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  • NJVC's Robert Michalsky: Verizon Data Breach Report to Guide Cyber Risk Management - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NJVC’s Robert Michalsky: Verizon Data Breach Report to Guide Cyber Risk Management

    As Verizon releases the 2014 Data Breach Investigations Report, NJVC Principal Robert Michalsky notes that 92 percent of the more than 100,000 breaches and security incidents covered in the past decade can be grouped within nine attack patterns. Summarizing all of Verizon’s collected data since 2008 is expected to aid cybersecurity professionals implement smart risk management measures, Michalsky says Tuesday. The report identifies […] More

  • Inmarsat Proposes Free Aircraft Tracking Service to Int'l Civil Aviation Org; Rupert Pearce Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inmarsat Proposes Free Aircraft Tracking Service to Int’l Civil Aviation Org; Rupert Pearce Comments

    Inmarsat has offered to provide a free global airline tracking service for all commercial passenger aircraft in a proposal to the International Civil Aviation Organization ahead of an aircraft tracking conference in Montreal scheduled for Monday. “We welcome and strongly support ICAO’s decision to place the delivery of next-generation aviation safety services at the heart of the […] More

  • Kenneth Washington: Lockheed Aims to 'Sharpen' Focus on Space Projects in R&D Center Rebrand - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kenneth Washington: Lockheed Aims to ‘Sharpen’ Focus on Space Projects in R&D Center Rebrand

    A network of Lockheed Martin research and development centers for space technology projects centered in Palo Alto, Calif. has changed its name to Space Technology Advanced Research and Development Laboratories, or STAR Labs. “The STAR Labs name sharpens our focus on the mission we’ve been proud to pursue for 50 years: shaping the future of our country’s […] More

  • Lockheed Completes Inaugural F-16 Flight for Iraq Air Force Bound Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Completes Inaugural F-16 Flight for Iraq Air Force Bound Aircraft

    Lockheed Martin recently flew the first of 36 F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft that the Iraqi air force procured through the Defense Department‘s Foreign Military Sales program. The aerospace company said Wednesday it has sold more than 4,540 F-16 Block 52 multi-role fighter jets, including the recent sale to Iraq. All versions of the aircraft are due for upgrades, […] More

  • Lockheed Helps Nonprofit Add Cyber Standards Into Open Source Platform; Rohan Amin Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Helps Nonprofit Add Cyber Standards Into Open Source Platform; Rohan Amin Comments

    Lockheed Martin has partnered with the Open Information Security Foundation to integrate cybersecurity standards into OISF’s open source intrusion detection and intrusion prevention platform for automated sharing of cyber threat data. The company and organization integrated TAXII, STIX and CybOX standards to the Suricata Engine in order to communicate data on cyber threats between the OISF and a “cyber sensor,” Lockheed said […] More

  • FBI Adopts General Dynamics VoIP Phone; Chris Marzilli Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FBI Adopts General Dynamics VoIP Phone; Chris Marzilli Comments

    General Dynamics C4 Systems‘s Sectera vIPer Universal Secure Phone has been chosen by the FBI as a replacement for the old Secure Terminal Equipment phones used by federal law enforcement and national security personnel. The vIPer Voice over Internet Protocol phones are designed to secure voice and data communications and can interoperate with all government secure phones, Defense Department networks […] More

  • Celeste Mohr: Raytheon, Navy Fire Air-to-Ground Missile in 'Cave Scenario' - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Celeste Mohr: Raytheon, Navy Fire Air-to-Ground Missile in ‘Cave Scenario’

    Raytheon and the U.S. Navy have demonstrated the Joint Standoff Weapon‘s air-to-ground functions by launching the weapons from aircraft flying at 25,000 feet to hit land targets. During the flight tests, two JSOW II C weapons followed the preplanned routes to reach the simulated cave targets, the company said Thursday. “Naval aviators employed JSOW’s firepower in a tactically realistic cave scenario […] More

  • Siemens to Acquire Rolls-Royce Energy's Gas Turbine, Compressor Business for $1B - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Siemens to Acquire Rolls-Royce Energy’s Gas Turbine, Compressor Business for $1B

    Siemens has moved to expand its oil and gas and decentralized power generation portfolio by agreeing to acquire Rolls-Royce Energy‘s gas turbine and compressor business for $1.3 billion. The companies intend to complete the deal by December and the transaction includes Rolls-Royce’s 2,500 aero-derivative gas turbines, which generated estimated revenues of $1.5 billion in Rolls-Royce’s 2013 fiscal year, Siemens said Tuesday. Rolls-Royce built […] More

  • Ciber to Upgrade Nevada Gaming Control Board System; Brian Haskett Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ciber to Upgrade Nevada Gaming Control Board System; Brian Haskett Comments

    Ciber has been selected by the State of Nevada Gaming Control Board to modernize a records system used for storing data required in monitoring gaming organizations and to provide system migration services. Under the contract, Ciber will provide project management, develop system requirements, design documents and custom applications, implement user acceptance testing and manage data migration, the […] More

  • Jacobs to Help Boeing Construction Fabrication Facility; Tom McDuffie Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jacobs to Help Boeing Construction Fabrication Facility; Tom McDuffie Comments

    Jacobs Engineering Group will provide Boeing with project and construction management support such as preliminary planning and project controls for a planned 1.2 million-square foot fabrication facility in Everett, Wash. The companies aim to complete the future Composite Wing Center for the Boeing 777X commercial plane by mid-2016, Jacobs said Tuesday. Tom McDuffie, Jacobs group vice president, the “technically complex” project […] More

  • Jacobs to Help Nesma Build Saudi Arabian Hospitals; Bassim Shebaro Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jacobs to Help Nesma Build Saudi Arabian Hospitals; Bassim Shebaro Comments

    Jacobs Engineering Group has won a three-year contract to help Nesma & Partners manage construction work on five hospitals for the Saudi Arabian National Guard Hospital Program. Jacobs said Tuesday it will help manage design and construction of a 300-bed maternity hospital in Riyadh, a 346-bed children’s hospital and 176-bed neurological hospital in Jeddah and two 300-bed National Guard hospitals […] More