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  • Exelis Rolls Out Helios APIs for Weather Forecasting; Brian Bell Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Exelis Rolls Out Helios APIs for Weather Forecasting; Brian Bell Comments

    Exelis has embedded new application program interfaces into the company’s applications and systems for users to access the Helios platform. The Helios4Forecast, Helios4Apps and Helios4Enterprise APIs are designed to help weather forecasters, product managers and logistics operations managers view data on weather conditions through Helios, Exelis said Tuesday. “Our APIs… [allows] our customers to look at […] More

  • Bechtel, Westinghouse Form Nuclear Plant Decommission Team; Michael Graham Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bechtel, Westinghouse Form Nuclear Plant Decommission Team; Michael Graham Comments

    Bechtel has partnered with Westinghouse Electric Co. to perform decontamination and decommissioning services on nuclear power plants across the U.S. The services consist of pre-shutdown planning, licensing, project management, dismantling, demolition, waste handling and site closeout, Bechtel said Monday. Michael Graham, general manager of Bechtel’s global environmental business, said the sites will be prepared for […] More

  • Cubic to Update Italian Army’s Home Station Training System; Dave Schmitz Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic to Update Italian Army’s Home Station Training System; Dave Schmitz Comments

    Cubic’s defense applications subsidiary has won a more than $6.5 million follow-on contract to update the home station training system of the Italian army. The contract was awarded through Cubic’s Italy-based partner STE S.p.A. for the updates of multiple integrated laser engagement systems and counter improvised explosive devices kits, Cubic said Tuesday. “The training systems provide […] More

  • CGI Develops Emergency Response System in Estonia; Avo Kask Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CGI Develops Emergency Response System in Estonia; Avo Kask Comments

    CGI has worked with several Estonian agencies to develop and implement a new emergency response system in an effort to shorten response times in public safety missions. The system incorporates a digital map fixed in the control rooms of the Estonian emergency response center and within rescue vehicles and ambulances to display information about incidents […] More

  • NetApp’s Kirk Kern: Agencies Need Clarity on Cloud Migration - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NetApp’s Kirk Kern: Agencies Need Clarity on Cloud Migration

    Kirk Kern, chief technology officer of cloud technologies at NetApp’s U.S. public sector business, has outlined cloud adoption challenges to federal agencies and recommended strategies to overcome those issues. Kern wrote in an opinion piece for Federal Times published Monday that one potential obstacle to federal agency cloud adoption is the “lack of clarity on cloud migration […] More

  • Cisco, Asystec Form Big Data JV; Adam Grennan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cisco, Asystec Form Big Data JV; Adam Grennan Comments

    Cisco has invested $238,000 in a big data joint venture with Asystec, Tech Central reported Monday. Cisco will provide big data services to the partnership and Asystec will contribute human resources, marketing and training at the innovation labs in Belfast, Dublin, Limerick and Cork, according to the report. “With each new person, process, piece of […] More

  • Deltek Updates Project Scheduling Service; Namita Dhallan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deltek Updates Project Scheduling Service; Namita Dhallan Comments

    Deltek updated its project scheduling tool offering in an effort to help customers complete their tasks. The Acumen 6.0 is designed to integrate with key scheduling platforms and synchronize with Deltek RiskBook risk registers, Deltek said Monday. Namita Dhallan, executive vice president of product strategy and engineering at Deltek, said the company intends for the updated […] More

  • Eric Webster: Exelis to Access TrafficLand’s Traffic Camera Network for Helios Imagery - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Eric Webster: Exelis to Access TrafficLand’s Traffic Camera Network for Helios Imagery

    Exelis and live traffic video aggregator TrafficLand have partnered to deliver real-time weather information to customers across the U.S. via Exelis’ Helios platform. Exelis will apply its Helios image science to TrafficLand’s ground-based cameras and sensors across the country, Exelis said Monday. “TrafficLand offers Exelis direct access to its network of over 18,000 traffic cameras […] More

  • Peder Jungck: BAE Releases Social Media, Open Source Analysis Tool to Stop Data Leaks - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Peder Jungck: BAE Releases Social Media, Open Source Analysis Tool to Stop Data Leaks

    The U.S. subsidiary of BAE Systems has unveiled a new security analysis product that is designed to help companies protect their critical assets through social media and open source data analyses. The analysis tool is designed to monitor data leaks, intellectual property infringement issues, insider threats, social engineering attempts and smear campaigns, BAE Systems Inc. said Monday. Peder Jungck, […] More

  • Cubic, DRS to Update F-35 Training System for Windows 7; Dave Schmitz Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic, DRS to Update F-35 Training System for Windows 7; Dave Schmitz Comments

    Cubic Corp. has received new contracts to continue to develop and integrate the ground instrumentation subsystem of Lockheed Martin’s F-35 air combat training system. Cubic will work with DRS Technologies to make the ground subsystem functional with the Microsoft Windows 7 operating system and update encryption tools for the fighter jet’s P5 systems, Cubic said Monday. Dave Schmitz, president […] More

  • Chris Finan: Malware Against Mobile Payment to ‘Become More Prevalent’ in 2015 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Chris Finan: Malware Against Mobile Payment to ‘Become More Prevalent’ in 2015

    Chris Finan, head of Manifold Security, believes malware that targets mobile payment credentials “will become more prevalent” in 2015, Nextgov reported Wednesday. Cyber experts forecast that hackers will resort to new methods for cyber attacks against government agencies and commercial entities, Aliya Sternstein reports. Finan, a former White House cyber adviser and cyberwarfare planner for the Defense […] More

  • Informatica’s Margaret Breya Forecasts Big Data Trends in 2015 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Informatica’s Margaret Breya Forecasts Big Data Trends in 2015

    Margaret Breya, executive vice president and chief marketing officer of Informatica’s business services, has highlighted several trends that she believes will govern the big data landscape in 2015 onwards, CXOtoday reported Wednesday. Breya told the publication that 2015 would be the year of “data explorers” and how companies use data will determine the key players. […] More