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  • Carahsoft Offers LexisNexis’ Legal Software Products on GSA Schedule, NASA SEWP Contracts
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    Carahsoft Offers LexisNexis’ Legal Software Products on GSA Schedule, NASA SEWP Contracts

    Carahsoft and LexisNexis have entered an agreement to offer the latter company’s legal software products to the federal government through Carahsoft’s positions on the General Services Administration‘s Schedule 70 and NASA‘s Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement V contract vehicles. The partnership seeks to increase public sector demand for LexisNexis’ business of law software portfolio designed to support case analysis, presentation, legal and eDiscovery management processes, Carahsoft […] More

  • Day & Zimmermann, Rheinmetall Form Munitions Manufacturing JV
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    Day & Zimmermann, Rheinmetall Form Munitions Manufacturing JV

    Day & Zimmermann and Rheinmetall have launched a joint venture in an effort to introduce fully integrated munitions manufacturing and design services to the U.S. market. The new Rheinmetall, Day & Zimmermann Munitions business will utilize RWM’s ammunition design and development knowledge and D&Z’s manufacturing experience, D&Z said Wednesday. Michael Yoh, president of D&Z’s munitions and […] More

  • New York City MTA Taps Cubic for Software Programming & Maintenance Support
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    New York City MTA Taps Cubic for Software Programming & Maintenance Support

    Cubic‘s transportation systems business unit has secured a $40.3 million contract extension from the New York City Transit segment of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority for software programming and maintenance support. The company said Thursday the contract covers assistance on the management of the MetroCard automated fare collection system on an as-needed basis until 2022 as well as […] More

  • Aerospace Industries Association Appoints New Board of Governors Members for 2017
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    Aerospace Industries Association Appoints New Board of Governors Members for 2017

    The defense sector trade group Aerospace Industries Association has elected new members its executive board of governors for 2017 that includes at least 20 government contracting industry leaders. AIA said Thursday Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg was chosen to serve as the association’s chairman of the board and Raytheon chief executive Thomas Kennedy was elected vice chairman. David Melcher was reappointed […] More

  • EMC Vet William Teuber Named Senior Operating Principal at Bridge Growth Partners
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    EMC Vet William Teuber Named Senior Operating Principal at Bridge Growth Partners

    William Teuber, former vice chairman of EMC, has joined New York-based investment firm Bridge Growth Partners as senior operating principal. He became EMC’s vice chairman in May 2006 and stepped down from the post upon completion of the data storage vendor’s merger with Dell in September 2016, Bridge Growth Partners said. In his previous role, Teuber was responsible for strategy and business […] More

  • Sandia Natl Labs Vet Julia Phillips Joins National Science Board
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    Sandia Natl Labs Vet Julia Phillips Joins National Science Board

    Julia Phillips, former acting vice president and chief technology officer of the Education Department‘s Sandia National Laboratories, has been appointed by President Barack Obama to the National Science Board. She will lead efforts to maintain U.S.’ key role in the science and engineering fields in her new position, Sandia Labs said Wednesday. Her 19-year career at Sandia […] More

  • Mark Scallion on SAP Public Services’ Analytics Work With Civilian Agencies, How Agencies Can ‘Re-Imagine’ IT
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    Mark Scallion on SAP Public Services’ Analytics Work With Civilian Agencies, How Agencies Can ‘Re-Imagine’ IT

    Mark Scallion leads the federal civilian business as a vice president for SAP Public Services, a subsidiary of the global technology services conglomerate that focuses on work with government agencies in areas such as electronic government and shared services. A two-decade industry veteran, Scallion led SAP Public Services’ Defense Department organization for three years prior to his current role and […] More

  • GSA Selects Distributed Solutions for Contract Writing-as-a-Service BPA
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    GSA Selects Distributed Solutions for Contract Writing-as-a-Service BPA

    Distributed Solutions Inc. has secured a potential $10.5 million blanket purchase agreement from the integrated technology services branch of the General Services Administration‘s Federal Acquisition Service to develop a contract writing system-as-a-service platform for GSA and its customer agencies. DSI said Wednesday the agreement calls for the company to provide a software-as-a-service, cloud-based enterprise-grade system for government […] More

  • Lockheed to Equip Army Radar System with Counter-UAS Tech
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    Lockheed to Equip Army Radar System with Counter-UAS Tech

    Lockheed Martin has won a two-year, $27.8 million contract to add a counter-unmanned aerial system feature to the U.S. Army‘s AN/TPQ-53 radar system. The Army Contracting Command received four bids for the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract and obligated $4 million in fiscal 2017 operations and maintenance funds at the time of award, the Defense Department said Wednesday. Lockheed will perform work in Syracuse, New […] More

  • Carahsoft to Offer Palo Alto Networks IT Security Platform in Federal Market
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    Carahsoft to Offer Palo Alto Networks IT Security Platform in Federal Market

    Carahsoft will act as a federal government market distributor of Palo Alto Networks‘ information technology security platform that works to prevent threats and implement protective measures throughout an attack lifecycle. Palo Alto Networks built its Next-Generation Security Platform is designed to utilize network, cloud and endpoint security to offer full visibility and control functions for IT departments, Carahsoft […] More

  • IBM-Ponemon Study: 32% of IT & Security Personnel Report High Organizational Cyber Resilience
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    IBM-Ponemon Study: 32% of IT & Security Personnel Report High Organizational Cyber Resilience

    A new study backed by the Ponemon Institute and IBM‘s Resilient subsidiary says 32 percent of information technology and security personnel claim there is a high level of cyber resilience in their organizations. IBM said Wednesday Ponemon interviewed 2,400 security and IT respondents across the world for the Resilient-sponsored 2016 Cyber Resilient Organization study. “This year’s Cyber Resilience […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls Deploys 31st Arleigh Burke-Class Destroyer; Brian Cuccias Comments
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    Huntington Ingalls Deploys 31st Arleigh Burke-Class Destroyer; Brian Cuccias Comments

    Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Ingalls Shipbuilding division on Saturday deployed the 31st Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer the company built for the U.S. Navy. The company said Wednesday it transported the USS Paul Ignatius to a floating dry dock using Ingall Shipbuilding’s rail car system, then moved the dock away from the pier and ballasted the structure to float the ship. […] More