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  • Boeing to Tap Employee Ideas for Defense Unit Accelerator - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing to Tap Employee Ideas for Defense Unit Accelerator

    Boeing will launch a business accelerator with the goal of finding employees that have ideas for technology products that the company could commercialize, the St. Louis Business Journal reported Thursday. Brian Feldt writes the accelerator will fall within the company’s Defense, Space & Security segment and be based in St. Louis. “It’s essentially a method for […] More

  • Bill McDermott: SAP Targets Hardware Usage Cut Through HANA Migration - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bill McDermott: SAP Targets Hardware Usage Cut Through HANA Migration

    SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott told a group of investors in New York Tuesday that the company intends to cut the amount of hardware it uses by migrating more applications into the company’s cloud-based HANA computing platform, the Washington Post reported Thursday. Moving to the High Performance Analytic Appliance database management tool would help customers simply their […] More

  • Deborah Doyle McWhinney Appointed to Fluor's Board of Directors; David Seaton Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deborah Doyle McWhinney Appointed to Fluor’s Board of Directors; David Seaton Comments

    Deborah Doyle McWhinney, former CEO of CitiGroup‘s global enterprise payments business, has joined Fluor Corp.’s board of directors, Fluor said Thursday. Prior to Citi, McWhinney was president of Schwab Institutional, a division of Charles Schwab, Inc. where she was responsible for the global risk committee. “The perspectives we will gain from her experience in banking, finance and government […] More

  • Charlie Thomas: Real-Time Analytics Key to Customer Experience - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Charlie Thomas: Real-Time Analytics Key to Customer Experience

    Mobile operators are increasingly looking to real-time analytics as a means to help customers address issues with their devices as service providers aim to proactively address those situations and deliver a positive customer experience, Razorsight CEO Charlie Thomas has told Pipeline. Action on the part of operators would occur before a customer files a complaint, […] More

  • FireEye, OpenDNS Forge Cloud Threat Defense Partnership; Didi Dayton Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FireEye, OpenDNS Forge Cloud Threat Defense Partnership; Didi Dayton Comments

    FireEye and OpenDNS will integrate their security service and malware protection tools into a combined offering aimed at helping customers protect cloud users and devices against malicious activity and advanced persistent threats. OpenDNS’ Umbrella security service is built for threat discovery and predictive technology, while FireEye’s Web Malware Protection System is intended to analyze file behaviors, […] More

  • HP to Help Texas Install New Teacher Pension Info System; Amy Morgan, Mike Poth Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HP to Help Texas Install New Teacher Pension Info System; Amy Morgan, Mike Poth Comments

    Hewlett-Packard has been awarded a potential eight-year contract to help the state of Texas install a new pension administration system intended to serve more than 1 million active and 300,000 retired teachers. The Teacher Retirement System of Texas manages a $120 billion trust fund that was started to finance member benefits and manage accounts, HP said […] More

  • Northrop Grumman to Exhibit Offerings at Singapore Airshow; Ian Irving Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Grumman to Exhibit Offerings at Singapore Airshow; Ian Irving Comments

    Northrop Grumman will participate in an aerospace and defense show in Singapore to demonstrate its technologies and exhibit scale models of its aircraft and equipment used for surveillance, fire control and other missions. The global security company said Wednesday the Singapore Airshow 2014 is an opportunity to highlight its capabilities to potential customers and emphasize […] More

  • Teledyne to Build NASA Space Launch System Adapter; Robert Mehrabian Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Teledyne to Build NASA Space Launch System Adapter; Robert Mehrabian Comments

    A subsidiary of Teledyne Technologies will build a launch vehicle stage adapter for NASA to use on the agency’s Space Launch System under a five-year, $60 million contract. Teledyne Brown Engineering unit will use the Marshall Space Flight Center’s advanced welding facility to assemble the adapter, which is intended to protect and support SLS’ core and […] More

  • Accenture Secures Spot on UK Govt Cloud Services Vehicle; Mark Lyons Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Accenture Secures Spot on UK Govt Cloud Services Vehicle; Mark Lyons Comments

    Accenture has been included in the U.K. government’s catalog listing of approved vendors for cloud and digital services. Through its spot on the G-Cloud 4 vehicle, Accenture will make its cloud portfolio available through the government-hosted Cloudstore platform and the Digital Services Framework, Accenture said Tuesday. “Through these two vehicles public sector organizations now have much […] More

  • CACI to Help Interior Dept Run Financial, Business Mgmt System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI to Help Interior Dept Run Financial, Business Mgmt System

    CACI International will manage system security and support business intelligence reporting work for the Interior Department’s business integration office under a potential five-year, $95 million contract, according to a Jan. 31 FedBizOpps post. DOI aims to leverage software products such as SAP ECC, SAP BusinessObjects and Compusearch PRISM to further develop mobile and light applications, the […] More

  • CGI to Help Install Windows 8.1 on Sweden Transport Agency PCs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CGI to Help Install Windows 8.1 on Sweden Transport Agency PCs

    CGI will work with Sweden’s national transport administration to install Microsoft’s Windows 8.1 operating system on computers housed inside 11,000 workplaces across 120 locations in the country. The company will provide the modernization and operation services to Trafikverket under a potential seven-year contract worth up to an estimated $76.9 million, CGI said Tuesday. Sweden’s Trafikverket agency has […] More