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  • Carey Smith Talks About Parsons’ Williams Electric Purchase, Control System Business Expansion
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    Carey Smith Talks About Parsons’ Williams Electric Purchase, Control System Business Expansion

    Carey Smith, federal group president at Parsons, has said the company expects the acquisition of control system integration company Williams Electric to create new opportunities as the Pasadena, California-based engineering services contractor operates in the Middle East and other regions, the Pasadena Star-News reported Thursday. Smith told Pasadena Star-News she believes Parsons’ contractual relationships with federal […] More

  • DXC’s Earl Matthews: DoD Could Address Cyber Workforce Shortfall Through Civilian Reserve Corps
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    DXC’s Earl Matthews: DoD Could Address Cyber Workforce Shortfall Through Civilian Reserve Corps

    Earl Matthews, vice president of DXC Technology‘s enterprise security solutions group, has said that the U.S. government and Defense Department should consider establishing a civilian reserve cyber corps to address the shortage of cyber personnel. Matthews wrote in an article posted Friday on SIGNAL magazine that the civilian cyber corps can be modeled after the Civil Reserve Air Fleet […] More

  • Deloitte, Sqrrl Form Cyber Threat Hunting Partnership
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    Deloitte, Sqrrl Form Cyber Threat Hunting Partnership

    Deloitte has partnered with Sqrrl to offer a cybersecurity service to customers in Europe, Middle East and Africa. Sqrrl said Thursday its technology platform will support Deloitte’s managed threat hunting service at a security operations center for the EMEA region. Cesar Martin Lara, a partner at Deloitte’s cyber risk services practice in Spain, said Sqrrl’s platform is designed […] More

  • Barbara Humpton: Siemens Gets Army Contract Modification for Battle Tank Repair Facility Upgrades
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    Barbara Humpton: Siemens Gets Army Contract Modification for Battle Tank Repair Facility Upgrades

    Siemens has received a potential $37 million contract modification from the U.S. Army to carry out upgrades at the Lima, Ohio-based Joint Systems Manufacturing Center to help reduce the facility’s energy consumption. The Army Corps of Engineers made the award as a modification to a previously awarded contract in March worth approximately $11.8 million and expects the […] More

  • Boeing Completes System Requirements Review for ICBM Replacement Program
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    Boeing Completes System Requirements Review for ICBM Replacement Program

    Boeing has completed a system requirements assessment with the U.S. Air Force under a program that seeks to modernize a ground-based intercontinental ballistic missile system for the military branch’s nuclear deterrence mission. The first key review for the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent program aimed to assess technical requirements prior to the design and development of the system, Boeing said Thursday. The Air […] More

  • Capgemini to Help Manage Swedish Military’s SAP Software Platforms
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    Capgemini to Help Manage Swedish Military’s SAP Software Platforms

    Capgemini has received a potential seven-year contract to provide SAP software management and operation consulting services to Sweden’s armed forces. Work covers strategic, tactical and operational support intended to address the Swedish military’s economic, logistical and technological requirements for multiple SAP platforms,  Capgemini said Thursday. The company will support the PRIO system that currently runs on Sweden’s military information technology platform. […] More

  • Mercury Systems Gets Missile Defense Radar Module Order
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    Mercury Systems Gets Missile Defense Radar Module Order

    Mercury Systems has received a $2.2 million microelectronics order from a defense contractor that currently supports a U.S. ballistic missile defense program. The order is for radio frequency modules that will be integrated into the radar system of a ballistic missile defense platform, Mercury Systems said Thursday. Kevin Beals, vice president and general manager at the company’s […] More

  • ViON to Support DISA Transition to Azure Govt Cloud
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    ViON to Support DISA Transition to Azure Govt Cloud

    ViON has received a three-year, $1.4 million contract from the Defense Information Systems Agency to support the agency’s transition to Microsoft‘s Azure government cloud. Herndon, Virginia-based ViON said Thursday it will deliver a capacity as-a-service platform; manage the Joint Interoperability Test Command’s public cloud migration; and test hardware in a secure environment under the contract. DISA issued the award through NASA’s Solutions […] More

  • Intel’s Melvin Greer to Keynote 2018 Telecom Exchange Forum
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    Intel’s Melvin Greer to Keynote 2018 Telecom Exchange Forum

    Melvin Greer, chief data scientist for Intel‘s public sector in the Americas, will deliver a keynote address at the Telecom Exchange NYC 2018 event to be hosted by Jaymie Scotto & Associates and slated to take place June 20 in Hoboken, New Jersey. He plans to discuss the opportunities and challenges of network platforms based on artificial intelligence and data […] More

  • Tyler Wall Joins Nutanix as Chief Legal Officer
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    Tyler Wall Joins Nutanix as Chief Legal Officer

    Tyler Wall, formerly vice president and general counsel at Red Book Connect, has joined Nutanix as chief legal officer at the California-based cloud computing software provider. The more than two-decade technology industry veteran will manage Nutanix’s legal department in his new position, the company said Tuesday. Dheeraj Pandey, founder, chairman and CEO of Nutanix, said Wall will oversee […] More

  • CH2M JV to Design Compound Semiconductor Lab at Federally Funded R&D Center; Tim Byers Comments
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    CH2M JV to Design Compound Semiconductor Lab at Federally Funded R&D Center; Tim Byers Comments

    A joint venture of CH2M and Burns & McDonnell has been selected by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to provide laboratory design services for a federally funded research and development center that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology manages for the Defense Department. The JV will design the Compound Semiconductor Laboratory-Microelectronics Integration Facility to be established at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, CH2M […] More

  • Peraton to Support DoD’s Spectrum Sharing Initiative; Stu Shea Comments
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    Peraton to Support DoD’s Spectrum Sharing Initiative; Stu Shea Comments

    Peraton has secured a pair of task orders worth $12.5 million combined to support the Defense Department in efforts to open up electromagnetic spectrum for commercial use. The Defense Spectrum Organization asked the company to develop and maintain a software platform designed to analyze electromagnetic compatibility and document spectrum analysis results under a three-year, $5.55 task order, Peraton said Thursday. […] More