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  • Lockheed-NASA Team Puts Orion Spacecraft to Launch, Ascent Vibration Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-NASA Team Puts Orion Spacecraft to Launch, Ascent Vibration Test

    Lockheed Martin and NASA have completed a series of environmental tests on the Orion spacecraft to monitor how it performed during simulated launch and ascent vibrations. Engineers who conducted the Multi-Point Random Vibration Testing compared results and predictions and worked to verify the performance of at least 20 avionics and propulsion systems, Lockheed said Tuesday. The company and […] More

  • Mike Feldman: Xerox Rolls Out New Information Management Products - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mike Feldman: Xerox Rolls Out New Information Management Products

    Xerox has launched four new information management products to address an enterprise’s information security, workflow automation and print management needs. “Our three-stage strategy – assess and optimize, secure and integrate, and automate and simplify – continues to evolve with these new offerings,” Mike Feldman, president of large enterprise operations at Xerox, said Tuesday. The company’s new products include the Xerox Secure Print Manager […] More

  • Greg Brown: Motorola Solutions' Sale of Enterprise Business to Impact Government, Public Safety Business - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Greg Brown: Motorola Solutions’ Sale of Enterprise Business to Impact Government, Public Safety Business

    Motorola Solutions has begun talks to sell its enterprise business to Zebra Technologies for $3.45 billion in a bid to beef up asset tracking tools for their clients, Health IT Outcomes reported earlier this month. John Oncea writes the two companies expect to finalize the all-cash transaction by yearend. The combined organizations intend to integrate […] More

  • Dave Schmitz: Cubic Wins $35M Contract to Support UK Combat Simulation System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dave Schmitz: Cubic Wins $35M Contract to Support UK Combat Simulation System

    A Cubic Corp. business unit has won a three-year follow-on contract valued at an estimated $35 million to provide support and repair services for the Area Weapons Effects Simulator system. Cubic Defense Systems will perform work at the Salisbury Plain Training Area in the U.K. and the British Army Training Unit Suffield in Alberta, Canada, the company said Tuesday. […] More

  • CSC, Amazon Web Services to Establish Global Cloud Center; Terry Wise, Dan Hushon Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSC, Amazon Web Services to Establish Global Cloud Center; Terry Wise, Dan Hushon Comment

    CSC and Amazon Web Services have partnered to establish a CSC Global Cloud Center of Excellence that will cater to enterprise and public-sector cloud services needs by leveraging the companies’ cloud technologies. CSC said Tuesday they will set up the initial Global Cloud CoE in Austin, Texas, to deliver enterprise workload migration and private and hybrid cloud integration services, such as […] More

  • Telemar SpA to Resell Inmarsat's Global Xpress Service; Bruno Musella Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Telemar SpA to Resell Inmarsat’s Global Xpress Service; Bruno Musella Comments

    Telemar SpA will act as a value added reseller of Inmarsat‘s mobile broadband satellite network to government customers in Europe. Inmarsat appointed Telemar as a Global Xpress value added reseller for the maritime sector in 2012 and the companies have worked together for more than 30 years, Telemar said Tuesday. Bruno Musella, Telemar CEO, said his company also will […] More

  • Deloitte's ConvergeHEALTH Learning Network to Facilitate Healthcare Research; Brett Davis Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deloitte’s ConvergeHEALTH Learning Network to Facilitate Healthcare Research; Brett Davis Comments

    Under ConvergeHEALTH by Deloitte‘s rapid learning network, Forest Laboratories will collaborate with Intermountain Healthcare to research outcomes by using an analytics platform designed to generate healthcare services insights. Deloitte said Monday the collaborative project initially focused on respiratory diseases and will deploy OutcomesMiner on electronic medical records to establish healthcare outcomes data and develop new products and treatments based on them. “At ConvergeHEALTH […] More

  • FireEye Adds New Android App to Mobile Threat Prevention Platform; Manish Gupta Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FireEye Adds New Android App to Mobile Threat Prevention Platform; Manish Gupta Comments

    FireEye has added an application that works to protect Android-based devices from malware into the company’s Mobile Threat Prevention platform. The company said Tuesday the hybrid-cloud-based FireEye Mobile Security App will work to provide real-time visibility into existing mobile threats in the network through signature-less apps analysis to block and alert users to unsafe apps. “Mobile security, like advanced persistent threat […] More

  • Battelle Unveils 'Smart' Biodefense, Hazard Detection Tech; Matthew Shaw Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle Unveils ‘Smart’ Biodefense, Hazard Detection Tech; Matthew Shaw Comments

    Battelle has begun production of a chemical and biological hazard sensor system for federal biodefense programs and commercial industry applications, with self-contained capabilities designed to limit operating costs and time to identify threats. The company said Monday the Resource Effective BioIdentification System is equipped with aerosol collection, optical spectroscopy capabilities and Internet connectivity. “Our warfighters, first responders, security […] More

  • Saab Continues to Supply Component Parts to Aircraft Manufacturers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Saab Continues to Supply Component Parts to Aircraft Manufacturers

    Saab continues to support aircraft manufacturers Airbus and Boeing by supplying composite and metal components, such as wing parts, doors and hatches under Saab’s civil aircraft production business based in Linköping, Sweden. Saab most recently signed a contract to supply the attachment structure for Airbus A350XWB-1000‘s landing flaps, the company said Sunday. The December 2013 contract extends Saab’s support […] More