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  • Reuters: BAE CEO Ian King Forecasts Stability for US Defense Industry - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Reuters: BAE CEO Ian King Forecasts Stability for US Defense Industry

    BAE Systems CEO Ian King believes that the U.S. defense industry is making a recovery in 2015 and forecasts a shift in government defense spending toward stability then a “modest” increase in the coming years, Reuters reported Thursday. Sarah Young writes the company sees a return to earnings growth this year due to a potential increase in demand for aircraft and […] More

  • Lockheed's Marillyn Hewson Outlines Efforts to Address Challenges in Global Security Landscape - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed’s Marillyn Hewson Outlines Efforts to Address Challenges in Global Security Landscape

    Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson has stated that the company’s business growth strategy works to align with current trends in the global security landscape to address industry challenges and meet customer needs. Hewson outlined the strategy in a media day event to highlight its technology investments and product and service portfolio in line with these trends, Lockheed said Wednesday. “The global landscape […] More

  • IBM Unveils Analytics Offering for Hadoop; Beth Smith Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Unveils Analytics Offering for Hadoop; Beth Smith Comments

    IBM has launched its new in-Hadoop analytics offering that works to leverage the R language, machine learning and data science functions to help enterprises extract business insights from their data. The company said Tuesday the IBM BigInsights for Apache Hadoop product supports data querying and visualization at an enterprise scale. “In our fast-paced world, the ability to turn data […] More

  • David DeWalt: FireEye's Threat Intell Sharing Initiative Eyes Cyber Automation, Customization - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    David DeWalt: FireEye’s Threat Intell Sharing Initiative Eyes Cyber Automation, Customization

    FireEye has unveiled its Global Threat Intelligence Sharing initiative to help customers exchange threat intelligence with community members such as industry partners and establish a unified cyber defense effort. The company said Friday the initiative aims to leverage FireEye’s Community Threat Intelligence platform, the FireEye Dynamic Threat Intelligence cloud and Adaptive Defense strategy in order to enable real-time sharing […] More

  • IBM, CenturyLink to Open New App Innovation Center in Louisiana - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM, CenturyLink to Open New App Innovation Center in Louisiana

    IBM and CenturyLink have formed a public-private partnership with the state of Louisiana to open an application development innovation center in the region and facilitate high-tech job opportunities for local graduates. IBM said Monday the Monroe-based center will perform services in cloud computing, big data, analytics, security and mobility as part of the company’s 10-year business transformation […] More

  • Carpathia's Stu Fleagle: Public/Hybrid Cloud, Privacy, Automation, Data to Drive Tech Investments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carpathia’s Stu Fleagle: Public/Hybrid Cloud, Privacy, Automation, Data to Drive Tech Investments

    Stu Fleagle, vice president of Carpathia‘s government solutions business, believes that hybrid and public cloud, automated compliance, privacy and data-driven decision-making will drive government technology investments in 2015. Fleagle said in a guest post published Monday on Federal News Radio that these trends will facilitate a transformation among government agencies as they seek to keep pace with changing […] More

  • Northrop Taps Saab US Subsidiary for Radar Components - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Taps Saab US Subsidiary for Radar Components

    Northrop Grumman has selected a U.S.-based Saab subsidiary to provide components for the AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar system of the U.S. Marine Corps for a $32 million subcontract. Saab Defense and Security USA will develop subsystems, software and assemblies for the first four G/ATOR units under the low-rate initial production contract, the company said Thursday. “We are proud to […] More

  • SES Taps Airbus, Boeing, Orbital ATK to Build New Satellites for Commercial, Military Markets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SES Taps Airbus, Boeing, Orbital ATK to Build New Satellites for Commercial, Military Markets

    SES has selected Airbus, Boeing and Orbital ATK to build satellites that will provide telecommunications services to the Americas, the north Atlantic Ocean region and Europe, Space News reported Monday. Peter de Selding writes that Boeing’s space and intelligence systems business and Airbus’ defense and space segment will provide all-electric-propulsion satellites for commercial fixed, mobile and aeronautical services. The […] More

  • GSA Receives Bids for New FBI HQ, Hoover Building Redevelopment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GSA Receives Bids for New FBI HQ, Hoover Building Redevelopment

    Several real estate companies have submitted bids to build a new, consolidated headquarters for the FBI and redevelop the current J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, the New York Times reported Tuesday. Eugene Meyer writes the General Services Administration will select five companies for the next round of competition, which requires cost proposals for the potential new sites in Greenbelt and […] More

  • ABI Research: Commercial Segment to Overtake Gov't in Biometrics Spending by 2017 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ABI Research: Commercial Segment to Overtake Gov’t in Biometrics Spending by 2017

    A new ABI Research report predicts that the biometrics market will reach a value of $13.8 million this year as the commercial sector is poised to catch up with government agencies in utilizing biometrics technology. The company said Monday that the consumer and enterprise segments will have the dominant share of the market by late 2017 and reach $8 million […] More

  • SpaceX Leases USAF Launch Complex as Future Landing Pad for Falcon Rockets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SpaceX Leases USAF Launch Complex as Future Landing Pad for Falcon Rockets

    SpaceX has secured a five-year lease agreement with the U.S. Air Force‘s 45th Space Wing to construct a landing pad for reusable rocket boosters at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Launch Complex 13 in Florida. The Air Force said Tuesday that 45th Space Wing Commander Brig. Gen. Nina Armagno signed the agreement for SpaceX to repurpose LC-13 as a vertical-landing […] More