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  • Praescient's James Spencer: Data Analyst-Engineer Coordination Needed to Derive Insights - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Praescient’s James Spencer: Data Analyst-Engineer Coordination Needed to Derive Insights

    James Spencer, analyst consultant at Praescient, believes coordination between the data analyst and data engineer is key in work to extract insights from big data. “The problem as I see it is that many enterprises deal with analysis and engineering as two separate entities that don’t really talk to each other,” Spencer said Friday. He said the data scientists […] More

  • Lockheed Opens Abu Dhabi-Based Tech Collaboration Hub; Marillyn Hewson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Opens Abu Dhabi-Based Tech Collaboration Hub; Marillyn Hewson Comments

    Lockheed Martin has opened an innovation center in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates to facilitate technical collaboration among industry, academia and government organizations. The Center for Innovation and Security Solutions is located in Masdar City’s incubator building and aims to build new technologies to address global problems such as climate change and resource scarcity, Lockheed […] More

  • ReportsnReports Forecasts $133B C4ISR Global Market by 2020 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ReportsnReports Forecasts $133B C4ISR Global Market by 2020

    The global market for C4ISR – short for command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance — is forecast to become a $133 billion industry by 2020, new research from ReportsnReports says. The market analysts said Monday that it expects the segment, currently valued at $102 billion, to have a compound annual growth rate of 4.52 percent […] More

  • BAE to Enter DARPA EW Radar Project's 2nd Phase; David Logan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE to Enter DARPA EW Radar Project’s 2nd Phase; David Logan Comments

    BAE Systems will create a prototype electronic warfare technology for the second phase of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program aimed at countering radar threats. The company said Monday its EW system will employ software algorithms intended to detect and obstruct adversarial radars electronically. DARPA awarded BAE a three-year, $21.6 million contract under the […] More

  • Deltek's Chris Dixon: Local IT Pros Consider Big Data Strategy to Facilitate 'Smarter' Cities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deltek’s Chris Dixon: Local IT Pros Consider Big Data Strategy to Facilitate ‘Smarter’ Cities

    Deltek and the Public Technology Institute conducted a survey on how government information technology leaders facilitate the transformation of smart cities, the Washington Post reported Friday. Chris Dixon, a senior manager at Deltek, writes the study indicates that more than 60 percent of local IT professionals have been developing frameworks for interagency data sharing and […] More

  • CenturyLink Lands DHS Task Order for Cyber Services to Civilian Agencies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CenturyLink Lands DHS Task Order for Cyber Services to Civilian Agencies

    CenturyLink will continue to deliver cybersecurity services to U.S. federal civilian agencies under a one-year task order from the Department of Homeland Security‘s office of cybersecurity and communications. The company said Monday the task order is part of a four-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for cybersecurity services that CenturyLink won in March 2013. DHS awarded the order under its EINSTEIN program, which aims to help agencies […] More

  • Nubity Joins IBM Cloud Program; Rita Radi Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Nubity Joins IBM Cloud Program; Rita Radi Comments

    Nubity has joined IBM‘s cloud entrepreneur program in a move to expand Nubity’s cloud services worldwide. The Mexico City-based startup company partners with IBM’s SoftLayer Catalyst program to access an open cloud infrastructure, executive mentorship and an ecosystem of customers, IBM said Friday. “Through a comprehensive mix of consulting, a robust ecosystem and scalable global cloud infrastructure, Nubity is helping its clients […] More

  • IDC Evaluates 12 IaaS Vendors as Gov't Cloud Adoption Continues - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IDC Evaluates 12 IaaS Vendors as Gov’t Cloud Adoption Continues

    IDC‘s Government Insights segment has released a new report on its evaluation of 12 cloud infrastructure-as-a-service vendors in the federal marketplace against set of weighted parameters for both short-term and long-term deployments. The research firm said Friday that the “IDC MarketScape: U.S. Government Private Cloud IaaS 2014 Vendor Assessment” report used pricing, scalability, compute services, value-added services and a single […] More

  • Cubic to Design, Test Updates for SPAWAR Data Link; Mike Twyman Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic to Design, Test Updates for SPAWAR Data Link; Mike Twyman Comments

    Cubic Defense Applications will continue to provide support for the U.S. Navy’s data link systems used in operational missions under a $3.1 million contract from the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command. Under the project, the company will work to prolong the life cycle of SPAWAR’s AN/USQ-167 Common Data Link System by developing and testing […] More

  • IBM Rolls Out Beta Version of Watson Analytics - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Rolls Out Beta Version of Watson Analytics

    IBM has released a beta version of the Watson Analytics cognitive service for business clients. IBM Watson is now available to customers as a cloud-based free premium service via desktop computers and mobile devices, IBM said Thursday. Business users will have access to the Watson Analytics community to share news, best practices, technical support and training services. The cognitive system is designed to […] More

  • Lockheed's Horace Blackman: 'Biggest Opportunities' Lie in Federal Health IT Space - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed’s Horace Blackman: ‘Biggest Opportunities’ Lie in Federal Health IT Space

    Horace Blackman, Lockheed Martin’s vice president of health and life sciences, attributes new business growth opportunities to the federal health information technology market, The Washington Post reported Saturday. Jay Hancock writes Lockheed Martin’s business with the Department of Health and Human Services has more than doubled to $300 million annually since 2006. “The biggest opportunities I would point to are efforts associated […] More

  • CBP Selects Astrophysics' Scanning Tech for Air Cargo Inspection - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CBP Selects Astrophysics’ Scanning Tech for Air Cargo Inspection

    The Customs and Border Protection agency has awarded Astrophysics a potential five-year, $23.1 million contract to deliver X-ray machines for CBP personnel to screen cargo at U.S. ports of entry. Astrophysics will provide three kinds of its parcel scanning system and associated peripherals and training support for the agency’s Non-Intrusive Inspection program, Astrophysics said Wednesday. […] More