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  • KLAS Report Cites Information Builders Methods, Approaches to Healthcare Data Integration; Gerald Cohen Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    KLAS Report Cites Information Builders Methods, Approaches to Healthcare Data Integration; Gerald Cohen Comments

    Information Builders said the latest KLAS Research survey has ranked the company among the top four business intelligence and analytics services providers for the healthcare industry. The study cited Information Builders’ use of various methodologies (scheduled reporting, data mining, data integrity, data warehousing) and approaches (mobile, self-service BI) to reach and satisfy more customers, Information […] More

  • Marine Corps Orders $15M in Harris Falcon III Radios; George Helm Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Marine Corps Orders $15M in Harris Falcon III Radios; George Helm Comments

    Harris Corp. will provide Falcon III radios and related accessories to the U.S. Marine Corps AN/MRC-145 program under a $15 million contract designed to expand the branch’s communications network capabilities. The Falcon III AN/PRC-117G-based wideband radio systems can be mounted on land transports, have upgradeable software and are integrated with soldier radio waveform technology, Harris […] More

  • Oracle Launches Cloud Tool for Financial Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Oracle Launches Cloud Tool for Financial Services

    Oracle has rolled out a new cloud tool that seeks to address the security needs and other requirements for financial services clients that seek to migrate their information technology systems. “Today’s savvy financial services companies are looking to migrate their applications to the cloud to take advantage of modern technologies, like social and mobile capabilities,” Thomas Kurian, […] More

  • CACI, Appcelerator Form Mobile App Deployment Partnership; John Mengucci Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI, Appcelerator Form Mobile App Deployment Partnership; John Mengucci Comments

    CACI International has formed a cooperative alliance with Appcelerator to offer defense and civilian agencies tools for the development and deployment of mobile applications. CACI said Tuesday the partnership will integrate the Appcelerator Platform with its Code Analysis Tool in an effort to speed the development, tests and updates to applications and automatically identify potential vulnerabilities in the code before deployment. John Mengucci, CACI chief […] More

  • General Dynamics, Rockwell Collins Ship 1,200 Radios to US Army - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics, Rockwell Collins Ship 1,200 Radios to US Army

    General Dynamics and Rockwell Collins have delivered more than 1,200 radios to the U.S. Army for soldiers to share information with their commanders. The AN/PRC-155 radio system is designed to help troops connect with command centers via the Warfighter Information Network – Tactical Increment 2 platform, General Dynamics said Monday. This new batch of radios […] More

  • Jeff Barr: AWS Updates Cloud Portfolio for US Govt Market - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jeff Barr: AWS Updates Cloud Portfolio for US Govt Market

    Amazon Web Services has added multiple services to the company’s suite of cloud computing offerings designed to help U.S. government clients manage sensitive data in cloud environments. The AWS GovCloud (US) portfolio now includes the Glacier storage service, CloudTrail log management documentation and VM Import system for virtual machine migration, AWS chief evangelist Jeff Barr […] More

  • NASA Taps DB Consulting for IT Operations, Maintenance - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Taps DB Consulting for IT Operations, Maintenance

    DB Consulting Group Inc. has won a $50.5 million contract to help operate and maintain NASA’s information technology setup. This award follows on the first option of NASA’s IT and multimedia services contract with DB Consulting that is set to expire on Jan. 17, NASA said Friday. DB Consulting will extend work at the agency’s Houston-based […] More

  • NASA Puts Space Launch System Engine Through 1st Hot-Fire Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Puts Space Launch System Engine Through 1st Hot-Fire Test

    NASA has completed an initial, 500-second hot-fire test on the RS-25 engine for Boeing‘s Space Launch System at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi in preparation for the rocket’s future missions to deep space. The space agency said Friday its engineers checked the inlet pressure conditions and engine controller unit and will continue with further tests in April. “We’ve made modifications […] More

  • Boeing Preps Launch of Stacked Satellites With Electric Propulsion - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Preps Launch of Stacked Satellites With Electric Propulsion

    Boeing has produced a set of 702SP small-platform satellites that will use an all-electric propulsion system when they are launched to space in February as a stacked pair. SpaceX‘s Falcon 9 rocket will carry the ABS-3A and EUTELSAT 115 West B satellites to space together next month, Boeing said Friday. Besides 702SP, the company said it also released the 702MP and 502 […] More

  • FedRAMP Board Approves SecureKey's ID Authentication Tool; Charles Walton Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FedRAMP Board Approves SecureKey’s ID Authentication Tool; Charles Walton Comments

    SecureKey Technologies has received the FedRAMP Joint Authorization Board provisional authority to operate for the company’s briidge.net exchange cloud-based identity and authentication platform after a review by third-party assessor Veris Group. The platform will work to help citizens use Connect.gov and access digital government services with government-approved, commercially issued online credentials, SecureKey said Tuesday. “Looking ahead to a digital future, identity services will be vital […] More

  • TCS to Help South Dakota Link 911 Centers Statewide; Lynne Seitz Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TCS to Help South Dakota Link 911 Centers Statewide; Lynne Seitz Comments

    TeleCommunication Systems Inc. has won a five-year, $16.4 million contract to interconnect 911 emergency call centers across the state of South Dakota. TCS will operate South Dakota’s NG9-1-1 system for 29 of the state’s public safety answering centers under the direction of the South Dakota 911 Coordination Board, TCS said Thursday. Lynne Seitz, senior vice […] More

  • ManTech Subsidiary Completes Shape Test on Webb Telescope's 1st Sunshield Layer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ManTech Subsidiary Completes Shape Test on Webb Telescope’s 1st Sunshield Layer

    A subsidiary of ManTech International has finished the shape testing of the first sunshield membrane layer of NASA‘s James Webb Space Telescope as a subcontractor to Northrop Grumman. NeXolve assembled and tested the layer’s three-dimensional shape with laser beams to confirm if it meets shape specifications, ManTech said Thursday. “We are now proceeding with the remaining layers and will test each […] More