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  • API Wins Satcom Systems Production Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    API Wins Satcom Systems Production Contract

    API Technologies Corp. has been awarded a $1 million contract to manufacture and deliver satellite communications technology products to an unnamed customer. The company said Friday it received the satcom systems order from a provider of wireless network equipment. Orlando, Florida-based API designs and produces radio frequency, microwave, electromagnetic, security and power systems and components. […] More

  • Report: Data Privacy, Security Programs to Drive Biometrics Tech Market Growth - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Data Privacy, Security Programs to Drive Biometrics Tech Market Growth

    New Market Research Reports analysis indicates that the global biometrics technology market is poised for significant growth through 2019 due to surging demand for national security and data protection tools. The research firm said Tuesday that governments have been investing in biometric systems to help counter terrorism, improve airport security and reduce crime. Market Research […] More

  • Verizon-Backed Research Finds Cloud Tech Helps Boost Enterprise Agility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Verizon-Backed Research Finds Cloud Tech Helps Boost Enterprise Agility

    A new Harvard Business Review report found that many companies have increased their business agility by using cloud computing technology, Verizon‘s Kevin King wrote in a Friday blog post. One-third of respondents to the Verizon-funded poll said cloud-based systems work to simplify internal functions and almost 40 percent said the technology helps bolster data security, […] More

  • Mike Blair: Exelis Adds Aerostructure Technologies to Composites Portfolio - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mike Blair: Exelis Adds Aerostructure Technologies to Composites Portfolio

    Exelis has licensed patented manufacturing technology from Belgium-based Bodair S.A. to produce a new product line and expand upon the company’s aerostructures offerings in the aerospace industry, Exelis said Tuesday. The new Exelis STaR product line is a selection of technologies that are intended to help with development and reconfigurations of product design that can achieve […] More

  • Michael Colburn: RTKL Tech Designers Embark on 'Internet of Everything' Study - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Michael Colburn: RTKL Tech Designers Embark on ‘Internet of Everything’ Study

    RTKL professionals are exploring how Internet-connected systems can help individuals, workplaces, facilities and communities, Michael Colburn of RTKL’s Technology Design Studio wrote on a blog published Thursday. Their goal is to develop methods for linking systems used in daily life to create “smarter” and responsive environments as well as to improve the user experience, according […] More

  • General Dynamics, Huntington Ingalls to Help With Navy Shipbuilding Tech R&D Projects - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics, Huntington Ingalls to Help With Navy Shipbuilding Tech R&D Projects

    An SCRA-managed naval center of excellence has partnered with General Dynamics and Huntington Ingalls Industries to explore new technologies to help improve manufacturing processes at U.S. shipyards. The Center for Naval Shipbuilding Technology in South Carolina and General Dynamics’s Electric Boat subsidiary are studying the potential of new measurement tools to aid submarine construction, SCRA said […] More

  • Executive Profile: Andrew Maner, Federal Managing Partner at IBM Global Business Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Andrew Maner, Federal Managing Partner at IBM Global Business Services

    Andrew Maner serves as a managing partner for the U.S. federal business at IBM Global Business Services and focuses on managing profit-and-loss for the unit. Maner served as CEO of National Interest Security Co., a provider of information and technology management consulting services, until IBM acquired the capital-backed firm in 2010. He works to develop services in data center consolidation, cloud […] More

  • Executive Profile: Greg Pelton, Avaya Government Solutions CTO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Greg Pelton, Avaya Government Solutions CTO

    Greg Pelton serves as chief technology officer at Avaya Government Solutions, where he oversees the business division’s technical assets for serving federal government clients. Pelton developed the unit’s sales engineering organization and works to apply government standards to Avaya’s offerings, as well as to create go-to-market products and collateral. He started his career at Nortel, where he developed telecommunication […] More

  • Tim Raglin: Raytheon Seeks New Energy Sources Via Arctic Satellite, Sensor Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tim Raglin: Raytheon Seeks New Energy Sources Via Arctic Satellite, Sensor Systems

    Raytheon has developed a new line of systems, satellite sensors and radars to facilitate communication and monitoring at the northernmost points of the Earth, the company said Saturday. In May, Canada awarded the company a five-year contract to operate radar systems and new tools to help Arctic ships with navigation and communication for U.S. military operations and low-light […] More

  • Lockheed Deploys Solar Array for NOAA Weather Satellite; Pam Sullivan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Deploys Solar Array for NOAA Weather Satellite; Pam Sullivan Comments

    The solar panels built for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite – R series have been tested, approved and sent to Lockheed Martin‘s facility in Denver to be incorporated onto the spacecraft. NASA said Tuesday that the solar array, which contains five sections that come together to resemble a black wing, was deployed […] More

  • Stephen Elliot Named VP for IDC's CIO Agenda Research Team - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Stephen Elliot Named VP for IDC’s CIO Agenda Research Team

    Stephen Elliot, formerly of CA Technologies, will join International Data Corp. to assume the role of vice president of the IT infrastructure and cloud practice for the company’s CIO Agenda research team. Elliot will advise enterprise IT companies and the investment community on IT development operations, cloud management, automation, virtualization and working within software-defined data […] More