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  • Huntington Ingalls to Help Navy Plan Kennedy Carrier Construction; Mike Petters Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls to Help Navy Plan Kennedy Carrier Construction; Mike Petters Comments

    Huntington Ingalls Industries has been awarded a $23 million contract to help the U.S. Navy develop a construction plan for the USS John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier, the Daily Press reported Thursday. Hugh Lessig writes the goal is for HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding division to apply cost and efficiency measures the shipbuilder used during the […] More

  • Wayne Balta: Carnegie Mellon to Use IBM Cloud Analytics for 'Smart' Building Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Wayne Balta: Carnegie Mellon to Use IBM Cloud Analytics for ‘Smart’ Building Project

    Carnegie Mellon University is set to deploy an IBM cloud-based analytics platform under a facility management partnership aimed at helping the academic institution use data to manage its building systems. IBM said Thursday that CMU aims to use IBM technology to monitor systems utilization on the university’s 36-building Pittsburgh campus and save up to $2 […] More

  • Shane Imwalle: Woolpert Looks to Grow Through Product Diversification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Shane Imwalle: Woolpert Looks to Grow Through Product Diversification

    Shane Imwalle, a Woolpert senior vice president, has seen growth in federal services demand due to a sequestration-related backlog of government projects, he told the Dayton Business Journal in an interview published Wednesday. He told reporter Tristan Navera that Woolpert has helped customers manage projects with the company’s asset management, engineering, automated permitting and geographic […] More

  • CGI Selected for North Wales Police Dept's ICT Modernization Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CGI Selected for North Wales Police Dept’s ICT Modernization Project

    CGI has been awarded a five-year, $27.3 million contract to help North Wales Police design, build and operate a new information and communications technology system. The North Wales Police ICT modernization effort is part of the agency’s strategy to transform service delivery and operational activities, CGI said Tuesday. Under the contract, the company will also […] More

  • Navy Picks IXI's Data Converter for Shipboard EW System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Picks IXI’s Data Converter for Shipboard EW System

    IXI Technology has been awarded a contract to provide a tactical data conversion platform for electronic warfare systems onboard U.S. Navy ships. The Navy chose IXI’s Data I/O Converter to translate information stored in the legacy Naval Tactical Data System into a format intended to support the military branch’s AN/SLQ-32(V) shipboard EW system, IXI said […] More

  • VMware Platform Added to UK Govt Cloud Marketplace; Andy Tait Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VMware Platform Added to UK Govt Cloud Marketplace; Andy Tait Comments

    VMware will offer a hybrid cloud platform through a U.K. government procurement vehicle meant to help the country’s public sector organizations to acquire cloud computing services. The company holds a position on the G-Cloud 6 framework contract to supply its VCloud Air products to British customer agencies, VMware said Tuesday. VCloud Air is designed to […] More

  • Frank Pace: General Atomics, Sener Forge Alliance to Offer Spain ISR Unmanned Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Frank Pace: General Atomics, Sener Forge Alliance to Offer Spain ISR Unmanned Aircraft

    A General Atomics subsidiary has partnered with Sener to market the Predator B remotely-piloted aircraft to the Spanish government. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. and Sener aim to update the drone’s data collection technology in order to meet the Spanish military’s airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance requirements, GA-ASI said Monday. Frank Pace, president of aircraft […] More

  • Ned Allen: Lockheed Backs Rocket Lab USA's Aerospace Tech Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ned Allen: Lockheed Backs Rocket Lab USA’s Aerospace Tech Development

    Lockheed Martin has invested in Rocket Lab‘s U.S. subsidiary to support research and development of new technologies for space exploration. “Rocket Lab’s work could have application in a number of aerospace domains, and we look forward to working with them to complement our overall efforts in small lift capabilities and hypersonic flight technologies,” Ned Allen, […] More

  • Engility's Tony Smeraglinolo: Customer-Focused Approach Key in Pursuit of Federal Programs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Engility’s Tony Smeraglinolo: Customer-Focused Approach Key in Pursuit of Federal Programs

    Engility Holdings aims to step up pursuit of federal government contracts with its acquisition of TASC, the Washington Post reported Sunday. “We now have the gravitas to go after any bid,” Tony Smeraglinolo, Engility CEO and an inductee into Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 list for 2015, told The Post. “To win work in this environment, you […] More

  • Report: IBM Eyes $40B Revenue From Cloud, Security, Analytics in 2018 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: IBM Eyes $40B Revenue From Cloud, Security, Analytics in 2018

    IBM wants its big data and analytics, security, mobile and cloud businesses to generate a combined annual revenue of as much as $40 billion by 2018, Reuters reported Thursday. Bill Rigby writes those businesses accounted for 27 percent of the company’s overall $93 billion in sales during its fiscal 2014 year. IBM executives disclosed the […] More

  • Manish Gupta: FireEye Research Finds Security Risks from Mobile Apps - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Manish Gupta: FireEye Research Finds Security Risks from Mobile Apps

    FireEye researchers have found many Android and iOS applications put mobile device users at risk of data and identity theft as well as premium rate phone and SMS fraud. Thirty-one percent of approximately 7 million popular apps analyzed by FireEye between January and October 2014 were exposed to a common vulnerability, the company said Friday. […] More