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  • Northrop to Support Navy Triton UAV Mgmt Software, Airborne Collision Avoidance Tech
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    Northrop to Support Navy Triton UAV Mgmt Software, Airborne Collision Avoidance Tech

    Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received a one-year, $9.6 million order to design, develop, analyze, integrate and test software for the U.S. Navy‘s MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft system. The Defense Department said Monday that Northrop will support the vehicle management software correction of deficiencies and integration of configuration updates into the MQ-4C under the cost-plus-fixed-fee order. DoD added the company will analyze and […] More

  • Air Force Sets Dec. 7 Launch for 8th Boeing-Built WGS Satellite
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    Air Force Sets Dec. 7 Launch for 8th Boeing-Built WGS Satellite

    The U.S. Air Force has scheduled the launch of the Boeing-built Wideband Global SATCOM 8 satellite for Dec. 7 aboard a United Launch Alliance-made Delta IV rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Lt. Gen. Samuel Greaves, space and missile systems center commander and Air Force program executive officer for space, said in a statement released Monday […] More

  • Total Logistics Small Business JV Secures $56M Navy, Marine Corps Support Services IDIQ
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    Total Logistics Small Business JV Secures $56M Navy, Marine Corps Support Services IDIQ

    The Total Logistics Small Business joint venture has secured a five-year, $55.6 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for logistics and technical support to the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps. Work will occur in Patuxent River, Maryland through December 2021 and covers analysis, development, execution, facilities, planning, support equipment management and training services, the Defense Department said Monday. DoD noted the Naval Air […] More

  • Unisys CEO Peter Altabef to Join Obama’s Telecom Advisory Panel
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    Unisys CEO Peter Altabef to Join Obama’s Telecom Advisory Panel

    President Barack Obama is set to appoint Peter Altabef, president and CEO of Unisys, as a member of the White House’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee. Unisys said Monday Altabef will join other senior industry executives who provide recommendations to the U.S. president on policy and technical issues related to national security, cybersecurity, global communications infrastructure, critical infrastructure and […] More

  • Xerox Names Joseph Echevarria, Cheryl Krongard to Board; Ursula Burns Comments
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    Xerox Names Joseph Echevarria, Cheryl Krongard to Board; Ursula Burns Comments

    Former Deloitte CEO Joseph Echevarria and Cheryl Krongard, a former senior partner at Apollo Management, have joined Xerox’s board of directors. The appointments will take effect Jan. 1 and bring the total number of the company’s board members to 11, Xerox said Monday. “Xerox will greatly benefit from Joe’s knowledge of international business and professional […] More

  • Intel Supports Obama Administration-Introduced Computer Science Education Program
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    Intel Supports Obama Administration-Introduced Computer Science Education Program

    Intel has made several investments in support of a computer science education program introduced by President Barack Obama dubbed Computer Science for All. The company said Monday it made the investments in support of Intel’s $300 million Diversity in Technology program that has committed to diversify the pool of available technical talent. The investments aim to establish a […] More

  • CACI to Support JIDO’s Joint Force Intell Integration Mission; Ken Asbury Comments
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    CACI to Support JIDO’s Joint Force Intell Integration Mission; Ken Asbury Comments

    The General Services Administration has tasked CACI International to offer deployable intelligence integration, analytical and training services to the Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Organization under a potential $1.8 billion task order awarded in late October. CACI said Monday the company will work to integrate systems, technologies and processes to help U.S. joint forces defeat adversarial networks globally as part of […] More

  • Independent Review Provides Recommendations for UK Naval Shipbuilding Growth
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    Independent Review Provides Recommendations for UK Naval Shipbuilding Growth

    The U.K. government has published an independent report by businessman and Anglo American Chair John Parker that provides recommendations to boost the country’s naval shipbuilding industry. Parker’s report includes a reappraisal of the U.K.’s shipbuilding efforts and will inform the country’s National Shipbuilding Strategy that will be released in 2017, the U.K. defense ministry said Tuesday. The […] More

  • Air Force Posts UH-1N Replacement Program Draft RFP
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    Air Force Posts UH-1N Replacement Program Draft RFP

    The U.S. Air Force has asked industry to submit comments on a draft request for proposals for a program that seeks to replace the service branch’s UH-1N Huey aircraft fleet with an off-the-shelf helicopter. Comments to the draft RFP for the UH-1N Replacement Program are due Dec. 16, according to a FedBizOpps notice published Friday. The military […] More

  • Raytheon, DARPA Partner to Build Power Grid Cybersecurity Tech; Jason Redi Comments
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    Raytheon, DARPA Partner to Build Power Grid Cybersecurity Tech; Jason Redi Comments

    Raytheon has secured $9 million in contracts to help the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency develop technologies that will work to secure the U.S. power grid system from cyber attacks. The company said Monday its BBN Technologies subsidiary will design the technologies to send alerts of an impending attack and detect spoofing attempts on grid data collection and communication systems as part of […] More

  • Purdue University Opens Global Security, Defense Innovation Institute; Mitch Daniels Comments
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    Purdue University Opens Global Security, Defense Innovation Institute; Mitch Daniels Comments

    Purdue University has launched a new hub for global security and defense innovation at the university’s Discovery Park during a symposium on global defense issues. Dan DeLaurentis, professor of aeronautics and astronautics at Purdue and a President’s Fellow for defense initiatives, will serve as the interim director of the Institute for Global Security and Defense […] More