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  • Jeff Frazier: Wynyard Group Survey on Anti-Crime Software Points to Budget Concerns - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jeff Frazier: Wynyard Group Survey on Anti-Crime Software Points to Budget Concerns

    Wynyard Group has released the findings of its survey on the use of crime-fighting software across U.S. law enforcement agencies and says budget limitations are the biggest challenge to implement the software. The company reached out to 300 federal investigators, policy chiefs, analysts and other officials for the Wynyard Group Advanced Crime Analytics Survey and found only 35 percent of respondents use crime-fighting software, the […] More

  • Cobham to Maintain Australian Search, Rescue Planes; Peter Nottage Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cobham to Maintain Australian Search, Rescue Planes; Peter Nottage Comments

    Cobham will work with Australia’s maritime safety agency to prepare, modify and operate four Bombardier Challenger CL-604 jets for search-and-rescue functions under a potential 15-year, $616 million contract. The company said Friday it will install new sensors, air-operable doors and high-vision windows on the aircraft and support operations with air crews that contain a captain, first officer, visual search officer, […] More

  • Darryl Shaw: Verizon Unveils IT Package for Healthcare Sector - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Darryl Shaw: Verizon Unveils IT Package for Healthcare Sector

    Verizon Enterprise Solutions has released new HIPAA-ready healthcare technologies to manage the exchange of electronic patient health information and inquiries from both patients and healthcare professionals on health services. “Healthcare is behind other industries when it comes to applying technology to the delivery of services due in part to today’s regulatory climate,” Darryl Shaw, director of healthcare solutions and new product […] More

  • Unisys' Francis Ofungwu: SMBs Should Use 'Pragmatic Methods' for Info Security Strategies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Unisys’ Francis Ofungwu: SMBs Should Use ‘Pragmatic Methods’ for Info Security Strategies

    Francis Ofungwu, director of network security services at Unisys, urges small and midsize businesses to put information security at the top of their corporate strategic plans for 2015 to address the continued threat of data breaches. Ofungwu wrote Thursday that SMBs should focus on more than the hardware and software investments and follow an approach that bolsters the management of resources to […] More

  • Dynetics, Aerojet Rocketdyne Eye 3D Printing for Rocket Engine; Steve Cook Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dynetics, Aerojet Rocketdyne Eye 3D Printing for Rocket Engine; Steve Cook Comments

    Dynetics and Aerojet Rocketdyne are using 3-D printing technology to build a new rocket engine in an effort to replace the current Russian-built engine used to send Atlas V to space, Nextgov reported Thursday. Marcus Weisgerber reports that the project started two years ago before the White House, Defense Department and Congress indicated plans to replace the RD-180 engine due to tension with the Russian government. “Going […] More

  • Mark Testoni: SAP to Offer US Agencies Cloud Package With 'Secured Support' Options - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mark Testoni: SAP to Offer US Agencies Cloud Package With ‘Secured Support’ Options

    SAP and its U.S. subsidiary SAP National Security Services have developed a new managed cloud package for U.S. federal agencies to host government and custom applications and operations. SAP said Thursday it worked with agencies to develop a portfolio that combines cloud, hosted and on-premise functions to meet particular agency needs and regulatory or security requirements. The company designed the cloud offering to comply with the National Institute […] More

  • Booz Allen Releases Cloud Brokerage Project to Red Hat Community; Jarid Cottrell Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen Releases Cloud Brokerage Project to Red Hat Community; Jarid Cottrell Comments

    Booz Allen Hamilton has open sourced its “Project Jellyfish” cloud broker project to users of Red Hat‘s ManageIQ platform to facilitate collaboration and broker-type management of cloud services across different environments. Booz Allen said Wednesday the project’s code, processes, documentation and other resources are now available to the ManageIQ community through the Booz Allen Hamilton account in GitHub. “The Federal Government is […] More

  • Chris Checco: Razorsight-IBM Team to Help Mobile Operators Adopt Analytics-Based Marketing to Mobile Operators - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Chris Checco: Razorsight-IBM Team to Help Mobile Operators Adopt Analytics-Based Marketing to Mobile Operators

    Razorsight and IBM have partnered to deliver an analytics tool aimed to help drive the marketing strategy of mobile operators and address both customer expectations and business needs. Razorsight said Tuesday that IBM’s PureData for Analytics and SPSS offerings will leverage Razorsight Predictive Analytics to help mobile operators draw business insights such as the “Next Best Action” at the point of interaction […] More

  • Nick Leontidis: CAE Expands Dallas Pilot Training Facility to Meet Client Demand - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Nick Leontidis: CAE Expands Dallas Pilot Training Facility to Meet Client Demand

    CAE has expanded its pilot training complex in Dallas with the addition of new training programs and a 60,000-square-foot business aviation training center near the Dallas Fort Worth Airport. The new CAE Dallas East facility brings CAE’s total training area in the region to 486,000 square feet that includes 114 classrooms, 80 briefing rooms and 40 flight simulators, the company said Tuesday. Nick Leontidis, group […] More

  • Joe Tucci: EMC to Buy Controlling Interest in VCE - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Joe Tucci: EMC to Buy Controlling Interest in VCE

    VCE, a joint venture of EMC and Cisco, will become an EMC company by the end of the quarter and Cisco will continue to be a partner and investor in the business alongside VMware. EMC said Wednesday that it will acquire a controlling interest in VCE as part of a reorganization agreed upon between all arties to build on the business’ hybrid […] More

  • Lockheed to Build Vehicle Turrets for General Dynamics UK; Stephen Ball Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Build Vehicle Turrets for General Dynamics UK; Stephen Ball Comments

    Lockheed Martin‘s U.K. business has received a $1 billion subcontract from General Dynamics UK to design, produce, test and integrate 245 turrets for General Dynamics‘ SCOUT Specialist Vehicles that are used by the British military. Stephen Ball, CEO of Lockheed Martin UK, said Tuesday the company plans to sustain almost 900 jobs at its site in Ampthill, Bedfordshire, and collaborate with small and midsize […] More

  • Peter Redman: CAE Expands NZ Military Support Through Training Device Update Work - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Peter Redman: CAE Expands NZ Military Support Through Training Device Update Work

    CAE will provide New Zealand’s defense forces with updates and life-cycle and maintenance support for their Kaman SH-2G(I) Super Seasprite synthetic pilot training devices for 15 years. The company said Tuesday it will update NZDF’s SH-2G(I) Full Mission Flight Simulator and SH-2G(I) Part Task Trainer, which Kaman will deliver along with 10 SH-2G(I) helicopters to the New Zealand air force base […] More