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  • Motorola Solutions, ST Electronics to Collaborate on Communications Security Offerings; Eduardo Conrado Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Motorola Solutions, ST Electronics to Collaborate on Communications Security Offerings; Eduardo Conrado Comments

    Motorola Solutions and Singapore Technologies Electronics have partnered to develop secured communications technology offerings for public safety, national security and enterprise applications. The companies aim to produce broadband, cybersecurity and purpose-built applications that will be available to first responders, Motorola Solutions said Tuesday. Eduardo Conrado, executive vice president of strategy and innovation office at Motorola Solutions, said the […] More

  • VA Taps Philips for Ambient Assisted Living Tech Research Grant; Hans-Aloys Wischmann Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VA Taps Philips for Ambient Assisted Living Tech Research Grant; Hans-Aloys Wischmann Comments

    Royal Philips has secured grant funds from the Department of Veterans Affairs to explore location-aware assisted technologies for the VA as part of an effort to aid veterans with mild cognitive impairments. The company said Thursday it will research an ambient assisted living technology that equips traditional homes with sensors, actuators, interfaces and artificial intelligence to help address veterans’ […] More

  • Raytheon to Help Maintain US Army’s Persistent Surveillance Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Help Maintain US Army’s Persistent Surveillance Systems

    Raytheon has received a potential five-year, $49.8 million contract to operate and sustain persistent surveillance and dissemination system of systems for the U.S. Army. The company will carry out the contract work through July 1, 2020, at locations to be determined with each task order, the Defense Department said Thursday. The surveillance system is designed to be […] More

  • DMI Develops Mobile App for DoD Cemetery Maintenance, Operations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DMI Develops Mobile App for DoD Cemetery Maintenance, Operations

    DMI will deploy a mobile application meant to help cemetery operations teams manage catalogs and assign location tags at Defense Department national military cemeteries. The company will provide the Enterprise Interment Services System app and build a common virtual database and network environment for more than 42 military cemeteries across the U.S., DMI said May 24. DMI intends for the enterprise app […] More

  • Iridium’s Scott Scheimreif, Other Execs Tackle Future Navigation Products - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iridium’s Scott Scheimreif, Other Execs Tackle Future Navigation Products

    Iridium’s Scott Scheimreif, ABI Research’s Patrick Connolly and Gopher Protocol’s Danny Rittman discuss future location tracking and navigation offerings and market prospects with Investorideas.com. Connolly said ABI Research predicts the global positioning device market will reach nearly $2 billion by 2021 as the market experiences a transition period, Investorideas.com said Thursday. “The market is undergoing […] More

  • Raytheon, MDA Test Updated Standard Missile-3 Third Stage Rocket Motor - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon, MDA Test Updated Standard Missile-3 Third Stage Rocket Motor

    Raytheon and the Missile Defense Agency have validated the third stage rocket motor update for the updated Standard Missile-3 Block IB following completion of a flight test. MDA and Raytheon tested the in-flight performance of the SM-3 rocket motor following previous ground tests, the company said Thursday. The updated missile will join the existing missile production line. The […] More

  • HSToday: HPE Unveils Encryption Offering for Public Sector Clients; Albert Biketi Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HSToday: HPE Unveils Encryption Offering for Public Sector Clients; Albert Biketi Comments

    Hewlett Packard Enterprise has released encryption and tokenization offerings intended to help organizations and government agencies protect large amounts of data, Homeland Security Today reported Thursday. Krysta Dodd writes that HPE SecureData, Hyper Format-Preserving Encryption and Hyper Secure Stateless Tokenization are certified by the National Institute of Standards and Technology in compliance with the General […] More

  • Deloitte Provides Cybersecurity Training Curriculum Support to Canadian University - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deloitte Provides Cybersecurity Training Curriculum Support to Canadian University

    Deloitte and Canada’s Polytechnique Montreal have formed an agreement to update Polytechnique’s cybersecurity training program in a move to address the changing cyber threat landscape. The team revised the course content of the certificate programs in cyber investigation, online fraud and information technology network computer security, Polytechnique said Wednesday. The new programs will be available at […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne, Space Systems Loral Products Reach Centennial Milestones - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne, Space Systems Loral Products Reach Centennial Milestones

    Aerojet Rocketdyne and commercial satellites manufacturer Space Systems Loral have achieved centennial milestones for their respective products. SSL sent to space its 100th SSL 1300-based satellite and Aerojet completed 100 bipropellant apogee thrusters for those 100 satellites, the latter company said Wednesday. Aerojet also produced the 100th high-performance apogee thruster for SSL’s 100th 1300 satellite platform. SSL […] More

  • FLIR Launches New Ground Surveillance Offerings; Kevin Tucker Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FLIR Launches New Ground Surveillance Offerings; Kevin Tucker Comments

    FLIR Systems has introduced two ground surveillance platforms the company designed to help military organizations secure borders and protect troops, United Press International reported Wednesday. Richard Tomkins writes the company unveiled its LTV-X light tactical vehicle and the Ranger R6SS portable radar at the Special Operations Forces Industry Conference held in Florida. “Both products are designed to maximize detection, responsiveness and […] More

  • Salesforce Taps AWS to Provide Public Cloud Infrastructure; Andy Jassy Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Salesforce Taps AWS to Provide Public Cloud Infrastructure; Andy Jassy Comments

    Salesforce has picked Amazon Web Services to provide a public cloud infrastructure to the customer relationship management company as part of Salesforce’s effort to expand its international service infrastructure. Salesforce will migrate its Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, App Cloud, Community Cloud and Analytics Cloud to the AWS platform under the agreement, AWS said Wednesday. AWS CEO […] More

  • Canadian Air Force Selects ViaSat Small Tactical Terminal for Patrol Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Canadian Air Force Selects ViaSat Small Tactical Terminal for Patrol Aircraft

    ViaSat has been selected to provide a small tactical terminal to the Canadian air force for use in the service’s long-range patrol aircraft CP-140 Aurora. The broadband services and technology firm will work with General Dynamics’ mission systems business unit to manufacture the two-channel, software-defined KOR-24A terminal for the customer, ViaSat said Wednesday. The company […] More