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  • HP Enterprise Services, UNIT4 to Host UK Education Cloud Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HP Enterprise Services, UNIT4 to Host UK Education Cloud Platform

    HP Enterprise Services has teamed with UNIT4 Business Software to host a cloud computing platform for U.K. education institutions to use software-as-a-service tools, ITProPortal.com reported Thursday. Jamie Hinks writes that HP will also deploy Virtual Private Cloud as an infrastructure-as-a-service offering. “At a time of great change for the education sector, clients are examining closely the relationships […] More

  • Satcom Direct to Offer Aerospace Clients Inmarsat Broadband Net Access; David Greenhill Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Satcom Direct to Offer Aerospace Clients Inmarsat Broadband Net Access; David Greenhill Comments

    Satcom Direct will distribute Inmarsat‘s mobile Broadband Global Area Network service to aerospace clients, continuing a partnership between the two companies that launched in 2007. Inmarsat intends to help Satcom Direct’s customers simultaneously transmit voice and broadband data up to 492 kilobytes per second through the Inmarsat-4 satellite terminals, the companies said Wednesday. “Our aerospace clients […] More

  • Siemens Convergence Creators Opens LA Hub; Daniel Felicio Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Siemens Convergence Creators Opens LA Hub; Daniel Felicio Comments

    Siemens Convergence Creators, a Siemens division based in Austria, has opened a U.S. branch in what division CEO Daniel Felicio believes is a key move in the company’s international expansion strategy. The office will be located in Los Angeles and the business will attend the Satellite 2014 in March to demonstrate its offerings, the company […] More

  • Linda Hudson: Defense Industry Needs More Citizens in STEM Fields - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Linda Hudson: Defense Industry Needs More Citizens in STEM Fields

    Outgoing BAE Systems Inc. President and CEO Linda Hudson spoke to technology leaders Thursday about the changes she believes would address concerns on how to develop U.S. student and professional talent in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, FedScoop reported Thursday. Dan Verton writes Hudson appeared at an Northern Virginia Technology Council event to discuss U.S. […] More

  • Dan Keefe: ManTech to Help Navy Manage Test Range Environmental Matters - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dan Keefe: ManTech to Help Navy Manage Test Range Environmental Matters

    ManTech International will work with the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Pacific to develop plans for environmental and regulatory issues under a potential seven-year, $85 million contract. The company will also support military training and readiness activities for testing ranges, as well as fleets stationed in the Pacific Ocean and on the West Coast, ManTech said […] More

  • NetApp Starts Construction on Int'l R&D Center; George Kurian Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NetApp Starts Construction on Int’l R&D Center; George Kurian Comments

    NetApp broke ground on a research and development center in Mahadevapura, India intended to support global development and business operations, according to an InformationWeek article. The facility is scheduled to be completed in 2015 and will contain 25,000 square foot data center on a 15 acre plot. “To enable increasingly multidisciplinary and collaborative work, we want to […] More

  • Bostonia Helps NOAA Extend Silver Spring HQ Lease to 2028; Anita Molino Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bostonia Helps NOAA Extend Silver Spring HQ Lease to 2028; Anita Molino Comments

    Bostonia Partners LLC has worked with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and General Services Administration to close two leases totaling $258 million for NOAA to remain at its headquarters in Silver Spring, Md. NOAA resides in two buildings at the Silver Spring Metro Center and each lease is for a 15-year term with both set […] More

  • John Chiaramonte Named Senior Program Manager at Mission Critical Partners; Kevin Murray Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    John Chiaramonte Named Senior Program Manager at Mission Critical Partners; Kevin Murray Comments

    John Chiaramonte has joined Mission Critical Partners as a senior program manager, where he will work to help MCP expand its Next Generation 9-1-1 business. Chiaramonte joins MCP from a lead associate post with Booz Allen Hamilton, a management consulting firm. At Booz Allen, he managed a portfolio of projects supporting the U.S. Department of Transportation‘s National 911 Program and Next Generation 9-1-1 Initiative, […] More

  • Roger Waesche, COPT President and CEO, Discusses 2014 Growth Opportunities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Roger Waesche, COPT President and CEO, Discusses 2014 Growth Opportunities

    Corporate Office Properties Trust has provided guidance for its diluted FFO per share, COPT said Jan. 7. “In 2013, we completed our strategic repositioning initiatives, which greatly improved the quality of our portfolio and the strength of our balance sheet,” said Roger Waesche, Jr., COPT president and CEO. The FFO for 2014 is in the […] More

  • Lou Von Thaer of Leidos on Cyber Trends, ISR Collaborations and His Bell Labs Origins - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lou Von Thaer of Leidos on Cyber Trends, ISR Collaborations and His Bell Labs Origins

    Lou Von Thaer started a new chapter of his three-decade GovCon career in June 2013 as president of a business once part of Science Applications International Corp. that eventually became Leidos‘ national security sector. Von Thaer now leads a team of 13,000 professionals in the sector after previously leading 7,000 employees at General Dynamics Advanced […] More

  • Verizon to Add Capacity in Santa Clara Data Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Verizon to Add Capacity in Santa Clara Data Center

    Verizon Terremark is adding 4 megawatts of power capacity in its Santa Clara, Calif. data center by installing Active Power electrical infrastructure containers in the roof, Data Center Dynamics reported Friday. Yevgeniy Sverdlik writes that the PowerHouse containers are intended to grow capacity without expanding the building and are built with uninterruptible power supply systems, switchgear and monitoring […] More

  • Northrop Helps Cal Poly Open New Cyber Lab; Wes Bush Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Helps Cal Poly Open New Cyber Lab; Wes Bush Comments

    Northrop Grumman has donated approximately $150,000 to California Polytechnic for electronic infrastructure at the school’s new cybersecurity, Mustang News reported Friday. Samantha Sullivan writes that Northrop CEO Wes Bush attended the launch of the new lab along with Cal Poly President Jeffrey Armstrong and other executives from McAfee and Raytheon. The Cal Poly-Northrop Grumman Cyber Lab was built […] More