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  • MBDA Land Combat Missile Goes Through Firing Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MBDA Land Combat Missile Goes Through Firing Test

    MBDA has moved to validate the safety use of its new land combat missile system through a confined-environment demonstration. The company exhibited the firing technology of the Missile Moyenne Portée at MBDA’s test facility in central France, MBDA said Thursday. The missile system was test-fired under various temperatures to evaluate its function in different conditions […] More

  • Nick Fraser: Unisys to Implement Facial Recognition System for UK Passport Application Process - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Nick Fraser: Unisys to Implement Facial Recognition System for UK Passport Application Process

    Unisys Corp. will apply its new facial recognition system to the passport application process in the UK. Her Majesty’s Passport Office awarded a five-year contract for Unisys to automate passport applications and examine biometric data using its open standards LEIDA platform, the company said Thursday. Nick Fraser, managing director of Unisys UK, said the company […] More

  • Anne Altman: Gov't Wants to Merge Data Sources as IBM Makes Federal Health Investments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Anne Altman: Gov’t Wants to Merge Data Sources as IBM Makes Federal Health Investments

    IBM has moved to help address healthcare technology demand in the U.S. public sector market through a series of investments into the company’s federal healthcare practice. The company has launched Watson-based big data services for clinical care and data management initiatives with its research arm and appointed Keith Salzman as chief medical information officer, IBM said […] More

  • Tony Smeraglinolo: Engility to Compete on $2.5B USAID Overseas Peace Project IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tony Smeraglinolo: Engility to Compete on $2.5B USAID Overseas Peace Project IDIQ

    An Engility Holdings subsidiary will compete with eight other companies for work under a potential five-year, $2.5 billion contract covering technical consulting services to U.S. Agency for International Development partners working in countries under transition. Awardees such as the IRG subsidiary will work with USAID’s transition initiatives office to implement peace and democracy initiatives in the agency’s priority countries under […] More

  • Sikorsky, Army Test Fly Autonomous Black Hawk Helicopter; Mark Miller Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sikorsky, Army Test Fly Autonomous Black Hawk Helicopter; Mark Miller Comments

    Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. and the U.S. Army have demonstrated an autonomous version of the Black Hawk helicopter to further work on cargo delivery methods. The company and the Army flew the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter by using Sikorsky’s Matrix and ground control station technologies, Sikorsky said Tuesday. Mark Miller, Sikorsky vice president of research and […] More

  • BMC Unveils Change Management Console; Gur Steif Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BMC Unveils Change Management Console; Gur Steif Comments

    BMC Software has introduced a new management tool intended to help developers and information technology operators within a single organization to collaborate on software modifications. The Control-M Workload Change Manager is part of the Control-M Workload Automation suite and is built for development teams to design workflows for implementation by the IT department while maintaining site standards, […] More

  • Lockheed Updates Small UAS Automation Systems; Kevin Westfall Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Updates Small UAS Automation Systems; Kevin Westfall Comments

    Lockheed Martin has transitioned its small unmanned aircraft systems to new automation technologies in an effort to help operators execute missions. The mobile Ground Control Station software features an interface, touchscreen, joystick preferences and an operator manual, Lockheed said Wednesday. Kevin Westfall, director of unmanned services at Lockheed’s mission systems and training business, said the software […] More

  • Navy Begins Using Raytheon-Built Missile Interceptor; Taylor Lawrence Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Begins Using Raytheon-Built Missile Interceptor; Taylor Lawrence Comments

    The U.S. Navy has kicked off operations on a Raytheon-made missile interceptor system in collaboration with the Missile Defense Agency. The Standard Missile-3 Block IB is built to destroy ballistic missile targets on impact, Raytheon said Wednesday. Taylor Lawrence, president of Raytheon Missile Systems, said the missile system is intended to help military customers worldwide […] More

  • AT&T to Extend Fiber Network Coverage in 21 Metro Regions; Lori Lee Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AT&T to Extend Fiber Network Coverage in 21 Metro Regions; Lori Lee Comments

    AT&T is planning to extend the range of its fiber-optic network to 21 large metropolitan areas across the U.S. in a move to help address growing customer demand for broadband services. The U-verse with GigaPower service will be deployed in up to 100 cities and municipalities in order to provide 1-gigabit-per-second Internet access and television services to residents, […] More

  • Patrick Sweeney: Dell, DataMotion Forge Enterprise Email Encryption Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Patrick Sweeney: Dell, DataMotion Forge Enterprise Email Encryption Partnership

    Dell and DataMotion have partnered to offer an email encryption service to Dell’s enterprise customers, Beta News reported Tuesday. Ian Barker writes DataMotion’s email encryption tool will be available to users of the SonicWALL email security service, acquired by Dell in 2012, under the partnership. “We were very focused on partnering with a cloud-based email encryption […] More

  • Ball Aerospace Begins Work on Two Air Quality Sensors; Rob Strain Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ball Aerospace Begins Work on Two Air Quality Sensors; Rob Strain Comments

    Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. and South Korea’s aerospace research body have started to build two air quality sensors that are intended to aid in environmental monitoring operations. The Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution tool is being built to gather atmospheric pollution data across North America, Mexico City, Canadian tar and oil sands, the Atlantic […] More

  • Oracle Helps Boston Medical Center Consolidate Health Database - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Oracle Helps Boston Medical Center Consolidate Health Database

    Boston Medical Center has transitioned its database environment to an Oracle-built application in a move to consolidate its health data management. LCN Technology, a Gold level member of Oracle’s PartnerNetwork, has worked to assist the medical center implement the database appliance with Oracle database and application clusters, Oracle said Tuesday. Boston Medical Center aims to […] More