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  • IHS Reports 'Record-Breaking' $65B in 2015 Global Defense Trade - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IHS Reports ‘Record-Breaking’ $65B in 2015 Global Defense Trade

    IHS has reported a “record-breaking” $65 billion in global defense trade for 2015 after examining trends worldwide across 65 countries based on 40,000 programs in the firm’s Aerospace, Defense & Security’s markets forecast database. IHS said Monday the Global Defense Trade Report noted the Middle East as the largest importing region with an approximate $21.6 billion in defense equipment deliveries. “The global […] More

  • Gemalto Study: Orgs Continue to Depend on Basic Perimeter Security Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Gemalto Study: Orgs Continue to Depend on Basic Perimeter Security Systems

    Gemalto‘s third-annual Data Security Confidence Index says a majority of organizations continue to depend on basic perimeter security systems against data breaches regardless of increased cyber threats worldwide. The company said Wednesday that 61 percent of the 1,100 IT decision maker respondents believed that their basic perimeter security methods such as firewalls, IDPS and anomaly detection were effective at preventing unauthorized network […] More

  • Thales Rolls Out Software-Defined Tactical Radio at Eurosatory 2016 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Thales Rolls Out Software-Defined Tactical Radio at Eurosatory 2016

    Thales has introduced at the Eurosatory 2016 trade exhibition a software-defined broadband tactical radio designed to support command, control, computers, communications and intelligence systems. The Thales-built Synaps radio communications platform is based on Contact, a software-defined radio that the French defense procurement agency ordered for use by the country’s armed forces starting in 2019, the company said Monday. […] More

  • Noblis Awarded CMS Program, Project Management Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Noblis Awarded CMS Program, Project Management Support Contract

    Noblis has received a contract from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to perform program and project management support services for the agency’s transformation agenda mandated under five laws by Congress. The company said Thursday it will carry out program management and system engineering work in an effort to help CMS comply with the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of […] More

  • Munro Enterprises to Resell Skyline's Medical Fluid Disposal Tech in Federal Healthcare Sector - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Munro Enterprises to Resell Skyline’s Medical Fluid Disposal Tech in Federal Healthcare Sector

    Munro Enterprises will market and distribute a Skyline Medical-built automated  fluid disposal system to government-run healthcare facilities under a reseller agreement. The deal gives Munro exclusive rights to offer Skyline’s Streamway medical technology to potential federal customers such as the departments of Health and Human Services, Veterans Affairs and Defense, Skyline Medical said Friday. Dave Johnson, chief operating officer of Skyline Medical, said […] More

  • NJVC Gets CMMI Level 2 Appraisal for Software Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NJVC Gets CMMI Level 2 Appraisal for Software Development

    Chantilly, Virginia-based information technology services provider NJVC has received Capability Maturity Model Integration level 2 rating from the CMMI Institute for the company’s approach to software development project management. The CMMI level 2 appraisal suggests that NJVC’s software services business executes projects in accordance with  policy, employs skilled professionals to produce outputs and works to monitor, review and evaluate if projects adhere to process […] More

  • Avaya Government Solutions, DHA Sign Unified Communication & Contact Center Services Pact - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Avaya Government Solutions, DHA Sign Unified Communication & Contact Center Services Pact

    Avaya Government Solutions has signed an agreement with the Defense Health Agency to provide unified communications, contact center and SIP technologies in support of the DHA’s modernization efforts. The company will deliver services to help manage DHA’s enterprise conference premise technology, adapt SIP trunks at its headquarters and help maintain equipment, Avaya said Monday. DHA […] More

  • Airbus Subsidiary, RapidSOS to Demo Use of Mobile App to Deliver Emergency Location Data - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Airbus Subsidiary, RapidSOS to Demo Use of Mobile App to Deliver Emergency Location Data

    A division of Airbus‘ defense and space segment has partnered with RapidSOS to demonstrate the use of a smartphone application to deliver emergency information to public safety answering points. Airbus DS Communications will show how its VESTA 9-1-1 call processing system can work to display multimedia data from RapidSOS’ Haven app during the National Emergency Number Association’s conference in Indiana from June 11 to 16, […] More

  • Microsoft, Unisys Grow Cloud Security Tech Partnership; Ann Johnson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft, Unisys Grow Cloud Security Tech Partnership; Ann Johnson Comments

    Unisys and Microsoft have agreed to expand their global cloud management and security partnership in an effort to help address customer demand for cloud-based cybersecurity tools. As part of the alliance, the companies plan to create new products intended to secure cloud computing systems and Unisys intend to exhibit its new cloud security technology for the public and […] More

  • ULA Launches National Defense Payload For NRO in 9th Delta IV Deployment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ULA Launches National Defense Payload For NRO in 9th Delta IV Deployment

    United Launch Alliance, the 50-50 joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin, has deployed a payload into orbit to support the National Reconnaissance Office‘s NROL-37 mission for national security. ULA said Saturday the payload was launched aboard a Delta IV evolved expendable launch vehicle from Space Launch Complex-37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Stationin Florida Aerojet Rocketdyne provided three RS-68A […] More

  • Tripwire Survey: 64% of IT Professionals Say Exit from EU Would Not Affect UK’s Cyber Defense Function - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tripwire Survey: 64% of IT Professionals Say Exit from EU Would Not Affect UK’s Cyber Defense Function

    A new Tripwire survey says 64 percent of information technology executives believe the U.K. government’s separation from the European Union would not have an impact on the country’s function to protect its networks from potential cyber attacks. Tripwire said Monday it polled 278 IT professionals who attended the three-day Infosecurity Europe 2016 that kicked off June 7 in […] More

  • Harris Unveils Falcon III RF-7850S Wideband Secure Personal Radio - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris Unveils Falcon III RF-7850S Wideband Secure Personal Radio

    Harris has added the RF-7850S wideband secure personal radio to the company’s Falcon III line of tactical radios built to offer networked voice, data and situational awareness in a single platform for warfighters. The company said Monday RF-7850S succeeds the RF-7800S SPR team radio and is designed to deliver optimized waveform and spectrum flexibility and power. Matt Nearpass, a product management director for global […] More