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  • Information Builders, MapR Technologies Partner on BI, Hadoop Distribution Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Information Builders, MapR Technologies Partner on BI, Hadoop Distribution Services

    Information Builders has entered into an alliance with MapR Technologies to provide enterprise customers with a combination of the former’s business intelligence and analytics software and MapR’s Apache Hadoop distribution platform. The companies said Wednesday the partnership works to manage data integrity to generate insights from “impactful” analytics. Gerald Cohen, president and CEO of Information Builders, said the […] More

  • Booz Allen to Implement Cyber Tools at 8 Agencies for DHS' CDM Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen to Implement Cyber Tools at 8 Agencies for DHS’ CDM Program

    Booz Allen Hamilton will implement cybersecurity tools across eight government agencies under a $39.3 million task order contract for the Department of Homeland Security‘s Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program, Federal News Radio reported Thursday. Jason Miller writes that Booz Allen will implement cyber tools and services from ForeScout, Big Fix and others at Group B agencies as part of the General […] More

  • Cisco, DHL: Internet of Things Carries Potential for Supply Chain, Logistics - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cisco, DHL: Internet of Things Carries Potential for Supply Chain, Logistics

    Cisco and logistics service provider DHL have released a joint report on trends in the Internet of Things as they pursue a new IoT project to facilitate near-real-time analytics functions for supply chain decisions. DHL said Wednesday the “Internet of Things in Logistics” report forecasts that IoT could have an $8 trillion value at stake over the next 10 years and projects supply chain and logistics […] More

  • Nadia Short: General Dynamics to Keep Gov't Cyber Business Focus After Fidelis Sale - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Nadia Short: General Dynamics to Keep Gov’t Cyber Business Focus After Fidelis Sale

    General Dynamics plans to continue work its core cyber portfolio for government amid the pending sale of its Fidelis Cybersecurity Solutions unit, a General Dynamics executive has told Reuters. “[We] are continuing to invest resources in technology development to ensure we deliver resilient, relevant and innovative solutions that support mission needs,” Nadia Short, vice president and general manager […] More

  • Northrop Completes Deployable Tower Assembly for NASA's Webb Telescope - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Completes Deployable Tower Assembly for NASA’s Webb Telescope

    Northrop Grumman has completed ambient and thermal vacuum testing and delivery of the James Webb Space Telescope‘s deployable tower assembly to NASA for the space observatory’s final assembly at Northrop’s Space Park facility. The company said Tuesday its Astro Aerospace subsidiary designed and built the graphite DTA, which works to support Webb’s spacecraft and telescope structures. “First, in the […] More

  • IBM Unveils Watson Health Cloud for Cognitive Computing; John Kelly Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Unveils Watson Health Cloud for Cognitive Computing; John Kelly Comments

    IBM has unveiled the Watson Health Cloud to serve as a platform for data and insights on health and wellness issues as part of the company’s efforts to expand computing functions in the health sector. The company said Monday it also pursued industry partnerships and acquisitions alongside the creation of the IBM Watson Health business unit amid an […] More

  • Tory Bruno: ULA Plans Launch Infrastructure, Business Model Changes - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tory Bruno: ULA Plans Launch Infrastructure, Business Model Changes

    United Launch Alliance CEO Tory Bruno has outlined the Boeing–Lockheed Martin joint venture’s plans for the military space launch market over the next 20 years in an interview published Monday on Defense News. Aaron Mehta reports that Bruno pointed to new initiatives that work to address potential challenges from market entrants such as SpaceX and government measures to ban the Russia-made […] More

  • Amy Caro: Northrop, UM Baltimore County Research Partnership Expands to Health Data - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Amy Caro: Northrop, UM Baltimore County Research Partnership Expands to Health Data

    Northrop Grumman‘s partnership with the University of Maryland-Baltimore County under the UMBC Center for Hybrid Multicore Productivity Research consortium will expand from cybersecurity research to health data analytics. The company said Tuesday the collaboration supports CHMPR’s goal to address challenges in productivity, scalability and performance related to the use of big data analytics in areas such as cyber and health. […] More

  • ULA Unveils Vulcan Rocket, Reusability Initiative for Future Launches; Tory Bruno Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ULA Unveils Vulcan Rocket, Reusability Initiative for Future Launches; Tory Bruno Comments

    United Launch Alliance has introduced its new Next Generation Launch System rocket called Vulcan that features many components designed to be reusable. The Boeing–Lockheed Martin joint venture said Monday it selected the Vulcan name as the result of an online poll that received more than a million votes. “More capabilities in space mean more capabilities here on earth,” said Tory Bruno, ULA […] More

  • General Atomics Begins Central Solenoid Fabrication for Int'l Fusion Energy Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Begins Central Solenoid Fabrication for Int’l Fusion Energy Project

    General Atomics has begun the fabrication of the central solenoid for an experimental tokamak fusion reactor as part of U.S. participation in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor project on the potential of fusion energy. The company said Friday the ITER central solenoid is a superconducting electromagnet weighing at 1,000 tons with a stored energy capacity of 5.5 gigajoules. “The […] More

  • Neville Pattinson: Smart Cards Offer 2-Factor Authentication Technology for Gov't Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Neville Pattinson: Smart Cards Offer 2-Factor Authentication Technology for Gov’t Services

    Government agencies need to bolster the adoption of two-factor authentication for services and applications by balancing agency requirements, security and convenience for users, according to Smart Card Alliance’s Neville Pattinson. Pattinson, the alliance’s technical chairman and founding board member of the Secure ID Coalition, wrote in a guest piece published Thursday on GCN that public awareness and necessity drive the […] More

  • General Dynamics to Provide User Support for CDC Vaccine Tracking System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics to Provide User Support for CDC Vaccine Tracking System

    A business unit of General Dynamics will provide contact center support to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for at least 3,000 users of the web-based Vaccine Tracking System under a five-year, $4.6 million task order. The company said Thursday its information technology business will deliver phone and email user support and customer service to VTrckS healthcare providers and awardees. […] More