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  • Fulcrum Receives Army, DIA Intelligence Support Subcontracts; Jeff Handy Comments
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    Fulcrum Receives Army, DIA Intelligence Support Subcontracts; Jeff Handy Comments

    Fulcrum has secured separate subcontracts from Booz Allen Hamilton and Absolute Business Solutions Corp. to support work under respective task orders from the Defense Intelligence Agency and the U.S. Army. Centreville, Virginia-based Fulcrum said it will support Booz Allen’s efforts as a prime contractor under DIA’s Enterprise Platform Services and Enterprise Infrastructure Engineering and Operation Services task orders […] More

  • Airbus to Purchase 2 CAE-Built C295 Simulators; Gene Colabatistto Comments
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    Airbus to Purchase 2 CAE-Built C295 Simulators; Gene Colabatistto Comments

    Airbus’ defense and space business has ordered two additional CAE-built flight simulators for the C295 aircraft under a memorandum of understanding. Airbus will install one C295 flight simulator at the company’s international training center in Spain and provide the other one for an unnamed aircraft operator, Airbus said Monday. Gene Colabatistto, president of CAE’s defense and […] More

  • BlackStratus: US Govt Agencies Should Utilize Security Info Event Mgmt Tech for Election-Related Data
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    BlackStratus: US Govt Agencies Should Utilize Security Info Event Mgmt Tech for Election-Related Data

    BlackStratus has recommended U.S. government agencies deploy security information event management technology to address potential cyber attacks on agencies that send, receive and store election-related data. The company said Thursday its SIEM technology was designed to support security administrators on tasks to identify when potential cyber attacks have commenced and report suspicious and irregular activities that occur […] More

  • Dell Subsidiary Unveils Security Platform for AWS Enterprise Apps
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    Dell Subsidiary Unveils Security Platform for AWS Enterprise Apps

    Dell Technologies‘ Dell EMC subsidiary has unveiled a platform that works to protect enterprise applications that run on Amazon Web Services. Dell EMC said Monday its NetWorker with CloudBoost system is built to provide an enterprise-grade backup service for applications on AWS as well as client-side optimized backups, inline deduplication, encryption and compression with direct backup to Amazon Simple […] More

  • Charles River Analytics-5D Robotics Team to Help Army Develop Soldier-Machine Interface
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    Charles River Analytics-5D Robotics Team to Help Army Develop Soldier-Machine Interface

    Charles River Analytics and 5D Robotics will collaborate to develop a soldier-machine interface for U.S. Army robotic systems under a two-year, $1 million follow-on contract. The companies’ Multi-Modal Interface for Natural Operator Teaming with Autonomous Robots will integrate multiple tracking and robot control systems, Charles River said Nov 1. MINOTAUR is intended to provide an interface to warfighters who operate with autonomous systems […] More

  • Tetra Tech Lands USAID Middle East Local Govt Support Contract
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    Tetra Tech Lands USAID Middle East Local Govt Support Contract

    Tetra Tech has received a five-year, $47 million contract from the U.S. Agency for International Development for assistance in USAID’s efforts to boost legal and policy frameworks that govern municipalities in the West Bank and Gaza. The company said Monday the single-award Communities Thrive contract will cover support for local government work that includes water meter updates, analysis […] More

  • SpeedCast, Airbus Ink Satcom Anchor Station Service Agreement
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    SpeedCast, Airbus Ink Satcom Anchor Station Service Agreement

    SpeedCast International has agreed to provide support services for the satellite communications anchor station of Airbus‘ defense and space business under a six-year, multimillion dollar agreement. The companies said Monday the deal covers maintenance, training, security and infrastructure management services for Airbus’ Skynet East anchor station that is located at SpeedCast’s Adelaide, Australia-based teleport facility. Pierre-Jean Beylier, SpeedCast CEO, said the company’s […] More

  • Smiths Detection Debuts Online Portal for Aviation Sector; Cameron Mann Comments
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    Smiths Detection Debuts Online Portal for Aviation Sector; Cameron Mann Comments

    Smiths Detection has launched a new online hub to function as a portal of opinion-based and other articles from aviation professionals to provide users insight about the sector. The Aviation Insider website at aviation-insider.com exhibits aviation security practices and facilitate industry discussions, Smiths Detection said Monday. “Aviation Insider is designed to be a critical hub for industry […] More

  • Harris Lands 5-Year NCI Clinical Data Mgmt Extension; Carl D’Alessandro Comments
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    Harris Lands 5-Year NCI Clinical Data Mgmt Extension; Carl D’Alessandro Comments

    Harris has received a potential five-year, $43 million contract to continue to help the National Cancer Institute‘s cancer research center manage data under NCI’s intramural clinical trials program. The company said Monday it will perform clinical data management, quality assurance and control, clinical audit, research databases and systems update and clinical trials safety and compliance monitoring services for the institute. […] More

  • DoD Assigns F-35 Component MRO, Upgrade Workloads to Partner Nations
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    DoD Assigns F-35 Component MRO, Upgrade Workloads to Partner Nations

    The Defense Department has granted regional F-35 maintenance, repair, overhaul and upgrade capacity to partner nations that will support 65 out of 774 repairables outside the continental U.S. Lockheed Martin, the F-35 prime contractor, said Monday the U.K. will oversee 48 of the 65 F-35 components while Netherlands will handle 14 and Australia will manage three of the components for global […] More

  • ASRC Federal’s Vistronix Subsidiary to Engineer Wideband Control Systems for Army
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    ASRC Federal’s Vistronix Subsidiary to Engineer Wideband Control Systems for Army

    ASRC Federal‘s Vistronix subsidiary has secured a three-year, $14.1 million contract for engineering and technical work on the U.S. Army‘s wideband controls systems. The Army received one bid for the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract through an online solicitation and obligated $1.3 million at the time of award from the military branch’s fiscal 2016 “other” funds, the Defense Department said Friday. Vistronix will perform […] More

  • Real-Time Innovations Gets DOE Funds for Smart Grid Security R&D
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    Real-Time Innovations Gets DOE Funds for Smart Grid Security R&D

    Real-Time Innovations has received funds from the Energy Department to continue research on smart grid security systems that apply Data-Distribution Service standard. RTI said Monday it will collaborate with DoE and use the company’s Connext DDS real-time commercial connectivity software to develop a platform that could potentially secure the next-generation U.S. smart grid’s cyberphysical communications infrastructure. The company added it also […] More