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  • Red Hat, Dell to Offer Integrated Starter Pack for PaaS Cloud - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Government Cloud, News

    Red Hat, Dell to Offer Integrated Starter Pack for PaaS Cloud

    Red Hat and Dell have partnered to combine Red Hat’s OpenShift Enterprise platform and Dell’s PowerEdge R420 server and partner services program into the integrated DevOps Solution Starter Pack offering. Red Hat said Tuesday that Vizuri and other channel partners will resell the package, which works to deliver platform-as-a-service hybrid cloud tools to developers, administrators and other customers. Joe Dickman, senior vice president of […] More

  • Sri Sundaralingam: immixGroup to Offer Catbird's Cloud Security, Compliance Tools to Gov't Clients - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Cybersecurity News, News

    Sri Sundaralingam: immixGroup to Offer Catbird’s Cloud Security, Compliance Tools to Gov’t Clients

    Catbird will integrate its cloud security and compliance technologies with immixGroup‘s public sector offerings as part of a partnership agreement between the companies to address the changing security requirements of emerging IT environments. “We are pleased to partner with immixGroup to assist government agencies in managing the security within their virtual and cloud environments while providing […] More

  • Lockheed F-35C Jet Lands on Carrier in 1st At-Sea Development Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed F-35C Jet Lands on Carrier in 1st At-Sea Development Test

    Lockheed Martin‘s F-35 carrier variant performed an arrested landing on the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier Monday as part of an estimated two-week initial at-sea development test of the F-35C Joint Strike Fighter. The Navy said Monday that Cmdr. Tony Wilson, a U.S. Navy test pilot, landed one of two F-35C planes onto the carrier’s flight deck under the DT-I test phase. “With the first traps of […] More

  • Steve Meininger: CH2M Hill, Texas City Extend Partnership to 25 Years - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Steve Meininger: CH2M Hill, Texas City Extend Partnership to 25 Years

    CH2M Hill will continue to provide operations and maintenance services to a sludge wastewater treatment plant and lift station in Stephenville, Texas, following an extension to their contract up to 2021. “This latest contract extension means our relationship with Stephenville will span 25 years,” Steve Meininger, CH2M Hill senior vice president and managing director for operations management services, said Friday. […] More

  • Hughes, Airbus Eye User Mobility With Satellite Terminal; Rick Lober Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hughes, Airbus Eye User Mobility With Satellite Terminal; Rick Lober Comments

    Airbus‘ defense and space business has partnered with Hughes Network Systems to develop an X-band satellite terminal for a new service that works to provide video, voice and data services for military operations. Hughes said Monday it will integrate its modem and waveform solutions with Airbus’ Skynet military communications satellite system to deliver a lightweight and man-portable terminal for […] More

  • Unisys' Roberto Tavano: Risk Mgmt, Awareness, Partnership to Help Counter Crime-as-a-Service - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Cybersecurity News, News

    Unisys’ Roberto Tavano: Risk Mgmt, Awareness, Partnership to Help Counter Crime-as-a-Service

    Roberto Tavano of Unisys says that increasing incidents of organized cyber crime and emergence of crime-as-a-service means companies should work further on risk management, collaboration and cyber awareness and education to protect their systems. Tavano – vice president of global security sales for technology, consulting and integration services at Unisys – wrote in a blog post published Thursday that online criminals are now turning to the digital underground to […] More

  • Globecomm, Gannexion Expand EMEA Work With E-Walfare Services to Mali - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Globecomm, Gannexion Expand EMEA Work With E-Walfare Services to Mali

    Globecomm and Gannexion have expanded their partnership with a new agreement to provide the government of Mali with e-welfare and network services as well as communications support to personnel stationed at remote camps. The companies said Monday they have previously delivered e-welfare services to Afghanistan and Turkey, among other countries in Europe, Middle East and Africa. Joost de Jong, Gannexion director, said he sees further […] More

  • Frost & Sullivan: Health Tech Vendors See Biz Opportunity in EHR Data Retrieval - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Healthcare IT, News

    Frost & Sullivan: Health Tech Vendors See Biz Opportunity in EHR Data Retrieval

    A new Frost & Sullivan study says investments from government and healthcare providers have facilitated increased usage of electronic health records and have placed EHR retrieval as an important service priority. Frost & Sullivan said Thursday the “EHR Usability—CIOs Weigh in On What’s Needed to Improve Information Retrieval” report notes hindrances in EHR usage, such as speed and accuracy of data retrieval […] More

  • Lyn Hurd: Fulcrum Healthcare to Help Intellect Solutions Update Defense HAIMS System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Healthcare IT, News

    Lyn Hurd: Fulcrum Healthcare to Help Intellect Solutions Update Defense HAIMS System

    Fulcrum‘s healthcare division will support Intellect Solutions as a subcontractor in providing enhancement and maintenance services for the Defense Health Clinical Systems‘ Healthcare Artifact and Image Management Solution. Lyn Hurd, the division’s vice president, said Thursday that the company will help in updating the service treatment records and clinical workflows on the HAIMS websites. The HAIMS program works to facilitate […] More

  • Verizon's Rafeeq Rehman: Active Monitoring, Response Plans Key in Data Breach Mitigation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Cybersecurity News, News

    Verizon’s Rafeeq Rehman: Active Monitoring, Response Plans Key in Data Breach Mitigation

    Companies should actively monitor their networks, establish a crisis management plan and instill employee awareness to mitigate the impact of cyber attacks on both operations and business, Verizon‘s Rafeeq Rehman says. Recent incidents of data breaches indicate how hackers can target even old data as companies store these information for use in analytics applications, Rehman writes on Verizon’s enterprise cloud […] More

  • Dan Hart: Boeing GPS IIF Program Moves Forward With 8th Satellite Launch - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dan Hart: Boeing GPS IIF Program Moves Forward With 8th Satellite Launch

    Boeing has received signal confirmation that its eighth GPS IIF satellite in space has started to prepare for full operations after its launch from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The GPS IIF-8 satellite launched aboard United Launch Alliance‘s Atlas V rocket and is the last launch for the U.S. Air Force program this year, Boeing said Wednesday. “The schedule this year […] More

  • Jim Sponnick: ULA Achieves 50th Atlas V Mission With 8th USAF GPS Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jim Sponnick: ULA Achieves 50th Atlas V Mission With 8th USAF GPS Satellite

    United Launch Alliance has launched the latest global positioning system satellite to join the on-orbit constellation that will provide timing and navigation services for a U.S. Air Force program. The company said Wednesday that an Atlas V 401 Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle carried the GPS IIF-8 satellite to space from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Jim Sponnick, ULA vice president for the […] More