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  • HumanTouch's James Benson: Agencies Wary of Risk in IT Procurement Timelines - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HumanTouch’s James Benson: Agencies Wary of Risk in IT Procurement Timelines

    Platform-as-a-service gives federal agencies a tool to support their initiatives on cloud computing and data center consolidation but many have not embraced PaaS due to several reasons, James Benson of HumanTouch says. Benson, a HumanTouch senior vice president, wrote in a post for GCN published Thursday that he believes some system integrators are hindering federal adoption of PaaS despite its functions in application […] More

  • Kris Collo: GAO Adopts MicroPact Case Mgmt Platform to Track Investigations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kris Collo: GAO Adopts MicroPact Case Mgmt Platform to Track Investigations

    MicroPact has been awarded a contract with the Government Accountability Office to offer the agency’s Forensic Audits and Investigative Service division a product to use as a criminal investigative case management platform. The company said Thursday FAIS will use entellitrak to manage civil and criminal investigations on fraud, waste and abuse of public funds and help standardize its investigative process. “Investigations are complex and rarely move through a […] More

  • Battelle to Test Quantum Data Transfer on Ohio Fiber Optic Network - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle to Test Quantum Data Transfer on Ohio Fiber Optic Network

    Battelle has secured a five-year deal with the city of Dublin in Ohio to utilize its fiber optic network in testing the data transfer functions of ID Quantique‘s Quantum Key Distribution hardware. Battelle said Wednesday its quantum communication researchers have been given permission to use the city’s dubLINK fiber optic ring and other available cables for free to conduct the test beginning in early […] More

  • Tawanda Smith: iFOS Lands DOJ Staff Augmentation Services Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tawanda Smith: iFOS Lands DOJ Staff Augmentation Services Contract

    The Justice Department has awarded Intelligent Fiscal Optimal Solutions a five-year, $3 million contract to provide administrative, budget and program support services to DOJ’s Office on Violence Against Women for anti-violence programs. Columbia, Maryland-based iFOS said Wednesday the contract covers staff augmentation services for OVW activities. “We look forward to providing OVW with fresh solutions to minimize the costs of public administration,” […] More

  • Force 3's Greg Kushto: Follow Network Security Basics for Wider Threat Coverage - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Force 3’s Greg Kushto: Follow Network Security Basics for Wider Threat Coverage

    Federal agencies could be putting their networks at risk by focusing too many of their resources on specific types of cyber threats, Greg Kushto of Force 3 says. Kushto, director of Force 3’s security practice, wrote in a guest post for Nextgov published Tuesday that agencies should build an IT infrastructure that is secure from the majority of threats. To ensure this, he says that federal IT […] More

  • CellAntenna Offers Cellular Signal Awareness Tech; Howard Melamed Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CellAntenna Offers Cellular Signal Awareness Tech; Howard Melamed Comments

    CellAntenna, a systems integrator for L-3 Communications‘ Linkabit division, has unveiled a new cell phone threat control system that is designed to monitor and control cellular signals in stealth mode for law enforcement tactical operations. CellAntenna said Wednesday that CPC-Vulcan supports the company’s Guardian Service system, which prisons use to control the use of cell phones at the facilities. Howard Melamed, […] More

  • Research and Markets: Threat Complexity to Drive Smart Grid Cyber Market Growth - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Research and Markets: Threat Complexity to Drive Smart Grid Cyber Market Growth

    Research and Markets projects a 9.7 percent compound annual growth rate for the global smart grid cybersecurity market through 2018 due to what the firm sees as a growing complexity of cyber attacks on smart grid networks. “The security of the smart grid network is a major issue faced by power utilities because there is a frequent exchange of sensitive information […] More

  • Deltek's John Slye: Agencies Lump IT Spending in Q4 Over Past 5 Years - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deltek’s John Slye: Agencies Lump IT Spending in Q4 Over Past 5 Years

    Federal agencies have consistently purchased engineering and technical services, IT and telecom services and automatic data processing software the most during the fourth quarters of the past five fiscal years, reports Deltek‘s John Slye. Slye writes Tuesday that this trend is based on contract records in the Federal Procurement Data System, which show that agencies have allotted their remaining budgets […] More

  • Raytheon, Navy Use Space Sensor System to Cue SM-3 Launch; Bill Hart Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon, Navy Use Space Sensor System to Cue SM-3 Launch; Bill Hart Comments

    Raytheon and the U.S. Navy has completed a capabilities test of the company’s Standard Missile-3 Block IA to evaluate the weapon’s work with a satellite sensor system to pinpoint and destroy a medium-range ballistic missile target. Mitch Stevison, Raytheon program director for SM-3, said Thursday that this test is the first time the Navy used cues from a space sensor system […] More

  • HII's Newport News Arm Adopts QinetiQ's Paramarine Naval Architectural Software - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HII’s Newport News Arm Adopts QinetiQ’s Paramarine Naval Architectural Software

    Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ shipbuilding division will use QinetiQ‘s Paramarine Ship and Submersible Design Software for ship design and construction work on U.S. Navy aircraft carriers and carry out research and development in submarine systems. QinetiQ said Monday HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding will deploy Paramarine to function as naval architectural software and use Team Paramarine License for multiple users. The license package is designed […] More

  • Nelson Aquino: Rockwell Collins' Brazil Facility Expansion to Support New Aircraft Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Nelson Aquino: Rockwell Collins’ Brazil Facility Expansion to Support New Aircraft Services

    Rockwell Collins‘ subsidiary in Brazil will expand its aircraft service center in Sao Jose dos Campos to support the company’s entry into new markets in the region, said Managing Director Nelson Aquino. “This expansion will bring new engineering and service capabilities to our customers in the region and will enable Rockwell Collins do Brazil to pursue and capture more […] More