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  • Report: Global Healthcare Analytics Market to Grow 25% by 2019
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    Report: Global Healthcare Analytics Market to Grow 25% by 2019

    Research and Markets has released a new report that projects the healthcare analytics market to achieve a 25 percent compound annual growth rate through 2019, HealthITAnalytics reported Thursday. Jennifer Bresnick writes regulatory mandates, ongoing health information technology adoption, predictive analytics and clinical support requirements of healthcare organizations will drive the market. The report also lists […] More

  • Jennifer Mulveny Named Intel Cloud Policy, Gov’t Affairs Director for Australia, NZ; Kate Burleigh Comments
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    Jennifer Mulveny Named Intel Cloud Policy, Gov’t Affairs Director for Australia, NZ; Kate Burleigh Comments

    Jennifer Mulveny, a former lobbyist for Intel in the Senate, has been named the company’s director of cloud policy and government affairs in Australia and New Zealand, ARN reported Friday. Chris Player writes that Mulveny will work with government agencies on trade, Internet governance, privacy, security and other matters relevant to Intel’s business in the region. Kate Burleigh, Intel’s managing director for […] More

  • API Wins Satcom Systems Production Contract
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    API Wins Satcom Systems Production Contract

    API Technologies Corp. has been awarded a $1 million contract to manufacture and deliver satellite communications technology products to an unnamed customer. The company said Friday it received the satcom systems order from a provider of wireless network equipment. Orlando, Florida-based API designs and produces radio frequency, microwave, electromagnetic, security and power systems and components. […] More

  • Exelis installs Deicing Management solution at Philadelphia Int’l Airport
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    Exelis installs Deicing Management solution at Philadelphia Int’l Airport

    Exelis today announced it has successfully integrated its new deicing management solution at Philadelphia International Airport. The Symphony DeiceVue solution automates tasks in the deicing process that were previously done manually, improving coordination, efficiency and accuracy of operational reports, said Exelis. Ted Carniol, general manager of commercial aviation solutions for Exelis comments. “For the first […] More

  • Report: Small UAV Market to Reach $582M in Value by 2019
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    Report: Small UAV Market to Reach $582M in Value by 2019

    The small unmanned aerial vehicle market is projected to grow by the end of 2019 at a 22 percent compound annual growth rate to a total market value of $582.2 million, according to a recent MarketsandMarkets report. The six-year global forecast on the small and man-portable UAV market classifies the technology based on trends, propulsion, payload, application, region […] More

  • Amazon Web Services Names Agilex as Consulting Partner; Roger Baker Comments
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    Amazon Web Services Names Agilex as Consulting Partner; Roger Baker Comments

    Amazon Web Services has certified Agilex Technologies as a consulting partner in recognition of Agilex’s AWS competencies the company developed with accredited professionals and four customer references. Roger Baker, Agilex chief strategy officer, said Thursday the company works to reconfigure existing systems so that they operate in the cloud platform. “Having led some of the government’s largest […] More

  • Dell’s Tim Sedlack on Fed IT GRC Software Implementation and Continuous Compliance
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    Dell’s Tim Sedlack on Fed IT GRC Software Implementation and Continuous Compliance

    Tim Sedlack, senior product manager at Dell‘s software division, has urged federal agencies to implement governance, risk and compliance software to keep pace with changing compliance requirements for information technology controls across government. Sedlack, in a Q&A with FedConnects published Wednesday, noted that 54 percent of government IT organizations are either reactive instead of proactive in addressing network issues or do not […] More

  • Phebe Novakovic: General Dynamics Cost Restructuring Paying Off
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    Phebe Novakovic: General Dynamics Cost Restructuring Paying Off

    General Dynamics CEO Phebe Novakovic said major restructuring within her company has led to backlog and margin increases despite reporting modest earnings early in her tenure, Washington Business Journal reported Wednesday. Jill Aitoro writes Novakovic has been busy “right-sizing” the firm since she assumed the top post in January 2013, consolidating functions and reorganizing workflows and systems, as well […] More

  • Cubic Receives Additional Order for Army Training Vehicle Systems
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    Cubic Receives Additional Order for Army Training Vehicle Systems

    Cubic Corp. has received a $4.1 million contract option to continue to supply the U.S. Army instrumental-multiple integrated laser engagement tactical vehicle systems for the branch’s training exercises. The Army exercised the third option of an I-MILES TVS indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract the company won in 2010, Cubic said Thursday. I-MILES TVS employs a wireless vehicle technology that […] More

  • NTT DATA to Help NSW Transport Agency Implement SAP ERP Platform
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    NTT DATA to Help NSW Transport Agency Implement SAP ERP Platform

    NTT DATA will deliver and implement an SAP data analysis and reporting platform for the transportation agency of New South Wales, Australia, under a $1.13 million contract, CRN reported Thursday. Transport for NSW chose NTT DATA to deploy the SAP Business Warehouse software for the agency’s enterprise resource planning system project, according to the report by […] More

  • Lockheed Completes Air-to-Ground Missile Guidance System Test Flight; Frank St. John Comments
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    Lockheed Completes Air-to-Ground Missile Guidance System Test Flight; Frank St. John Comments

    Lockheed Martin has completed the second flight test for its missile guidance system in a move that Frank St. John, the company’s tactical missiles chief, says aims to help the U.S. Army reduce technology development costs. The joint air-to-ground missile dual-mode guidance section worked to acquire its target using a precision strike laser and destroyed the […] More

  • Microsoft Works to Build Presence in Open Source Community
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    Microsoft Works to Build Presence in Open Source Community

    Microsoft is using open-source innovation hosting portals CodePlex and GitHub to share some of the firm’s software codes with the public, Nextgov reported Wednesday. Nikhil Sonnad writes that Microsoft provides developers access to its TypeScript programming language through Github and publishes OSS projects on the company-operated CodePlex site. The software company wrote on its Github […] More