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  • Mike Feldman: Xerox to Combine Managed Print Service with Kofax's BPM Offering - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mike Feldman: Xerox to Combine Managed Print Service with Kofax’s BPM Offering

    Xerox has agreed to offer a Kofax business process management product in conjunction with Xerox’s suite of document management and managed print offerings. The agreement calls for Xerox to sell and market the Kofax-made TotalAgility platform as well as to provide customers with product deployment and support services, Kofax said Thursday. Mike Feldman, president of […] More

  • Cisco, IBM Form IoT/M2M Alliance with Industry; Thorsten Kramp Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cisco, IBM Form IoT/M2M Alliance with Industry; Thorsten Kramp Comments

    Cisco and IBM have forged a partnership with other companies to develop and deliver Internet of Things and machine-to-machine services, PCC Mobile Broadband reported Friday. The LoRa alliance will focus on providing M2M, smart city, sensor network and industrial automation applications through wireless area network standards, according to the report. “In addition to IBM’s support […] More

  • NVTC to Auction Meetings With C-Level GovCon, Business Leaders - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NVTC to Auction Meetings With C-Level GovCon, Business Leaders

    The Northern Virginia Technology Council will auction off regional and industry c-level executives in a fundraising event scheduled on Feb. 4. Attendees will bid electronically for a chance with c-level executives within 12 months and gain insights, forge business connections and learn about future plans of various companies, the NVTC said. The NVTC CXO Auction event […] More

  • Andy Green, Michael Smith Take VP Roles at HII - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Andy Green, Michael Smith Take VP Roles at HII

    Huntington Ingalls Industries has named Andy Green and Michael S. Smith as the newest members of its corporate development team. Green is now vice president of shipbuilding while Smith takes on the VP role for nuclear and environmental services, working closely with Newport News Energy to execute projects for clients in the public and private […] More

  • Greg Mandt: NOAA Completes Installation of 6 Key Instruments Onboard GOES-R - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Greg Mandt: NOAA Completes Installation of 6 Key Instruments Onboard GOES-R

    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration moved closer to its March 2016 launch date for the next-generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R-Series with the completed integration of all instruments aboard the weather forecasting platform. The GOES-R now carries an advanced baseline imager, a geostationary lightning mapper, the Space Environment In-Situ Suite, Extreme Ultraviolet and X-ray […] More

  • Research Firm ExecRank Puts GovCon Leaders on 'Top CIO for 2014’ List - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Research Firm ExecRank Puts GovCon Leaders on ‘Top CIO for 2014’ List

    Research and advisory firm ExecRank has unveiled its annual list of 250 of the “Top CIOs for 2014,” a ranking of chief information officers across all industries that evaluates these leaders across 24 different categories. For this exercise, ExecRank says it developed a series of algorithms over three years to measure executive performance and predict future executive […] More

  • Arrow Offers CenturyLink Cloud for Resale; Dee Dee Lear, Blake Wetzel Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Arrow Offers CenturyLink Cloud for Resale; Dee Dee Lear, Blake Wetzel Comment

    CenturyLink‘s cloud platform is now available to managed service providers, independent software vendors and other resellers in the U.S. and Canada via Arrow Electronics‘ ArrowSphere cloud services marketplace. “Solution providers, MSPs and ISVs … are now able to utilize CenturyLink Cloud global services for building public, private and hybrid cloud solutions for their business, government and […] More

  • Research and Markets: Demand for Battlefield Mgmt Systems to Continue Rise - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Research and Markets: Demand for Battlefield Mgmt Systems to Continue Rise

    A new Research and Markets report states that the global market for battlefield management systems will see steady adoption through 2018 to achieve a compound annual growth rate of 4 percent. The firm said Wednesday military and defense organizations are using battlefield management systems to limit the risk of friendly fire and control combat situations. According to the report, these […] More

  • CGI to Help UK Build Govt Security Vetting System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CGI to Help UK Build Govt Security Vetting System

    CGI has been awarded a four-year contract to develop a technology to help British government agencies and contractors screen employees who aim to obtain security clearances. The U.K.’s National Security Vetting Solution platform will be designed to manage more than 200,000 applications a year and check applicant information such as criminal records, address and financial […] More

  • Red Hat's David Egts: Gov't Can Use Linux Containers to Support Virtualization - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Red Hat’s David Egts: Gov’t Can Use Linux Containers to Support Virtualization

    Red Hat‘s David Egts says government agencies can use Linux container technology to support virtualization efforts in an effort to efficiency and flexibility of their information technology systems. Egts, the chief technologist at Red Hat’s public sector business, wrote in a piece published Tuesday on GCN that Linux containers include applications that agencies can deploy as a single package through […] More

  • Engility to Extend FAA Volpe Center Technical, Management Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Engility to Extend FAA Volpe Center Technical, Management Services

    Engility Holdings Inc. has won a $50.7 million contract to continue its technical, management and analysis services work for the John A. Volpe Transportation Center. Engility will develop, evaluate and manage programs within the Federal Aviation Administration’s air traffic systems directorate for 18 months, the company said Thursday. The company will aid in air traffic management […] More

  • Lockheed Selects Dutch Firm for F-35 Wing Parts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Selects Dutch Firm for F-35 Wing Parts

    Lockheed Martin has tapped Netherlands-based Fokker Technologies to manufacture wing components for future F-35 jets through the end of 2017 for low-rate initial production lots 9 and 10. Lockheed said Wednesday that Fokker will supply wing flaperons and outboard leading-edge flaps that aim to enable the F-35’s “controllability.” These components are made of titanium and composite materials to deliver a […] More