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  • HP Rolls Out Modular Data Center Offering; Rick Einhorn Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HP Rolls Out Modular Data Center Offering; Rick Einhorn Comments

    Hewlett Packard has introduced a facility-as-a-service offering to to help organizations build data centers on site. The FaaS offering works to use a modular design framework and the company also aims to help enterprise clients to manage their information technology systems, HP said Friday. “Previously, organizations determining their data center sourcing strategy had a number […] More

  • Jim Reno: CA to Help Security Consortium Partners Hit 'Zero-Friction' Authentication - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jim Reno: CA to Help Security Consortium Partners Hit ‘Zero-Friction’ Authentication

    CA Technologies has joined a cybersecurity alliance that seeks to craft multi-factor authentication standards for securing online transactions. The company sought to bring its experience in securing identities and data access to the Fast IDentity Online group, CA said Tuesday. “The market has been screaming for an alternative to passwords for years,” said Jim Reno, chief […] More

  • Jeffrey Smith: Lockheed Moves Forward on GEO-4 Infrared Satellite Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jeffrey Smith: Lockheed Moves Forward on GEO-4 Infrared Satellite Program

    Lockheed Martin has finished constructing the propulsion structure of a U.S. Air Force satellite that the company has designed to provide government, intelligence and military agencies with early missile warnings. The fourth Space-Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit spacecraft is set to enter the assembly, integration and testing phases, Lockheed said Tuesday. SBIRS propulsion modules […] More

  • George Vardoulakis: Northrop Reused 95% of Fire Scout 'B' Variant for 'C' Model - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    George Vardoulakis: Northrop Reused 95% of Fire Scout ‘B’ Variant for ‘C’ Model

    The U.S. Navy and Northrop Grumman will conduct tests to assess how a Northrop-built unmanned helicopter operates in an electromagnetic environment at sea. Northrop designed the MQ-8C Fire Scout aircraft with a Faraday shield that aims to protect avionics systems against radio frequency interference, Northrop said Monday. “Almost 95 percent of what makes up the […] More

  • David Cronin: Booz Allen Offers Guidelines to Help Utilities Fight Cyber Threats - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    David Cronin: Booz Allen Offers Guidelines to Help Utilities Fight Cyber Threats

    Booz Allen Hamilton has created a set of guidelines for energy companies to protect infrastructures from cyber attacks and to help operators comply with security standards established by the North American Electric Reliability Corp. The NERC updated critical infrastructure protection requirements after a report from the Department of Homeland Security found that energy facilities are […] More

  • IBM Unveils Threat, Data Defense Tools; Kristin Lovejoy Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Unveils Threat, Data Defense Tools; Kristin Lovejoy Comments

    IBM has introduced two security tools that the company built to help large enterprise customers safeguard their data and systems from cyber threats, USA Today reported Monday. Elizabeth Weise writes that IBM designed its Threat Protection System to serve as a one-stop cyber defense program. The Critical Data Protection product works to secure corporate documents […] More

  • John Keese: Autonomic Resources Helps EconSys Gain FedRAMP OK for Cloud Product - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    John Keese: Autonomic Resources Helps EconSys Gain FedRAMP OK for Cloud Product

    Autonomic Resources worked with Economic Systems to help the latter company obtain a provisional authority-to-operate approval from the FedRAMP Joint Authorization Board for a software-as-a-service platform. EconSys used Autonomic Resources’ ARC-P cloud system as the underlying infrastructure for EconSys’ FHR Navigator SaaS offering throughout the FedRAMP assessment and authorization process, Autonomic Resources said Friday. ARC-P […] More

  • Lockheed Selected for Defense IT Consolidation Project in Australia - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Selected for Defense IT Consolidation Project in Australia

    Australia’s defense department has selected Lockheed Martin as the preferred tenderer for a project to consolidate the agency’s 280 data centers worldwide into 11 locations. Lockheed and Australian defense officials aim to finalize the Centralized Processing Project contract in the third quarter of 2014, the defense department said Thursday. The department intends to integrate military […] More

  • Rod Johnson: Oracle Launches Cloud Migration Service for Software Customers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rod Johnson: Oracle Launches Cloud Migration Service for Software Customers

    Oracle has kicked off a program to help enterprise clients migrate their on-premise human capital management and customer relationship management applications to cloud-based HCM and CRM apps. The Customer 2 Cloud program is open to customers using Oracle’s Siebel, E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne software products, Oracle said Wednesday. “Despite clear and significant […] More

  • David Fout: Aquilent Aims to Help Agencies Go Open Source With New Drupal Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    David Fout: Aquilent Aims to Help Agencies Go Open Source With New Drupal Tool

    Aquilent has unveiled a new Drupal-based architecture to help government organizations manage and deliver online content in a cloud environment. The Drupal Platform works to help agencies use open-source technology to secure digital communications and engage with the public, Aquilent said Thursday. According to the company, the platform works to help customers integrate Drupal-powered sites […] More

  • TCS Receives US Patents for Messaging, Emergency Comm Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TCS Receives US Patents for Messaging, Emergency Comm Systems

    The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has awarded 13 patents to TeleCommunication Systems for a range of public safety, messaging and location-based services during the first quarter of 2014. TCS holds 355 patents globally, has more than 300 pending patent applications and applied for 17 patents in the U.S. this year, the company said Wednesday. USPTO granted […] More

  • John Fratamico: Leidos to Help Build Special Ops Craft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    John Fratamico: Leidos to Help Build Special Ops Craft

    Leidos has been awarded an $87 million subcontract to produce, integrate and test combatant craft systems for the U.S. Special Operations Command. The award falls under a potential $400 million Combatant Craft Medium Mk-1 program, for which Oregon Iron Works is the prime contractor, Leidos said Wednesday. John Fratamico, Leidos group president, said the company […] More