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  • CA Technologies Forecasts Identity and Access Mgmt Trends in 2014; Mike Denning Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CA Technologies Forecasts Identity and Access Mgmt Trends in 2014; Mike Denning Comments

    CA Technologies Inc. has released a forecast for identity and access management trends in 2014 and the how security professionals will interact with the technology. Data, application, infrastructure and network will become software-based through application programming interfaces, CA Technologies said Thursday. Mike Denning, senior vice president and general manager of security business at CA Technologies, […] More

  • Lockheed Receives Cryogenic Tanks Order From Louisiana; Gerry Fasano Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Receives Cryogenic Tanks Order From Louisiana; Gerry Fasano Comments

    Lockheed Martin will manufacture cryogenic tanks in Louisiana by using technology originally intended to manufacture the Space Shuttle’s external tank in an effort to help meet liquefied natural gas demands. The company will leverage that technology and other program services for propellant handling, test and integration, composites manufacturing, production and tooling design to build the LNG […] More

  • Report: IBM to Unveil New Cloud, Big Data Server Architecture - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: IBM to Unveil New Cloud, Big Data Server Architecture

    IBM plans to introduce a new server architecture for cloud computing and big data environments as the company seeks new market opportunities, Tech Target reported Thursday. Ed Scannell and Beth Pariseau write the X6 systems is built around a “mid-plane architecture” based on Intel’s QuickPath Internconnect technology for memory-to-memory data transfer. The new server technology features an […] More

  • Army Ops for ATK Tactical Holsters; Jay Tibbets Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Ops for ATK Tactical Holsters; Jay Tibbets Comments

    ATK has been selected to provide tactical holsters to the U.S. Army under a potential five-year, $24 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. ADS, the distributor of ATK’s BLACKHAWK SERPA tactical holster, received the order for the units and the Army intends for the holster to comply with a Soldier Clothing and Individual Equipment requirement, ATK said Monday. […] More

  • Raytheon Moves Forward on Navy Air, Missile Defense Radar Work - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Moves Forward on Navy Air, Missile Defense Radar Work

    Raytheon has been directed to restart production work on new defense radar systems for the U.S. Navy under a potential $1.6 billion contract. The company will continue to develop, integrate and test the Air and Missile Defense S-Band Radar and radar suite controller that is being built for the Arleigh Burke class destroyers, Raytheon said Monday. AMDR is built […] More

  • Teresa Carlson: Government IT to Embrace Cloud Platforms in 2014 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Teresa Carlson: Government IT to Embrace Cloud Platforms in 2014

    Teresa Carlson, vice president of Amazon Web Services’ worldwide public sector, has said agencies will control costs, enhance quality and boost the speed of cloud services in 2014, FCW reported Thursday. Carlson writes that the government and private sector have already shifted focus to core business operations from running data centers. Agencies are now able […] More

  • Cisco: 'Internet of Everything' Could Generate $4T for Public Sector - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cisco: ‘Internet of Everything’ Could Generate $4T for Public Sector

    A new Cisco study estimates that public sector organizations could generate $4.6 trillion in value from Internet-connected objects over the next 10 years. State agencies could generate $682 billion in value by applying the Internet of Everything to public services and cities worldwide could also derive $1.9 trillion through the IoE over the next decade, Cisco said Wednesday. “With […] More

  • Frost & Sullivan Releases Study on U.S. Video Analytics Market; John Hernandez Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Frost & Sullivan Releases Study on U.S. Video Analytics Market; John Hernandez Comments

    Frost & Sullivan has released a new study indicating a rise in demand for video analytics services to process and transmit full motion video files to U.S. troops for real-time ground intelligence. The research estimates the defense budget for the U.S. intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance video analytics market will decline from $1.2 billion in 2012 […] More

  • Orbital Sciences Spacecraft On Its Way to Intl Space Station; Charles Bolden Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital Sciences Spacecraft On Its Way to Intl Space Station; Charles Bolden Comments

    An Orbital Sciences cargo spacecraft launched from NASA‘s Wallop’s Flight Facility in Virginia Thursday to carry supplies to the International Space Station. An Antares rocket lifted off from Wallops and will transport 2,780 pounds of load including science experiments, crew supplies and spare parts to the ISS, NASA said Thursday. The mission is Orbital’s first contracted cargo delivery […] More

  • IBM Creates Watson Group to Focus on Cognitive Tech; Michael Rhodin Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Creates Watson Group to Focus on Cognitive Tech; Michael Rhodin Comments

    IBM plans to invest more than $1 billion in its newly-established Watson Group business for building and marketing cloud-based cognitive technologies in an effort to help answer customer queries from large volumes of data. Michael Rhodin, formerly IBM’s senior vice president for software services group, will lead the Watson Group and that business will focus on research […] More

  • Unisys Surveys US Business Leaders for Cloud Model Preferences; Rod Sapp Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Unisys Surveys US Business Leaders for Cloud Model Preferences; Rod Sapp Comments

    Unisys has released findings of a new survey that indicates many U.S. business executives prefer to use a private cloud model for deploying secure information technology services to clients. Unisys polled 103 business and technology leaders in the U.S. for the study and 60 percent cited security in delivering IT services as their top challenge, Unisys […] More

  • Accenture Wins $184M to Update DC Metro Fare Collection Systems; Paul Loftus Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Accenture Wins $184M to Update DC Metro Fare Collection Systems; Paul Loftus Comments

    Accenture has won a $184 million contract to upgrade fare collection systems for all of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s (Metro) transportation services. The company will work to consolidate Metro’s transit services and provide management consulting in mobility, analytics, customer service, payments, financial services, retail and marketing science in order to develop the system, […] More