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  • Commerce Dept Enlists Tech Giants for Big Data Project; Penny Pritzker Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Commerce Dept Enlists Tech Giants for Big Data Project; Penny Pritzker Comments

    The Commerce Department will work with Amazon.com, Google, IBM, Microsoft and the Open Cloud Consortium on a big data project to figure out how to apply environmental data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for efforts to support the U.S. economy. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker announced the cooperative research and development agreements Tuesday at the American Meteorological Society forum. “As America’s data agency, we are […] More

  • Agilex's Roger Baker: Incremental, Agile Methods Key to Gov't IT Systems Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Agilex’s Roger Baker: Incremental, Agile Methods Key to Gov’t IT Systems Development

    Roger Baker, chief strategy officer at Agilex, wrote in a blog post published Monday that he learned during his service in federal government that an incremental and agile development methodology could improve the success rate for information technology programs. Baker said the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act offers an opportunity for federal chief information officers […] More

  • Govini 2015 GovCon Scorecard: Commerce Dept is Top Agency, Lockheed is Top Vendor - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Govini 2015 GovCon Scorecard: Commerce Dept is Top Agency, Lockheed is Top Vendor

    Govini‘s latest Federal Scorecard report points to a “highly competitive” government contracting space in 2014 with the Commerce Department leading in agency spending percentage increase and Lockheed Martin ahead in captured contract revenue. “The annual scorecard gives the market an opportunity to look at federal spending from a macro level and, through analytics, explain the trends that […] More

  • Tony Frazier: DigitalGlobe Eyes Continued Mission Support as High-Res Satellite Images Go Global - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tony Frazier: DigitalGlobe Eyes Continued Mission Support as High-Res Satellite Images Go Global

    Military and intelligence organizations are poised to leverage higher-resolution satellite images to drive innovation following the full implementation of the Commerce Department‘s new rule on the images’ global availability, C4ISR & Networks reported Tuesday. Adam Stone writes that as of last month, higher-resolution images can be sold globally to support various missions, including those of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in the U.S. […] More

  • Pragmatics to Update US Patent and Trademark Office Applications; Joe Brock Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Pragmatics to Update US Patent and Trademark Office Applications; Joe Brock Comments

    Pragmatics has been awarded more than $10 million in multiple task orders during the last six months to modernize the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s applications. The company will work to maintain applications, develop software and manage content under the contract with the Commerce Department, Pragmatics said Wednesday. “Since 2012, we have leveraged agile development practices […] More

  • Dan Nelson Joins Lockheed as Media Relations VP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dan Nelson Joins Lockheed as Media Relations VP

    Dan Nelson, formerly communications strategies lead at General Electric’s digital energy business, has joined Lockheed Martin as vice president of worldwide media relations. He will report to Jennifer Whitlow, senior VP of corporate communications, and serve as Lockheed’s chief spokesperson and adviser to senior executives on media engagements, Lockheed Martin said Monday. Nelson will also […] More

  • Commerce Sec. Penny Pritzker, NOAA Chief Kathryn Sullivan to Speak at Esri GIS Conference - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Commerce Sec. Penny Pritzker, NOAA Chief Kathryn Sullivan to Speak at Esri GIS Conference

    Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration chief Kathryn Sullivan will discuss economic and technological trends in the geographic information system industry at Esri‘s User Conference next week. Esri said Wednesday that Pritzker will focus on the administration’s efforts to drive economic potential and information transparency through adoption of open data. Sullivan, who is also commerce undersecretary for […] More

  • Deltek: Federal Spending in the D.C. Area Totaled More Than $100B in FY12 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deltek: Federal Spending in the D.C. Area Totaled More Than $100B in FY12

    Market research firm Deltek has issued a new study which shows that D.C. area federal spending reached a total of $101.1 billion in fiscal year 2012, the Washington Post reported Sunday. Jennifer Sakole, principal research analyst at Deltek, writes federal spending in the District, Maryland and Virginia represented one-fifth of federal contract obligations and the […] More

  • Report: Private Sector Construction Hits 5 Years High - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Private Sector Construction Hits 5 Years High

    Private sector construction projects have raised spending in the industry to its highest level in five years, the Commerce Department told Reuters Thursday. Lucia Mutikani writes the one percent annual rate increase brought construction spending to $934.4 billion despite the drop in federal, state and local government projects. Spending for private construction projects rose 2.2 […] More