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  • Jamie Thomas: IBM to Offer Data Storage Tools in Software-Defined Model - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jamie Thomas: IBM to Offer Data Storage Tools in Software-Defined Model

    Jamie Thomas, general manager of storage and software-defined systems at IBM, has said that the company’s storage business will leverage a software-defined model for its portfolio in order to facilitate enterprise data storage flexibility and interoperability. IBM wants this new model to meet data analytics and storage needs amid a continuously growing volume of data that results from technology advancements in […] More

  • Inmarsat Unveils Military Satcom Service Offerings; Peter Hadinger Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inmarsat Unveils Military Satcom Service Offerings; Peter Hadinger Comments

    Inmarsat has started offering wideband communications services to U.S. military customers through the company’s mobile satellite networks. The Inmarsat-5 Global Xpress satcom coverage has been expanded to deliver Ka-band connectivity for aeronautical and ground missions across the Indian Ocean, the company said Monday. GX employs fixed and steerable beam technology that is built to complement […] More

  • Airbus, Exelis to Offer Integrated Geospatial Software Products; Stuart Blundell Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Airbus, Exelis to Offer Integrated Geospatial Software Products; Stuart Blundell Comments

    An Airbus subsidiary and Exelis have partnered to embed a geodatabase into Exelis’ spectral image analysis and sensor data processing platform offerings. Exelis said Monday its ENVI software customers will have access to Airbus Defense and Space’s collection of geospatial imagery between Oct. 6 and Dec. 31. The geospatial data catalog plugin is available for […] More

  • UMD System to Help MITRE Run Cyber R&D Support Hub; Alfred Grasso Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    UMD System to Help MITRE Run Cyber R&D Support Hub; Alfred Grasso Comments

    MITRE will team up with the University System of Maryland to operate a federally-funded research-and-development center in Rockville, Maryland that will carry out R&D, engineering and technical services in the cybersecurity field. UMD campuses in College Park and Baltimore County will help MITRE work with the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence in an effort to help promote public-private partnerships, MITRE said Friday. The […] More

  • Pentagon to Examine Commercial Cloud-Data Center Integration Ideas - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Pentagon to Examine Commercial Cloud-Data Center Integration Ideas

    The Defense Department is exploring two options to integrate commercial cloud services into the agency’s data centers, Information Week reported Friday. Jai Vijayan writes the Defense Information Systems Agency has released a request for information in search of ideas from industry on ways to have cloud vendors deliver services to the U.S. military using DoD’s network and facilities. Under a potential data […] More

  • Joshua Shani: Lockheed, Yissum Partner on Quantum Computing, Materials Science Research - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Joshua Shani: Lockheed, Yissum Partner on Quantum Computing, Materials Science Research

    Lockheed Martin and Israel-based Yissum Research Development have agreed to conduct joint research into materials engineering and quantum information systems. The agreement gives Lockheed an option to exclusively license products resulting from their technology R&D collaboration, the companies said Monday in a joint statement. Joshua Shani, CEO of Lockheed’s Israeli operations, said the business aims […] More

  • General Dynamics to Open Operations Center in Florida - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics to Open Operations Center in Florida

    A General Dynamics business unit plans to open an operations center at One Imeson Center with $500,000 in funding to meet the growing operational requirements for government clients, The Daily record reported Friday. Karen Brune Mathis writes General Dynamics Information Technology will start to train approximately 100 employees in December to man the center at the Imeson International Industrial Park in […] More

  • HP Helped Calif. Corrections Agency Build an Automated Prison Data System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HP Helped Calif. Corrections Agency Build an Automated Prison Data System

    The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation worked with Hewlett Packard to implement a technology infrastructure designed to process, manage and share data on prison inmates, GCN reported Thursday. Karen Schwartz writes HP acts as the system integrator under the $400 million project and has helped agency personnel build the state’s integrated Electronic Offender Management […] More

  • MITRE's Carson Zimmerman Pens New Computer Network Defense Book - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MITRE’s Carson Zimmerman Pens New Computer Network Defense Book

    Carson Zimmerman, principal cybersecurity engineer at MITRE Corp., has outlined strategies to bolster computer network defense across the government, industry, academia and nonprofit sector in his new book. The book, entitled Ten Strategies of a World-Class Cybersecurity Operations Center, contains best practices based on lessons learned from MITRE’s previous projects with U.S. military and civilian clients, MITRE said Wednesday. Zimmerman […] More

  • DTRA Taps Raytheon Surveillance System for Moldova Border Project; David Appel Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DTRA Taps Raytheon Surveillance System for Moldova Border Project; David Appel Comments

    Raytheon will provide an electro-optical and infrared surveillance system for Moldova’s border security initiatives under a potential $12.9 million contract from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. The company said Friday the contract also includes training and sustainment services and the eventual handover of all related functions to the Moldova government, which wants to prevent the transport of weapons of mass destruction. David Appel, […] More

  • Verizon's Steve Lefrancois: Cloud, 'Internet of Things' to Grow in Public Sector - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Verizon’s Steve Lefrancois: Cloud, ‘Internet of Things’ to Grow in Public Sector

    Steve Lefrancois, chief technology officer of Verizon‘s public sector markets, highlighted several technologies that he believes will see increasing rates of adoption within the public sector in an interview published Thursday on Verizon’s website. Lefrancois cited cloud computing, mobile, big data and the Internet of Things or machine-to-machine technologies as among several potential growth areas for the public sector market. He […] More