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  • Iridium to Launch First NEXT Satellite Batch in September; Matt Desch Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iridium to Launch First NEXT Satellite Batch in September; Matt Desch Comments

    Iridium Communications will launch the first line of its NEXT satellites from Vandenberg Air Force Base on September 12. The company said Tuesday Thales Alenia Space and Orbital ATK have completed assembly, integration and testing of the 81 satellites on the assembly line, which includes 66 operational satellites to replace the current Iridium network. “After more than seven […] More

  • Cisco Puts New Investment Toward Cyber Scholarship Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cisco Puts New Investment Toward Cyber Scholarship Program

    Cisco has invested $10 million toward its two-year Global Cybersecurity Scholarship program the company started to address what it estimates as a projected global shortage of 2 million cybersecurity professionals by 2019. The company said Tuesday it will also integrate a new Cyber Ops Certification to its current certification portfolio and update its CCIE security certification to address new skills and education that […] More

  • Brocade & Harris Forge Govt, Commercial Sector Cyber Strategy Alliance - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Brocade & Harris Forge Govt, Commercial Sector Cyber Strategy Alliance

    Brocade and Harris have formed a partnership that will work to help customers adopt cybersecurity strategies in efforts to protect assets. Brocade said Tuesday the team will develop new services that integrate Harris’ cybersecurity technologies and Brocade’s software-defined networking products in support of customers in the government, financial services, healthcare, energy, oil and gas, retail and service […] More

  • Aptima to Develop Virtual Training Environment for Air Force's Common Ground Weapon System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aptima to Develop Virtual Training Environment for Air Force’s Common Ground Weapon System

    Woburn, Massachusetts-based human centered technology engineering company Aptima has received a $12.4 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to develop a virtual training environment for the military branch’s Distributed Common Ground System operations. Aptima said Wednesday the DCGS virtual training system will be built to help the Air Force produce actionable intelligence from a global network of systems and sensors. “By simulating the […] More

  • Lockheed, Interset Aim to Offer Analytics-Based Insider Threat Detection Platform for Commercial Clients - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, Interset Aim to Offer Analytics-Based Insider Threat Detection Platform for Commercial Clients

    Lockheed Martin and Interset have partnered to develop an integrated platform for commercial customers to identify potential insider threats through user behavior analytics. The partnership seeks to combine Interset’s user behavior analytics software and Lockheed’s Wisdom Insider Threat Identification technology, Lockheed said Monday. “Insider threats pose one of the highest risks to an organization, and thefts by malicious insiders are projected to double by […] More

  • Intellicheck Obtains Fingerprint Biometric ID Tech Patent; William Roof Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Intellicheck Obtains Fingerprint Biometric ID Tech Patent; William Roof Comments

    Intellicheck Mobilisa has received a U.S. patent for a two-factor fingerprint biometric identity process developed to authenticate identity cards with both embedded fingerprint and live biometric information of a person. The patent covers a biometric fingerprint technology that complies with the Federal Information Processing standard and other U.S. government identification methods, Intellicheck said Monday. William Roof, Intellicheck CEO, […] More

  • BAE Unveils Small Arms Ammo Offering to Non-UK Military Customers; Jennifer Osbaldestin Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Unveils Small Arms Ammo Offering to Non-UK Military Customers; Jennifer Osbaldestin Comments

    BAE Systems will sell its 7.62-millimeter high performance small arms ammunition developed for U.K.’s armed forces to other approved military customers outside of Britain. BAE said Monday the ammunition was developed to help the British military meet requirements and defeat protected targets such as lightly-protected vehicles and aircraft at longer ranges compared with standard NATO rounds. Jennifer Osbaldestin, BAE Systems Land UK […] More

  • FCN Receives DHA Contract to Maintain Cisco Hardware at US Military Treatment Facilities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FCN Receives DHA Contract to Maintain Cisco Hardware at US Military Treatment Facilities

    The Defense Health Agency has awarded FCN a $10.4 million contract to provide maintenance services for Cisco-built infrastructure currently installed at DHA and U.S. military treatment facilities around the world. The Defense Department said Monday the contract has a nine-month base transition-in period and four 12-month options and will include account management, subject matter training, non-standard report preparation and cybersecurity support. DoD noted that existing Cisco hardware […] More

  • IHS Reports 'Record-Breaking' $65B in 2015 Global Defense Trade - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IHS Reports ‘Record-Breaking’ $65B in 2015 Global Defense Trade

    IHS has reported a “record-breaking” $65 billion in global defense trade for 2015 after examining trends worldwide across 65 countries based on 40,000 programs in the firm’s Aerospace, Defense & Security’s markets forecast database. IHS said Monday the Global Defense Trade Report noted the Middle East as the largest importing region with an approximate $21.6 billion in defense equipment deliveries. “The global […] More

  • NJVC Gets CMMI Level 2 Appraisal for Software Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NJVC Gets CMMI Level 2 Appraisal for Software Development

    Chantilly, Virginia-based information technology services provider NJVC has received Capability Maturity Model Integration level 2 rating from the CMMI Institute for the company’s approach to software development project management. The CMMI level 2 appraisal suggests that NJVC’s software services business executes projects in accordance with  policy, employs skilled professionals to produce outputs and works to monitor, review and evaluate if projects adhere to process […] More

  • GSA Requests Feedback on Cybersecurity Service Procurement via IT Schedule 70 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GSA Requests Feedback on Cybersecurity Service Procurement via IT Schedule 70

    The General Services Administration seeks feedback from industry and other stakeholders regarding the selling process for cybersecurity services through IT Schedule 70. According to a notice published Wednesday on FedBizOpps, the request for information aligns with President Barack Obama’s mandate on the Cybersecurity National Action Plan. The plan works to drive cybersecurity awareness and protection, privacy, public safety […] More

  • Former NASA Chief Dan Goldin Launches Neural Tech Company Called KnuEdge - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former NASA Chief Dan Goldin Launches Neural Tech Company Called KnuEdge

    Dan Goldin, a former NASA chief, launched a new San Diego, California-based company called KnuEdge that provides neural computing technology for the aerospace, banking, healthcare, hospitality and insurance sectors. KnuEdge said June 6 that it has also developed a new military-grade voice recognition and authentication technology called KnuVerse that works to utilize human-voice interfaces in next-generation computing. […] More