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  • Granite Telecommunications Added to GSA IT Vehicle; Rob Hale Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Granite Telecommunications Added to GSA IT Vehicle; Rob Hale Comments

    Granite Telecommunications has been added to a General Services Administration contracting vehicle, through which federal agencies will have access to the company’s technology offerings. Granite said Friday the GSA contract was awarded after the agency evaluated the company’s operations, among other criteria. Rob Hale, Granite CEO, said the company aims to grow its government customer base through […] More

  • Pat Finn of Cisco: Two-Fold Approach Needed for Mobile Security - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Pat Finn of Cisco: Two-Fold Approach Needed for Mobile Security

    Pat Finn, senior vice president for the U.S. public sector at Cisco, has proposed a two-pronged approach to dealing with potential mobile security risks in government. He writes in a blog post published Monday that the first step is to train the workforce, noting a recent Cisco poll that 25 percent of civil servants have […] More

  • Army Exercises One-Year Leidos Training, Simulation Contract Option - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Exercises One-Year Leidos Training, Simulation Contract Option

    Leidos has been awarded a one-year, $11 million option under a contract with the U.S. Army to develop live virtual and constructive training environments. The company said Monday it will continue supporting the Army’s SE Core Common Virtual Environment Management program with terrain databases, as well as cultural and moving models for operational training. SE Core CVEM works […] More

  • General Dynamics Subsidiary, L-3, Navantia to Collaborate on Coast Guard Cutter Vessel Design - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Subsidiary, L-3, Navantia to Collaborate on Coast Guard Cutter Vessel Design

    General Dynamics‘ Bath Iron Works subsidiary will work with L-3 Communications and Spain-based shipbuilder Navantia to create a preliminary design for the Coast Guard’s future Offshore Patrol Cutter vessel. The Coast Guard will select a competing team after the 18-month first phase to develop a detail design and build between nine and 11 ships for the planned 25-ship […] More

  • Philips to Support Telemonitoring Clinical Program; Brian Rosenfeld Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Philips to Support Telemonitoring Clinical Program; Brian Rosenfeld Comments

    Philips has been chosen to support Partners HealthCare At Home in providing telemonitoring services for patients with chronic illnesses and those who are newly discharged, the companies said Wednesday. The telemonitoring program is intended to remotely track a patient’s health status and alert nursing staff when preemptive medical intervention is needed to avoid hospital readmission for the […] More

  • Singapore Buys Raytheon-Thales JV Digital Radar System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Singapore Buys Raytheon-Thales JV Digital Radar System

    Thales Raytheon Systems has sold a set of GroundMaster 200 radars to Singapore, adding to that country’s land-based air defense systems highlighted at the Singapore Air zdhow, AINonline reported Friday. Chris Pocock writes the Raytheon-Thales Group joint venture designed the 3D digital radar system to transmit signals in the S-band for target detection at any altitude. […] More

  • Motorola to Install Brunei Police Force's Digital Radio Network - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Motorola to Install Brunei Police Force’s Digital Radio Network

    Motorola Solutions will work with Brunei’s national police agency to deploy a Terrestrial Trunked Radio network in the country as part of the agency’s 10-year strategic planning program that is scheduled to complete in 2016. The national digital communication system is intended to streamline public safety and security services with centralized information, the company said Wednesday. Under a […] More

  • Camber Corp. Wins $20M for Naval Surface Warfare Center Training; John Lord Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Camber Corp. Wins $20M for Naval Surface Warfare Center Training; John Lord Comments

    Camber Corp. has won a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract worth an estimated $20 million from the Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division to provide training, equipment and mechanical support for one year and two one-year option periods. The company said Wednesday it will conduct classroom, computer-based and small arms weapons training for the Navy’s Center for Security […] More

  • GE Partners With Meridium on Power Grid Offering; Mike Carlson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GE Partners With Meridium on Power Grid Offering; Mike Carlson Comments

    GE Digital Energy has teamed up with asset management software provider Meridium to provide utility customers with an offering to view and manage their assets and distribution network. The GE business unit will integrate distribution management software Smallworld Electric and Gas Distribution Office with Meridium’s asset performance management system to monitor asset health and functionality, […] More

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    GCS, Sharpe Engineering Team to Build Streaming Analytics Tools; Jim Sharpe, Alex Philp Comment

    GCS has partnered with Sharpe Engineering to develop streaming analytics products for verticals such as healthcare, cybersecurity and government by combining the companies’ geospatial and big data analytics technologies. The companies said Tuesday the products will be based on IBM InfoSphere Streams and employ real-time analytical processing applications. “We will combine our capabilities in geospatial […] More

  • DLT Solutions Offers Amazon Cloud Services to Texas Schools, Public Sector; Rick Marcotte Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DLT Solutions Offers Amazon Cloud Services to Texas Schools, Public Sector; Rick Marcotte Comments

    DLT Solutions, a value-added reseller of Amazon Web Services and other information technology company’s offerings, has won a contract to provide cloud services to the Texas Department of Information Resources. The products and services available to Texas education and public-sector customers through DLT can be procured at volume discount pricing, the company said Tuesday. “Adding a […] More

  • IBM Unveils Cloud, Big Data Transfer Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Unveils Cloud, Big Data Transfer Tool

    IBM has built a lab prototype device that is designed to transfer big data between data centers and cloud computing environments, as well as built to increase Internet speeds. a technology that can also apply to Internet speeds. IBM Research worked with Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne to develop an analog-to-digital converter for carrying data […] More