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  • Esri Introduces Web Map Collection to Show NOAA Forecast Streamflow Data; Edward Clark Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Esri Introduces Web Map Collection to Show NOAA Forecast Streamflow Data; Edward Clark Comments

    Esri has unveiled a collection of web maps that displayed the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s forecast streamflow data for the continental U.S. Esri said Thursday the maps combine the company’s ArcGIS functionality with NOAA’s National Water Model data to provide interactive views of current and predicted water system behaviors through multiscale web map applications designed […] More

  • Microsoft Offers Big Data Migration Service for Azure Govt Cloud Users - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft Offers Big Data Migration Service for Azure Govt Cloud Users

    Microsoft has launched a service offering intended to help customer agencies move huge amounts of data into or out of the company’s blob storage within the Azure Government cloud network. Brenda Lee, a Microsoft program manager, wrote in a blog entry posted Wednesday the Azure Import/Export Service offering will work to help government organizations migrate data through shipment of hard […] More

  • Fulcrum Chosen for Inc. Magazine 5000 List; Jeff Handy Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Fulcrum Chosen for Inc. Magazine 5000 List; Jeff Handy Comments

    Fulcrum has been included in Inc. magazine’s 35th annual Inc. 5000 list that compiles a list of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. The 2016 Inc. 5000 list features companies that gained a three-year growth of 433 percent on an average and have aggregate annual revenue of $200 million, Fulcrum said Tuesday. “This award, received for the third […] More

  • IBM Awards Grants for Five Healthcare Projects; Jen Crozier Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Awards Grants for Five Healthcare Projects; Jen Crozier Comments

    IBM has selected five domestic and international organizations to receive public health-related pro bono consulting services worth a total of $2.5 million under the company’s Health Corps program. The winning projects aim to provide chemotherapy medicines in sub Saharan Africa, track and control Zika and other mosquito-borne diseases in Taiwan and Panama, perform health interventions in southeastern U.S. and […] More

  • IBM Opens South Africa Research Lab to Focus on Healthcare, Digital Urban Ecosystem, Astronomy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Opens South Africa Research Lab to Focus on Healthcare, Digital Urban Ecosystem, Astronomy

    IBM has established a research laboratory in Johannesburg, South Africa to facilitate  collaborative programs in the areas of data-based healthcare, digital urban ecosystems and astronomy. The facility, located at the University of the Witwatersrand, is built through IBM’s 10-year investment program with the South African trade and industry department and partnership with the country’s science and technology department, IBM said Thursday. A team of […] More

  • Elbit Systems Flies Hermes 450 at UAS Field Day in North Dakota - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Elbit Systems Flies Hermes 450 at UAS Field Day in North Dakota

    An Elbit Systems subsidiary and its partners held an unmanned aircraft systems field day at the Hillsboro Regional Airport in North Dakota in efforts to demonstrate the precision agriculture and utility infrastructure damage assessment functions of the Hermes 450 UAS. Elbit Systems of America worked with local farmers to collect and analyze data to support crop management and […] More

  • DigitalGlobe, CosmiQ Works, AWS & NVIDIA Introduce SpaceNet Repository; Tony Frazier Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DigitalGlobe, CosmiQ Works, AWS & NVIDIA Introduce SpaceNet Repository; Tony Frazier Comments

    DigitalGlobe, CosmiQ Works, NVIDIA and Amazon Web Services have collaborated to develop a web-based repository of satellite imagery and training data that could support the development of machine learning and deep learning algorithms. DigitalGlobe said Thursday the SpaceNet repository provides open access to curated, high-resolution satellite imagery that includes the company’s multi-spectral satellite imagery and 200,000 curated building footprints from Brazil. The imagery […] More

  • Drone Aviation Lands Subcontract for Sensor Suite Integration on DoD-Owned WASP Tactical Aerostats - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Drone Aviation Lands Subcontract for Sensor Suite Integration on DoD-Owned WASP Tactical Aerostats

    Drone Aviation has received a $125,000 subcontract from a Defense Department contractor for equipment and engineering services and work to integrate sensor suite for aerial applications on a DoD-operated fleet of tactical aerostats. Drone Aviation said Thursday it will integrate contractor-produced sensors onto the Winch Aerostat Small Platform tactical aerostats that support U.S. Army soldier training operations and various exercises. Jay Nussbaum, […] More

  • Forcepoint-Ponemon Institute Study: IT Operations & Security Managers Predict Insider Threat Growth - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Forcepoint-Ponemon Institute Study: IT Operations & Security Managers Predict Insider Threat Growth

    Forcepoint and the Ponemon Institute have released a cybersecurity study that discovered 91 percent of the 742 surveyed commercial and federal information technology operations and security managers predict an equal amount or continued growth of insider threats will be faced by their respective organizations. Forcepoint said Tuesday the “Insecurity of Privileged Users” study compared data sets from 2011 […] More

  • GSA to Require Greenhouse Gas Emission, Reduction Goal Disclosures From IT Vendors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GSA to Require Greenhouse Gas Emission, Reduction Goal Disclosures From IT Vendors

    The General Services Administration plans to require large and medium-sized information technology contractors to publicly disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and related reduction goals through an annual report. A Federal Register notice posted Wednesday stated GSA wants to include its Alliant 2 Government-wide Acquisition Contract for information technology products and services under the agency’s GHG disclosure requirements. GSA says the plan is […] More

  • GSA FedRAMP Team Requests Public Comment on Vendor Prioritization Criteria - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GSA FedRAMP Team Requests Public Comment on Vendor Prioritization Criteria

    The General Services Administration‘s Joint Authorization Board has asked for public comment in aid of ongoing efforts to finalize a criteria on how GSA will select vendors to provisionally authorize in support of the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. Matt Goodrich, FedRAMP director, wrote in a blog post published Wednesday the move is in response to suggestions from […] More

  • Kratos, Safran Subsidiaries to Provide Target Drone Launchers to US Army - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kratos, Safran Subsidiaries to Provide Target Drone Launchers to US Army

    A team comprising subsidiaries of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions and Safran Electronics & Defense has been awarded a prime contract to provide unmanned aerial vehicle launcher systems to the U.S. Army. The Madison Research Corp.–Robonic team will deliver two KONTIO launchers to the Army’s Program Management Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation Targets Management Office under the contract, Kratos said Wednesday. The service branch […] More