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  • IBM Researchers Assess Ebola Virus Transmission With Big Data Analytics - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Researchers Assess Ebola Virus Transmission With Big Data Analytics

    IBM researchers have used big data analytics to evaluate the impact of infected animal carriers in the spread of the Ebola virus among humans. The company said Friday it partnered with researchers at Montclair State University to release a publication that contains an open-source computational model designed to help study the spread of Ebola from animals to people. Ebola […] More

  • EY Report: Digital Transformation Drove $467B Tech M&A Deal Value in 2016 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    EY Report: Digital Transformation Drove $467B Tech M&A Deal Value in 2016

    A new report from EY says that the deal value of global technology mergers and acquisitions reached an all-time high of $466.6 billion due to digital transformation trends. EY said Thursday its “Global technology M&A report: October-December 2016 and year in review” study found that disruptive cloud, mobile, social and big data analytics technologies drove the 2016 […] More

  • Mukesh Dalal Named a Principal Scientist at Charles River Analytics - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mukesh Dalal Named a Principal Scientist at Charles River Analytics

    Mukesh Dalal, former chief scientist at BAE Systems‘ U.S. subsidiary, has joined Charles River Analytics as principal scientist of the decision management division at the Massachusetts-based defense and intelligence systems developer. Dalal’s research efforts focused on artificial intelligence, machine learning and reasoning, probabilistic modeling and optimization, decisionmaking and big data analytics, Charles River said Monday. He has obtained more than 10 patents and authored at […] More

  • Purdue University Opens Global Security, Defense Innovation Institute; Mitch Daniels Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Purdue University Opens Global Security, Defense Innovation Institute; Mitch Daniels Comments

    Purdue University has launched a new hub for global security and defense innovation at the university’s Discovery Park during a symposium on global defense issues. Dan DeLaurentis, professor of aeronautics and astronautics at Purdue and a President’s Fellow for defense initiatives, will serve as the interim director of the Institute for Global Security and Defense […] More

  • Parsons to Update Southern California Transport Data Exchange System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Parsons to Update Southern California Transport Data Exchange System

    Parsons ha received a contract from the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority to modernize a system that works to facilitate transportation data exchange between approximately 125 agencies across Southern California. The company said Wednesday it will provide technologies with big data analytics and reporting features for the Regional Integration of Intelligent Transportation System project. “Southern California has the most congested traffic […] More

  • Deloitte-Cray Alliance Unveils Threat Analytics Service Offering - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deloitte-Cray Alliance Unveils Threat Analytics Service Offering

    Deloitte‘s advisory cyber risk services business and Cray have partnered to develop a subscription-based analytics service intended to help organizations discover, examine and respond to cybersecurity threats. The Cyber Reconnaissance and Analytics offering works to help government customers generate threat intelligence reports that include information on potential threat vectors, Deloitte said Wednesday. “Instead of reviewing every component of an agency’s internal enterprise, we are trying to […] More

  • C3 IoT to Provide Machine Learning Platform, Application Suite for State Dept's Energy Mgmt Initiatives - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    C3 IoT to Provide Machine Learning Platform, Application Suite for State Dept’s Energy Mgmt Initiatives

    C3 IoT has received a potential $25 million contract provide a suite of enterprise Internet-of-Things software applications and machine learning technology for the State Department to monitor and analyze energy management at department-run facilities globally. The company said Monday its platforms will also work to help the State Department predict looming equipment failure and track the health of sensors and device infrastructure throughout its more than 22,000 […] More

  • DoD, SBA, CPSC Pick SAS Tools for Big Data Analytics, Management - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD, SBA, CPSC Pick SAS Tools for Big Data Analytics, Management

    SAS has been chosen by the U.S. Defense Department, Small Business Administration and Consumer Product Safety Commission to provide technology platforms that will work to help the agencies examine huge amounts of data. The company said Monday agencies are increasingly adopting big data analytics, visualization, text mining and Hadoop technologies to help address their data collection, storage and management […] More

  • PwC Survey: 91% of Enterprises Adopt Cyber Frameworks to Detect Network Vulnerabilities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PwC Survey: 91% of Enterprises Adopt Cyber Frameworks to Detect Network Vulnerabilities

    A new PwC survey says 91 percent of business organizations have implemented the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Cybersecurity Framework and other risk-based security guidelines in an effort to detect and mitigate cyber threats. PwC polled at least 10,000 C-suite executives of information technology and security firms from more than 127 countries from May 7 through June […] More

  • Lenovo, Nutanix Forge Hyperconvergence Infrastructure Alliance for Clients; Yang Yuanqing Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lenovo, Nutanix Forge Hyperconvergence Infrastructure Alliance for Clients; Yang Yuanqing Comments

    Lenovo and Nutanix have partnered to jointly develop and offer new hyperconverged appliances to customers through Lenovo’s global channel partners. The Lenovo hyperconverged appliances will feature Nutanix’s software and incorporate Intel technologies to run enterprise applications, databases, virtualized desktops and big data analytics, Lenovo said Wednesday. Yang Yuanqing, chairman and CEO of Lenovo, said the […] More

  • Northrop Opens New UK Cyber Facility in UK; Andrew Tyler Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Opens New UK Cyber Facility in UK; Andrew Tyler Comments

    Northrop Grumman has opened a fresh cyber facility in Gloucestershire, U.K., with the goal of helping customers in the country and other parts of Europe to combat cyber threats. The company’s nearly 100 cyber employees will collaborate at the new cyber hub to develop big data analytics, network defense, mobility, biometrics, high-speed processing and full-spectrum […] More

  • Knowledge Consulting Group Wins $29M Task Order Contract for DHS CDM Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Knowledge Consulting Group Wins $29M Task Order Contract for DHS CDM Program

    Knowledge Consulting Group has secured a $29 million contract for the second task order under phase 1 of the Department of Homeland Security program to implement continuous diagnostics and mitigation tools, Federal News Radio reported Monday. Jason Miller writes that KCG will oversee the rollout of McAfee‘s Vulnerability Manager and ePolicy Orchestrator, ForeScout‘s CounterACT and Splunk‘s big data analytics offering to […] More