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is a writer of news summaries about executive-level business activity in the government contracting sector. Her reports for ExecutiveBiz are focused on trends and events that drive the GovCon industry to include commercial technologies that private companies are developing for federal government use. She contributes news content to ExecutiveBiz’s sister sites GovCon Wire and ExecutiveGov.
Push-to-talk technology firm Kodiak Networks has selected Razorsight‘s cloud analytics platform to help PTT service providers gain insight into customer behavior and improve user experience. Razorsight said Monday it will provide its Executive Insights and Real-Time Predictive Analytics technology to Kodiak Networks with the goal of helping that company’s mobile operator clients redurn churn rate […] More
An IDC report says the integrated platforms and infrastructure industry generated $2.4 billion in revenues in the second quarter of 2014, a 33.8 percent increase on a year-over-year basis. IDC said Thursday storage capacity shipped by integrated system vendors worlwide grew 63.4 percent to more than 833 petabytes during this year’s Q2 compared with the […] More
Raytheon and Poland-based technology firm WB Electronics have formed a team to pursue the Polish military’s air and missile defense system development contract. The companies seek to develop a combat simulation and training software for the Shield of Poland AMD competition, WB Electronics said Friday. They also agreed to collaborate on finding potential technology export […] More
A Transparency Market Research study projects North America would continue its lead in big data spending and capture approximately 54.5 percent share of that market globally through 2018. The worlwide big data products and services market’s value is forecast to increase from $6.3 billion in 2012 to $48.3 billion in 2018, Transparency Market Research said […] More
The U.S. Army and Marine Corps could issue a request for proposals for their Joint Light Tactical Vehicle program in mid-November and award low-rate initial production contracts by summer 2015, DoD Buzz reported Thursday. Brendan McGarry writes Lockheed Martin, AM General and Oshkosh lead three industry teams that have built 22 JLTVs each under engineering […] More
The U.S. Defense Department plans to use two F-35 fighter units for a demonstration aboard a USS Nimitz aircraft carrier in November, Defense News reported Thursday. Aaron Mehta writes Lt. Gen. Christopher Bogdan, head of the F-35 Joint Program Office, said the agency has not yet determined if the F-35C models will undergo both catapult […] More
A report published by ReportLinker.com predicts that healthcare regulations and the perceived benefits of analytics technology use will help drive double-digit increases in the health analytics market over the next four years. The global market for healthcare analytics products could reach more than $10 billion in value by 2018 with a 22 percent compound annual […] More
BAE Systems and the British Bankers’ Association have partnered to create an early warning system intended to alert financial services companies about potential cyber threats in an effort to protect customer data. The Financial Crime Alerts Service portal is built to disseminate intelligence from a dozen U.K. government and law enforcement organizations to banking personnel […] More
DigitalGlobe has awarded MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates a contract to develop a ground infrastructure for an international user of DigitalGlobe’s Earth observation satellites. MDA said Tuesday the ground station platform will work to help the customer access data and imagery from the WorldView constellation. The ground station will be using an MDA multi-satellite architecture, according […] More
Boeing has chosen aerospace engineering firm Dynetics to provide a thrust vector control exhaust gas heat exchanger and three structural simulators for the NASA Space Launch System program. Dynetics said Wednesday it will manufacture the flight hardware and simulation platforms for the SLS core stage at its Huntsville, Alabama facility, and then deliver the systems […] More
The U.S. Navy‘s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command will launch a pilot program for reserve units to test a cloud-based Microsoft communication and collaboration system, Nextgov reported Tuesday. SPAWAR estimates adopting the Office 365 cloud email platform would save the organization almost $17 million over five years, according to the report by Bob Brewin. […] More
The Defense Information Systems Agency will begin the process for awarding contracts under the third-generation ENCORE information technology services vehicle in fiscal 2015, Deltek‘s Alex Rossino reported Tuesday. Rossino, a Deltek principal research analyst, estimates that defense agencies invested approximately $5.8 billion in IT offerings through the second ENCORE iteration. His analysis of the ENCORE […] More
