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  • CSC Launches Healthcare IT-as-a-Service Platforms on UK's Digital Marketplace - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSC Launches Healthcare IT-as-a-Service Platforms on UK’s Digital Marketplace

    Computer Sciences Corp. has started to offer care coordination and population health as-a-service platforms to U.K. government agencies through the online G-Cloud marketplace. CSC said Monday its care coordination offering consists of business process services intended to help providers address referral management, complex care coordination, discharge management and patient access challenges. The services are supported by a delivery platform that includes a directory […] More

  • UK Defense Ministry Launches $1B Military Tech Devt Initiative - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    UK Defense Ministry Launches $1B Military Tech Devt Initiative

    The U.K.’s ministry of defense has unveiled a $1 billion initiative that seeks to encourage individuals and companies to develop technologies that can help British defense and security forces address mission challenges. MOD said Friday it will fully launch the Innovation Initiative in September with a prospectus, exhibits and a guide on how interested parties can apply for funds under the program. U.K. Defense Secretary […] More

  • IBM, UK MoD Unveil Defense Cyber Aptitude Test Assessment Service - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM, UK MoD Unveil Defense Cyber Aptitude Test Assessment Service

    The U.K.’s ministry of defense and IBM have unveiled the Defense Cyber Aptitude Test assessment service during the IBM HR Summit 2016, the Recruiter reported Thursday. Recruiter writes that DCAT is designed to check a military service member’s potential to work in cyberspace-related fields by determining behavioral characteristics and testing attention to detail, numerical and verbal skills and ability to […] More

  • David Shields Joins ASI Government in Procurement Leadership Role; Timothy Cooke Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    David Shields Joins ASI Government in Procurement Leadership Role; Timothy Cooke Comments

    David Shields, a former managing director of the U.K. government’s procurement service, has joined ASI Government in the same role over the Arlington, Virginia-based firm’s procurement transformation and category management practice. Shields led the U.K. government’s procurement transformation programs from 2005 to 2013 and oversaw an annual spend of $317 billion in the public sector there, ASI Government said […] More

  • Hortonworks, Open Energi Partner to Deploy Hadoop for UK Energy Mgmt - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hortonworks, Open Energi Partner to Deploy Hadoop for UK Energy Mgmt

    Hortonworks has set its eyes on an expanded customer base in Europe for its Open Enterprise Hadoop offering via partnership with Open Energi on the utilization of smart power grids in the U.K. Hortonworks said Sept. 3 Open Energi will deploy Hortonworks Data Platform to help analyze and extract insights from energy consumption data streamed from meters connected to the […] More

  • IBM, UK Invest $480M in Cognitive Computing, Big Data Research - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM, UK Invest $480M in Cognitive Computing, Big Data Research

    IBM and the British government have pumped a total of $479.7 million in investments into cognitive computing and big data research, Computerworld UK reported Thursday. Margi Murphy writes the amount is meant to expand the Hartree Center at Daresbury. The facility will have access to IBM’s Watson cognitive computer, intellectual property assets and researchers under the technology agreement, […] More

  • Jacobs to Help EDF Energy Maintain UK Nuclear Power Sites; Bob Duff Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jacobs to Help EDF Energy Maintain UK Nuclear Power Sites; Bob Duff Comments

    Jacobs Engineering Group has been selected to supply project management resources for EDF Energy’s work to maintain nuclear power stations across the U.K. The maintenance and life extension projects cover 15 nuclear reactors located at Dungeness, Hartlepool, Heysham 1 and 2, Hinkley Point, Hunterston, Sizewell and Torness power stations, East Kilbride and Gloucester technical centers, Jacobs […] More

  • CGI to Refresh England Highway Agency's IT; Steve Thorn Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CGI to Refresh England Highway Agency’s IT; Steve Thorn Comments

    CGI has been selected to refresh the information technology infrastructure of Highways England as the U.K. Transport Department’s agency transitions to a government-owned company. The company will supply laptops and tablets to Highways England under the three-year information and communications technology services contract, CGI said Monday. “We are delighted to have been awarded this strategic […] More

  • CSC to Help Trafford Manage Patient Care Coordination Center; Philippe Houssiau Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSC to Help Trafford Manage Patient Care Coordination Center; Philippe Houssiau Comments

    Computer Sciences Corp. has been selected to co-manage a local patient care coordination center in Trafford, U.K. CSC will provide patient communications through a unified system, perform clinical workflow services and analyze care delivery performance in collaboration with the British National Health Service’s Trafford Clinical Commissioning Group, CSC said Wednesday. Philippe Houssiau, vice president of U.K. healthcare at […] More

  • Exelis Receives IHS Jane's Air Traffic Control Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Exelis Receives IHS Jane’s Air Traffic Control Award

    Exelis has received the IHS Jane’s air traffic control award for 2015 in the enabling technology category for the company’s work on U.K.’s Heathrow cross-border arrival management program. IHS Jane presented the award to Exelis at the Civil Air Navigation Services Organization air traffic management dinner in Madrid, Spain, Exelis said Wednesday. Exelis’ winning program […] More

  • Lockheed to Help UK Cyber Firms Pursue Investments; Stephen Ball Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Help UK Cyber Firms Pursue Investments; Stephen Ball Comments

    Lockheed Martin has invested an additional $376,000 in a virtual technology cluster that comprises industry, academia and investors in an effort to help UK-based cybersecurity firms obtain funds for new technologies. The investment aims to help UK’s supply chain work with small cyber businesses to access capital, professional services and suppliers, Lockheed Martin said Jan. 16. “Our VTC is a […] More

  • Northrop to Integrate CommandPoint with UK Medical Helpline; Ed Sturms Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Integrate CommandPoint with UK Medical Helpline; Ed Sturms Comments

    Northrop Grumman has earned British certification that enables its CommandPoint software to transfer calls from the NHS 111 nonemergency medical helpline to a 999 command center for rapid response. The National Health Service in Britain awarded the NHS 111 messaging accreditation for the public safety system, currently in use by the London Ambulance Service mission, […] More