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Carey Smith, president of Parsons‘ federal business unit, will serve as secretary of the Professional Services Council’s board of directors and continue as member of the council’s executive committee for another term. Parsons said Wednesday Smith, who joined the PSC executive committee and board in 2015, has provided leadership on government services industry issues such as agile […] More
Chris Lu, deputy secretary of the Labor Department, is set to join Washington, D.C.-based FiscalNote in February as the company’s first senior strategy adviser. Lu will focus on business development in coordination with co-founder and CEO Tim Hwang and the executive team, FiscalNote said Thursday. “Companies, non-profits and advocacy groups face increasing uncertainty with the […] More
Bethesda, Maryland-based information technology services provider InfoZen will add an additional 25,000 square feet to its corporate headquarters in Montgomery County and hire up to 100 employees by the end of 2017 as part of the company’s expansion efforts. InfoZen announced the expansion three months after it received a potential $208 million contract from the Department of Homeland Security, […] More
Brevard County commissioners in Florida on Tuesday approved the changes to a potential $1.75 million incentive package for Lockheed Martin in exchange for the creation of up to 300 jobs, Florida Today reported Tuesday. Dave Berman writes three county commissioners cleared the revised incentive deal between Lockheed and the North Brevard Economic Development Zone, while […] More
Lockheed Martin will begin environmental and mechanical tests on a satellite that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will use to support U.S. weather observation operations. Lockheed said Tuesday the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites – S weather satellite is the second of four GOES-R series geostationary weather satellites and will undergo tests that simulate launch and […] More
AECOM and EnergySolutions‘ joint venture has been selected to lead the decommissioning of San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station under a 10-year contract. SONGS Decommissioning Solutions will dismantle and decontaminate the station as part of the commercial nuclear plant decommissioning project, which is predicted to generate close to 600 new jobs, AECOM said Tuesday. Michael Burke, AECOM CEO and chairman, […] More
Orbital ATK has opened a new office at Hill Air Force Base in Utah in a move to help the military branch collaborate directly with the company to sustain Minuteman III boosters. The company said Tuesday the 7,000-square-foot office space it leased at Falcon Hill Research Park will accommodate employees that work under the company’s propulsion subsystem support contract with the Air Force […] More
The Department of Homeland Security‘s science and technology directorate seeks partners from academia, industry and federally funded research-and-development centers that can provide anti-jamming technology systems that are ready for testing and evaluation. DHS said Tuesday it will hold the 2017 First Responder Electronic Jamming Exercise at Idaho National Laboratory from July 17 to 22 next year […] More
Vodafone Hutchison Australia, Dimension Data and FireEye have teamed up to establish a cyber defense and response center in Australia as part of a five-year, multimillion-dollar investment to combat cyber threats. Vodafone said Monday the company intends for the CDRC to monitor cyber events, gather threat intelligence and respond to incidents in order to help […] More
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has asked industry to submit research proposals for a $23 million program that seeks to develop low-size, weight, and power transmitters that will work to facilitate underground and underwater radio communications. DARPA posted on FedBizOpps the broad agency announcement for the A Mechanically Based Antenna program that seeks to create transmitters designed to produce […] More
CACI International has received certification from the International Organization for Standardization for the company’s information security policies and practices following an external audit on its corporate information technology infrastructure. The ISO 27001 certificate reflects CACI’s compliance with the ISO standard for corporate IT security policies and represents the company’s second enterprise-wide ISO credential since May, CACI said Wednesday. “This […] More
Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Ingalls Shipbuilding division launched the seventh Legend-class National Security Cutter the company built for the U.S. Coast Guard from a floating dry dock Saturday. HII said Tuesday the 418-feet-long Kimball was transferred to the dry dock via Ingalls’ rail car system and was launched off the dock with tugboats. “Our crew works hard to make sure these […] More
