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  • Battelle, GE Develop Battery Mgmt Systems Under DOE-Backed Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle, GE Develop Battery Mgmt Systems Under DOE-Backed Program

    The Energy Department has offered grants to help several technology organizations develop software products, sensors and predictive algorithms for managing the performance of lithium-ion batteries, Gigacom reported Wednesday. Katie Fehrenbacher writes Battelle designed an optical sensor that aims to detect internal battery faults, while General Electric built a miniaturized system to monitor battery pressure and […] More

  • Accenture, Samsung Team to Market Knox Mobile Security Tech; Jin Lee Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Accenture, Samsung Team to Market Knox Mobile Security Tech; Jin Lee Comments

    Accenture and Samsung Electronics have partnered to help enterprise customers procure and implement Android devices that are built to support Samsung’s Knox mobile security platform, the Economic Times reported Friday. Harichandan Arakali writes the companies aim to offer pre-packaged software applications and managed service offerings through the partnership. Jin Lee, senior managing director at Accenture […] More

  • ICON Manages Clinical Trials with Informatica Data Tool; Andrew Thompson, Dennis Moore Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ICON Manages Clinical Trials with Informatica Data Tool; Andrew Thompson, Dennis Moore Comment

    Informatica Corp. is working to help outsourced development services provider ICON Plc handle clinical trials and process data by using a multidomain master data management tool. ICON views information and works to unlock value by using the Informatica MDM service in order to execute clinical trial planning, services and reporting, Informatica said Thursday. Andrew Thompson, […] More

  • Unisys Extends IT Services Contract With Australian Audit Agency; Scott Whyman Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Unisys Extends IT Services Contract With Australian Audit Agency; Scott Whyman Comments

    Unisys‘ subsidiary in Australia has been awarded a contract to continue providing information technology managed services to the country’s national auditing agency. The company said Monday it will extend its service desk hours the office’s mobile workforce and continue to help with services integration work and other IT activities. Scott Whyman, vice president and general […] More

  • Cathy Stauffer, Catherine Halligan Join FLIR Systems Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cathy Stauffer, Catherine Halligan Join FLIR Systems Board

    FLIR Systems has elected Cathy Stauffer and Catherine Halligan to serve on the company’s board of directors, effective immediately. The appointments bring the total number of board directors to 10 and eight of them are independent, the company announced Thursday. Halligan is also an independent director and a member of the audit committee of Ulta […] More

  • Salient Federal Solutions Chairman, Co-Founder Ray Oleson Dies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Salient Federal Solutions Chairman, Co-Founder Ray Oleson Dies

    Ray Oleson, co-founder of Salient Federal Solutions and the company’s board chairman since 2009, died on March 3.  “Oleson was a prized friend and mentor. Our hearts go out to Ray’s family and colleagues in this time of sadness. He will be dearly missed by all who had the privilege of knowing him.” said Bill Parker, Salient chief […] More

  • Northrop's X-47B Wins Aviation Week Laureate Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop’s X-47B Wins Aviation Week Laureate Award

    The Northrop Grumman-built X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System for the U.S. Navy has won Aviation Week’s Laureate Award in the aeronautics and propulsion category. Northrop received the award at a Thursday event at the National Building Museum in Washington, the company announced Friday. According to Northrop, the X-47B UCAS is the first tailless drone to […] More

  • Ed Barry: McAfee-Topia Platform Designed to Secure Enterprise Mobile, Cloud Data - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ed Barry: McAfee-Topia Platform Designed to Secure Enterprise Mobile, Cloud Data

    McAfee and Topia Technology have partnered to develop an integrated product for organizations to store, analyze and share documents from a mobile device or a cloud computing platform. The offering unifies McAfee’s Enterprise Security Manager and Topia’s Secure Fabric Platform for Enterprise and was built through a McAfee-led security innovation alliance, Topia said Thursday. “We […] More

  • Glenn Bindley: Redlen Technologies Raises $6M to Develop Radiation Scanners - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Glenn Bindley: Redlen Technologies Raises $6M to Develop Radiation Scanners

    Imaging scanners developer Redlen Technologies has raised $5.5 million in private funding from investors, including Pangaea Ventures and In-Q-Tel. The financing round is meant to help Redlen further develop cadmium zinc telluride-based radiation detectors for security and medical applications, Redlen said Thursday. Redlen is developing CZT semiconductor technology to aid computed tomography, bone density scans, […] More

  • BAE Wins Army Contract for Combat Vehicle Parts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Wins Army Contract for Combat Vehicle Parts

    BAE Systems has been awarded a $6.9 million contract modification for spare parts on 18 U.S. Army Paladin artillery vehicles, following the original deal to upgrade components of the vehicles, York Dispatch reported Thursday. Candy Woodall writes work under the contract will continue at the company’s facility in West Manchester Township, York County, Penn., for completion by Sept. 30. The original, $668 million contract […] More

  • Lockheed to Test Fly Orion Launch Rocket - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Test Fly Orion Launch Rocket

    Lockheed Martin will process and test a United Launch Alliance-built rocket ahead of a future unmanned spacecraft launch following delivery of the rocket boosters to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The Delta IV Heavy rocket will be demonstrated at ULA’s Horizontal Integration Facility before Orion’s first test flight at Space Launch Complex 37 in […] More

  • Martin Sutherland of BAE: Cyber Espionage Malware 'Organized, Well-Funded' - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Martin Sutherland of BAE: Cyber Espionage Malware ‘Organized, Well-Funded’

    BAE Systems has published a threat analysis report that describes how the cyber espionage malware known as Snake attacks computer systems and how the virus works to avoid conventional security tools. The company’s applied intelligence division also created a list of technical indicators to help enterprises bolster threat detection and mitigation techniques, BAE said Friday. […] More