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  • IBM to Migrate NSW Fire Department's IT Systems to Cloud Platform; Mark Brewer Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM to Migrate NSW Fire Department’s IT Systems to Cloud Platform; Mark Brewer Comments

    IBM has landed a five-year contract to help Fire & Rescue New South Wales implement a cloud computing infrastructure intended to consolidate the emergency services agency’s mission-critical workloads. The company said Tuesday it will design, build and operate an information technology-as-a-service platform for FRNSW, as well as migrate agency systems and applications to IBM Cloud. […] More

  • Lockheed Martin, Kaman Demo Unmanned Helicopter; Dan Spoor Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Martin, Kaman Demo Unmanned Helicopter; Dan Spoor Comments

    Lockheed Martin and Kaman have showcased the firefighting capability of an unmanned helicopter. The Indago quad rotor worked to determine hot spots and a K-MAX helicopter operator directed the aircraft to extinguish the flames with more than 24,000 pounds of water during the demonstration, Lockheed Martin said Tuesday. “The unmanned K-MAX and Indago aircraft can work to fight fires day […] More

  • Marillyn Hewson: Lockheed Continues Support for Energy Sector Through STEM Talent - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Marillyn Hewson: Lockheed Continues Support for Energy Sector Through STEM Talent

    Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson has highlighted the company’s partnership with the Energy Department, universities and industry in addressing the challenges in the energy sector and encouraging careers in science, technology, engineering and math. Hewson said Tuesday in her address during the first anniversary of DOE’s Minorities in Energy project that Lockheed supports the agency in meeting the energy needs […] More

  • Deltek's Alex Rossino: Challenges Could Drive Growth in Gov't Cloud Investments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deltek’s Alex Rossino: Challenges Could Drive Growth in Gov’t Cloud Investments

    Alex Rossino, a principal research analyst at Deltek, says that seven trends across federal agencies could initiate a potential 21-percent growth in cloud investments in the public sector over the next five years. Rossino writes Tuesday that the market for commercial cloud services will reach a value of $6.5 billion by 2019 due to the need for policies, tools, […] More

  • Vion's Steve Picot: Agencies Have More Options Than Just Public Cloud - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vion’s Steve Picot: Agencies Have More Options Than Just Public Cloud

    Federal agencies that want to acquire cloud computing technologies and services should realize that public cloud platforms are not the only way forward for them as they push to adopt cloud tools, Steve Picot of Vion Corp. has told ExecutiveBiz. Picot, vice president of federal sales for the federal technology services contractor, also told ExecutiveBiz that agencies […] More

  • SGI to Resell Seagate's ClusterStor Appliances; Jorge Titinger Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SGI to Resell Seagate’s ClusterStor Appliances; Jorge Titinger Comments

    SGI will offer its customers Seagate Technology‘s storage appliances under a reselling partnership agreement that targets academic, industry and government markets with their combined storage and high-performance computing products. The companies said Tuesday SGI customers will have access to Seagate’s ClusterStor Secure Data Appliance, ClusterStor 1500, ClusterStor 6000 and ClusterStor 900. Jorge Titinger, president and CEO of SGI, said he expects the partnership to help […] More

  • Lisa Durant: IT Should Base BYOD Policies on Users, Device, App, Content - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lisa Durant: IT Should Base BYOD Policies on Users, Device, App, Content

    Lisa Durant, a research analyst at Nemertes Research, says information technology companies that adopt bring-your-own-device programs should develop policies for the applications, content, users and their devices to protect the organization from data leaks. Durant wrote in a piece published Monday on AT&T‘s Networking Exchange Blog that administrators should cover these factors in their approach to help facilitate user flexibility and information […] More

  • Alistair Rennie: IBM, CPSI Partner for Predictive Healthcare Analytics Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Alistair Rennie: IBM, CPSI Partner for Predictive Healthcare Analytics Project

    IBM and Computer Programs and Systems will collaborate on a healthcare project that seeks to leverage predictive analytics technology to help rural and community hospitals cut readmission rates. CPSI and its TruBridge subsidiary plan to use IBM’s SPSS Modeler data mining and analytics platform to identify patients at increased risk of readmission in hospitals participating […] More

  • GSA Chooses HumanTouch SaaS App to Manage Agency's IT Processes; Jim Benson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GSA Chooses HumanTouch SaaS App to Manage Agency’s IT Processes; Jim Benson Comments

    HumanTouch will provide the General Services Administration with a software-as-a-service platform designed to integrate and manage enterprise information technology functions. GSA picked the company’s EnLight SaaS application to help agency personnel monitor IT programs, investments and portfolios across the organization, HumanTouch said Tuesday. “EnLight is an example of the type of solution organizations can configure […] More

  • CACI to Maintain Maritime Data Sets for NGA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI to Maintain Maritime Data Sets for NGA

    CACI International (NYSE: CACI) has been awarded $32 million contract to maintain maritime data sets in digital and hardcopy formats for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. The company will provide digital mapping and charting services to NGA’s navigation office in order to help the armed services plan missions, navigate ships, protect critical infrastructure and prepare for disasters, CACI said Tuesday. The contract […] More

  • Navy Tests Lockheed's F-35C Aboard Carrier at Night - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Tests Lockheed’s F-35C Aboard Carrier at Night

    Lockheed Martin‘s F-35C Lightning II aircraft has completed an initial round of at-sea development tests aboard the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier, where the Joint Strike Fighter performed nighttime landings and other maneuvers. The U.S. Navy said Monday that the F-35 Lightning II Integrated Test Force of the Naval Air Station Patuxent River’s Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 23 evaluated the aircraft’s suitability and […] More

  • Lockheed Starts InSight Mars Spacecraft Integration Work; Stu Path Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Starts InSight Mars Spacecraft Integration Work; Stu Path Comments

    Lockheed Martin has entered the final production stage of a new Mars lander that is scheduled for launch by NASA in March 2016. The company said Monday its technicians will integrate avionics, power, telecommunication, navigation, control, guidance and thermal systems in the InSight spacecraft during the six-month assembly phase. “Physically, InSight looks very much like […] More