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  • DoD, Abbott Form TBI Testing Partnership; Dallas Hack Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD, Abbott Form TBI Testing Partnership; Dallas Hack Comments

    Healthcare company Abbott and the Defense Department will collaborate to develop blood-testing methods to help clinicians diagnose mild traumatic brain injuries in military personnel. Abbott said Monday that TBI-related abnormalities are not easily detected because its symptoms can be similar to those found in other medical conditions. “The quick and accurate diagnosis of a concussion is […] More

  • Janet Hale, Mike Gelles: Staff Training, Communication Key to Insider Threat Defense - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Janet Hale, Mike Gelles: Staff Training, Communication Key to Insider Threat Defense

    An insider threat detection program must combine virtual and non-virtual measures to enable better monitoring of anomalous behavior across an enterprise, two Deloitte directors write in a Federal Times article. Janet Hale and Mike Gelles, respectively directors at Deloitte’s services and consulting businesses, believe that organizations also need to engage staff members to prevent such […] More

  • Verizon's Kevin King: Cloud Investments Focused on Financial, Supply Chain ERP Tools - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Verizon’s Kevin King: Cloud Investments Focused on Financial, Supply Chain ERP Tools

    Businesses should strategically think through cloud technology options before making an investment, Kevin King, director of corporate communications at Verizon Enterprise, wrote in a Wednesday blog post. King says that enterprise resource planning applications for financial and supply chain management account for a large percentage of cloud deployments and such investing behavior will likely to continue going […] More

  • FAA Certifies Avionica-Made Satlink Communications Module - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FAA Certifies Avionica-Made Satlink Communications Module

    The Federal Aviation Administration has approved an Avionica-made satellite data link platform for installation on Boeing 777 commercial planes. Avionica said Thursday it obtained an FAA supplemental type certificate for the company’s Iridium-based satLINK MAX flight communications technology. The clearance indicates that Avionica’s platform meets RTCA/DO-262A design standards for aircraft voice and data systems designed […] More

  • Northrop Global Hawk Drone Flies 100th SW Asian Mission for AF - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Global Hawk Drone Flies 100th SW Asian Mission for AF

    Northrop Grumman‘s Global Hawk unmanned surveillance aircraft has achieved a milestone by completing 100 southwest Asian missions for the U.S. Air Force. The Air Force 69th Reconnaissance Group has extended the RQ-4 drone’s operational area to the Pacific region, Northrop said Thursday. Global Hawk is built with a multi-platform sensor technology that works to locate […] More

  • Jeffrey Tarr: DigitalGlobe Satellite Launched to Collect High-Res Earth Imagery - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jeffrey Tarr: DigitalGlobe Satellite Launched to Collect High-Res Earth Imagery

    A DigitalGlobe commercial Earth-observing satellite was sent into space Wednesday aboard an Atlas V rocket launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. WorldView-3 is built to capture images at a multispectral resolution of 0.31 meters and has multiple shortwave infrared bands that will work to spot objects in the presence of fog, smoke, dust and […] More

  • VMware's Bill Rowan: Defense Dept Embraces IT Virtualization - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VMware’s Bill Rowan: Defense Dept Embraces IT Virtualization

    The U.S. Defense Department has been gradually switching from physical information systems to a software-based virtual infrastructure, VMware executive Bill Rowan writes in a Defense Systems opinion piece. Rowan, vice president of VMware’s DoD team, says the shift is driven by the current fiscal environment as well as federal data center consolidation and desktop virtualization initiatives. “Today, […] More

  • Joseph Bushman: Orbital Sciences' Carbon-Monitoring Satellite Joins 'A-Train' Constellation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Joseph Bushman: Orbital Sciences’ Carbon-Monitoring Satellite Joins ‘A-Train’ Constellation

    An Orbital Sciences-built carbon tracker spacecraft has arrived at its final orbital position in the Afternoon Constellation, which comprises of multiple satellites designed to collect environmental data worldwide. NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 completed nine orbit-raising maneuvers before reaching  an operational orbit at the A-Train head that is located approximately 438 miles above Earth, Orbital Sciences […] More

  • Raytheon Team to Build Massachusetts' e-Toll Collection System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Team to Build Massachusetts’ e-Toll Collection System

    Raytheon has been awarded a $130 million contract to help the Massachusetts Department of Transportation replace the state’s cash tolling systems with an electronic platform. The company and its partners will build and install an All Electronic Tolling System designed to allow vehicles with EZ-Pass tags to drive through Massachusetts toll stations without stopping, Raytheon said […] More

  • SAP Survey Finds 1/3 of Firms Use Data in Making Decisions; James Fisher Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAP Survey Finds 1/3 of Firms Use Data in Making Decisions; James Fisher Comments

    A global survey commissioned by SAP indicates that one-third of companies across different sectors use data to track market trends and identify new business prospects. SAP polled 743 business and information technology professionals worldwide and nearly 50 percent said that data is valuable for their companies’ decision-making process, SAP said Monday. “The best performing companies […] More

  • Chris O'Connell: DoD Adds Appian BPM Tool to Agency's Mobile App Store - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Chris O’Connell: DoD Adds Appian BPM Tool to Agency’s Mobile App Store

    The U.S. Defense Department has approved an Appian mobile business process management platform that works to manage enterprise functions and communications. Appian’s BPM tool is now available on a Defense Information Systems Agency-operated mobile application store for DoD organizations, Appian said Monday. “Our participation in DOD MAS provides all branches the ability to take advantage […] More