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  • INSA White Paper Details Industry's Intell Community IT Views; Joseph DeTrani Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    INSA White Paper Details Industry’s Intell Community IT Views; Joseph DeTrani Comments

    The Intelligence and National Security Alliance has released a white paper that details the view from members of the private sector on the intelligence community information technology enterprise. INSA said Thursday it developed the paper based on panel discussions on best practices and lessons gained from industry’s shared services and cloud-based architectures. Joseph DeTrani, INSA president, said the organization […] More

  • ReportsnReports: Unmanned Ground Vehicle Market to Hit $8B by 2020 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ReportsnReports: Unmanned Ground Vehicle Market to Hit $8B by 2020

    ReportsnReports has projected the global unmanned ground vehicle market to be worth $8.26 billion by 2020, a 32.72 percent increase from the firm’s 2014 figure. The market research firm’s new report analyzes emerging trends and major countries from North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, Latin America and Africa regions, MarketsnMarkets said Thursday. ReportsnReports also examines UGV applications […] More

  • Mike Tanner: Hitachi Data Archive Tool Built to Help Agencies Meet Mandates - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mike Tanner: Hitachi Data Archive Tool Built to Help Agencies Meet Mandates

    Hitachi Data Systems Federal Corp. has introduced a new digital data preservation offering for federal agencies to archive information over a long period. The digital preservation platform works to store information by using existing Blu-ray and M-DISC technology, HDS Federal said Wednesday. “To fulfill regulatory requirements, agencies are required to archive the data they generate and collect anywhere […] More

  • NASA's Mark Geyer: Orion Spacecraft Set for Flight Test in December - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA’s Mark Geyer: Orion Spacecraft Set for Flight Test in December

    NASA‘s engineers have completed work on the crew module on the Lockheed Martin-built Orion spacecraft, a move the agency says marks the end of work on all major components of Orion. The engineers attached the crew and service modules to the adapter and deliver the spacecraft to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for ammonia and hyper-propellant fueling in preparation […] More

  • Frost & Sullivan: Big Data to Drive Smart Buildings Industry Growth - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Frost & Sullivan: Big Data to Drive Smart Buildings Industry Growth

    Frost & Sullivan believes that big data will help facilitate the development of the smart buildings industry amid the growing trends of urbanization, technology connectivity and convergence and device communications. In the report titled “Big Data as an Enabler for Smart Buildings,” Frost & Sullivan says big data and related technology platforms such as the Internet of Things and cloud computing […] More

  • Research and Markets: Directed-Energy Weapons Market to Achieve 23.16% CAGR by 2018 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Research and Markets: Directed-Energy Weapons Market to Achieve 23.16% CAGR by 2018

    Research and Markets projects the global directed-energy weapons market to achieve a 23.16 percent compound annual growth rate through 2018 as defense budgets and research and development activity increase in certain countries. The market research firm says that research-and-development work will respond to growing demand for new military weapons designed to cause minimal collateral damage. BAE Systems, Boeing, Raytheon and Textron will be […] More

  • Boeing Satellite to Carry HySpecIQ's Imaging Payload into Space; Craig Cooning Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Satellite to Carry HySpecIQ’s Imaging Payload into Space; Craig Cooning Comments

    Boeing Co. will build its first commercial batch of the company’s 502 Phoenix small satellites under a contract to carry HySpecIQ‘s hyperspectral payload into space. Two Phantom Phoenix-based satellites are scheduled for launch in 2018 to perform command and control operations, image processing and imagery data storage, Boeing said Wednesday. “Our 502 Phoenix is well-suited for a range of missions […] More

  • MarketsandMarkets: ATC Equipment Sector's Value to Reach $5.5B by 2020 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MarketsandMarkets: ATC Equipment Sector’s Value to Reach $5.5B by 2020

    MarketsandMarkets has released a new report that projects the air traffic control equipment market to be worth approximately $5.5 billion in 2020. The report, which analyzes the market’s growth by geography and country between 2014 and 2020, indicates that the air traffic market will double in value over the next 15 years, MarketsandMarkets said Thursday. Airport construction projects […] More

  • Northrop to Build Wideband Digital Antenna for DARPA; William Phillips Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Build Wideband Digital Antenna for DARPA; William Phillips Comments

    Northrop Grumman Corp. has been awarded an $11.9 million contract to build and demonstrate a wideband digital antenna technology for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s radio frequency sensors. The company will work with Semtech and Systems & Technology Research to design a reusable digital common module under the first phase of the Arrays on Commercial Timescales program, Northrop said Wednesday. DARPA wants the common […] More

  • Unisys' Colin Lacey Describes Phases for Cloud Strategy Implementation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Unisys’ Colin Lacey Describes Phases for Cloud Strategy Implementation

    Colin Lacey, vice president of data center transformation services at Unisys, has outlined several recommended steps for enterprises to implement their cloud strategy. Lacey wrote in a post published Tuesday that Unisys begins its approach by developing a plan and evaluating the workloads through technical, business requirement and compliance reviews. “Moving along the curve, once you […] More

  • Raytheon, Navy Complete Tomahawk Missile Flight Tests; Mike Jarrett Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon, Navy Complete Tomahawk Missile Flight Tests; Mike Jarrett Comments

    Raytheon and the U.S. Navy have evaluated new software upgrades to the Tomahawk weapon system in a series of flight tests. The Tomahawk Block IV engaged its target at the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, China Lake weapons range after it launched from the USS Hampton submarine and redirected by a strike controller from a maritime command center, Raytheon said Wednesday. The […] More

  • IDC's Melanie Posey Outlines Considerations for Subscription-Based Software Adoption - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IDC’s Melanie Posey Outlines Considerations for Subscription-Based Software Adoption

    Melanie Posey, research vice president of IDC’s hosting and managed network services, has described three factors she believes enterprises should consider before adopting subscription-based software offerings. Posey wrote in a blog post published Monday that enterprises must conduct audit on the software they are buying to allocate workloads between perpetual license and subscription models. “There are […] More