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  • 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

  • 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

  • BAE Systems Cites Priorities for Countering Cyber Threats in 2014; Martin Sutherland Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Systems Cites Priorities for Countering Cyber Threats in 2014; Martin Sutherland Comments

    BAE Systems Detica has outlined five priorities for businesses to combat cyber threats in 2014. Organizations must counter the rise of cyber and financial crime, focus on intelligence-driven security, handle cyber sabotage, respond to mobile threats and address identity crime, BAE Systems said Tuesday. “The most cutting-edge financial crime as we move into 2014 will […] More

  • Orbital Sciences to Send Cargo Spacecraft to ISS; David Thompson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital Sciences to Send Cargo Spacecraft to ISS; David Thompson Comments

    Orbital Sciences Corp. is set to launch a cargo spacecraft carrying supplies to the International Space Station on Wednesday. Orbital’s Antares rocket will lift off the Cygnus cargo spacecraft from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia into orbit for post-launch activation and testing before the spacecraft reaches the ISS on Jan. 12, Orbital Sciences said […] More

  • Siemens, Iberdrola Form Middle East Smart Grid Alliance - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Siemens, Iberdrola Form Middle East Smart Grid Alliance

    Siemens and Spanish utility company Iberdrola have reached an agreement to consolidate smart grid infrastructures for Middle East clients, Renew Grid reported Tuesday. The two companies plan to build smart grid technologies for energy and water in Qatar and the rest of Middle East, according to the report. Siemens and Iberdrola intend to combine renewable […] More