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  • Vormetric Combines Data Security Offerings with IBM Tool; Derek Tumulak Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vormetric Combines Data Security Offerings with IBM Tool; Derek Tumulak Comments

    Vormetric has moved to further build up its data security offerings by integrating IBM’s analytics tool for identifying threats into a data security platform. IBM’s QRadar security information and event management technology has been integrated into Vormetric’s platform for users to view data access information through dashboards, reports and displays, Vormetric said Thursday. The companies […] More

  • Bryan Coapstick: HP's New Public Sector Mobility Mgmt Offering Aimed at Compliance - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bryan Coapstick: HP’s New Public Sector Mobility Mgmt Offering Aimed at Compliance

    HP Enterprise Services has introduced a new mobility management offering for U.S. public sector agencies that seek to securely access applications from multiple devices. The cloud-based mobility service offering is hosted on HP’s Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program cloud environment in order to comply with regulations, HP said Wednesday. Bryan Coapstick, mobile innovation director for […] More

  • Northrop Hands Air Force GPS Satellite Antennas to Lockheed Team; Dan Johansen Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Hands Air Force GPS Satellite Antennas to Lockheed Team; Dan Johansen Comments

    Northrop Grumman has transported antennas for the U.S. Air Force’s GPS satellites to the Lockheed Martin team that is developing the spacecraft in Littleton, Colo. Northrop’s Astro Aerospace business unit delivered 32 JIB antennas for GPS III satellite numbers three through six, Northrop said Wednesday. Dan Johansen, a program manager at Astro Aerospace, said the unit plans to […] More

  • John Ontiveros: Winner Water Services to Use Battelle Tech for Pennsylvania Treatment Facility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    John Ontiveros: Winner Water Services to Use Battelle Tech for Pennsylvania Treatment Facility

    A joint venture between Winner Global LLC and Battelle will install an acid mine water treatment facility in Pennsylvania to produce water resources for oil and gas operations in the area, Rigzone reported Tuesday. Karen Boman writes Winner Water Services intends to separate iron and sulfate from water using the Hydro Flex treatment system in order […] More

  • Michael Strianese: L-3 Reorganizes Business Segments in Sales, Tech Push - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Michael Strianese: L-3 Reorganizes Business Segments in Sales, Tech Push

    L-3 Communications has reorganized the company’s business segments in a move that Chairman and CEO Michael Strianese called an effort to further the company’s technology and sales push. John McNellis has been named president of the new aerospace systems segment that combines the former platform and logistics segment and the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems […] More

  • Cobham to Build Electronic Jamming System Transmitters for US Navy, Australia - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cobham to Build Electronic Jamming System Transmitters for US Navy, Australia

    Cobham will develop low-band transmitters for electronic jamming systems used by the U.S. Navy and Australian forces under a $21.8 million contract modification, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Monday. John Keller writes Cobham’s defense electronics segment will work to build antennas and adapter interface modules for the AN/ALQ-99 jamming system under the modification awarded by the […] More

  • Randy Siegel: Security, Privacy, Mobility Mgmt Among Prevailing Themes at Mobile World Congress - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Randy Siegel: Security, Privacy, Mobility Mgmt Among Prevailing Themes at Mobile World Congress

    The 2014 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain was dominated by security, privacy and mobile device management integration themes, Information Week reported Tuesday. Randy Siegel, founder of Center Circle Consultants and a principal at Acommence Advisors, writes MWC participants have become interested in security products following recent reports of mobile device hacking and government surveillance […] More

  • Lockheed Tests Robots for Deep Space Research; Nelson Pedreiro Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Tests Robots for Deep Space Research; Nelson Pedreiro Comments

    Lockheed Martin’s advanced technology center has demonstrated robotic applications for deep space research through coordinated control by astronauts and ground-based operators. The company worked with NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station to operate the Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Re-orient, Experimental Satellites robots by using a three-dimensional interface, Lockheed said Tuesday. Nelson Pedreiro, the center’s […] More

  • Jacobs Engineering to Design Naval Engineering Command Facilities; Tom McDuffie Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jacobs Engineering to Design Naval Engineering Command Facilities; Tom McDuffie Comments

    Jacobs Engineering Group will work to design and construct facilities for the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps under a five-year contract worth up to $30 million. The company will also provide geographic information systems, mapping, facilities planning and real estate management services to the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Midwest, Jacobs said Tuesday. Tom McDuffie, a Jacobs group […] More

  • Marty Jenkins: Lockheed to Build Naval C2ISR System With 'Real-Time' View - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Marty Jenkins: Lockheed to Build Naval C2ISR System With ‘Real-Time’ View

    Lockheed Martin’s information systems and global services business unit will work to consolidate the U.S. Navy’s C2ISR systems (command, control intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance), SEAPOWER Magazine reported Friday. Richard Burgess writes Lockheed plans to fund an internal research and development program to build a centralized display of operational and tactical data for commanders of naval […] More

  • Bill Gattle: Harris to Enter Production Phase of Aircraft Tracking System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bill Gattle: Harris to Enter Production Phase of Aircraft Tracking System

    Harris Corp. has completed the simulated operation testing phase on the company’s satellite-based aircraft tracking system. The Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast 1090 Extended Squitter receiver payload passed the duration and performance testing in harsh conditions to qualify for more than 12 years of usage, Harris said Monday. Bill Gattle, vice president and general manager of national […] More

  • David Wigglesworth: Iridium to Deploy Satellite Network for Oceanic Research Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    David Wigglesworth: Iridium to Deploy Satellite Network for Oceanic Research Project

    Iridium Communications will help Rutgers University’s Coastal Ocean Observation Lab researchers collect data from a research project across five major ocean basins through the company’s satellite network. A team of Rutgers students and faculty will work to coordinate flights of autonomous underwater gliders worldwide with the goal of gathering undersea datasets in order to predict how […] More