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  • Global Knowledge Trains IBM Business Partners on SoftLayer Tech; Ed Bottini Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Global Knowledge Trains IBM Business Partners on SoftLayer Tech; Ed Bottini Comments

    Global Knowledge has delivered learning services to help IBM’s business partners acquire skills around SoftLayer cloud services. Global Knowledge will provide training services on the fundamentals of SoftLayer technology through a two-day course of lectures and hands-on sessions, Global Knowledge said Thursday. “Through this program, our partners are gaining the skills they need to build […] More

  • New Research Sees 10% CAGR for U.S. Healthcare IT Market - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    New Research Sees 10% CAGR for U.S. Healthcare IT Market

    New RNCOS research has earmarked a compound annual growth rate of 10% for healthcare information technology in the U.S. from 2014 to 2018, thanks to greater collaboration among industry players, updated systems and tighter compliance rules. Increasing mergers and acquisitions activity also plays a role in the upbeat forecast as competing companies close ranks over […] More

  • NASA to Build New Addition at Kennedy Space Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA to Build New Addition at Kennedy Space Center

    NASA has awarded a two-year contract to Hensel Phelps Construction Co., to begin construction on a new multi-story headquarters at the Kennedy Space Center in Orlando, Fla. The $64.8 million contract will allow for demolition of the Kennedy Industrial Area, saving Kennedy an estimated $400 million in the next 40 years through a 50 percent […] More

  • Unisys Partners with IBM, Deloitte to Centralize Pennsylvania’s Data Centers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Unisys Partners with IBM, Deloitte to Centralize Pennsylvania’s Data Centers

    Unisys will collaborate with IBM and Deloitte Consulting to consolidate seven data centers of Pennsylvania into a hybrid cloud platform under a seven-year, $681 million contract, eWeek reported Thursday. Jeffrey Burt writes Pennsylvania’s state agencies will have access to support services hosted in Unisys’ data centers for their infrastructures, storage, security and database services. Unisys […] More

  • David Harrold: BAE Systems Hopes US Army Would Buy Its Missile-Guiding Tools in 2015 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    David Harrold: BAE Systems Hopes US Army Would Buy Its Missile-Guiding Tools in 2015

    BAE Systems Inc. is upbeat the U.S. Army will ink an agreement to procure missile guidance systems worth $30,000 from the company in 2015, DoD Buzz reported Friday. Brendan McGarry writes the Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System kit works to transmit semi-active laser guidance and control to a 2.75-inch Hydra rocket. David Harrold, director of […] More

  • Teal Group Forecasts Continued Growth in Global UAV Market; Philip Finnegan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Teal Group Forecasts Continued Growth in Global UAV Market; Philip Finnegan Comments

    Teal Group‘s 2014 market study on unmanned aerial vehicles indicates a projected $77 billion in global UAV spending over the next 10 years, with spending in the civil market rising alongside the military market’s continued dominance. Teal Group Director of Corporate Analysis Philip Finnegan and Senior Analysts Steve Zaloga and David Rockwell co-authored the report titled “World Unmanned […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls to Design Navy’s Amphibious Assault Ship; Brian Cuccias Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls to Design Navy’s Amphibious Assault Ship; Brian Cuccias Comments

    Huntington Ingalls Industries has won a $23.5 million contract to develop an amphibious assault ship for the U.S. Navy in compliance with the service’s cost-saving plan. Ingalls Shipbuilding division’s engineers and planners will work to design and construct the Navy’s amphibious assault ship LHA 8, Huntington Ingalls said Thursday. Brian Cuccias, Ingalls Shipbuilding president, said […] More

  • Thomas Bussing: Raytheon’s Mobile Range System Demos Tri-Band Technologies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Thomas Bussing: Raytheon’s Mobile Range System Demos Tri-Band Technologies

    Raytheon Co. has demonstrated its Mobile Range system’s tri-band telemetry antenna to test the technology’s reception and tracking capabilities. The system worked to track an AIM-9 missile onboard an F-18 Hornet aircraft through L-, S- and C-Band telemetry signals during a demonstration at Naval Base Ventura County in California, Raytheon said Thursday. ”Mobile Range’s test […] More

  • Steve Wofford: NASA to Test Space Launch System Engine - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Steve Wofford: NASA to Test Space Launch System Engine

    NASA is poised to test an engine for the Space Launch System, a rocket the agency and Boeing are building to send the Orion manned spacecraft into deep space. Engineers at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi positioned the RS-25 rocket engine on a testing platform Thursday for developmental and certification flight tests, the agency […] More

  • Ed Spitler: Airbus, Inmarsat to Continue Global Xpress Reseller Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ed Spitler: Airbus, Inmarsat to Continue Global Xpress Reseller Partnership

    Airbus Defense and Space will offer its channel partners and customers in the U.S. government and military sectors access to Inmarsat‘s Global Xpress broadband satellite service under a new reseller agreement between both companies. The companies said Wednesday that the agreement will continue Airbus Defense and Space’ 25 years of work with federal agencies in the U.S. […] More

  • MBDA Kicks Off Brimstone 2 Missile Production - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MBDA Kicks Off Brimstone 2 Missile Production

    MBDA has started to produce Brimstone 2 missile for the British air force to use on its fleet of Tornado GR4 aircraft. The Brimstone 2 missile is built to help the Tornado in guidance against targets and work through both safety methods and potential logistical issues, MBDA said Brimstone 2 enters the series production phase after a qualification of the Brimstone 2 IM rocket […] More

  • Richard Breakiron Joins ViON as Cyber Solutions Senior Director; Tom Frana Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Richard Breakiron Joins ViON as Cyber Solutions Senior Director; Tom Frana Comments

    Richard Breakiron, formerly executive program director for the Joint Regional Security Stack at Defense Information Systems Agency, has joined ViON Corp. as senior director of cyber solutions. Breakiron will work to help ViON further its market presence in cloud services and information technology infrastructure for the U.S. military, DISA and U.S. security agencies, ViON said Thursday. […] More