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  • IBM to Open China-Based Financial Center; Shang Wenzhu Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM to Open China-Based Financial Center; Shang Wenzhu Comments

    IBM Corp. plans to open a Baohe, China-based financial innovation center, Anhui reported Thursday. Sha Qing writes the center will be built to facilitate financial outsourcing, international pan-financial data processing and online financial services. “We bring foreign advanced IT technology and integrate finance with more lines,” Shang Wenzhu, IBM general manager for China strategic cooperation […] More

  • John Stampfel: Eaton Built Microgrid Mgmt System to Help Military Store, Manage Fuel - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    John Stampfel: Eaton Built Microgrid Mgmt System to Help Military Store, Manage Fuel

    Eaton Corp. has introduced a microgrid management system for military forward operating bases to convert individual power generators into a demand-based microgid. The Intelligent Mobile Power Distribution System is designed to manage generator output, supply power and shift demand onto auxiliary generators, Eaton said Thursday. John Stampfel, vice president and general manager of electrical engineering […] More

  • Lockheed Injects $80M into Florida Mission Systems, Training Unit - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Injects $80M into Florida Mission Systems, Training Unit

    Lockheed Martin Corp. has invested $80 million in its mission systems and training unit in Central Florida, creating up to 200 jobs, Orlando Business Journal reported Wednesday. Megan Ribbens writes the new Orlando, Fla.-based employees will work on Lockheed’s training and logistics operations for the F-35, F-16 and F-15 aircraft programs. About 7,000 employees already […] More

  • Chris Marzilli: General Dynamics, Stratosat Datacom Install South Africa Radio Telescope Antenna Setup - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Chris Marzilli: General Dynamics, Stratosat Datacom Install South Africa Radio Telescope Antenna Setup

    General Dynamics and Stratosat Datacom Ltd. have jointly installed an initial lot of radio antennas to form a telescope array in South Africa. The MeerKAT radio telescope antennas deployed in South Africa’s Karoo region are built to receive remote radio-frequency signals, General Dynamics said Thursday. MeerKAT is slated for full installation over the next three […] More

  • Jay Sunny Bajaj: DMI Aims to Address Mobile Design Demand with KnowledgePath Buy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jay Sunny Bajaj: DMI Aims to Address Mobile Design Demand with KnowledgePath Buy

    Digital Management Inc. has purchased mobile and multichannel commerce provider KnowledgePath in an effort to grow DMI’s enterprise mobility, big data, mobile and Web commerce offerings. KnowledgePath works to integrate mobile commerce, mobile point-of-sale and mobile clienteling functions, DMI said Wednesday. Jay Sunny Bajaj, president and CEO of DMI, said the company intends for the […] More

  • INDUS Obtains CMMI Level 3 Certification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    INDUS Obtains CMMI Level 3 Certification

    INDUS Corp. has obtained level three of the CMMI Institute’s Capability Maturity Model Integration certification. The CMMI level three certification indicates that INDUS’ processes comply with certain standards and procedures, INDUS said Tuesday. INDUS provides business analytics, cloud, critical infrastructure protection, information technology, health IT, network defense, mobility and software applications management services to customers. […] More

  • Raytheon Wins $247M Saudi Arabia Guided Bomb Order; John Michel Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Wins $247M Saudi Arabia Guided Bomb Order; John Michel Comments

    Raytheon UK has won a potential $247 million order for its precision-guided bomb from the government of Saudi Arabia, Defense News reported Tuesday. Andrew Chuter writes that Congress has approved export of the Paveway IV to the Middle Eastern country as the first foreign customer of the precision-guided bomb. John Michel, weapons business director at […] More

  • Paul Dillahay: ASRC Federal to Help Navy Researchers Manage Tracking Facility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Paul Dillahay: ASRC Federal to Help Navy Researchers Manage Tracking Facility

    ASRC Federal’s space and defense division will help operate spacecraft and facilities for the Naval Research Laboratory under a potential five-year, $40 million contract. The Charles County, Md.-based Blossom Point Tracking Facility performs command and control functions for the federal government’s research and development satellites, ASRC Federal said Tuesday. Paul Dillahay, ASRC Federal president and CEO, said […] More

  • Dell Unveils Cloud-Based Tool for Indian Healthcare Providers; Sid Nair Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dell Unveils Cloud-Based Tool for Indian Healthcare Providers; Sid Nair Comments

    Dell has introduced a cloud-based technology offering in India for integrating healthcare clinical and financial systems, CIOL reported Monday. Healthcare providers and hospitals are able to access workflows and reports across an organization using the centralized application, according to the report. Sid Nair, vice president and global general manager of healthcare and life sciences at Dell Services, […] More

  • Four AWS Infrastructure Regions Obtain DoD Provisional Authorization; Teresa Carlson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Four AWS Infrastructure Regions Obtain DoD Provisional Authorization; Teresa Carlson Comments

    Amazon Web Services has a obtained provisional authorization from the Defense Department for all four of the company’s infrastructure regions in the U.S. AWS will extend its cloud services to additional defense agencies under the DoD Cloud Security Model for the first and second impact levels, AWS said Wednesday. Teresa Carlson, vice president of the worldwide […] More

  • Chinese Oil Firm to Monitor Additional Facilities Using Honeywell Software Tools; Aldous Wong Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Chinese Oil Firm to Monitor Additional Facilities Using Honeywell Software Tools; Aldous Wong Comments

    Chinese oil and gas distributor PetroChina Co. Ltd.  will continue to use Honeywell’s software tools for operating additional petrochemical facilities across China in an effort to help meet the country’s energy demands. Honeywell’s refining and petrochemical modeling system and its Intuition Executive information management tools will be implemented in 17 PetroChina refining sites in addition to 13 existing […] More

  • MITRE, Allied Minds Forge Tech Transfer Alliance; Mark Maybury, Barry Costa Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MITRE, Allied Minds Forge Tech Transfer Alliance; Mark Maybury, Barry Costa Comment

    The MITRE Corp. and Allied Minds Inc. have forged a commercial technology transfer partnership with the goal of introducing MITRE’s cyber and mobile security systems to the market and forming a new business. Allied Minds’ federal innovations subsidiary will work to evaluate MITRE’s technologies for commercial applications and licensing under the agreement, Allied Minds said […] More