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  • Dave Dunning: Fluor- CNNC Team to Pursue Nuclear, Renewable Markets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dave Dunning: Fluor- CNNC Team to Pursue Nuclear, Renewable Markets

    Fluor Corp. and China National Nuclear Corp. have signed a memorandum of understanding to pursue nuclear and renewable energy business opportunities in Europe and China. CNNC and Fluor will collaborate on various civil nuclear-related projects in the U.K., Germany and China, as well as on wind farms and solar power opportunities, Fluor said Thursday. “We are excited to cooperate […] More

  • CenturyLink to Offer Cloud IaaS Through GSA Networx Contract Vehicle - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CenturyLink to Offer Cloud IaaS Through GSA Networx Contract Vehicle

    A CenturyLink infrastructure-as-a-service offering has been included on a General Services Administration contract vehicle that federal agencies use to acquire telecommunications services. CenturyLink said Thursday its cloud IaaS is now available for purchase through the Networx Universal program as well as the agency’s IT Schedule 70. The data center service offering is designed to help […] More

  • Battelle, Rhombus Team to Pursue DoD Nuclear Threat Detection Program; Matthew Shaw Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle, Rhombus Team to Pursue DoD Nuclear Threat Detection Program; Matthew Shaw Comments

    Battelle has partnered with Rhombus Power to develop and offer platforms for detecting nuclear and radiological materials to the U.S. Defense Department. The companies plan to jointly compete for the agency’s Man Portable Radiation Detection System development program, Battelle said Thursday. Rhombus Power builds nuclear threat detectors for customers in the security, intelligence and defense […] More

  • Christopher Bogdan: DoD Wants More Industry Competition for F-35 Training Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Christopher Bogdan: DoD Wants More Industry Competition for F-35 Training Systems

    The F-35 Joint Program Office aims to increase competition for work to build new training and simulation systems for the fighter program, Defense News reported Thursday. Aaron Mehta writes Lt. Gen. Christopher Bogdan, the F-35 JPO’s executive officer, said the office could seek competitive bids on the Deployable Mission Rehearsal Trainer development contract. “I think […] More

  • Research and Markets: Global Cloud Services Market Size to Grow 17% Through 2020 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Research and Markets: Global Cloud Services Market Size to Grow 17% Through 2020

    Research and Markets has released a new report that projects the global cloud services market will reach $555 billion in 2020. The compound annual growth rate is estimated to be 17.6 percent between 2014 and 2020, Research and Markets said Wednesday. The report contains analyses for formulating market strategies and examines market factors to determine growth trends in various geographies. The report also identifies key application segments […] More

  • GAO OKs GSA's Third-Gen Office Supplies Purchasing Channel; Tom Sharpe Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GAO OKs GSA’s Third-Gen Office Supplies Purchasing Channel; Tom Sharpe Comments

    The General Services Administration has started to consolidate vendors’ items for the Federal Strategic Sourcing Initiative for Office Supplies vehicle after the Government Accountability Office’s cancelled of a stay of performance. GSA said Tuesday it had halted work on FSSI Office Supplies Third Generation pending a number of protests of its August decision to award spots on the newest iteration […] More

  • Frost and Sullivan: US Healthcare Cloud Market to Hit $3.5B by 2020 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Frost and Sullivan: US Healthcare Cloud Market to Hit $3.5B by 2020

    Frost and Sullivan has released a study that predicts the U.S. healthcare cloud market will reach $3.5 billion by 2020, iHealthBeat reported Friday. Shruthi Parakkal, healthcare research analyst at Frost and Sullivan, cited several results of cloud migration as information technology staff management, reduced upfront costs, operational efficiency, on-demand data access and deployment, according to the report. The report indicates stakeholders are […] More

  • Allied Market Research: Global Internet Security Market to Reach $43B in Six Years - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Allied Market Research: Global Internet Security Market to Reach $43B in Six Years

    Allied Market Research has released a report that predicts the global internet security market will reach $42.8 billion by 2020. The report attributes the market’s growth to cloud-based business operations, growing online financial transactions and rise in Internet usage, among other factors. Allied Market Research says the market faces the challenge of pirated software and lack of awareness among consumers. The market […] More

  • Mike Werner: ProphetStor Joins Red Hat OpenStack Partner Network - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mike Werner: ProphetStor Joins Red Hat OpenStack Partner Network

    Red Hat and ProphetStor Data Services have partnered to offer ProphetStor’s software-defined storage products and services to their joint customers. ProphetStor joined Red Hat’s OpenStack cloud infrastructure partner network to integrate its Federator services into the Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack platform, ProphetStor said Monday. “We’re pleased to have ProphetStor join us in the Red Hat OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure Partner Network,” said […] More

  • Informatica,T-Systems Partner on Data Mgmt Services; Dirk Häußermann Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Informatica,T-Systems Partner on Data Mgmt Services; Dirk Häußermann Comments

    Informatica and T-Systems have partnered to combine their cloud integration systems in an effort to help clients manage their data. Customers will be able to consolidate data and applications from public and private clouds as well as those in on-premise platforms using the combined integration and data management service, Informatica said Monday. “The alliance between T Systems and Informatica will deliver […] More

  • MarketsandMarkets: 3D Printing Market's Value to Hit $8B by 2020 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MarketsandMarkets: 3D Printing Market’s Value to Hit $8B by 2020

    A new MarketsandMarkets forecast predicts the three-dimensional printing market will be worth $8.43 billion by 2020. The growth represents a compound annual rate of 14.37 percent between 2014 and 2020 across the aerospace, automotive, consumer, defense, healthcare, industrial, education and research sectors, MarketsandMarkets said Wednesday. MarketsandMarkets attributes the growth of 3D printing market in the Americas to initiatives the governments in the […] More

  • ReportsnReports: Oil and Gas Sector's Global Big Data Market to Grow 56% in 4 Years - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ReportsnReports: Oil and Gas Sector’s Global Big Data Market to Grow 56% in 4 Years

    A new ReportsnReports research forecasts the global big data market in the oil and gas sector will grow 56.45 percent in size by 2018. The report predicts the oil and gas big data market will implement predictive modeling tools to forecast future development strategies through the use of historical data, ReportsnReports said Monday. The research also indicates “huge data explosion” […] More