Intelligence Agency, said DigitalGlobe intends to build the geospatial big data analytic tool around Cloudera’s Enterprise Data Hub, DigitalGlobe said Friday. The analytics system will work to collect […] More

  • FireEye Unveils Intrusion Prevention System Offering; Manish Gupta Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FireEye Unveils Intrusion Prevention System Offering; Manish Gupta Comments

    FireEye has introduced a new threat prevention platform offering with an intrusion prevention system intended to help customers protect their networks from attacks. The platform is built to centralize how users view threat vectors and identify attacks using the multi-vector virtual execution engine for compliance, FireEye said Thursday. “Since multiple compliance standards require the presence of […] More

  • Microsoft to Mentor Cybersecurity Startups in Israel - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft to Mentor Cybersecurity Startups in Israel

    Microsoft has opened a cybersecurity accelerator hub in Israel in a move to mentor startup businesses in the country, the Washington Post reported Thursday. Mohana Ravindranath writes Microsoft Ventures has partnered with Jerusalem Venture Partners to establish the new cybersecurity program at Microsoft’s center in Herzeliya, Israel. Microsoft will provide mentorship and software access to between […] More

  • Tom Simmons; GSA Picks Citrix Tool for Mobile Mgmt Service - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tom Simmons; GSA Picks Citrix Tool for Mobile Mgmt Service

    Citrix Systems has gained approval from the General Services Administration for the company’s mobile workspace tool as a potential mobile device and application management source. XenMobile is built for users to manage mobile, Web and software applications, data and devices, Citrix said Wednesday. “Citrix XenMobile provides the flexibility and mobility that users require while meeting IT […] More

  • John Heller: PAE to Partner With Int'l Narcotics, Law Enforcement Bureau for Task Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    John Heller: PAE to Partner With Int’l Narcotics, Law Enforcement Bureau for Task Order

    PAE has received a $9 million task order from the State Department to carry forward the company’s criminal justice system support services work for a United Nations mission in Liberia. The company will work with the UN and the Liberian government to build up the skills of Liberia’s justice personnel and law enforcers, PAE said […] More

  • Lockheed NASA-Commercial Engineering Team Includes Intuitive Machines, Deep Space Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed NASA-Commercial Engineering Team Includes Intuitive Machines, Deep Space Systems

    Lockheed Martin’s space systems company has awarded a potential five-year, $50 million contract to Deep Space Systems for technical services in support of Lockheed’s work for commercial and NASA programs. Deep Space Systems will serve as prime contractor to Lockheed and Intuitive Machines is a teammate of DSS for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, Intuitive Machines said Wednesday. Intuitive Machines will take in […] More

  • Xerox to Train Miami Children’s Hospital on New Medical, Insurance Coding System; Charles Fred Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Xerox to Train Miami Children’s Hospital on New Medical, Insurance Coding System; Charles Fred Comments

    Xerox Corp. will work to train Miami Children’s Hospital personnel on how to adopt the revised coding system for medical diagnoses and insurance billing. MCH will switch from the ninth version of international classification of diseases to ICD-10 on Oct. 1, 2015, Xerox said Wednesday. Charles Fred, group president of healthcare provider services at Xerox, […] More

  • Eric Joulie: Teradata's New Saudi Arm to Partner With Public Sector Big Data Clients - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Eric Joulie: Teradata’s New Saudi Arm to Partner With Public Sector Big Data Clients

    Teradata has opened a new operation in Saudi Arabia in a move to expand the company’s big data market footprint with the public and private sectors in the Middle Eastern country. Teradata Saudi Arabia LLC will provide analytics, data warehousing and marketing applications services to enterprise customers in the country, Teradata said Tuesday. Eric Joulie, vice […] More

  • Red Hat Opens Office in Indonesia; Damien Wong Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Red Hat Opens Office in Indonesia; Damien Wong Comments

    Red Hat Inc. has opened a new office in Jakarta, Indonesia, in a move to provide open source services to existing and new customers in the country. Red Hat seeks to train local talent and engage local OpenStack and open source developer communities as part of its expansion in Indonesia, Red Hat said May 12. […] More

  • Steve Comber: Leidos Health Achieves MEDITECH Certification for EHR Implementation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Steve Comber: Leidos Health Achieves MEDITECH Certification for EHR Implementation

    Leidos’ healthcare business has received a MEDITECH certification to provide electronic health record implementation services for customers. Leidos Health achieved the MEDITECH 6.x READY (rapid adoption, evidence-based, advanced workflows, dedicated team and your success) status following completion of implementation projects and training sessions, Leidos said Tuesday. “READY will provide our customers with the tools needed […] More