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  • Oracle Launches Cloud Data Storage, Backup Services; Chris Pinkham Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Oracle Launches Cloud Data Storage, Backup Services; Chris Pinkham Comments

    Oracle has introduced two cloud service offerings intended to help enterprise clients store, back up and secure database systems. The Database Backup Service and Storage Cloud Service platforms are designed to move business information or applications between on-premise and cloud environments, Oracle said Monday. Chris Pinkham, Oracle senior vice president for product development, said the […] More

  • Qatari Bank to Use NCR's ATM Hack Prevention Tools - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Qatari Bank to Use NCR’s ATM Hack Prevention Tools

    NCR Corp. has been chosen by Qatar Islamic Bank to supply hardware and software products that are designed to safeguard automated teller machines against hackers. The bank selected NCR’s Solidcore Suite for APTRA platform to keep unauthorized codes from entering QIB banking networks, NCR said Monday. NCR will also provide its Skimming Protection Solution to […] More

  • Stuart Beaumont: Serco Extends Australian Traffic Camera Services Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Stuart Beaumont: Serco Extends Australian Traffic Camera Services Contract

    Serco Group will continue to provide traffic camera services to Australia’s state of Victoria under an estimated $85 million contract extension with the state government. The company’s mobile safety camera operators will work to process captured images across the state through 2017, Serco said Monday. Stuart Beaumont, managing director of Serco Global Services Australia, said […] More

  • Cubic to Provide the Moroccan Air Force with F-16 Training System; Dave Schmitz Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic to Provide the Moroccan Air Force with F-16 Training System; Dave Schmitz Comments

    Cubic Corp.’s defense systems subsidiary has won a more than $5 million contract to provide a training system to Morocco’s air force under a foreign military sale agreement with the U.S. Cubic Defense Systems’ P5 combat training system will be used to train the Moroccan Air Force’s pilots on the F-16 aircraft operation, Cubic said […] More

  • Kevin Mandia: Mandiant Research Finds Improvements In Enterprise Threat Detection - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kevin Mandia: Mandiant Research Finds Improvements In Enterprise Threat Detection

    Mandiant has published a new report that analyzes the motives and targets of advanced threat attacks that occurred in 2013 and describes how malicious actors compromise enterprise data. Data from the FireEye subsidiary’s “Beyond the Breach” report indicates that 33 percent of organizations detected information security breaches on their own in 2013, compared with 37 percent a […] More

  • Deloitte, Syndefense Form Intellectual Property Advisory Services Team; Hisao Yamasaki Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deloitte, Syndefense Form Intellectual Property Advisory Services Team; Hisao Yamasaki Comments

    Deloitte Tohmatsu Financial Advisory Co. Ltd. has partnered with Syndefense to provide intellectual property advisory services to customers. The companies will collaborate to build up intellectual property monetization and defense strategies, Syndefense said Monday. Hisao Yamasaki, CEO of Syndefense, said the partnership aims to help clients achieve business goals through consulting services in intellectual property rights […] More

  • MarketsandMarkets: Military Comms Market to Reach $30B in 2019 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MarketsandMarkets: Military Comms Market to Reach $30B in 2019

    MarketsandMarkets predicts the worldwide military communications market to grow from $18.46 billion in 2014 to $30.12 billion in 2019. The increase represents a compound annual growth rate of 7.2 percent, MarketsandMarkets said Monday. MarketsandMarkets examined military communications market segments such as communication types, components, applications, regions and verticals. The report discusses projections about market size and growth, trends, […] More

  • Derrick Sturisky Named Cherry Bekaert Risk Advisory Principal - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Derrick Sturisky Named Cherry Bekaert Risk Advisory Principal

    Derrick Sturisky has been appointed to serve as a principal in the risk advisory group of Cherry Bekaert LLP, an accounting and consulting company. Sturisky will assist in providing enterprise risk management and operating frameworks services to the company’s clients, Cherry Bekaert announced Thursday. Sturisky will also work closely with the company’s manufacturing, transportation, energy, […] More

  • Former Ball Aerospace CEO Donald Vanlandingham to Chair UQM's Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former Ball Aerospace CEO Donald Vanlandingham to Chair UQM’s Board

    Donald W. Vanlandingham, former CEO of Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., has been appointed board chairman at UQM Technologies, the Denver Business Journal reported Friday.  Mark Harden writes that Vanlandingham will succeed William G. Rankin, who plans to retire from the board at the end of this month. Rankin has been the company’s chairman since […] More

  • JLL Chosen for EPA Energy Star Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    JLL Chosen for EPA Energy Star Award

    The Environmental Protection Agency has selected JLL to receive an ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year award for the company’s work in the climate change arena. The company received the climate communications award, marking the third consecutive year that JLL has received a sustained excellence award, the company announced Thursday. JLL will be recognized April […] More

  • Louis Berger Marks Founder's 100th Birthday, Company's 60th Anniversary; Fredric Berger Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Louis Berger Marks Founder’s 100th Birthday, Company’s 60th Anniversary; Fredric Berger Comments

    The Louis Berger Group is celebrating the 100th birthday of its founder Louis Berger and is also marking the company’s 60th anniversary. He founded Berger Associates in 1953 as a consulting firm in Harrisburg, Pa. with only 12 employees, the company announced Thursday. Berger worked to combine modern engineering practices with training to help develop and […] More

  • CenturyLink Employee Receives Award for National Guard and Reserve Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CenturyLink Employee Receives Award for National Guard and Reserve Support

    Donna Kludsikofsky, an employee at CenturyLink, has been honored by an agency of the Department of Defense for her work to support the Washington State National Guard and Reserve. The Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve presented Kludsikofsky with the Patriot Award for her work with the DoD organizations. “The Patriot Award was created by ESGR to […] More