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  • Dan Kaufman: DARPA Working to Secure Internet of Things - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dan Kaufman: DARPA Working to Secure Internet of Things

    Dan Kaufman, DARPA‘s Information Innovation Office director, has revealed that the agency is looking into technology that will help secure the emerging Internet of Things, Gigaom reported Thursday. David Meyer writes Kaufman discussed such potential developments at the recent Gigaom Structure event in San Francisco attended by several technology industry leaders. Kaufman said DARPA is working on […] More

  • Brian Stevens: Red Hat Targets OpenStack Portfolio Growth Through eNovance, Inktank Purchases - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Brian Stevens: Red Hat Targets OpenStack Portfolio Growth Through eNovance, Inktank Purchases

    Brian Stevens, chief technology officer at Red Hat, says the company will continue to pursue acquisition deals to grow its OpenStack-powered enterprise cloud offerings, GigaOM reported Thursday. Mathew Ingram writes that Red Hat has agreed to acquire distributed file system provider Inktank for $175 million and signed a deal to buy open-source cloud services provider […] More

  • Australian IT Firm UXC Buys 2 Oracle, SAP Enterprise Software Providers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Australian IT Firm UXC Buys 2 Oracle, SAP Enterprise Software Providers

    UXC, an information technology services provider, has acquired two companies specializing in Oracle and SAP platforms to further grow UXC’s enterprise resource planning software business, CRN Australia reported Thursday. Steven Kiernan writes that UXC disclosed its two new acquisition deals during a market update Wednesday and it expects to close both transactions this month. The […] More

  • Marilyn Crouther: HP Building a Culture of Customer-Focused Innovation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Marilyn Crouther: HP Building a Culture of Customer-Focused Innovation

    Hewlett-Packard conducts service delivery reviews to gain new technological ideas and use these to improve customer experience, Washington Technology reported Wednesday. Nick Wakeman writes that Marilyn Crouther, senior vice president and general manager for public sector at HP Enterprise Services, has said the current business landscape pushes HP to collaborate with clients on balancing cost […] More

  • CrescoAg joins forces with Raytheon on Next-gen Agricultural Applications - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CrescoAg joins forces with Raytheon on Next-gen Agricultural Applications

    The CrescoAg Corporation and Raytheon Company said last week that they have joined forces on the development of next-generation technologies and analytics to increase productivity and streamline operations for agricultural producers. CrescoAg’s agricultural knowledge, farming expertise and relationships with crop farmers–paired with Raytheon’s abilities in engineering, climatic science, sensor technology and systems integration–will be a […] More

  • Ball Aerospace to Help Nat'l Lab Design Giant Telescope Lenses; Jim Oschmann Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ball Aerospace to Help Nat’l Lab Design Giant Telescope Lenses; Jim Oschmann Comments

    The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has picked Ball Aerospace & Technologies to develop optical and ground mount structures for a giant telescope that will be used to observe the sky from a Chilean mountain. Ball Aerospace and partner Arizona Optical Systems will produce, integrate and test the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope‘s refractive lenses and support […] More

  • Tony Smeraglinolo: DRC Wins $22M to Support Air Force UAS Programs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tony Smeraglinolo: DRC Wins $22M to Support Air Force UAS Programs

    An Engility subsidiary has won $22.2 million in task orders to help the U.S. Air Force engineer, test and manage the branch’s fleet of Reaper and Predator unmanned aerial systems. Dynamics Research Corp. will perform UAS flight and ground assessments, weapons integration, logistics, acquisition and flight scheduling, among other support services, Engility said Wednesday. “We appreciate […] More

  • Northrop Grumman Breaks Ground on Florida Campus Expansion - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Grumman Breaks Ground on Florida Campus Expansion

    Northrop Grumman has begun construction on a 220,000 sq ft office and research facility at its Melbourne International Airport campus in Florida, the Orlando Business Journal reported Wednesday. The building is part of the first phase of the company’s planned $500 million, 720,000 sq ft expansion of the campus, Anjali Fluker writes in the exclusive report. The completed […] More

  • NASA Awards 5 Academic Institutions With $500K Grant, ISS R&D Payload - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Awards 5 Academic Institutions With $500K Grant, ISS R&D Payload

    NASA has awarded five U.S. academic institutions with a $100,000 grant each and opportunities to conduct research and development work aboard the International Space Station as part of its Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research. The agency said Wednesday the research coverage, including ultrasonic sensor and self-healing polymers technology, is crucial for NASA missions as well […] More

  • DoD, NIH and Noetic Corp. Partner for Human Performance Research - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD, NIH and Noetic Corp. Partner for Human Performance Research

    A working group formed by the Defense Department and the National Institutes of Health will meet this week to identify possible collaborative research projects in human performance. DoD and NIH established the Human Performance Optimization Working Group with the aim of developing programs designed to help military and civilian individuals manage physically and emotionally demanding […] More

  • Totara LMS Receives U.S. Army's Networthiness Certification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Totara LMS Receives U.S. Army’s Networthiness Certification

    Totara LMS announced on Monday that they have received the the U.S. Army’s Certificate of Networthiness, working with ASM Research to blend their learning management software with Army systems to market for federal clients. ASM Research, an Accenture Federal Services company, was selected to aid in the development of Totara’s Solution Partner Network, providing technical […] More

  • Ed Campbell: Raytheon BBN to Help U.S. Utilities Install Anti-Gunfire Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ed Campbell: Raytheon BBN to Help U.S. Utilities Install Anti-Gunfire Tech

    A Raytheon subsidiary has been selected by U.S. utility firms to supply install a system for detecting incoming gunfire at several power plants in the mid-Atlantic region. Raytheon BBN Technologies received an initial order of 110 Boomerang shooter detection systems from the utility sector and is working with operators to deploy the technology across the […] More