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  • Red Hat's David Egts: Gov't Can Use Linux Containers to Support Virtualization - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Red Hat’s David Egts: Gov’t Can Use Linux Containers to Support Virtualization

    Red Hat‘s David Egts says government agencies can use Linux container technology to support virtualization efforts in an effort to efficiency and flexibility of their information technology systems. Egts, the chief technologist at Red Hat’s public sector business, wrote in a piece published Tuesday on GCN that Linux containers include applications that agencies can deploy as a single package through […] More

  • Lockheed Selects Dutch Firm for F-35 Wing Parts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Selects Dutch Firm for F-35 Wing Parts

    Lockheed Martin has tapped Netherlands-based Fokker Technologies to manufacture wing components for future F-35 jets through the end of 2017 for low-rate initial production lots 9 and 10. Lockheed said Wednesday that Fokker will supply wing flaperons and outboard leading-edge flaps that aim to enable the F-35’s “controllability.” These components are made of titanium and composite materials to deliver a […] More

  • Mark Lancaster: SDL's Navy Enterprise Subscription License to Support Technical Data Mgmt - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mark Lancaster: SDL’s Navy Enterprise Subscription License to Support Technical Data Mgmt

    SDL has secured a Navy Enterprise Subscription License agreement with the Naval Surface Warfare Center – Carderock Division to support the service’s technical data management goals with the Standard NAVSEA Integrated Publishing Process. The company said Tuesday it also signed a Compatibility Sustainment Agreement for the NAVSEA viewer and SDL LiveContent S1000D. “We’re honored to help the U.S. Navy with its […] More

  • CACI, Appcelerator Form Mobile App Deployment Partnership; John Mengucci Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI, Appcelerator Form Mobile App Deployment Partnership; John Mengucci Comments

    CACI International has formed a cooperative alliance with Appcelerator to offer defense and civilian agencies tools for the development and deployment of mobile applications. CACI said Tuesday the partnership will integrate the Appcelerator Platform with its Code Analysis Tool in an effort to speed the development, tests and updates to applications and automatically identify potential vulnerabilities in the code before deployment. John Mengucci, CACI chief […] More

  • CAE to Distribute VirtaMed's Surgical Simulators in North America; Robert Amyot Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CAE to Distribute VirtaMed’s Surgical Simulators in North America; Robert Amyot Comments

    CAE‘s healthcare business has signed a distributor agreement to include VirtaMed‘s interventional surgical simulators in CAE’s portfolio of medical simulation products for healthcare clients in Canada and the U.S. CAE said Friday it will distribute VirtaMed’s arthroscopic, gynecologic and urologic simulators such as ArthroS, HystSim, PelvicSim and UroSim with CAE’s LapVR, EndoVR and CathLabVR. “The orthopedic market is adopting simulation, and we look forward to providing the ArthroS […] More

  • NanoMarkets: Radiation Detection Device Demand to Grow in Domestic Security, Military Markets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NanoMarkets: Radiation Detection Device Demand to Grow in Domestic Security, Military Markets

    A new NanoMarkets report predicts that the radiation detection device market will reach a value of $1.92 billion for domestic security applications and $868 million for military applications by 2020. The company said Jan. 5 that the military and security sectors are the fastest-growing markets for radiation detection devices due to an increase in terrorist activity and demand […] More

  • ASDReports: GEOINT Market to Grow Over 10 Years Beyond C2, Intelligence - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ASDReports: GEOINT Market to Grow Over 10 Years Beyond C2, Intelligence

    A new ASDReports market forecast indicates that the global geospatial intelligence market will reach a value of $9.7 billion within the next 10 years, C4ISR & Networks reported Wednesday. Michael Peck reports that the study points to growing international capabilities and technology developments in the areas of digital mapping and modeling. Geographic information systems now have applications beyond command-and-control and intelligence […] More

  • Visiongain: Military Land 'Vetronics' Market to Stall in 2015, Pick Up After 2017 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Visiongain: Military Land ‘Vetronics’ Market to Stall in 2015, Pick Up After 2017

    A new report by Visiongain indicates a slowdown in defense spending on military land vehicle electronics over the next year due to the end of ground troop deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq. The market will stall in North America and most of Europe, but Visiongain said Tuesday that modernization programs in Australia and France will help the market reach […] More

  • NASA Puts Space Launch System Engine Through 1st Hot-Fire Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Puts Space Launch System Engine Through 1st Hot-Fire Test

    NASA has completed an initial, 500-second hot-fire test on the RS-25 engine for Boeing‘s Space Launch System at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi in preparation for the rocket’s future missions to deep space. The space agency said Friday its engineers checked the inlet pressure conditions and engine controller unit and will continue with further tests in April. “We’ve made modifications […] More

  • Raytheon Puts AESA Radar Function Through Flight Test; Roy Azevedo Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Puts AESA Radar Function Through Flight Test; Roy Azevedo Comments

    Raytheon has completed a flight test of its APG-79(V)X AESA radar system fitted to F/A-18C/D Hornet jets to check detection, SAR mapping and air-to-air/air-to-ground functions. The company said Monday the radar system will aim to help extend the tactical advantage and relevance of the F/A-18C/D. The APG-79 system joins Raytheon’s APG-63(V)3 and APG-82(V)1 radars and also flies on the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and EA-18G Growler jets, […] More

  • Boeing Preps Launch of Stacked Satellites With Electric Propulsion - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Preps Launch of Stacked Satellites With Electric Propulsion

    Boeing has produced a set of 702SP small-platform satellites that will use an all-electric propulsion system when they are launched to space in February as a stacked pair. SpaceX‘s Falcon 9 rocket will carry the ABS-3A and EUTELSAT 115 West B satellites to space together next month, Boeing said Friday. Besides 702SP, the company said it also released the 702MP and 502 […] More

  • KippsDeSanto's Marc Marlin: 2015 to Continue 2014 GovCon M&A Trends - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    KippsDeSanto’s Marc Marlin: 2015 to Continue 2014 GovCon M&A Trends

    Marc Marlin, a director at investment bank KippsDeSanto, believes that the government contracting industry will see companies looking to bolster their market posture and drive business growth through mergers and acquisitions in 2015. Marlin wrote in a guest piece published Thursday on Federal Times that large, pure-play businesses in fields such as cyber, health, cloud, C4ISR and big data analytics will see […] More