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  • Leidos Team Deploys New DoD EHR Platform at Naval Hospital Bremerton; Jerry Hogge Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Team Deploys New DoD EHR Platform at Naval Hospital Bremerton; Jerry Hogge Comments

    The team of Leidos, Cerner and Accenture has installed a new electronic health records platform at Naval Hospital Bremerton in Washington as part of the Defense Department‘s efforts to modernize the Military Health System. Leidos said Monday the deployment of the MHS GENESIS platform in Bremerton is part of the initial operational capability rollout of the EHR system […] More

  • Siemens to Open Chicago-Based Digital Tech R&D Hub - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Siemens to Open Chicago-Based Digital Tech R&D Hub

    Siemens plans to invest more than $20 million annually in a research and development center in Chicago that will focus on internet of things and cloud computing applications for the company’s control products and systems business. The Siemens Building Technologies CPS Software House is scheduled to open next month and seeks to employ more than 100 professionals who […] More

  • Carahsoft to Distribute Syncsort Data Mgmt Tech to Public Sector - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft to Distribute Syncsort Data Mgmt Tech to Public Sector

    Carahsoft and its network of resellers will offer Syncsort‘s enterprise data management platform to federal, state and local government agencies as part of a distribution agreement between the two companies. Syncsort said Monday its Ironstream platform is designed to work with Splunk‘s  Enterprise software and help users manage data as well as comply with government regulations such […] More

  • Xtera to Build Regional Submarine Cable System for DISA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Xtera to Build Regional Submarine Cable System for DISA

    The Defense Information Systems Agency has awarded Xtera a contract to build a new regional submarine cable system designed to offer high-bandwidth subsea connectivity. Xtera said Wednesday it will provide a turnkey system that consists of undersea optical repeaters, cable, marine services and the company’s Nu-Wave Optima submarine line terminal equipment under the contract. Nu-Wave Optima is a dense wavelength division multiplexing […] More

  • IBM’s Robert Kleppinger on Cognitive Computing Platform’s Use in Army Maintenance, Logistics Operations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM’s Robert Kleppinger on Cognitive Computing Platform’s Use in Army Maintenance, Logistics Operations

    Robert Kleppinger, a senior client partner at IBM responsible for federal government contracts, told Data Center Dynamics in an interview published Tuesday how the company plans to apply its Watson cognitive computing system to the U.S. Army’s maintenance and logistics activities under a $135 million recompete contract. “Ideally, the plan is to bring this further, probably next to […] More

  • SpaceX Moves Third Iridium NEXT Satellite Launch to Oct. 9; Matt Desch Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SpaceX Moves Third Iridium NEXT Satellite Launch to Oct. 9; Matt Desch Comments

    SpaceX has pushed back the launch of a third batch of satellites for Iridium Communications‘ NEXT constellation by five days to Oct. 9, Iridium announced Tuesday on its website. Iridium CEO Matt Desch said the schedule change was requested by SpaceX to provide more time to prepare the Falcon 9 rocket that will carry the 10 […] More

  • Leidos Gets DIA Contract to Develop Data Discovery Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Gets DIA Contract to Develop Data Discovery Platform

    Leidos has received a potential $47 million contract the Defense Intelligence Agency to develop a technology platform for U.S. intelligence agencies to retrieve information from documents and media sources. The company said Tuesday it will use a microservice architecture that employs free and open source software in efforts to build the Document Exploitation Data Discovery Platform platform for DIA’s National Media […] More

  • Raytheon's Josh Douglas Outlines Common Cloud Migration Mistakes - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon’s Josh Douglas Outlines Common Cloud Migration Mistakes

    Josh Douglas, Raytheon‘s chief strategy officer for cyber services, has listed the common errors organizations commit as they migrate to a cloud computing platform. Douglas said in a press release published Tuesday that the errors include the failure to check old code for vulnerabilities, segregate systems and conduct red-teaming activities, where security consultants attempt to breach systems […] More

  • Air Force Issues RFI on Directed Energy Tech for Future Counter-UAS Demo - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Issues RFI on Directed Energy Tech for Future Counter-UAS Demo

    The U.S. Air Force seeks information on the availability of directed energy weapons technology that can support an upcoming counter-unmanned aircraft system demonstration. The service branch said Tuesday its Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation Office will use data collected from the request for information as part of market research analyses under the Air Force Directed Energy […] More

  • Salesforce to Invest $50M in K-12 Computer Science Education - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Salesforce to Invest $50M in K-12 Computer Science Education

    Salesforce has pledged to invest $50 million and one million volunteer hours over five years in K-12 computer science education across the U.S. The company said Tuesday its Salesforce.org charity arm will offer 10 free Salesforce software subscriptions to all eligible public K-12 schools nationwide. Salesforce.org also plans to grant $1 million to nonprofit organization Code.org to help increase […] More

  • Belfer Center’s Melissa Hathaway to Discuss Cybersecurity in UN University-Hosted Conversation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Belfer Center’s Melissa Hathaway to Discuss Cybersecurity in UN University-Hosted Conversation

    Melissa Hathaway, a senior adviser at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, will participate in a United Nations University-hosted conversation on cybersecurity to be held on Oct. 4 in Tokyo, Japan. Hathaway will discuss the current cybersecurity landscape and establishment of a universal framework for voluntary norms of behavior in cyber […] More

  • Roger Krone to Discuss Leidos' Opioid Awareness Campaign at COMMIT!Forum - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Roger Krone to Discuss Leidos’ Opioid Awareness Campaign at COMMIT!Forum

    Leidos CEO Roger Krone will discuss the company’s efforts to help address opioid abuse at the COMMIT!Forum, an event for corporate responsibility and sustainability practitioners scheduled to take place from Oct. 10 to 12 at MGM National Harbor in Maryland. Clay Stamp, an adviser to Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, will join Krone in the discussion and […] More