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  • MobileIron Cloud Platform Gets FedRAMP ATO From Postal Service; Barry Mainz Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MobileIron Cloud Platform Gets FedRAMP ATO From Postal Service; Barry Mainz Comments

    MobileIron has received a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program  authority-to-operate designation from the U.S. Postal Service for the company’s cloud-based enterprise mobility management platform. The FedRAMP Agency ATO status recognizes that the MobileIron Cloud platform has met security standard requirements in the program’s federal risk management process, the company said Monday. “MobileIron has helped government agencies secure their mobile deployments […] More

  • Lockheed Finishes Encapsulation Work on EchoStar XIX Broadband Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Finishes Encapsulation Work on EchoStar XIX Broadband Satellite

    Lockheed Martin has encapsulated an EchoStar broadband satellite into a launch vehicle fairing platform ahead of a scheduled Dec. 18 launch aboard United Launch Alliance‘s Atlas V 431 rocket. The EchoStar XIX satellite was connected to an adapter and enclosed in a “nose cone” as part of the encapsulation, Lockheed said Monday. Lockheed secured a contract in August 2015 to provide launch support services […] More

  • Lockheed Conducts 2nd Flight Test of Updated Tactical Missile System For Army - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Conducts 2nd Flight Test of Updated Tactical Missile System For Army

    Lockheed Martin has demonstrated a second updated Tactical Missile System during a flight test held at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The company said Monday the modernized TACMS was deployed from a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System launcher to engage a target placed approximately 52.8 miles away in an effort to validate the missile’s Proximity Sensor Height of […] More

  • Force Protection Offers Microsoft Azure Govt Cloud-Based Storage for Digital Evidence - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Force Protection Offers Microsoft Azure Govt Cloud-Based Storage for Digital Evidence

    Users of Force Protection Video Equipment-built body-worn cameras and surveillance equipment may now store their audio, photo and video files in the cloud using Microsoft‘s Azure Government Cloud. Force Protection said Monday the cloud storage function utilizes VeriPic‘s Evidence Storage Locker software with an individualized encryption tool in which each data file is secured with a unique […] More

  • Verizon's ICSA Labs Certifies FireEye Network Security Platform; Jack Walsh Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Verizon’s ICSA Labs Certifies FireEye Network Security Platform; Jack Walsh Comments

    Verizon‘s independent testing and certification division has granted an advanced threat defense certification to FireEye‘s network threat prevention platform after the technology detected all threats during a test cycle. FireEye said Tuesday its Network Security product series identified 100 percent of threats and one false positive during ICSA Labs‘ test which marks the first time that a security provider’s platform […] More

  • Airbus Delivers Germany's First A400M Airlifter Designed for Tactical Missions; Kurt Rossner Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Airbus Delivers Germany’s First A400M Airlifter Designed for Tactical Missions; Kurt Rossner Comments

    Airbus‘ defense and space business has delivered an A400M tactical mission-qualified military transport aircraft to Germany’s air force. The company said Monday the aircraft represents the first in Germany’s A400M fleet that was built to support transport operations in areas with military threats and designed with  self-defense systems as well as air-drop cargo load and paratrooping features. “In addition to having twice the […] More

  • Telos to Supply Intell Agency With Automated Message Handling Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Telos to Supply Intell Agency With Automated Message Handling Tech

    A U.S. intelligence agency has awarded Telos a contract to provide an automated message handling system that is designed to support complex information content, analytics, access controls and workflow. Telos said Tuesday its AMHS works to scan addressing information, message content and attachments to route incoming messages to the recipient and transmit outgoing messages on behalf of the organization. AMHS can also facilitate the exchange […] More

  • Lockheed's Carl Marchetto: WorldView-4 Satellite to Provide Images to Govt Officials, Disaster Relief Workers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed’s Carl Marchetto: WorldView-4 Satellite to Provide Images to Govt Officials, Disaster Relief Workers

    DigitalGlobe has shown the first image from the Lockheed Martin-built WorldView-4 satellite that launched in November from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California to join the geospatial content and imagery provider’s satellite constellation. “Seeing these first images is only a glimpse of the value WorldView-4 will bring to the world,” Carl Marchetto, vice president and general manager of Lockheed’s […] More

  • IHS Markit: 2016 Defense Spending Reaches $1.57T Worldwide - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IHS Markit: 2016 Defense Spending Reaches $1.57T Worldwide

    A new report from IHS Markit says that global defense spending rose to $1.57 trillion during 2016 and defense expenditures are projected to continue to increase worldwide over the next decade. IHS Markit said Monday the annual Jane’s Defense Budget Report covers nearly 99 percent of defense spending worldwide and forecasts defense expenditures for 105 countries. “Defense spending returned to a healthy rate […] More

  • Verisign to Help GSA Manage DotGov Domain Registration System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Verisign to Help GSA Manage DotGov Domain Registration System

    The General Services Administration has awarded Verisign a contract of an undisclosed value to run an internet domain registry designed for federal, state, local and tribal government organizations. GSA said Monday the company will provide a secure infrastructure for the agency to implement domain registration and analytical reporting services via the DotGov Registry site. DotGov Registry is designed to help government entities register […] More

  • NASA Postpones Hurricane Data Collection Satellite Launch to Wednesday - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Postpones Hurricane Data Collection Satellite Launch to Wednesday

    NASA has postponed the launch of a satellite system that will collect weather data to aid hurricane forecasting due to a glitch on the L-1011 Stargazer carrier aircraft’s component that was designed to release Orbital ATK‘s Pegasus XL rocket for the mission. The Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System‘s launch was originally scheduled to occur Monday at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in […] More

  • Stellar Science to Develop Laser Modeling, Simulation Platforms for Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Stellar Science to Develop Laser Modeling, Simulation Platforms for Air Force

    Stellar Science has won a five-year, $7.03 million contract to develop advanced laser system modeling and simulation units for the U.S. Air Force. The Defense Department said Friday the Air Force received five proposals for the cost-reimbursement contract and obligated $150,000 in fiscal 2017 research, development, test and evaluation funds at the time of award. Work will […] More