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  • Visiongain: Cybersecurity Market to Hit $75B by 2015 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Visiongain: Cybersecurity Market to Hit $75B by 2015

    Visiongain forecasts that the global cybersecurity market will reach a value of $75.4 billion by the end of 2015 due to continued cyber issues and legislation and investment activity focused on cyber capabilities. The company said Tuesday its latest report on the market covers an analysis of cybersecurity growth through 2025 across the network, data, endpoint, application, cloud security, identity management and […] More

  • DARPA Starts Air Warfare Systems Integration Project; John Shaw Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Starts Air Warfare Systems Integration Project; John Shaw Comments

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has partnered with seven companies to build tools for distributing air warfare functions across multiple unmanned and manned platforms. DARPA said Monday it aims to blend new and existing airborne sensors, weapons, navigation, electronic warfare, positioning, navigation, communication and battle management architectures through the agency’s System of Systems Integration Technology […] More

  • TechNavio Sees ‘Growing Inclination’ Toward Unmanned Ground Vehicles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TechNavio Sees ‘Growing Inclination’ Toward Unmanned Ground Vehicles

    Technavio is seeing a growing market appetite for unmanned ground vehicles and has predicted that the UGV market will set a compound annual growth rate of 34 percent from 2015 through 2019. Technavio’s new report attributes this market trend to a growing preference for the UGV’s functions in rescue operations, detonation of explosives and detection of enemy […] More

  • General Dynamics Tests MUOS Satellite Comm Functions With Digital Radios; Chris Marzilli Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Tests MUOS Satellite Comm Functions With Digital Radios; Chris Marzilli Comments

    General Dynamics‘ mission systems business has tested the voice and data satellite communications between the U.S. Navy‘s Digital Modular Radios and the U.S. Army‘s AN/PRC-155 Manpack radios with the Mobile User Objective System. The company said Monday it conducted the test at its MUOS test facility in Arizona using satellite communications and ground station simulators. “The success of this test is important because it […] More

  • Executive Profile: Dan Allen, Serco Inc. Chairman and CEO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Dan Allen, Serco Inc. Chairman and CEO

    Dan Allen is the chairman and CEO of Serco Inc. — the British services contractor’s North American subsidiary — and brings more than three decades of experience in leadership roles at multiple intelligence and information technology firms to his current position. In this capacity, he oversees approximately 10,000 people who provide communication and information systems, […] More

  • General Dynamics to Help Sandia National Laboratories Design Cloud Infrastructure - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics to Help Sandia National Laboratories Design Cloud Infrastructure

    General Dynamics’ information technology business has received a three-year, $1.3 million task order to develop cloud infrastructure for the federally funded Sandia National Laboratories. General Dynamics Information Technology will design the business framework, processes, service models, technical architecture and implementation plans to guide Sandia’s staff in deploying the information technology model, General Dynamics said Tuesday. […] More

  • Ohio County Avails of Oracle Security for NG9-1-1 Emergency System; Steve Aulds Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ohio County Avails of Oracle Security for NG9-1-1 Emergency System; Steve Aulds Comments

    Morgan County in Ohio has selected Oracle to deploy its communication service for the  9-1-1 emergency system with the goal of helping the local government secure its Internet protocol-based infrastructure. Morgan County implemented the Oracle communications session border controller to protect the 9-1-1 service against denial-of-service attacks, service overloads and failures, Oracle said Monday. Steve Aulds, vice president of […] More

  • General Dynamics-Thales Team to Pursue Australian Land Combat Vehicle Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics-Thales Team to Pursue Australian Land Combat Vehicle Program

    The Australian subsidiaries of General Dynamics‘ land systems business and Thales have teamed up to submit a joint bid on the Australian army’s Land 400 Phase 2 – Mounted Combat Reconnaissance Capability program. General Dynamics said Tuesday the new memorandum of understanding expands the existing partnership between the two companies in military vehicle design and manufacturing, life-cycle support and systems integration services. […] More

  • Executive Profile: Kevin Boyle, Alion General Counsel - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Kevin Boyle, Alion General Counsel

    Kevin Boyle serves as general counsel for Alion Science and Technology, where he supports corporate governance and ethics programs as well as the company’s strategic growth initiatives. He joined the company in January 2014 after two years of work in a similar role at MCR. Boyle oversaw the establishment of MCR’s first legal department and […] More

  • Research and Markets: Cloud-Based Services to Propel Global Aviation Cybersecurity Market through 2019 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Research and Markets: Cloud-Based Services to Propel Global Aviation Cybersecurity Market through 2019

    A fresh Research and Markets report forecasts that demand for cloud-based security services will propel the global aviation cybersecurity market to a compound annual growth rate of 5.94 percent from 2014 through 2019. Research and Markets said Friday end-users are turning to cloud-based security services due to ease of management. “Cyber threats are a major concern […] 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

  • TechNavio Sets 10% CAGR for Global Homeland Security Market in 2014-2019 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TechNavio Sets 10% CAGR for Global Homeland Security Market in 2014-2019

    TechNavio forecasts a 9.86 percent compound annual growth rate for the global homeland security market from 2014 through 2019 as public sector demand for identification and security checking systems is poised to increase. TechNavio’s new report calculated the market size for the forecast period by considering revenues generated from six segments: border, aviation and maritime security, […] More