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  • Harris, Teammates to Build Florida's Communications Infrastructure Under Potential $700M Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris, Teammates to Build Florida’s Communications Infrastructure Under Potential $700M Contract

    Harris has secured a potential 14-year, $700 million contract to provide a communications network that will work to connect public safety and law enforcement agencies, public schools and other government organizations across the state of Florida. Harris said Monday its teammates on the MyFloridaNet-2 project are CenturyLink, FPL FiberNet, Level 3 Communications, Southern Light and Verizon. The MFN-2 project […] More

  • Unisys Launches Info Mgmt Platform for Public Safety Agencies; Mark Forman Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Unisys Launches Info Mgmt Platform for Public Safety Agencies; Mark Forman Comments

    Unisys has introduced an information management system the company designed to help law enforcement agencies exchange investigative intelligence across multiple applications. The company said Tuesday its Digital Investigator platform features a public portal that will connect users to public safety agencies to report missing persons, request appointments and receive request updates. Mark Forman, global public sector head at Unisys, said the company developed the […] More

  • Unisys' Patrick Doyle: Govt Should Include Public Safety Entities in Smart City Initiatives - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Unisys’ Patrick Doyle: Govt Should Include Public Safety Entities in Smart City Initiatives

    Patrick Doyle, Unisys global justice and law enforcement subject matter expert, has said  governments should integrate public safety functions into the interconnected systems of “smart city” programs. Doyle wrote in a GCN opinion piece published Tuesday that public safety agencies should be included in the information workflows of smart cities to boost situational awareness. Citizens that provide information through […] More

  • General Dynamics Unveils Public Safety Comms Tech Suite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Unveils Public Safety Comms Tech Suite

    General Dynamics‘ mission systems business in Canada has released a new suite of  digital communications systems for first responders to exchange information over fixed or mobile networks. The portfolio comprises the CitySHIELD, BorderSHIELD, InfrastructureSHIELD and EmergencySHIELD platforms that are designed to help increase users’ situational awareness as well as reduce emergency response times through the combination of 4G LTE […] More

  • Airbus DS Communications to Deploy Public Safety Call Handling Service in North Dakota - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Airbus DS Communications to Deploy Public Safety Call Handling Service in North Dakota

    A subsidiary of Airbus‘ defense and space business will supply the VESTA 9-1-1 call handling service to 11 of 22 public safety answering points in North Dakota under a collective contract through the state’s information technology department. The company said Wednesday Airbus DS Communications will provide the VESTA 9-1-1 system as part of the PSAPs’ effort to deploy a geodiverse regional system […] More

  • Airbus Segment Adds RMG Networks' Visual Comms Service to VESTA 9-1-1 System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Airbus Segment Adds RMG Networks’ Visual Comms Service to VESTA 9-1-1 System

    A business unit within Airbus‘ defense and space business has partnered with RMG Networks to integrate the latter’s visual contact center technology with Airbus DS Communications‘ VESTA 9-1-1 public safety call handling system. RMG Networks said Monday its visual contact center is designed to provide real-time data displays on key performance indicators and other critical details to support response efficiency at contact centers. The integrated […] More

  • Airbus Unit Launches Comms System to Aid NextGen 9-1-1 Transition Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Airbus Unit Launches Comms System to Aid NextGen 9-1-1 Transition Efforts

    A business unit within Airbus Group‘s defense and space segment has unveiled a new public safety communications system that works to combine equipment, software and services in efforts to help federal agencies transition to Next Generation 9-1-1. The company said Monday Airbus DS Communications‘ VESTA NEXT portfolio offering includes IP call handling, call routing, ESInet and GIS functions as […] More

  • Rodgers Group Subsidiary Uses BAE Geospatial Tech to Create Visual Emergency Action Plans - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rodgers Group Subsidiary Uses BAE Geospatial Tech to Create Visual Emergency Action Plans

    New Jersey-based public safety consulting firm Rodgers Group has launched a business group in response to a growing demand for visual-based emergency management plans. The company said Tuesday its Critical Response Group aims to help clients transform text-based emergency action plans into collaborative response graphics with BAE Systems‘ Geospatial eXploitation platform. Rodgers Group President Frank Rodgers said he believes […] More

  • Motorola Solutions to Demo Virtual Command Center Proof of Concept - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Motorola Solutions to Demo Virtual Command Center Proof of Concept

    Motorola Solutions will demonstrate a virtual command center proof of concept Monday and Tuesday at the Association of Public Safety Communications Officials 2016 in Orlando, Florida. The company said Wednesday its virtual public safety command center will showcase  Eyefluence‘s eye-interaction technology — a venture capital investment of Motorola Solutions. Motorola Solutions will also launch its APX 8500 P25 all-band […] More

  • AT&T's Stacy Schwartz on Mobility & Cloud Evolution in Public Safety, Unified Communication Tech's Future - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AT&T’s Stacy Schwartz on Mobility & Cloud Evolution in Public Safety, Unified Communication Tech’s Future

    Stacy Schwartz leads the public safety organization within AT&T‘s public sector business in her vice president role at the global telecommunications company and oversees its services to federal entities such as the departments of Homeland Security, Justice and State. The AT&T public safety team’s areas of concentration include mobile devices and applications, cloud computing Internet Protocol-based systems, data transmission and cybersecurity. […] More

  • InfoReliance Receives AWS Govt Competency Certification in 8 Customer Markets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    InfoReliance Receives AWS Govt Competency Certification in 8 Customer Markets

    InfoReliance has received Amazon Web Services‘ AWS Government Competency certification in eight customer markets for compliance with AWS standards in workload and application deployment on the Amazon cloud platform. Fairfax, Virginia-based InfoReliance said Friday it utilizes best practices and lessons from various industries to support accelerated AWS adoption for customers. InfoReliance is an AWS audited managed service partner, advanced consulting partner and […] More

  • Joe Euteneuer: Rivada Networks Forms Team to Bid for FirstNet Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Joe Euteneuer: Rivada Networks Forms Team to Bid for FirstNet Contract

    Rivada Networks has formed a consortium of technology firms to pursue a contract to build a 4G LTE broadband wireless network for public safety organizations in the U.S. The Rivada Mercury team includes Harris Corp., Intel‘s security business, Ericsson, Nokia,  Fujitsu Network Communications and Black & Veatch and aims to offer a national emergency services network in the 700 megahertz spectrum, Rivada Networks […] More