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  • Marty Jenkins: Lockheed to Build Naval C2ISR System With 'Real-Time' View - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Marty Jenkins: Lockheed to Build Naval C2ISR System With ‘Real-Time’ View

    Lockheed Martin’s information systems and global services business unit will work to consolidate the U.S. Navy’s C2ISR systems (command, control intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance), SEAPOWER Magazine reported Friday. Richard Burgess writes Lockheed plans to fund an internal research and development program to build a centralized display of operational and tactical data for commanders of naval […] More

  • Bill Gattle: Harris to Enter Production Phase of Aircraft Tracking System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bill Gattle: Harris to Enter Production Phase of Aircraft Tracking System

    Harris Corp. has completed the simulated operation testing phase on the company’s satellite-based aircraft tracking system. The Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast 1090 Extended Squitter receiver payload passed the duration and performance testing in harsh conditions to qualify for more than 12 years of usage, Harris said Monday. Bill Gattle, vice president and general manager of national […] More

  • David Wigglesworth: Iridium to Deploy Satellite Network for Oceanic Research Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    David Wigglesworth: Iridium to Deploy Satellite Network for Oceanic Research Project

    Iridium Communications will help Rutgers University’s Coastal Ocean Observation Lab researchers collect data from a research project across five major ocean basins through the company’s satellite network. A team of Rutgers students and faculty will work to coordinate flights of autonomous underwater gliders worldwide with the goal of gathering undersea datasets in order to predict how […] More

  • ICON Manages Clinical Trials with Informatica Data Tool; Andrew Thompson, Dennis Moore Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ICON Manages Clinical Trials with Informatica Data Tool; Andrew Thompson, Dennis Moore Comment

    Informatica Corp. is working to help outsourced development services provider ICON Plc handle clinical trials and process data by using a multidomain master data management tool. ICON views information and works to unlock value by using the Informatica MDM service in order to execute clinical trial planning, services and reporting, Informatica said Thursday. Andrew Thompson, […] More

  • Lockheed to Test Fly Orion Launch Rocket - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Test Fly Orion Launch Rocket

    Lockheed Martin will process and test a United Launch Alliance-built rocket ahead of a future unmanned spacecraft launch following delivery of the rocket boosters to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The Delta IV Heavy rocket will be demonstrated at ULA’s Horizontal Integration Facility before Orion’s first test flight at Space Launch Complex 37 in […] More

  • CloudBees to Offer Continuous Delivery Platform Through Verizon's Cloud - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CloudBees to Offer Continuous Delivery Platform Through Verizon’s Cloud

    CloudBees has moved to extend the reach of its continuous delivery platform by joining the Verizon cloud engine, Virtualization Review reported Wednesday. John Waters writes the CloudBees delivery platform is built for developers to deploy applications and update Web and mobile apps. The Belgium-based company offers the DEV@cloud service for developers to test apps in […] More

  • Molly Rector: DataDirect Networks, Active Archive Alliance Aim to Help Users Meet Storage Demands - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Molly Rector: DataDirect Networks, Active Archive Alliance Aim to Help Users Meet Storage Demands

    DataDirect Networks and Active Archive Alliance have forged a data storage team in a move that Molly Rector, DDN chief marketing officer, says is aimed to help clients meet data management demands. DDN intends for the partnership to deliver data storage services from high performance platforms to archive storage, the company said Wednesday. Floyd Christofferson, […] More

  • David DeWalt: FireEye Opens European R&D Center to Develop Cyber Threat Defense Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    David DeWalt: FireEye Opens European R&D Center to Develop Cyber Threat Defense Tech

    FireEye has opened a Dresden, Germany-based research and development center, where the company will work with European educational institutions on security research, FireEye said Tuesday. David DeWalt, FireEye chairman and CEO, said the European research center is part of a company effort to help customers combat threats. The FireEye European, Singapore and Bangalore R&D teams will collaborate with […] More

  • Suleman Alli: Accenture to Help UK Water Service Monitor Assets With Digital Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Suleman Alli: Accenture to Help UK Water Service Monitor Assets With Digital Tech

    Accenture will work to help U.K.-based water and wastewater services provider Thames Water integrate digital technologies into business systems in an effort to monitor assets through real-time data analytics. Accenture initiated a pilot program in September 2013 to track and evaluate technology integration outcomes using smart grid services at Thames Water facilities until March 2015, […] More

  • Nitin Kawale: Cisco Opens Canadian Tech Center to Seek New Markets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Nitin Kawale: Cisco Opens Canadian Tech Center to Seek New Markets

    Cisco will invest up to $100 million over 10 years in a technology hub in Toronto as part of efforts to help develop new technologies and seek fresh market opportunities. The Internet of Everything Innovation Center will serve as a venue for start-up businesses, large companies, industry customers and government clients to perform research and development […] More

  • Ray Johnson: Lockheed, UMD to Tap Quantum Science in Computing Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ray Johnson: Lockheed, UMD to Tap Quantum Science in Computing Partnership

    Lockheed Martin and the University of Maryland have signed a memorandum of understanding to build an integrated quantum computer in an effort to further develop drug discovery, communications and logistics technologies. The company and university will form a quantum engineering center in College Park to exhibit a quantum computing platform for users to operate, Lockheed said […] More

  • NTT Communications Rolls Out US Public Cloud Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NTT Communications Rolls Out US Public Cloud Services

    NTT Communications Corp. has collaborated with its U.S.-based group company Verio to release in the U.S. a suite of public cloud services that were previously available in Japan. The Biz Hosting Cloud (n) cloud services offerings will be available through NTT Com’s U.S. datacenter starting Thursday, NTT Com said Wednesday. The cloud suite features services such […] More