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  • Inmarsat’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: Space Resiliency Requires Public-Private Collaboration - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inmarsat’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: Space Resiliency Requires Public-Private Collaboration

    Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, a senior vice president at Inmarsat, has said she believes that government and commercial organizations should collaborate to build resilient space systems. Cowen-Hirsch wrote in a blog post published Monday that U.S. government officials and lawmakers continue to increase their commitment to a satellite service model that seeks to increase military satellite communications and boost resiliency […] More

  • Siemens Adds Address-Reading Software to USPS Mail Sorting Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Siemens Adds Address-Reading Software to USPS Mail Sorting Systems

    A subsidiary of Siemens has worked to help the U.S. Postal Service automate the agency’s mail sorting systems within its delivery units. Siemens Postal, Parcel & Airport Logistics integrated address-reading software into USPS’ Delivery Schemeless Sortation system in an effort to accelerate mail processing, Siemens said Monday. The company designed its address-reading platform to automatically process the picture on mail items, compare the photo with the […] More

  • Qualtrics Signs Agreement to Provide Federal Agencies Access to Insight Platform; Ryan Smith Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Qualtrics Signs Agreement to Provide Federal Agencies Access to Insight Platform; Ryan Smith Comments

    Qualtrics has reached an agreement with the General Services Administration to provide the company’s insight platform to federal customers in a move to help government agencies gain access to customer and employee insights. Qualtrics said Friday it has been added to the roster of cloud service providers listed on DigitalGov.gov as part of the arrangement and federal agencies […] More

  • Bob Kleinhample: SAIC, VMware Partner on Cloud-Based Simulation Offering for Gov't Clients - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bob Kleinhample: SAIC, VMware Partner on Cloud-Based Simulation Offering for Gov’t Clients

    Science Applications International Corp. has selected VMware to provide cloud-based platforms for SAIC’s simulation training program as part of an effort to meet the technical requirements of government customers. Bob Kleinhample, vice president of simulation and training systems at SAIC, wrote in a blog article published Monday that SAIC developed a simulation-as-a-service offering with the use of VMware’s […] More

  • CTC Hands Electronics Safety Tool to National Park Service; Greg Jablunovsky Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CTC Hands Electronics Safety Tool to National Park Service; Greg Jablunovsky Comments

    Concurrent Technologies Corp. has transitioned a web-based electronic safety, health and wellness tool to the National Park Service in an effort to help assess the wellness of NPS employees. CTC and NPS jointly developed the e-Tool to measure progress across national parks, historic sites, battlefields and programs in conjunction to the implementation of the NPS […] More

  • AIAA, Drone World Expo to Launch UAS Tech Research Contest - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AIAA, Drone World Expo to Launch UAS Tech Research Contest

    The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Drone World Expo organizers have jointly created a contest meant to foster research into unmanned aerial systems. The Innovative Drone Exploration and Application competition seeks to encourage  partnership between UAS end-user and aerospace communities as well as inform drone users of emerging concepts and technologies, AIAA said Thursday. “I look forward to seeing the dynamic and […] More

  • Lockheed Artillery Rocket Launcher Production Resumes; Frank St. John Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Artillery Rocket Launcher Production Resumes; Frank St. John Comments

    Lockheed Martin has restored its mobile artillery rocket launcher to the production lines along with the system’s tactical missile for the United Arab Emirates, Defense News reported Friday. Jen Judson writes Frank St. John, Lockheed’s tactical missiles and combat maneuver systems vice president, said at the Eurosatory land warfare conference that the company reopened the Highly-Mobile Artillery […] More

  • Research and Markets Sets UCaaS Market CAGR at 11.2% in 2016-2022 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Research and Markets Sets UCaaS Market CAGR at 11.2% in 2016-2022

    A new Research and Markets report forecasts the unified communication as a service market to reach a compound annual growth rate of 11.2 percent beginning in 2016 through 2022. The report indicates that telecommunications, information technology and retail applications currently dominate the market and that banking, financial services and insurance and logistics will drive the […] More

  • Pentagon Clears Interactive Intelligence Group's Updated Customer Engagement Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Pentagon Clears Interactive Intelligence Group’s Updated Customer Engagement Platform

    Interactive Intelligence Group has earned certification from the Joint Interoperability Test Command for a new version of the company’s open standards-based software suite for customer service management. Version 2016 R2 of the Customer Interaction Center is now included on the Defense Department‘s approved product list, Interactive Intelligence Group said Thursday. The list contains the names of vendors that have […] More

  • Dell, Software AG Introduce IoT Edge Analytics Offering for Enterprises; Jason Shepherd Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dell, Software AG Introduce IoT Edge Analytics Offering for Enterprises; Jason Shepherd Comments

    Dell and Software AG have launched an Internet of Things architecture offering intended to help enterprise customers analyze real-time data from networks, devices and sensors. The integrated offering combines Dell’s Edge Gateway 5000 Series and an embedded version of Software AG’s Apama Streaming Analytics to support real-time analytics at the edge of the network, Software AG said […] More

  • Dynetics Designs New Guided Bomb With Larger Warhead for SOCOM - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dynetics Designs New Guided Bomb With Larger Warhead for SOCOM

    Dynetics has introduced a new guided bomb with a larger warhead that it will provide to the U.S. Special Operations Command under an $11.6 million contract awarded in early June to develop small glide munition, Flightglobal reported Tuesday. Stephen Trimble writes the nearly 60-pound guided bomb’s warhead case incorporates separate modules for the nose section, tail kit and wing […] More