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  • Carahsoft Adds Gigamon Traffic Visibility Product to GSA Schedule - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft Adds Gigamon Traffic Visibility Product to GSA Schedule

    Carahsoft Technology will offer Gigamon‘s Unified Visibility Fabric product to government clients via a GSA Schedule contract and act as the master government aggregator for the traffic visibility networking provider. “IT network and security teams at the federal level face the unparalleled challenge of protecting information as a matter of national security,” Dennis Reilly, vice president of Gigamon’s federal business, said […] More

  • Boeing Hands Air Force F-22 Mission Simulators - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Hands Air Force F-22 Mission Simulators

    Boeing has delivered and installed two F-22 simulators at a U.S. Air Force mission training center for the branch’s fighter pilots. The simulators are designed with the company’s Constant Resolution Visual System that aims to provide warfighters a 360-degree view of flight environment, Boeing said Thursday. The Air Force’s F-22 training infrastructure is built to […] More

  • William Arras: DigitalGlobe, NGA Partner to Deliver Ebola-Related Geospatial Data - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    William Arras: DigitalGlobe, NGA Partner to Deliver Ebola-Related Geospatial Data

    The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has partnered with DigitalGlobe to offer geospatial intelligence and mapping products for government and private organizations that conduct Ebola response operations in West Africa. DigitalGlobe said Wednesday the agency introduced Image City Map GEOINT products that are based on the company’s satellite imagery and human geography data sets and designed to […] More

  • Steve Rosser of Parsons Joins NDIA Washington Chapter's Board; Mary Ann Hopkins Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Steve Rosser of Parsons Joins NDIA Washington Chapter’s Board; Mary Ann Hopkins Comments

    Steve Rosser, a program director at Parsons and a 24-year U.S. Navy veteran, has joined the board of directors at the National Defense Industrial Association’s Washington Chapter. Rosser will support NDIA’s work to help the U.S. government and industry address national security issues, Parsons said Thursday. “Parsons is pleased that Steve’s leadership ability and in-depth […] More

  • Transparency Market Research: Global PaaS Market Worth $8B by 2020 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Transparency Market Research: Global PaaS Market Worth $8B by 2020

    A new Transparency Market Research report predicts that the global platform-as-a-service market will achieve a compound annual growth rate of 25.7 percent through 2020 to reach a market value of $7.98 billion. The firm said Tuesday that the growth is due to companies adopting PaaS to lower capital expenses while allowing increased operational expenses. It added that other perceived benefits to PaaS include scalability, […] More

  • DRT to Perform Technical Services for US Navy’s Enterprise Network; Susan Kidd Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DRT to Perform Technical Services for US Navy’s Enterprise Network; Susan Kidd Comments

    DRT Strategies Inc. has won a three-year, $84 million contract to perform technical support services for the U.S. Navy’s next generation enterprise network. The company will work to manage programs, seats, devices, applications, network operations, information assurance, cyber assets and network resources, DRT said Monday. “We look forward to working together with Fleet Logistic Center […] More

  • SAIC Crowdsources Ideas for NOAA Mobile Applications - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAIC Crowdsources Ideas for NOAA Mobile Applications

    Science Applications International Corp. asked the weather industry at a January conference for ideas on nontraditional ways to use National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration open data. The five winners that were selected were mobile applications for traffic forecasting, weather uncertainty tracking, weather emergency alert and medical preparedness, SAIC said Wednesday. The online contest, which ran for 10 […] More

  • Peter Smith: American Systems Not 'To a Place' for IPO, Eyes Health IT Market - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Peter Smith: American Systems Not ‘To a Place’ for IPO, Eyes Health IT Market

    American Systems CEO Peter Smith has not closed the doors on the 100-percent employee-owned company going public but said current conditions are not yet ripe for a stock market launch, the Washington Business Journal reported Wednesday. “We consider everything – going public, merging with another ESOP, staying just the way we are – but we’ve […] More

  • PMC, Oceus, Fujitsu to Build NJ First Responder Net; Randy Fuerst on Broadband Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PMC, Oceus, Fujitsu to Build NJ First Responder Net; Randy Fuerst on Broadband Tech

    Oceus Networks, PMC Associates and Fujitsu‘s network communications business have partnered to build New Jersey’s 4G LTE broadband network for first responders – called JerseyNet — to facilitate public safety communications during emergencies, disasters and similar incidents. The companies said Wednesday PMC will provide network integration and support services, Fujitsu will oversee the network’s wireless and wireline backhaul while Oceus will provide its Xiphos […] More

  • immixGroup to Offer Brocade Network Subscription Product on GSA Schedule - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    immixGroup to Offer Brocade Network Subscription Product on GSA Schedule

    ImmixGroup will offer Brocade‘s network subscription product to federal government clients through its GSA Schedule contract as agencies turn to on-demand acquisition of IT products and services. “Federal agencies face both financial and acquisition challenges when it comes to buying IT,” Steve Charles, a co-founder and executive vice president at immixGroup, said Wednesday. The company said Brocade Network Subscription is a network-as-a-service offering that works to let […] More

  • BAE's Scott McVicar: Companies Seek to Boost Cyber Measures Against New Tactics - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE’s Scott McVicar: Companies Seek to Boost Cyber Measures Against New Tactics

    BAE Systems predicts that 2015 will see developments in technology, regulation and other cybersecurity aspects as cyber threats continue to evolve and impact efforts to combat digital crime. The company said Wednesday that Scott McVicar, managing director for cybersecurity at BAE’s applied intelligence unit, noted that cyber crime will use fragmentation and deception tools to challenge investigation and detection. The […] More

  • Xerox's Chuck Brooks: Preparation, Commitment Key for Govt-Industry Cyber Partnerships - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Xerox’s Chuck Brooks: Preparation, Commitment Key for Govt-Industry Cyber Partnerships

    A new level of public-private collaboration is needed to implement data sharing, incident response and detection strategies to prevent future cyber attacks, Xerox executive Chuck Brooks writes in a Federal Times opinion piece published Tuesday. Brooks, vice president and client executive for the Department of Homeland Security at Xerox, says massive hacking incidents in 2014 […] More