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FEDRAMP is Hindering Facilities Management in the Federal Sector

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1 FEDRAMP was initially establish to provide a standardized method for ensuring digital information security for federal government agencies. Publicly available services that provide commercially available information.” FedRAMP acts as a barrier to entry to firms offering their cloud services to the government.

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Industry Focus: Global Aerospace Production Soars To New Heights

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According to Deloitte’s 2014 Global Aerospace and Defense Outlook , the commercial aerospace sector is expected to experience significant growth this year, driven by continued record-setting production levels at assembly facilities and throughout the aerospace supplier network. The end of the Iraq war and the impending end of the U.S.

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An Invisible Revolution: How Leading Construction Firms Are Rethinking Construction as a Business

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More recently, they started using digital platforms, usually commercial ones offered by technology companies, which changed everything. Progressively, these firms learned from digital platforms as they changed their behaviors. Later , they tried to adapt their processes and workflows.

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The Drone Age

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” In other words, the test sites will help FAA create federal regulations that will open the skies to a commercial drone industry that has the potential to become a growth sector worth hundreds of billions of dollars in coming years. For Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, the dawning of the Drone Age can’t come soon enough.

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Innovation Is Thriving In Arizona

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With more than 1,200 aerospace and defense companies in Arizona, it is easy to understand why PriceWaterhouseCoopers ranked Arizona number one for aerospace manufacturing attractiveness. Mesa has one of the nation’s most unique cybersecurity assets—Arizona Laboratory for Security and Defense Research (AZLabs).

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INDUSTRY FOCUS: Soaring To New Heights

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The Aerospace/Defense industry reported its third consecutive year of record revenue and profit last year. The uptick came on the strength of a surging commercial aviation market that more than offset a soft defense performance. However, defense companies face an uncertain 2013. By BF Staff. billion in operating profit.

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DoD FSRM, BUILDER SMS and the LEGACY of Wasteful Politics

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released and first version commercially available 2003: NAVY funds development of BUILDER 3.0 (web-based web-based with single instance for entire component) 2005: Navy selects commercial tool for facility assessments in lieu of continuing with BUILDER 2006: USMC begins pilot tests of BUILDER 2007: BUILDER 3.0 Howieson, V. Koopman, J.

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