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  • SAP Plans to Hire 100 People at Romania IT Consultancy Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAP Plans to Hire 100 People at Romania IT Consultancy Center

    SAP is looking to fill 100 open positions at a newly-opened information technology consultancy center in Romania by the end of this year, Romania Insider reported Tuesday.  The company aims to have 125 employees at the SAP Nearshore Delivery Unit Cluj-Napoca center by the end of 2015, according to the report. Nearly 30 employees currently work at the center with […] More

  • Steve Bruce: Lockheed, Raytheon Could Learn Air Force 'Space Fence' Contract Winner by May - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Steve Bruce: Lockheed, Raytheon Could Learn Air Force ‘Space Fence’ Contract Winner by May

    The U.S. Air Force could award a contract by the end of May to either Lockheed Martin or Raytheon for a radar to track debris in low-Earth orbit, a Lockheed vice president told Defense News in a story published Sunday. “The (operational) date would be in 2018 for site 1,” Steve Bruce, VP for advanced systems in Lockheed’s mission systems […] More

  • Microsoft to Invest $274M, Add Cloud Infrastructure at Wyoming Data Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft to Invest $274M, Add Cloud Infrastructure at Wyoming Data Center

    Microsoft will allocate $274 million in investments to expand the company’s operations in Cheyenne, Wyo. and add a new cloud computing infrastructure there, Data Center Knowledge reported Saturday. Rich Miller writes that the plan would increase the company’s total spending in Wyoming to nearly $500 million. The company plans to start construction of the new […] More

  • Lockheed's Marillyn Hewson, MBDA's Thomas Homberg Discuss MEADS Technology - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed’s Marillyn Hewson, MBDA’s Thomas Homberg Discuss MEADS Technology

    Lockheed Martin President and CEO Marillyn Hewson and MBDA Germany Managing Director Thomas Homberg spoke at a German Council on Foreign Relations event Monday to discuss an air and missile defense system program. “For Germany as well as its co-operation partners, the MEADS technology development results create the prerequisites for building sustainable air and missile defense tailored to current and […] More

  • Compusearch Deploys Acquisition Management System for Labor Dept - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Compusearch Deploys Acquisition Management System for Labor Dept

    Compusearch has deployed its acquisition management system across the Labor Department‘s program and procurement offices ahead of the next phase of DOL’s AMS modernization program. The company said Wednesday that it analyzed requirements and migrated legacy system data as part of the deployment process for the cloud-based PRISM. PRISM works to integrate with DOL’s New Core Financial […] More

  • Xerox Parking Meter Modernization Earns Indianapolis $3M; David Cummins Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Xerox Parking Meter Modernization Earns Indianapolis $3M; David Cummins Comments

    The public-private partnership between Xerox and the City of Indianapolis reports increased revenue from its 2010 project to upgrade the city’s parking meter system. Xerox said Thursday the ParkIndy project has led to revenues of $2.7 million and a $12 million reinvestment on city infrastructure improvements. These solar-powered parking meters accept payment via credit card or phone applications such as […] More

  • Bechtel Team Nears Completion of Metro's Silver Line; Larry Melton Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bechtel Team Nears Completion of Metro’s Silver Line; Larry Melton Comments

    The Bechtel-led Dulles Transit Partners team has nearly completed the first phase of the Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project in conjunction with the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority. The Silver Line project includes five stations, six miles of elevated track, an underground tunnel and 11.7-mile rail line connecting Reston, Va. to the orange line, Bechtel said Thursday. “Substantial completion is an important milestone that […] More

  • Siemens to Use Teradata Analytics Tech on Industrial Data; Hermann Wimmer Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Siemens to Use Teradata Analytics Tech on Industrial Data; Hermann Wimmer Comments

    Siemens is set to deploy Teradata technology to leverage data from sensors, machines and other traditionally structured and unstructured sources to optimize its manufacturing services and product quality. The companies said Wednesday that the deployment of Teradata’s Unified Data Architecture, as part of Siemens’ enterprise-wide efforts, includes Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance, Teradata Aster Discovery Platform and Teradata Appliance for Hadoop. “The Teradata UDA makes […] More

  • Report: NASA to Use Google's 3D Navigation Tech on Int'l Space Station - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: NASA to Use Google’s 3D Navigation Tech on Int’l Space Station

    A model of a three-dimensional navigation technology built by Google will support NASA‘s floating service robots at the International Space Station, EE Times reported Monday. Kevin Fogarty writes that Project Tango is an offshoot of Google’s modular phone project that features a vision processor, depth sensor and a motion-tracking camera. According to the report, NASA will use Tango to […] More

  • David Blankenhorn: DLT to Connect Cloud Users With Amazon, Red Hat - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    David Blankenhorn: DLT to Connect Cloud Users With Amazon, Red Hat

    DLT Solutions has released a private cloud computing offering to integrate Red Hat‘s OpenShift Enterprise and Amazon Web Services into an environment for users to develop, test and deploy applications. CODEvolved is designed to expedite the software development and deployment process, the company said Wednesday. David Blankenhorn, chief cloud technologist at DLT, said the company aimed to connect users with […] More

  • Cubic to Help 12 SF Area Agencies Adopt Smart Card Fare Payment System; Matt Newsome Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic to Help 12 SF Area Agencies Adopt Smart Card Fare Payment System; Matt Newsome Comments

    Cubic Transportation Systems will help 12 suburban transit agencies in the San Francisco Bay Area implement a new fare card payment system under a $7.5 million contract modification. The company said Wednesday it will install the Clipper fare collection equipment on buses, retail devices, handheld card readers for payment inspection and wireless networks for data connectivity with bus garages. […] More

  • HP Launches New Enterprise Storage Disk Array; David Scott Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HP Launches New Enterprise Storage Disk Array; David Scott Comments

    Hewlett-Packard has released an enterprise-class storage disk array that is designed to help customers consolidate storage, make data available and recover from disasters. HP XP7 Storage is built to consolidate up to 4.5 petabytes of data in a single array, deliver up to 3 million I/O per second, support different media choices and use multiarray virtualization to protect data, the […] More