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  • DHS Seeks Airport Facial Recognition Camera Sources - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS Seeks Airport Facial Recognition Camera Sources

    The Department of Homeland Security seeks to install facial recognition cameras in airports in a move to assess the information system that supports the Customs and Border Protection’s traveler exit protocol, Nextgov reported Monday. Mohana Ravindranath writes a solicitation released in early November seeks mounted facial recognition cameras from industry sources through DHS’ FirstSource II indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract vehicle. […] More

  • General Atomics 'Type-Certifiable' Predator B Completes Maiden Test Flight; Linden Blue Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics ‘Type-Certifiable’ Predator B Completes Maiden Test Flight; Linden Blue Comments

    General Atomics’ aeronautical systems business has completed the first test flight of the type-certifiable variant of the company’s Predator B remotely piloted aircraft during a demonstration held in California. The maiden flight of the type-certifiable Predator B drone occurred Nov. 17 at General Atomics’ Gray Butte Flight Operations Facility near Palmdale, the company said Monday. “The first flight […] More

  • Raytheon Demos Cyber, Electromagnetic Battle Mgmt Tool; Frank Pietryka Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Demos Cyber, Electromagnetic Battle Mgmt Tool; Frank Pietryka Comments

    Raytheon has demonstrated the interoperability of the company’s cyber and electromagnetic battle management tool with an electronic warfare asset management system used by the U.S. Marine Corps. The company said Monday it integrated the CEMBM tool into Raptor-X to showcase how the unified system could facilitate data sharing across the joint battlespace environment. “We’ve achieved an interoperability breakthrough with CEMBM,” […] More

  • Northrop Ships First Set of Lightweight Wide Aperture Array for Navy Submarine; Alan Lytle Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Ships First Set of Lightweight Wide Aperture Array for Navy Submarine; Alan Lytle Comments

    Northrop Grumman has shipped a first set of lightweight wide aperture arrays to the U.S. Navy for Block IV of the Virginia class submarine. The new delivery is the 19th shipset Northrop has supplied for the VCS program and the Navy will use the fiber-optic passive hull mounted sensor array to operate its VCS fleet, the company said […] More

  • Anthony Foxx: Transportation Dept Kicks Off Search for Automated Vehicle Tech Proving Grounds - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Anthony Foxx: Transportation Dept Kicks Off Search for Automated Vehicle Tech Proving Grounds

    The Transportation Department has launched the agency’s Automation Proving Ground Pilot Program to designate proving grounds for testing, demonstration and deployment of automated vehicle systems. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx wrote in a blog post published Wednesday that DOT will accept proposals through Dec. 19 from test tracks or testing facilities, race tracks, cities or urban cores, […] More

  • Avaya Deploys Unified Comms in St. Lucia; Lawrence Nervais Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Avaya Deploys Unified Comms in St. Lucia; Lawrence Nervais Comments

    Avaya has installed the company’s unified communications and contact center applications in the networking infrastructure of St. Lucia. St. Lucia’s government implemented Avaya’s Aura unified communications and contact center applications based on an Avaya Fabric Connect network to streamline communications and manage public services, Avaya said Wednesday. As part of the contract, Avaya provides networking, […] More

  • Informatica Ranks Top in Forrester’s Big Data Fabric Report; Ronen Schwartz Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Big Data & Analytics News, News

    Informatica Ranks Top in Forrester’s Big Data Fabric Report; Ronen Schwartz Comments

    Informatica has been ranked as a tier-one company in the current offering and market presence categories of Forrester Research’s big data market report. The Forrester Wave: Big Data Fabric Q4 2016 recognizes Informatica for the company’s visual and metadata-driven development environment that Forrester says aids in the increase of developer productivity, Informatica said Tuesday. Informatica’s […] More

  • Kratos Lands $17.75M Umanned Aerial Target Drone Contract; Eric DeMarco Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kratos Lands $17.75M Umanned Aerial Target Drone Contract; Eric DeMarco Comments

    Kratos‘ subsidiary Composite Engineering Inc. has been awarded a $17.75 million contract to supply a high performance unmanned aerial target drone system for two separate sites of an international client. CEI, a business unit of Kratos’ unmanned systems division, will also provide BQM-167i unmanned aerial target drone aircraft, support and command and control equipment, spares […] More

  • Samsung Subsidiary Taps Elbit to Protect Customers from Attacks; Adi Dar Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Samsung Subsidiary Taps Elbit to Protect Customers from Attacks; Adi Dar Comments

    Samsung SDS, a Samsung subsidiary, has selected Elbit Systems‘ Cyberbit company to provide services meant to protect Samsung SDS’ clients from cyber attacks. Samsung SDS and Cyberbit will use Cyberbit’s SCADAShield to perform non-intrusive deep-packet inspection on Korean customers’ critical infrastructure, Elbit said Wednesday. SCADAShield is designed to protect customers’ critical infrastructure from cyber attacks […] More

  • Ensco's Scott Goldstein Talks Evolving National Security Risks in Interview - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ensco’s Scott Goldstein Talks Evolving National Security Risks in Interview

    Scott Goldstein, chief strategy and technology officer at Ensco, has highlighted in an interview what he describes as unprecedented risks to national security from emerging threats such as weapons of mass destruction, chemical and biological agents and explosive devices. Goldstein said in the interview for the Worldwide Business with Kathy Ireland show that those threats continue to […] More