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A MicroMarket Monitor report forecasts the North American security and surveillance radar market to be worth up to $2.03 billion in 2019, a compound annual growth rate of 4.64 percent over the next five years. The market research firm said Sunday that the region would keep its status as the top spender on security and surveillance radar systems, […] More

Horacio Rozanski, successor to Ralph Shrader as CEO of Booz Allen Hamilton, plans to focus his efforts on helping the firm navigate the current budget environment and a potential expansion into Asia, the Washington Post reported Sunday. Rozanski told Post reporter Amrita Jayakumar that the firm’s Vision 2020 strategy aims to leverage Booz Allen’s new technology and engineering offerings as its government client base […] More

Strategic sourcing is changing the federal acquisitions process as government agencies turn to such practices amid declining budgets, according to Kyra Fussell, a senior research analyst at Deltek. Fussell wrote Sunday in The Washington Post that Deltek sees a $7 billion decline in the government IT market from 2014 to 2019 with agencies adopting strategic sourcing initiatives […] More

A Hewlett Packard business unit has received a $55.8 million contract to extend its information technology support work for the city of Anaheim, California for another five years. HP Enterprise Services will provide the Anaheim government with new disaster recovery and videoconferencing platforms as well as help officials manage public web sites and digital communications with local […] More

Seven research teams have received $3.3 million in total funding to develop technologies for sustaining and operating the state of New York’s electric grid. The recipients submitted proposals demonstrating the performance and resiliency of the electric power delivery system in New York before they obtained the awards, the NYC Press Office said Wednesday. “These projects […] More

The Defense Department has certified a Perceptive Software-made technology for achiving clinical images and documents as security compliant under the agency’s Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process. DoD will use the Perceptive Acuo Vendor Neutral Archive system to help medical personnel manage content throughout Army– and Navy-run hospitals worldwide, Perceptive Software parent company Lexmark said […] More

A BAE Systems subsidiary has signed an agreement to help the U.K.’s skills funding agency to implement a multi-sourcing framework for the agency’s information and communications technology infrastructure. BAE Systems Applied Intelligence will serve as a service management and integration provider and be responsible for overseeing the delivery of ICT offerings to the U.K. skills […] More

A defense company has signed a 10-year lease agreement for an office property being developed by Corporate Office Properties Trust in Hunstville, Alabama. The unnamed contractor has leased 131,600 square feet of office space at the Redstone Gateway mixed-use complex and is scheduled to occupy the building in the third quarter of 2015, COPT said […] More

Siemens has secured an $11.4 million contract to build a power source system for the Altona cruise ship terminal in Hamburg, Germany, to supply electricity to vessels during laytime. The onshore power system is intended to enable cruise ships to turn off diesel engines as well as reduce harmful emissions while berthed at the Hamburg […] More

Thomas Burns recently spoke about his time in the U.S. Air Force and the business skills he acquired from his previous roles before joining ENSCO as president and CEO, the Washington Post reported Sunday. Burns, founder of technology firms Object Video and SET, previously served as senior vice president at Science Applications International Corp. In […] More

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

The Siemens Orlando office buildings in Florida will be bought by Owens Realty Capital for $14.3 million through Wells Real Estate Fund‘s Fund XIII and Fund XIV Associates, the Orlando Business Journal reported Tuesday. Anjali Fluker writes that the two buildings in Quadrangle Corporate Park were built 12 years ago and cover 82,560 square feet of space. The sale is expected […] More