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  • Carahsoft Offers Terra Pixel's Geospatial Data Streaming Tech via AWS Cloud Marketplace for Intell Community - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft Offers Terra Pixel’s Geospatial Data Streaming Tech via AWS Cloud Marketplace for Intell Community

    Carahsoft Technology and Terra Pixel have partnered to offer the latter company’s geospatial data streaming platform through an online cloud marketplace Amazon Web Services runs for the U.S. intelligence community. Terra Pixel’s Streamap uses cloud computing technology to index, share and search Open Geospatial Consortium standards-based geospatial data sets, Carahsoft said Thursday. Matt Rattigan, manager of AWS marketplace solutions at Carahsoft, said intelligence […] More

  • Deltek Report: FedRAMP, IT Modernization Efforts to Drive Federal Cloud Computing Demand - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deltek Report: FedRAMP, IT Modernization Efforts to Drive Federal Cloud Computing Demand

    A Deltek report has predicted that federal demand for vendor-furnished cloud computing services will reach $6.35 billion by fiscal year 2021 from $3.1 billion in FY 2016 at a 15 percent compound annual growth rate. The “Federal Priorities: Cloud, Big Data, Mobility, and Data Centers 2016-2021” report also forecasts that federal demand for big data products and services […] More

  • Former IBM Group Manager Brendan Hannigan Named Polaris Venture Partner - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former IBM Group Manager Brendan Hannigan Named Polaris Venture Partner

    Brendan Hannigan, former general manager of the security division at IBM, has joined Polaris Partners as a venture partner to support the investment company’s efforts to finance and establish security, cloud and software-as-a-service businesses. He also plans to invest in technology startups and seek new business opportunities in his new position, Polaris said Thursday. “For more than 15 years, we’ve known Brendan as a great […] More

  • Lockheed Chief Marillyn Hewson Offers 3 Ideas to Maintain NATO's Tech Edge - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Chief Marillyn Hewson Offers 3 Ideas to Maintain NATO’s Tech Edge

    Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson has said NATO and industry partners can maintain their technological edge through sustained investment, interoperability and talent development. Hewson said Wednesday at the NATO-Industry forum in Brussels alliance members should provide consistent and sustained defense spending to support operational readiness and the industry’s research and development efforts. She added alliance members’ pledges to allocate 2 percent of their gross domestic product […] More

  • AWS Includes uReveal Data Mining Tool on Intell Community Marketplace; Ren Mohan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AWS Includes uReveal Data Mining Tool on Intell Community Marketplace; Ren Mohan Comments

    Amazon Web Services has added the conceptual data mining and analytic offering of uReveal to an AWS-run intelligence community marketplace for cloud-based products and services. UReveal said Wednesday its software will work to help IC analysts manage and examine raw data in real time as well as view structured or unstructured data in a unified view. Ren Mohan, chief […] More

  • Matt Desch: SpaceX ‘Back on the Path’ for Iridium Satellite Launch After Rocket Explosion - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Matt Desch: SpaceX ‘Back on the Path’ for Iridium Satellite Launch After Rocket Explosion

    Iridium CEO Matt Desch has said he is confident that SpaceX is back on track to launch Iridium’s new fleet of satellites into orbit after Elon Musk, founder and CEO of SpaceX, spoke about the cause of the Sept. 1 explosion of the Falcon 9 rocket, the Washington Post reported Tuesday. “We’ve been privy to the thinking and the […] More

  • FBI Eyes Dataminr Tool to Increase Bureau's Social Media Awareness - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FBI Eyes Dataminr Tool to Increase Bureau’s Social Media Awareness

    The FBI wants to license Dataminr‘s alerting tool that can provide the bureau access to the company’s indicators and warnings service as well as customizable filters to search the entire Twitter database. A notice posted Tuesday on the FedBizOpps website says the FBI plans to enter into a sole-source agreement to use the company’s technology and receive comprehensive technical support services. The […] More

  • Army Selects Kratos Range Receiver to Update Telemetry Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Selects Kratos Range Receiver to Update Telemetry Program

    A Kratos Defense and Security Solutions subsidiary has been selected to supply the company’s Telemetrix 400 range receiver to the U.S. Army as part of the military branch’s effort to update its telemetry program. RT Logic’s range receiver incorporates a digital intermediate frequency ingest that the Army will use to modernize an unnamed test site, Kratos […] More

  • Inmarsat Introduces Updated Aeronautical Services in Support of Govt C4ISR Operations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inmarsat Introduces Updated Aeronautical Services in Support of Govt C4ISR Operations

    Inmarsat has started to offer updated aeronautical services meant to support command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions of government clients. Inmarsat said Tuesday some government entities use the company’s globally available L-band space and ground network to manage multiple platforms and missions. The company added its aeronautical services allow partners to offer data transmission rates of up to 10 megabits […] More

  • NASA Taps Near Earth Autonomy to Build, Demo UAS Flight Safety Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Taps Near Earth Autonomy to Build, Demo UAS Flight Safety Tech

    Near Earth Autonomy has secured a contract under NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research initiative to help the space agency integrate unmanned aircraft systems into the national airspace. Near Earth said Wednesday that it will develop and demonstrate technologies to facilitate safe unmanned aircraft operations in case of emergency situations. The company will also build an autonomous contingency system that can help unmanned aircraft […] More

  • BAE Secures Australia Maritime RF Sensor Tech Devt Funds - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Secures Australia Maritime RF Sensor Tech Devt Funds

    BAE Systems has received a grant from Australia’s defense department to develop and demonstrate a radio frequency sensor technology for maritime battlespace awareness efforts, Shepard Media reported Thursday. The report said the department issued the grant for the 18-month Maritime Composite RF Sensor Performance project through its Capability and Technology Demonstrator Program. Glynn Phillips, chief executive of BAE’s Australian subsidiary, said […] More

  • Boeing, DISA Develop Mobile Device for Top-Secret Military Communications; Lt. Gen. Alan Lynn Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing, DISA Develop Mobile Device for Top-Secret Military Communications; Lt. Gen. Alan Lynn Comments

    The Defense Information Systems Agency and Boeing have developed a mobile device designed to help military commanders transmit and receive top-secret messages, Defense One reported Nov. 1. Patrick Tucker writes the Boeing Black mobile phone works with virtual private networks and mobile device management platforms and has a dual-SIM functionality that allows users to use […] More