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  • Reports: Deloitte Hack Compromises Company Email Server - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Reports: Deloitte Hack Compromises Company Email Server

    Deloitte has been a target of a cyber attack that compromised the accounting firm’s global email server through the use of an “administrator’s account” to gain access, The Guardian reported Monday. The report said Deloitte learned of the security breach in March and that hacking activities could have started since October 2016 and appeared to home […] More

  • UTC's Pratt & Whitney Tests Three-Stream Fan Under Air Force Engine Tech Devt Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    UTC’s Pratt & Whitney Tests Three-Stream Fan Under Air Force Engine Tech Devt Program

    A United Technologies Corp. division has tested a three-stream fan in an F135 propulsion system as part of the U.S. Air Force‘s Adaptive Engine Technology Development initiative. Pratt and Whitney said Sept. 18 the test occurred at the Arnold Air Force Base in Tennessee, and aimed to demonstrate the division’s capacity to meet combat aircraft propulsion requirements of the AETD program. […] More

  • HPE North America Sales Chief Dan Belanger Names 12 Execs to Management Team - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HPE North America Sales Chief Dan Belanger Names 12 Execs to Management Team

    Dan Belanger, newly appointed head of sales for North America at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, has named several executives to his newly formed management team to oversee the company’s North American sales operations, CRN reported Friday. Terry Richardson, vice president and general manager of U.S. channel sales for HPE’s enterprise group, will serve as head of […] More

  • John McCumber Joins (ISC)2 as Cybersecurity Advocacy Director - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    John McCumber Joins (ISC)2 as Cybersecurity Advocacy Director

    John McCumber, former director of Gartner‘s security and risk management consulting practice, has been named director of cybersecurity advocacy at The International Information System Security Certification Consortium, or (ISC)2. He will oversee (ISC)2’s partnership with government, academic and commercial organizations in efforts to promote public-private collaboration, cybersecurity curriculum and legislation designed to help address critical security […] More

  • Leidos’ Roger Krone to Headline NVTC Titans Series Event - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos’ Roger Krone to Headline NVTC Titans Series Event

    Roger Krone, chairman and CEO of Leidos, will serve as a keynote speaker at the Northern Virginia Technology Council’s Titans Series event to be held on Oct. 13 at The Ritz-Carlton in Tysons Corner, Virginia. He will discuss his views on government market trends and the company’s innovation culture in his keynote address, NVTC said […] More

  • Vice Adm. Frederick Roegge Named National Defense University President - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vice Adm. Frederick Roegge Named National Defense University President

    U.S. Navy Vice Adm. Frederick Roegge, former commander of submarine forces at the U.S. Pacific Fleet, has assumed duties as president of the National Defense University. NDU said Monday Roegge will lead the university’s efforts to train future joint warfighters and national security leaders with the use of whole-of-nations and whole-of-government educational programs, research and engagement activities. […] More

  • WidePoint to Help Coast Guard Implement Web-Based Telecom Asset Mgmt Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    WidePoint to Help Coast Guard Implement Web-Based Telecom Asset Mgmt Platform

    WidePoint has received an initial task order to build an online portal for U.S. Coast Guard personnel to manage the service branch’s telecommunications assets as well as provide cellular wireless services to USCG components. The Coast Guard will implement WidePoint’s ITMS Telecom Lifecycle Management  Portal in an effort to simplify invoicing, billing, payment, ordering, delivery, reporting, auditing and […] More

  • Boeing-ViaSat Team to Build 2 Ka-Band Satellites for the Americas, EMEA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing-ViaSat Team to Build 2 Ka-Band Satellites for the Americas, EMEA

    ViaSat has partnered with Boeing to build, integrate and test a pair of Ka-band satellites designed to offer network communications services across the Americas region and in Europe, Middle East and Africa. ViaSat said Monday it reached a critical design review milestone for the ViaSat-3 satellite technology that seeks to deliver a network capacity of more than 1 terabit per […] More

  • Accenture Wins Library of Congress Data Center, Migration Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Accenture Wins Library of Congress Data Center, Migration Support Contract

    Accenture‘s federal services business has secured a potential three-year, $27.4 million contract to build a new data center for the Library of Congress as well as migrate the library’s current data center to new hosting environments. The contract posted Monday on FedBizOpps has a one-year base period along with two one-year options and covers data center testing, security assessment […] More

  • DOE Taps Guardtime, Siemens to Help Develop Blockchain Tech for Energy Grid Security - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOE Taps Guardtime, Siemens to Help Develop Blockchain Tech for Energy Grid Security

    Guardtime and Siemens are part of a team that received a multimillion dollar contract from the Energy Department to develop a blockchain-based technology platform that will work to help secure U.S. energy grid from emerging cyber threats. Both companies will also work with DOE’s Pacific Northwest National Labs, Washington State University, Tennessee Valley Authority and the Defense Department‘s Homeland Defense […] More

  • BAE Offers to Build Digital Shipyard Under Australia's Future Frigate Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Offers to Build Digital Shipyard Under Australia’s Future Frigate Program

    BAE Systems plans to build a digital shipyard in Adelaide, Australia if it wins the SEA 5000 Future Frigate contract to construct nine anti-submarine warfare ships for the Australian navy. The British defense contractor said Thursday its Australia-based subsidiary will transfer intellectual property, technical data and naval shipbuilding processes to the Australian government in an effort to meet […] More

  • General Dynamics Hands Navy's Future USS Colorado Submarine - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Hands Navy’s Future USS Colorado Submarine

    The U.S. Navy has accepted a General Dynamics-built Virginia-class nuclear-powered attack submarine designed to provide the service branch with additional undersea capacities. General Dynamics said Monday that USS Colorado (SSN 788) is the fifth of eight ships under the Block III Virginia-class submarine group. The Naval Sea Systems Command said Thursday that the Block III submarines […] More