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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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