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  • IDC Evaluates 12 IaaS Vendors as Gov't Cloud Adoption Continues - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IDC Evaluates 12 IaaS Vendors as Gov’t Cloud Adoption Continues

    IDC‘s Government Insights segment has released a new report on its evaluation of 12 cloud infrastructure-as-a-service vendors in the federal marketplace against set of weighted parameters for both short-term and long-term deployments. The research firm said Friday that the “IDC MarketScape: U.S. Government Private Cloud IaaS 2014 Vendor Assessment” report used pricing, scalability, compute services, value-added services and a single […] More

  • Chris Amos: Alion to Provide RDT&E Support for AF Wireless Comm - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Chris Amos: Alion to Provide RDT&E Support for AF Wireless Comm

    Alion Science and Technology will provide research, development, test and evaluation services to the Air Force Research Laboratory for command-and-control technologies through September 2017 under the $4.5 million Holistic Waveform Development Kit contract. The company said Thursday it will help AFRL integrate technologies with the HAWK Advanced Waveform Development Environment Ecosystem to support software-defined radio waveforms and enable network […] More

  • NASA Preps for Orion Unmanned Test Flight Today; Richard Boitnott Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Preps for Orion Unmanned Test Flight Today; Richard Boitnott Comments

    NASA will launch the Lockheed Martin-built Orion unmanned spacecraft this week as part of the agency’s efforts to build capability for future space missions that would bring humans to Mars, Bloomberg Businessweek reported Tuesday. Justin Bachman writes that this first test flight will bring Orion 3,600 miles into space with the help of United Launch Alliance‘s Delta IV rocket. […] More

  • Richard Daniel: Raytheon to Partner With Industry, Academia at New UK Cyber Hub - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Richard Daniel: Raytheon to Partner With Industry, Academia at New UK Cyber Hub

    Raytheon plans to open a Cyber Innovation Center in the U.K. as part of a push to grow its global cyber research, development and test footprint and expand its investment in the country. Raytheon said Tuesday the center will operate as a hub for research, development and innovation work and house more than 100 professionals in the cyber field. Richard Daniel, CEO of Raytheon UK, […] More

  • Iridium, Thales to Offer UK Search-Rescue Rotorcraft Broadband Connectivity - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iridium, Thales to Offer UK Search-Rescue Rotorcraft Broadband Connectivity

    Iridium Communications‘ OpenPort broadband service will operate with Thales‘ LiveAero systems to provide Bristow Helicopters‘ Sikorsky S-92 aircraft with broadband voice and data connectivity functions to support search-and-rescue missions. The companies said Tuesday that the combination of OpenPort and LiveAero aims to help facilitate in-flight care and triage functions such as real-time exchange of electronic patient data with on-ground medical teams. Bristow plans to deploy this mobile […] More

  • Research and Markets Projects $56B Market Value for Medical Electronics by 2020 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Research and Markets Projects $56B Market Value for Medical Electronics by 2020

    A new report from Research and Markets predicts the global medical electronics market will grow at a 5.5-percent compound annual growth rate over the next six years to reach $56.50 billion in market value. The firm said Monday that developments in personalized healthcare, lifestyle diseases, medical tourism, urbanization and the integration of information technology with healthcare have driven growth […] More

  • Northrop Inks Lease Deal for North Dakota UAS Test Site - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Inks Lease Deal for North Dakota UAS Test Site

    Northrop Grumman has submitted a letter of intent to be a tenant at the Grand Sky business park at the Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota, one of six states that have been authorized to test unmanned aerial vehicles. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.), a proponent of the Grand Sky project, said Wednesday that Northrop will be the park’s first tenant and […] More

  • Iron Mountain, Seagate Form Alliance for Cloud-Based Backup, Disaster Recovery - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iron Mountain, Seagate Form Alliance for Cloud-Based Backup, Disaster Recovery

    Iron Mountain and Seagate Technology will combine their cloud services and information storage and management tools to address demand for cloud-based tools for data backup and disaster recovery. The companies said Monday the partnership includes the colocation of Seagate’s data center at Iron Mountain’s National Underground Data Center and a reseller agreement for Seagate’s EVault Cloud Server Backup and EVault Cloud Disaster Recovery offerings. Mike […] More

  • Joshua Shani: Lockheed Joins Cyber Initiative in Israel to Support Local ICT Partnerships - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Joshua Shani: Lockheed Joins Cyber Initiative in Israel to Support Local ICT Partnerships

    Lockheed Martin has partnered with BGN Technologies, EMC and Jerusalem Venture Partners under Israel’s CyberSpark Industry Initiative, which aims to bolster public-private partnerships in the country as well as international industry collaboration. Lockheed said Monday the nonprofit initiative works to coordinate defense forces, government agencies and academia in Israel for joint cyber industry activities through its cyber center at the Advanced Technologies Park in Beer-Sheva. […] More

  • Inmarsat Adds Hughes Portable BGAN Terminal to Data Streaming Service; Greg Ewert Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inmarsat Adds Hughes Portable BGAN Terminal to Data Streaming Service; Greg Ewert Comments

    Inmarsat has approved Hughes Network Systems‘ 9211-HDR portable Broadband Global Area Network terminal as part of its BGAN HDR streaming service for mobile satellite connectivity. Inmarsat said Monday the terminal supports data streaming rates of up to 800 kilobytes per second and features a compact form, Wi-Fi access for multiple users, automatic context activation and built-in RJ11 connector. “BGAN HDR is a game-changing service delivering […] More

  • Research and Markets: Mobile Cloud Market to See 38% CAGR Over 5 Years - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Research and Markets: Mobile Cloud Market to See 38% CAGR Over 5 Years

    Research and Markets has released a new report that points to a 37.8-percent compound annual growth rate for the global market on mobile cloud technologies, which combine the capabilities of cloud computing and mobile devices. From a value of $9.43 billion this year, the global mobile cloud market will reach a value of $46.90 billion in […] More

  • Christopher Grady: CGS Cloud Tool Gets FedRAMP OK to Host Gov't Data - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Christopher Grady: CGS Cloud Tool Gets FedRAMP OK to Host Gov’t Data

    Clear Government Solutions has received a provisional authority-to-operate from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program Joint Authorization Board to offer the company’ FedGRID cloud computing tool to federal agencies. The company said Tuesday that the board — which comprises officials from agencies such as the Defense Department, Department of Homeland Security and General Services Administration — awarded the JAB P-ATO after an […] More