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  • Vinny Sica: Lockheed LNG Tanks Built With Tech From Different Industries - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vinny Sica: Lockheed LNG Tanks Built With Tech From Different Industries

    Lockheed Martin is preparing to integrate a liquefied natural gas tank into a propulsion system owned by Finland-based energy provider Wartsila for use in marine operations. The 250,000-pound tank is built for installation in Harvey Gulf International Marine’s offshore LNG-fueled vessel that is being constructed in Gulfport, Miss. under a contract with Wartsila, Lockheed Martin said Monday. Lockheed […] More

  • Will Jones: Carahsoft, Shavlik Partner to Offer Gov't Customers Security Tools - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Will Jones: Carahsoft, Shavlik Partner to Offer Gov’t Customers Security Tools

    Carahsoft has formed a partnership with Shavlik to provide security and patch management services to government clients and partners. Carahsoft will offer Shavlik’s Shavlik Protect Standard, Advanced and Patch for Microsoft System Center products to government customers, Shavlik said Tuesday. The products feature patch management and asset inventory systems. “Carahsoft and Shavlik are working together to provide […] More

  • Red Hat Unveils Software-Defined Storage Platform Offering on HP Servers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Red Hat Unveils Software-Defined Storage Platform Offering on HP Servers

    Red Hat has introduced a fresh open software-defined storage platform on Hewlett-Packard’s Grenoble, France-based customer center. Customers have access to the combined Red Hat Storage and HP ProLiant SL4540 Gen8 offerings for managing big data workloads, Red Hat said Wednesday. The two companies have also opened a portal for online demonstrations of the joint platform. The […] More

  • IBM Unveils New Cloud Storage Platform Offering - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Unveils New Cloud Storage Platform Offering

    IBM Corp. has launched a new software-defined big data storage platform offering in a move to meet demand for enterprise storage, The VAR Guy reported Monday. Christopher Tozzi writes the SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center platform is built to store and manage data with administrative tools. IBM intends for the technology to help medium-size businesses migrate […] More

  • Level 3 Subsidiary Receives ISO Certification for Security Testing Services; Leonardo Barbero Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Level 3 Subsidiary Receives ISO Certification for Security Testing Services; Leonardo Barbero Comments

    A Level 3 Communications subsidiary based in Latin America has obtained an ISO certification for the business’ security testing services. Level 3 Argentina S.A. holds a three-year ISO/IEC 20000 certification for its information technology management practices, vulnerability detection system and penetration technologies, Level 3 said Monday. Leonardo Barbero, senior vice president and chief marketing officer for Level 3 in […] More

  • Stuart Beaumont: Serco Extends Australian Traffic Camera Services Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Stuart Beaumont: Serco Extends Australian Traffic Camera Services Contract

    Serco Group will continue to provide traffic camera services to Australia’s state of Victoria under an estimated $85 million contract extension with the state government. The company’s mobile safety camera operators will work to process captured images across the state through 2017, Serco said Monday. Stuart Beaumont, managing director of Serco Global Services Australia, said […] More

  • Cubic to Provide the Moroccan Air Force with F-16 Training System; Dave Schmitz Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic to Provide the Moroccan Air Force with F-16 Training System; Dave Schmitz Comments

    Cubic Corp.’s defense systems subsidiary has won a more than $5 million contract to provide a training system to Morocco’s air force under a foreign military sale agreement with the U.S. Cubic Defense Systems’ P5 combat training system will be used to train the Moroccan Air Force’s pilots on the F-16 aircraft operation, Cubic said […] More

  • Deloitte, Syndefense Form Intellectual Property Advisory Services Team; Hisao Yamasaki Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deloitte, Syndefense Form Intellectual Property Advisory Services Team; Hisao Yamasaki Comments

    Deloitte Tohmatsu Financial Advisory Co. Ltd. has partnered with Syndefense to provide intellectual property advisory services to customers. The companies will collaborate to build up intellectual property monetization and defense strategies, Syndefense said Monday. Hisao Yamasaki, CEO of Syndefense, said the partnership aims to help clients achieve business goals through consulting services in intellectual property rights […] More

  • MarketsandMarkets: Military Comms Market to Reach $30B in 2019 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MarketsandMarkets: Military Comms Market to Reach $30B in 2019

    MarketsandMarkets predicts the worldwide military communications market to grow from $18.46 billion in 2014 to $30.12 billion in 2019. The increase represents a compound annual growth rate of 7.2 percent, MarketsandMarkets said Monday. MarketsandMarkets examined military communications market segments such as communication types, components, applications, regions and verticals. The report discusses projections about market size and growth, trends, […] More

  • Daniel Keefe: ManTech to Help Navy Personnel Train on Computer-, Web-Based Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Daniel Keefe: ManTech to Help Navy Personnel Train on Computer-, Web-Based Platform

    ManTech International has been awarded a $33.6 million contract to provide training resources for U.S. Navy personnel stationed in remote locations. Daniel Keefe, president and chief operating officer of ManTech’s mission services group, said Thursday the company will continue to help the Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific use the company’s computer- and web-based training […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls Hands Assault Ship 'America' to Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls Hands Assault Ship ‘America’ to Navy

    Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ shipbuilding division has turned over the assault ship America to the U.S. Navy after the completion of sea trials in February. The commissioning crew will then begin shipboard training before the ship’s sail-away and America’s commissioning is scheduled for later this year in San Francisco, Huntington Ingalls said Thursday. America is built […] More