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  • Lockheed to Build Air Force Weapon, Sensor Data Visualization Software - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Build Air Force Weapon, Sensor Data Visualization Software

    Lockheed Martin will develop software for the U.S. Air Force to plan air and missile defense missions with the goal of linking weapon and sensor data with map-based planning and other decision tools. The U.S. Air Force Operations Center intends to integrate missile defense data sources into a single visualization platform so operators can generate […] More

  • George Schultz: Lockheed to Modify Design for Future Super Hercules Civil Variant - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    George Schultz: Lockheed to Modify Design for Future Super Hercules Civil Variant

    Lockheed Martin has notified the Federal Aviation Administration that the company plans to produce a civil variant of its C-130J Super Hercules transport aircraft. The LM-100J variant plane is intended to leverage technology and design upgrades from the L-100 plane for other functions such as aerial firefighting and airborne medical patient transportation, Lockheed said Monday. […] More

  • IBM Partners with Twitter in Patent Agreement; Ken King Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Partners with Twitter in Patent Agreement; Ken King Comments

    IBM sold 900 patents to Twitter in December under a patent cross-license agreement, IBM said Friday. “[The deal] demonstrates our commitment to licensing access to our broad patent portfolio,” said Ken King, general manager of Intellectual Property for IBM. “We look forward to a productive relationship with Twitter in the future,” he added. The financial terms […] More

  • Kofax Names James Urry to its Board of Directors; Greg Lock Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kofax Names James Urry to its Board of Directors; Greg Lock Comments

    James Urry, partner at Augusta Columbia Capital Group, has been appointed a non-executive director and member of the nominating committee at Kofax. Effective February 3, Urry will be the tenth member of the board for the smart process applications company. “Jamie brings to the Kofax board a deep understanding of capital markets and wealth of […] More

  • Virginia Barnes: Boeing Looks to AMRO in 'Next-Gen' Space Supplier Search - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Virginia Barnes: Boeing Looks to AMRO in ‘Next-Gen’ Space Supplier Search

    Boeing will mentor metallic structure maker AMRO Fabricating Corp. under a three-year agreement as part of a mentor-protege program run by NASA. AMRO produces aluminum alloy panels for Boeing’s Space Launch System and will help with marketing and business development, management development and supply chain management work for the SLS, Boeing said Friday. AMRO is a […] More

  • IBM Unveils HR Tool for Big Data, Workforce Management - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Unveils HR Tool for Big Data, Workforce Management

    IBM launched a workforce management and talent acquisition tool that is designed for big data analytics during the IBM Connect 2014 event in Orlando, Fla., eWeek reported Thursday. Darryl Taft writes the IBM Kenexa Talent Suite is intended to help human resources and company executives process workforce data for hiring prospective employees, as well as […] More

  • HP Enterprise Services, UNIT4 to Host UK Education Cloud Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HP Enterprise Services, UNIT4 to Host UK Education Cloud Platform

    HP Enterprise Services has teamed with UNIT4 Business Software to host a cloud computing platform for U.K. education institutions to use software-as-a-service tools, ITProPortal.com reported Thursday. Jamie Hinks writes that HP will also deploy Virtual Private Cloud as an infrastructure-as-a-service offering. “At a time of great change for the education sector, clients are examining closely the relationships […] More

  • Satcom Direct to Offer Aerospace Clients Inmarsat Broadband Net Access; David Greenhill Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Satcom Direct to Offer Aerospace Clients Inmarsat Broadband Net Access; David Greenhill Comments

    Satcom Direct will distribute Inmarsat‘s mobile Broadband Global Area Network service to aerospace clients, continuing a partnership between the two companies that launched in 2007. Inmarsat intends to help Satcom Direct’s customers simultaneously transmit voice and broadband data up to 492 kilobytes per second through the Inmarsat-4 satellite terminals, the companies said Wednesday. “Our aerospace clients […] More

  • Siemens Convergence Creators Opens LA Hub; Daniel Felicio Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Siemens Convergence Creators Opens LA Hub; Daniel Felicio Comments

    Siemens Convergence Creators, a Siemens division based in Austria, has opened a U.S. branch in what division CEO Daniel Felicio believes is a key move in the company’s international expansion strategy. The office will be located in Los Angeles and the business will attend the Satellite 2014 in March to demonstrate its offerings, the company […] More

  • Linda Hudson: Defense Industry Needs More Citizens in STEM Fields - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Linda Hudson: Defense Industry Needs More Citizens in STEM Fields

    Outgoing BAE Systems Inc. President and CEO Linda Hudson spoke to technology leaders Thursday about the changes she believes would address concerns on how to develop U.S. student and professional talent in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, FedScoop reported Thursday. Dan Verton writes Hudson appeared at an Northern Virginia Technology Council event to discuss U.S. […] More

  • Dan Keefe: ManTech to Help Navy Manage Test Range Environmental Matters - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dan Keefe: ManTech to Help Navy Manage Test Range Environmental Matters

    ManTech International will work with the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Pacific to develop plans for environmental and regulatory issues under a potential seven-year, $85 million contract. The company will also support military training and readiness activities for testing ranges, as well as fleets stationed in the Pacific Ocean and on the West Coast, ManTech said […] More

  • NetApp Starts Construction on Int'l R&D Center; George Kurian Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NetApp Starts Construction on Int’l R&D Center; George Kurian Comments

    NetApp broke ground on a research and development center in Mahadevapura, India intended to support global development and business operations, according to an InformationWeek article. The facility is scheduled to be completed in 2015 and will contain 25,000 square foot data center on a 15 acre plot. “To enable increasingly multidisciplinary and collaborative work, we want to […] More