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Latest Federal & Government Contracting Companies' News Coverage
Learn about the latest developments regarding the use of big data and analytics in the public sector as well as insights from experts in the government contracting industry.
The Customs and Border Protection has implemented a graph technology from the Deloitte–DataStax partnership to support the agency’s data analytics and visualization activities, GCN reported. Matt Rollender, vice president for global business development and channels at DataStax, told the publication that CBP uses the MissionGraph tool in efforts to detect threat actors by analyzing relationships between […] More
The United Nations Statistics Division has partnered with Esri in an effort to help UN member states implement a data respository for assessing, monitoring and reporting sustainable development goals. Esri said Monday the Federated System for the SDGs is based on the company-built ArcGIS mapping platform and designed to process location intelligence data. Gregg Scott, inter-regional adviser for global geospatial information management […] More
The Department of Homeland Security has selected ViON to deploy a data storage and disaster recovery platform to DHS’ National Protection and Programs Directorate. ViON said Thursday it will supply the company-built DataAdapt platform to add compute and processing power to systems that support NPPD data analytics tools. DataAdapt will work to help NPPD move its existing data […] More
Information Technology is evolving at a rapid rate–and so are the cyber threats, defying traditional cybersecurity measures across multiple domains. A 20-year IT veteran with a vision of what comes next is Mona Bates, Chief Information Officer and Vice President of Information Technology for Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems. Bates has held multiple senior leadership positions […] More
“Balancing our domestic U.S. needs with our international responsibilities as the global leader wasn’t easy in the past; it isn’t easy now, and won’t be easy tomorrow…as a nation, we never shy away from doing the hard work and we will continue to earn the world’s respect.” At the forefront of what is innovative in […] More
The Department of Health and Human Services‘ Office of the Inspector General has asked industry to provide information on current analytics technology products designed to manage large amounts of data from structured and unstructured sources. A FedBizOpps notice published Tuesday says HHS OIG looks to help staff members explore, analyze information with the use of technology and use […] More
Maxar Technologies‘ DigitalGlobe subsidiary has signed a multiyear agreement with Orbital Insight to expand the scope of their current data partnership and offer geospatial analytic services to customers. Orbital Insight will serve as DigitalGlobe’s Geospatial Big Data technology partner and will have access to the latter’s imagery archive, DigitalGlobe said Oct. 31. Dan Jablonsky, president of DigitalGlobe, said the […] More
Tony Frazier, president of Radiant Solutions, told Trajectory Magazine in an interview published Wednesday one of the trends he sees in the remote sensing sector is the capability to leverage technologies such as big data analytics and artificial intelligence to generate insights from collected data. “The bottleneck is going to be how we can extract […] More
ViON‘s Ascolta subsidiary has agreed to resell WANdisco‘s patented data replication tool to public sector customers as part of a Hadoop-based data analytics platform. Ascolta said Wednesday it will integrate the company’s DataAdapt platform with the WANdisco Fusion technology in an effort to help clients access, analyze and manage data. Wayne Hall, general manager at Ascolta, said […] More
MapR Technologies has been recognized by two publications for the company’s converged data platform that works to help enterprise customers process, manage and secure large volumes of data. The company said Thursday it received Datanami’s “Best Big Data Product or Technology” award in the internet-of-things category and landed a spot on the “Top 5 Vendors […] More
Keoki Jackson, chief technology officer at Lockheed Martin, has outlined technology areas where Lockheed plans to invest over the next two to three decades during an Oct. 11 roundtable, C4ISRNET reported Thursday. Jackson said the technologies are classified into three categories, including the strategic technology thread areas that cover “anything Lockheed Martin will do… whether from undersea […] More
“A change from the status quo is a difficult cultural shift to overcome, especially for public sector agencies–but not impossible.” EM: You’ve been at the intersection of technology and business as professional in the public sector for over 15 years. Can you tell our readers about your work experiences that have brought you to where […] More
