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  • Report: LTE Spending to Hit $2B by 2020 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: LTE Spending to Hit $2B by 2020

    Market spending on public safety LTE infrastructure could reach $2 billion per year by 2020 due to increasing demand for the mobile broadband standard, according to new analysis from Reportsnreports.com. The number of installed base stations will hit almost 155,000 at a 60-percent compound annual growth rate between 2014 and 2020, serving close to 4 […] More

  • Ciber Helps Indiana Hospital Shift Financial Mgmt System to New Provider; Don Stoner Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ciber Helps Indiana Hospital Shift Financial Mgmt System to New Provider; Don Stoner Comments

    Ciber has transitioned the Indiana University Health La Porte Hospital‘s Infor Lawson Enterprise Financial Management system to a new external hosting provider. The company said Friday it helped to install, manage and test applications and software for the hospital in order to adopt a new hosting configuration for service-level upgrades. “As reimbursement rates continue their downward trend and the […] More

  • IO VP Jason Ferrara on Shift in IT Service Delivery, Consumption - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IO VP Jason Ferrara on Shift in IT Service Delivery, Consumption

    Enterprise information technology leaders are looking at a time where all aspects of IT service delivery is becoming dependent on consumption, a major shift Jason Ferrara of IO Data Centers believes is a result of a confluence of mobile, cloud and other factors. “The business—the end user of IT services—demands value and it will go […] More

  • Bill Lochten, Chris Steel: Speed Critical for Cyber Response - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bill Lochten, Chris Steel: Speed Critical for Cyber Response

    Cyber awareness in corporations is on the rise and they need tools to help with the decision making process in case a cyber attack occurs, Software AG executives Bill Lochten and Chris Steel said to On The Frontlines magazine. Government senior officials, mission leaders and information technology professionals need real-time insight into the important aspects of their […] More

  • Terremark's Rafeeq Rehman on Potential Security Lessons from Data Breaches - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Terremark’s Rafeeq Rehman on Potential Security Lessons from Data Breaches

    Rafeeq Rehman, senior security solutions architect at Verizon Terremark, has urged enterprises to draw lessons from large data breaches that have occurred to retailers in the U.S. and around the world. “While IT and security professionals are trying to piece together information about how the recently reported  U.S. data breaches happened and how many customers are […] More

  • Rodney Hite: ViON to Apply Big Data in Cybersecurity - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rodney Hite: ViON to Apply Big Data in Cybersecurity

    ViON has a Hadoop-based cyber tool for information technology systems management that Rodney Hite, product manager for big data solutions, said is built to address threats to the big data architecture landscape. The company’s Big Cyber Security platform combines big data technology with traditional methods used to protect information assets and is intended to mitigate […] More

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    Northrop Develops Plug-and-Play Satellite Under $50M Task Order; Doug Young Comments

    Northrop Grumman has launched a modular space vehicle with plug-and-play capability as part of a $50 million task order from the Operationally Responsive Space Office at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M. The satellite is expected to meet the need for compact satellites that allow quick assembly for short-term space missions, the company said Wednesday. “MSV provides […] More

  • Tony Smeraglinolo: Engility Extends Navy Anti-Explosive Program Work - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tony Smeraglinolo: Engility Extends Navy Anti-Explosive Program Work

    Engility holds a position on a potential three-year, $24.9 million contract to work with a Naval Surface Warfare Center division that focuses on explosive ordnance disposal. The company said Wednesday it will provide systems engineering, program development and analysis services to the center’s Indian Head Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology Division. Tony Smeraglinolo, Engility president and CEO, said […] More

  • CGI Extends IT Support of Norway Oil, Gas Activities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CGI Extends IT Support of Norway Oil, Gas Activities

    CGI has signed a four-year, $12.2 million contract with the Exploration and Production Information Management Association to run an information technology system that manages oil and gas activities in Norway and other countries. Under the agreement, CGI will operate the cloud-based License2Share information-sharing tool to support oil and gas exploration until 2017, the company said Thursday. The contract is part […] More

  • FDA Clears Verizon Mobile Health Platform for Apple iOS; Julie Kling Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FDA Clears Verizon Mobile Health Platform for Apple iOS; Julie Kling Comments

    Verizon has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to run the company’s remote health-monitoring technology on the iOS mobile operating system run by Apple devices such as iPhones and iPads. The company said Tuesday the Converged Health Management platform is built to help reduce hospital readmissions by helping clinicians, healthcare providers and […] More