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  • NC County Adopts Microsoft Cloud, Mobile Tools - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NC County Adopts Microsoft Cloud, Mobile Tools

    Microsoft is helping government employees in North Carolina’s Mecklenburg County perform business transactions and public services with the company’s software suite, cloud and mobile offerings. Mecklenburg County is using the Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Surface Pro devices and Windows Azure cloud platform, Microsoft said Wednesday. The county’s Food Services Department uses Microsoft’s products for food and restaurant inspectors to run state applications and medical examiners […] More

  • DARPA Enlists Boeing Prototype for 'X-Plane' Program; Dan Newman Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Enlists Boeing Prototype for ‘X-Plane’ Program; Dan Newman Comments

    Boeing and the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency ahave signed a $17 million agreement for the company to continue developing a prototype vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft for flying at speeds of up to 460 miles per hour. The company is building the Phantom Swift with two lifts inside the fuselage in order to create vertical lift and provide both […] More

  • IBM, New York Forge Genomic Medicine Research Partnership; John Kelly III Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM, New York Forge Genomic Medicine Research Partnership; John Kelly III Comments

    IBM (NYSE: IBM) and the New York Genome Center have partnered to evaluate the Watson supercomputer’s cognitive system for a genomic research project intended to help clinicians develop treatment methods for cancer patients. NYGC and its medical partners will develop a personalized care for patients with glioblastoma, a type of brain cancer, by using IBM’s Watson […] More

  • Susie Adams: Microsoft Aims to Create Gov't, Commercial Cloud 'Equivalence' - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Susie Adams: Microsoft Aims to Create Gov’t, Commercial Cloud ‘Equivalence’

    Microsoft is working with federal customers to explore how the Azure platform could work in a government-only cloud computing environment, GCN reported Wednesday. John Moore writes Microsoft has launched a series of private previews of its Azure U.S. Government Cloud and is slated to roll out the service this year. Susie Adams, Microsoft’s federal chief […] More

  • Exelis Adds SATCOM Tech Into Army Combat Vehicle; Nick Bobay Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Exelis Adds SATCOM Tech Into Army Combat Vehicle; Nick Bobay Comments

    Exelis installed its satellite communications on-the-move technology into the U.S. Army Stryker vehicle during the Army Expeditionary Warfighting Experiment at Fort Benning, Ga. The Global Network On the Move Active Distribution system is built to provide command, control, communications and intelligence tools to armored combat and sport utility vehicles, Exelis said Thursday. “We are proud to have had GNOMAD deployed […] More

  • Nathan Klatt Named Capstone Corp. Managing Director; Bruce Bingham Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Nathan Klatt Named Capstone Corp. Managing Director; Bruce Bingham Comments

    Nathan Klatt has been appointed to serve as the managing director of the valuation practice of Capstone Advisory Group LLC in its New York office. Klatt was most recently with Deloitte‘s National Office where he led a team of 500 valuation partners and professionals for a national audit support program, the company announced Wednesday. “[Klatt] […] More

  • Navistar's Scott Van Dorn Joins HPEV Advisory Board; Timothy Hassett Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navistar’s Scott Van Dorn Joins HPEV Advisory Board; Timothy Hassett Comments

    Navistar Engineering Director Scott Van Dorn has joined the strategic advisory board at energy company HPEV, where he will work to offer the company insights on the mobile generation and work truck markets. Van Dorn handles Navistar’s production definition, investment and engineering activities for the company’s medium duty, buses and military vehicles portfolio in North America, […] More

  • Mike Perez: WBB to Compete on GSA's OASIS Small Business Vehicle - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mike Perez: WBB to Compete on GSA’s OASIS Small Business Vehicle

    WBB will compete to provide professional services to federal agencies under the General Services Administration‘s One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services Small Business contract vehicle. Mike Perez, WBB’s chief development officer, said Wednesday that the company will offer consulting, program management, financial, logistics, engineering and scientific services to federal agencies under OASIS SB. The vehicle is intended for agencies to […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Wins Defense Industry Award; Warren Boley Jr. Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Wins Defense Industry Award; Warren Boley Jr. Comments

    A team of Aerojet Rocketdyne employees, U.S. Air Force service members and Lawrence Livermore National Labs employees have won a defense industry award from the Precision Strike Association. The PSA’s William J. Perry Award recognized the team’s work on the BLU-129/B Precision Lethality MK-82 munition for the Air Force, the GenCorp subsidiary announced Tuesday. The […] More

  • Three Wire Systems Leadership to Discuss Veteran Coaching Program at Spring, Summer Conferences - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Three Wire Systems Leadership to Discuss Veteran Coaching Program at Spring, Summer Conferences

    Three Wire Systems executives will travel to national conferences this spring and summer to discuss the company’s veteran coaching program. VetAdvisor is intended to coach participants on behavioral health, wellness, finances, transition and career development, the company announced Tuesday. Company executives will attend the NVTC Destionation Innovation, SugarCon 2014, EAPA Pittsburgh Chapter, 2014 NARMH Annual […] More

  • A.T. Kearney to Partner with African University on Lecture Series - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    A.T. Kearney to Partner with African University on Lecture Series

    A.T. Kearney is inviting 50 MBA and doctorate students in Ethiopia to participate in lectures regarding the country’s business potential and opportunities. Students from Addis Ababa University will be exposed to issues regarding current and future global business trends, A.T. Kearney announced Monday. The lectures will be content-based with some sessions focusing on methodologies, structuring […] More

  • Eid Passport to Help Navy Manage Site Visitor Credentials; Steve Larson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Eid Passport to Help Navy Manage Site Visitor Credentials; Steve Larson Comments

    Eid Passport has been selected to continue its identity management work for the U.S. Navy’s access control system. The company’s technology will be integrated into the Navy Commercial Access Control System for verifying the identity of contractors entering the Navy’s facilities, Eid Passport said Wednesday. Steve Larson, Eid Passport chairman and CEO, said the company […] More