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  • Commerce Dept Enlists Tech Giants for Big Data Project; Penny Pritzker Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Commerce Dept Enlists Tech Giants for Big Data Project; Penny Pritzker Comments

    The Commerce Department will work with Amazon.com, Google, IBM, Microsoft and the Open Cloud Consortium on a big data project to figure out how to apply environmental data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for efforts to support the U.S. economy. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker announced the cooperative research and development agreements Tuesday at the American Meteorological Society forum. “As America’s data agency, we are […] More

  • Lockheed F-35C Jet Lands on Carrier in 1st At-Sea Development Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed F-35C Jet Lands on Carrier in 1st At-Sea Development Test

    Lockheed Martin‘s F-35 carrier variant performed an arrested landing on the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier Monday as part of an estimated two-week initial at-sea development test of the F-35C Joint Strike Fighter. The Navy said Monday that Cmdr. Tony Wilson, a U.S. Navy test pilot, landed one of two F-35C planes onto the carrier’s flight deck under the DT-I test phase. “With the first traps of […] More

  • IBM, Canadian Water Consortium Build Data Integration Platform; Dan Fortin Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM, Canadian Water Consortium Build Data Integration Platform; Dan Fortin Comments

    IBM has partnered with the Southern Ontario Water Consortium to develop a data integration platform to manage Canada’s 80 sq km Grand River watershed, using sensor technology to collect data such as water turbidity and quality. IBM said Monday the platform uses at least 120 meteorological, surface, subsurface and groundwater sensors that integrate 600 data points an hour […] More