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  • General Dynamics Continues Pittsfield Energy Reduction Work - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Continues Pittsfield Energy Reduction Work

    General Dynamics continues to work with Massachusetts-based utility provider Eversource Energy in efforts aimed at reducing the energy footprint of its mission systems group’s Pittsfield facility by more than two million kilowatt hours a year. Conservation efforts at the building began last fall and include the replacement of outdoor light fixtures with LED products and the adoption of a centralized control system […] More

  • Tripwire Enlists iSight Intell for Adaptive Threat Protection Software - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tripwire Enlists iSight Intell for Adaptive Threat Protection Software

    The ThreatScape suite from iSight Partners is now available to clients of Tripwire‘s security software under the latter’s Adaptive Threat Protection program. ThreatScape’s inclusion allows Tripwire Enterprise access to the API’s cloud-based “indicators of compromise,” where intelligence to speed up threat detection and alerts analysis could be derived, Tripwire said Thursday. The combination also offers customers the ability to contextualize alerts, identify suspect file changes […] More

  • Messenger Spacecraft Completes Mission, Crash-Lands Into Mercury; Andy Calloway Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Messenger Spacecraft Completes Mission, Crash-Lands Into Mercury; Andy Calloway Comments

    NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging spacecraft crashed into the planet Mercury’s surface on April 30 as planned, marking the completion of its four-year mission orbiting the planet. NASA said Friday the impact, estimated to have created a crater up to 50 feet wide on the planet’s surface, was confirmed by mission controllers at the […] More

  • UK OKs BAE as Provider of Intell-Base Vulnerability Testing for Banks - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    UK OKs BAE as Provider of Intell-Base Vulnerability Testing for Banks

    BAE Systems is now eligible to deploy threat intelligence and penetration testing services under the British central bank-led CBEST scheme. The company said Thursday it is the first organization to obtain clearance to offer vulnerability testing technology to the U.K. financial sector through the framework. According to the Bank of England website, the three-year-old CBEST program […] More

  • Leidos Lands DIA Anti-Drug, Crime Intell Analysis Task Order; Mary Craft Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Lands DIA Anti-Drug, Crime Intell Analysis Task Order; Mary Craft Comments

    The Defense Intelligence Agency has awarded a five-year, $25 million task order to Leidos for military intelligence analysis on narcotics groups and international crime networks as part of a fixed-fee contract. The company said Thursday it will perform work at Joint Base-Anacostia-Bolling in Washington, D.C. and also provide assistance to the Pentagon’s risk management Defense Critical Infrastructure Program. “We look […] More

  • BlueLine Grid’s Mobile Messaging System Draws Investment from In-Q-Tel - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BlueLine Grid’s Mobile Messaging System Draws Investment from In-Q-Tel

    In-Q-Tel has made an investment into BlueLine Grid to help the mobile communications company further develop its mobile messaging system and address the interoperability challenges that face the U.S. intelligence sector. BlueLine Grid’s mobile platform works to allow government agencies and corporate clients to securely share messages, voice and data using an identity verification service, IQT said Thursday. Jack Weiss, BlueLine […] More

  • Solar Probe Plus Completes CDR, Reaches ‘Build’ Status; Andy Driesman Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Solar Probe Plus Completes CDR, Reaches ‘Build’ Status; Andy Driesman Comments

    The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has received the go-ahead to start building NASA’s Solar Probe Plus spacecraft following a critical design review of its full mission plan by an independent agency panel. The plan includes how the SPP team will perform construction and testing of the spacecraft tasked to study the outer atmosphere […] More

  • Bill Cull: Splunk Software Provides Support for Lockheed F-35 Data Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bill Cull: Splunk Software Provides Support for Lockheed F-35 Data Center

    Lockheed Martin has tapped Splunk software to provide analysis and visualization support for machine data used in its F-35 Lightning II program. Splunk Enterprise monitors network and information technology systems for the fifth-generation fighter jet’s off-board IT backbone ALIS, short for Automatic Logistics Information System, Splunk said Wednesday. “F-35 aircraft are flying data centers that […] More

  • Anne Altman: Army Taps IBM Hybrid Cloud for Logistics Data Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Anne Altman: Army Taps IBM Hybrid Cloud for Logistics Data Center

    The U.S. Army has adopted an IBM Hybrid Cloud to add analytics and mobile functions to the branch’s Logistics Support Activity, a service that provides data support to decision makers in Army missions around the world. LOGSA has worked to record 40 million data transactions per day since the transition to the IBM cloud platform in 2014, the company said Wednesday. According to […] More