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  • Piyush Patel: CGI to Help OpenText Bring Enterprise Data Mgmt Products in Marketplace - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Piyush Patel: CGI to Help OpenText Bring Enterprise Data Mgmt Products in Marketplace

    CGI Group is supporting an OpenText-hosted annual innovation event that showcases enterprise-grade information management technologies globally. CGI has been working with OpenText for more than a decade and serves as a premier-level sponsor of this year’s OpenText Innovation Tour, CGI said Tuesday. “As one of our important global partners, CGI is helping OpenText take our innovations […] More

  • Deloitte, ACO Group Form Population Health Analytics Partnership; Jason Girzadas Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deloitte, ACO Group Form Population Health Analytics Partnership; Jason Girzadas Comments

    Deloitte and the Northern New England Accountable Care Collaborative have partnered to offer an analytics technology platform with the goal of addressing unwarranted variations in population-based care. Insight is built to integrate Deloitte unit ConvergeHealth‘s data management system with NNEACC’s predictive models and seeks to help providers manage clinical risks, health outcomes and care coordination, […] More

  • McKinsey Report Discusses Data Analytics Benefits, Challenges - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    McKinsey Report Discusses Data Analytics Benefits, Challenges

    McKinsey & Company hosted a panel discussion on the value of data analytics and potential challenges in the field from the viewpoints of eight executives in the finance, healthcare, communications and retail industries. The leaders recommended companies concentrate on providing a blend of customer-facing, internal or hybrid applications and noted areas where analytics can make a […] More

  • Peter Dingley: Inmarsat, Hughes to Create Comm Terminal for Police Agencies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Peter Dingley: Inmarsat, Hughes to Create Comm Terminal for Police Agencies

    Inmarsat and Hughes Network Systems are partnering to design a communications terminal for police forces and other government departments to communicate discreetly. The companies will build the Low Profile BGAN terminal to function as a “rapid-to-deploy, lay-flat, coverable, covert” terminal for mounting on flat surfaces outdoors or burying under a layer of material, Inmarsat announced Tuesday. “A […] More

  • Cobham to Build Electronic Jamming System Transmitters for US Navy, Australia - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cobham to Build Electronic Jamming System Transmitters for US Navy, Australia

    Cobham will develop low-band transmitters for electronic jamming systems used by the U.S. Navy and Australian forces under a $21.8 million contract modification, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Monday. John Keller writes Cobham’s defense electronics segment will work to build antennas and adapter interface modules for the AN/ALQ-99 jamming system under the modification awarded by the […] More

  • Leidos Lands Three VA Blood Bank, Repository IT Contracts; Steve Comber Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Lands Three VA Blood Bank, Repository IT Contracts; Steve Comber Comments

    Leidos will provide technical and program management support to the Department of Veterans Affairs for healthcare information technology operations under three contracts worth $16 million combined. The VA’s office of information and technology for product development awarded two contracts for IT and project management services to support the agency’s blood bank and MyHealtheVet online health record access programs,, […] More

  • Lockheed to Offer Refund for Space Launch Service Disruptions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Offer Refund for Space Launch Service Disruptions

    Lockheed Martin‘s commercial launch services business will offer a refund or a reflight service to customers if any space launch vehicle malfunction occurs. The program is subject to certain exceptions and applies to all non-U.S. government space launch service contracts, Lockheed said Tuesday. LMCLS launched the program to eliminate the need for customers to negotiate […] More

  • Randy Siegel: Security, Privacy, Mobility Mgmt Among Prevailing Themes at Mobile World Congress - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Randy Siegel: Security, Privacy, Mobility Mgmt Among Prevailing Themes at Mobile World Congress

    The 2014 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain was dominated by security, privacy and mobile device management integration themes, Information Week reported Tuesday. Randy Siegel, founder of Center Circle Consultants and a principal at Acommence Advisors, writes MWC participants have become interested in security products following recent reports of mobile device hacking and government surveillance […] More

  • Rami Branitzky Named SAP Ventures Managing Director - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rami Branitzky Named SAP Ventures Managing Director

    Rami Branitzky has SAP Ventures, an independent venture capital firm affiliate with SAP AG, as managing director and will lead a global market development team. Branitzky most recently served as CEO at Grok Solutions, formerly known as Numenta, SAP announced Tuesday. SAP Ventures noted that the global market development team will also handle business development and marketing. […] More

  • Jerry Jason, Former NASA Flight Lead, Joins EchoStar Subsidiary in VP Role - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jerry Jason, Former NASA Flight Lead, Joins EchoStar Subsidiary in VP Role

    Jerry Jason, a former NASA flight director for the International Space Station, has been appointed vice president of spacecraft operations and engineering at EchoStar Corp. subsidiary EchoStar Satellite Services LLC. Jason will handle flight operations, engineering and analysis functions for the company’s 23 owned, leased and managed spacecraft, the company said Tuesday. He will also […] More

  • Parsons Picks National Engineers Week Excellence Awardees; Guy Mehula Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Parsons Picks National Engineers Week Excellence Awardees; Guy Mehula Comments

    Parsons has chosen a group of engineers to receive this year’s National Engineers Week Award of Excellence in recognition of their work, commitment and innovation in the field of engineering. One recipient, Abe Neemeh, serves as a program director for the Expressway Program in Doha, Qatar, the company said Tuesday statement. Guy Mehula, Parsons’ Middle […] More

  • Lockheed Tests Robots for Deep Space Research; Nelson Pedreiro Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Tests Robots for Deep Space Research; Nelson Pedreiro Comments

    Lockheed Martin’s advanced technology center has demonstrated robotic applications for deep space research through coordinated control by astronauts and ground-based operators. The company worked with NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station to operate the Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Re-orient, Experimental Satellites robots by using a three-dimensional interface, Lockheed said Tuesday. Nelson Pedreiro, the center’s […] More