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  • Mike Tanner: Hitachi Data Archive Tool Built to Help Agencies Meet Mandates - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mike Tanner: Hitachi Data Archive Tool Built to Help Agencies Meet Mandates

    Hitachi Data Systems Federal Corp. has introduced a new digital data preservation offering for federal agencies to archive information over a long period. The digital preservation platform works to store information by using existing Blu-ray and M-DISC technology, HDS Federal said Wednesday. “To fulfill regulatory requirements, agencies are required to archive the data they generate and collect anywhere […] More

  • CSC, HP Forge Testing-as-a-Service Platform Partnership; Raffi Magaliot Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSC, HP Forge Testing-as-a-Service Platform Partnership; Raffi Magaliot Comments

    CSC has partnered with HP to provide clients with a testing-as-a-service platform that offers HP’s quality management and application testing tools to clients on a pay-as-you-go basis. CSC said Thursday it wants platform to help clients that want to make their development projects more agile and bolster time-to-market by supporting the testing and delivery of their applications and software. “It’s not enough for agile application teams to […] More

  • Tom Lyons: General Dynamics Fidelis Updates Malware Scanning and Remediation Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tom Lyons: General Dynamics Fidelis Updates Malware Scanning and Remediation Platform

    General Dynamics‘ Fidelis Cybersecurity Solutions unit has announced new updates to a security analytics platform designed to help enterprises detect and mitigate any malicious activity on computer networks. XPS Collector works to automatically correlate threat intelligence with network metadata to reduce the time it takes for security analysts to find a threat and take action against it, […] More

  • Carl Slutsky: Exelis Adds Analytics, Alert Features to GPS Anti-Jam Product - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carl Slutsky: Exelis Adds Analytics, Alert Features to GPS Anti-Jam Product

    Exelis has updated a geolocation platform that works to help law enforcement officials pinpoint intentional and unintentional sources of GPS interference. The Signal Sentry 1000 product includes analytics and reporting tools designed to help users assess jamming events and receive warnings in real-time, Exelis said Wednesday. Carl Slutsky, Exelis’ Signal Sentry product line manager, said […] More

  • Paul Strasser: PPC to Continue IT Support for DOJ Victim Notification System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Paul Strasser: PPC to Continue IT Support for DOJ Victim Notification System

    The Project Performance Company has signed a potential five-year, $17.5 million contract with the Justice Department to provide operation, maintenance and other IT support services for the department’s Victim Notification System. PPC CEO Paul Strasser said Tuesday the contract continues the company’s support for the automated notification system, which began in 2009. This follow-on contract also covers program management, database administration, help desk […] More

  • IDC's Melanie Posey Outlines Considerations for Subscription-Based Software Adoption - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IDC’s Melanie Posey Outlines Considerations for Subscription-Based Software Adoption

    Melanie Posey, research vice president of IDC’s hosting and managed network services, has described three factors she believes enterprises should consider before adopting subscription-based software offerings. Posey wrote in a blog post published Monday that enterprises must conduct audit on the software they are buying to allocate workloads between perpetual license and subscription models. “There are […] More

  • IBC Lands F-35 Beryllium-Aluminum Component Subcontract; Ray White Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBC Lands F-35 Beryllium-Aluminum Component Subcontract; Ray White Comments

    Lockheed Martin has selected a subsidiary of IBC Advanced Alloys to supply beryllium-aluminum cast components for the F-35 jet’s electro-optical targeting system under a $2 million initial contract. IBC Engineered Materials will perform engineering and hard-tooling services and use the Beralcast beryllium-aluminum alloy to build an EOTS azimuth gimbal housing for the F-35, IBC said Monday. “A key attribute […] More

  • Ed Morche: Level 3 Seeks Info Gateway Status via Georgia Expansion Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ed Morche: Level 3 Seeks Info Gateway Status via Georgia Expansion Project

    Level 3 Communications will take on an expansion project in Alpharetta, Georgia, through which the company aims to widen its customer base in the region. Under the plan, the company will seek to connect over 300 on-network buildings and more than 250 metro route miles to its telecommunications network, Level 3 said Thursday. Ed Morche, senior […] More

  • Lockheed Extends DoD Asset-Tracking Program Support; Angela Heise Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Extends DoD Asset-Tracking Program Support; Angela Heise Comments

    Lockheed Martin has received a $26.8 million follow-on contract from the Defense Department for sustainment and operations support to the Integrated Data Environment/Global Transportation Network Convergence program, run by the U.S. Transportation Command and Defense Logistics Agency. The IGC program, which the company developed under a contract awarded in 2008, is designed to help make the supply chain visible and help DoD track […] More

  • CCSi Receives NIH Analysis Subcontract from Palladian Partners - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CCSi Receives NIH Analysis Subcontract from Palladian Partners

    Creative Computing Solutions has received a subcontract to help Palladian Partners perform research analysis and reporting services for the National Institutes of Health. CCSi said this month that it was chosen by Silver Spring, Maryland-based Palladian to work with NIH’s Office of Research on Women’s Health. The value of the subcontract was not disclosed. CCSi holds other contracts for work with federal agencies, such as a contract […] More

  • HP Updates Print Security Services for Enterprises; Pradeep Jotwani Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HP Updates Print Security Services for Enterprises; Pradeep Jotwani Comments

    HP has unveiled new tools under the HP JetAdvantage brand that are designed to help further secure the enterprise’s print environment. Pradeep Jotwani, senior vice president for LaserJet and enterprise solutions at HP, said Thursday that the new offerings are intended to meet a demand for a solution that enterprises can use to better monitor and manage their print security. “As […] More