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  • AT&T’s Kay Kapoor Earns 'Women Worth Watching' Award by Profiles in Diversity Journal - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AT&T’s Kay Kapoor Earns ‘Women Worth Watching’ Award by Profiles in Diversity Journal

    Kay Kapoor, president of global public sector solutions at AT&T, has received recognition from Profiles in Diversity Journal as one of the winners of the 15th Annual Women Worth Watching Awards. The awards recognize a total of 162 nominees as the 2016 winners, who will be featured in the 2016 Women Worth Watching magazine edition in September, […] More

  • Digital Reasoning Unveils Latest Cognitive Computing Platform Synthesis 4 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Digital Reasoning Unveils Latest Cognitive Computing Platform Synthesis 4

    Digital Reasoning has unveiled its latest cognitive computing platform designed to improve on unstructured data analytics and time-to-value for consumers through its new functions. The Synthesis 4 makes use of a number of technologies, such as machine learning, NLP, computer vision, pattern recognition and knowledge representation, to allow analysis delivery through interactive data exploration tools and intelligent […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Conducts AR1 Engine Preburner Tests; Eileen Drake Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Conducts AR1 Engine Preburner Tests; Eileen Drake Comments

    Aerojet Rocketdyne has completed another milestone in the company’s AR1 rocket engine development program following completion of preburner tests at NASA’s Stennis Space Center. The tests aimed to verify design parameters of the preburner injector built for Aerojet Rocketdyne’s new engine technology, the company said Friday. Aerojet Rocketdyne announced its milestone plan for AR1 engine in 2014 […] More

  • Jeff Barr: Amazon Web Services Unveils Private Cloud for Intell Community - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jeff Barr: Amazon Web Services Unveils Private Cloud for Intell Community

    Amazon Web Services has developed a new private cloud computing platform and AWS marketplace to support U.S. intelligence agencies’ work to discover, buy and deploy software packages and applications. Jeff Barr, AWS chief evangelist, said in a blog post published Monday the company looks to provide a broad selection of big data, analytics, cloud transition […] More

  • Lpath Receives DoD Grant to Study Potential Traumatic Brain Injury Pain Treatment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lpath Receives DoD Grant to Study Potential Traumatic Brain Injury Pain Treatment

    California-based biotechnology firm Lpath has secured a two-year, $1.45 million grant from the Defense Department to examine the use of a monoclonal antibody drug as a potential treatment for neuropathic pain associated with traumatic brain injury. Lpath said Monday it will conduct preclinical studies to assess the effect of the company’s experimental drug Lpathomab on pain that follows neurotrauma as the company seeks to validate the findings […] More

  • Infor Eyes FedRAMP Certification for Public Cloud Software Suite Through AWS Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Infor Eyes FedRAMP Certification for Public Cloud Software Suite Through AWS Partnership

    Infor has partnered with Amazon Web Services as the New York-based enterprise software company aims to obtain Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification to offer a cloud-based software suite to government agencies. The agreement allows Infor to host its CloudSuite Public Sector offering on AWS’  GovCloud (US) as well as receive guidance from cloud technology consulting and implementation services provider Day1 Solutions, an AWS Partner Network […] More

  • CloudLock's Cloud Cyber Platform Achieves FedRAMP 'In Progress' Status; Ron Zalkind Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CloudLock’s Cloud Cyber Platform Achieves FedRAMP ‘In Progress’ Status; Ron Zalkind Comments

    CloudLock has become the first cloud computing access security broker to achieve an “in Progress” status through the agency authorization route as part of the governmentwide Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. CloudLock said Monday its Cloud Security Fabric Federal Edition serves as a cloud-native CASB and cloud cybersecurity platform that works to secure applications that agencies buy and build. “We believe […] More

  • Inmarsat’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: Space Resiliency Requires Public-Private Collaboration - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inmarsat’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: Space Resiliency Requires Public-Private Collaboration

    Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, a senior vice president at Inmarsat, has said she believes that government and commercial organizations should collaborate to build resilient space systems. Cowen-Hirsch wrote in a blog post published Monday that U.S. government officials and lawmakers continue to increase their commitment to a satellite service model that seeks to increase military satellite communications and boost resiliency […] More

  • DLA Taps CACI for Electronic Document Processing, Storage System Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DLA Taps CACI for Electronic Document Processing, Storage System Services

    The U.S. Defense Logistics Agency has awarded CACI International a three-year, $40 million contract to help manage two platforms the Defense Department uses to eliminate paper from the receipt, acceptance, invoice and payment steps in contracting lifecycles. and systems. DoD’s Wide Area Workflow e-Business Suite is designed to process contracting documents via web-based applications and the Electronic Document Access system stores the Pentagon’s procurement instruments and related items, CACI […] More

  • Siemens Adds Address-Reading Software to USPS Mail Sorting Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Siemens Adds Address-Reading Software to USPS Mail Sorting Systems

    A subsidiary of Siemens has worked to help the U.S. Postal Service automate the agency’s mail sorting systems within its delivery units. Siemens Postal, Parcel & Airport Logistics integrated address-reading software into USPS’ Delivery Schemeless Sortation system in an effort to accelerate mail processing, Siemens said Monday. The company designed its address-reading platform to automatically process the picture on mail items, compare the photo with the […] More

  • NASA Selects NetApp Platform for Cloud Data Storage at Johnson Space Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Selects NetApp Platform for Cloud Data Storage at Johnson Space Center

    NASA has picked a cloud-based NetApp storage platform to help agency personnel move, protect and manage data at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. The selection came after NASA’s informational resources directorate conducted a proof-of-concept data storage effort that leveraged NetApp’s AltaVault appliance, Veritas‘ NetBackup  platform and Amazon Web Services‘ cloud technology, NetApp said Monday. “With one of the largest cloud footprints of any […] More

  • Charles River Analytics to Support DARPA's Battlespace Decision Aiding Program With Raytheon, STR Partnerships - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Charles River Analytics to Support DARPA’s Battlespace Decision Aiding Program With Raytheon, STR Partnerships

    Charles River Analytics has partnered with Systems and Technology Research and Raytheon in an effort to help the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency  produce decision support tools for military command-and-control operators to manage complex missions. STR and Charles River will collaborate to design and build a distributed planning and assessment suite under DARPA’s Resilient Synchronized Planning and Assessment for the Contested Environment program as part […] More