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  • Mitre to Mentor Rockville Innovation Center Startups on Cybersecurity via BHI Partnership
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    Mitre to Mentor Rockville Innovation Center Startups on Cybersecurity via BHI Partnership

    Mitre has partnered with BioHealth Innovation Inc. to provide cybersecurity mentorship to startup companies at the Rockville Innovation Center in Maryland. RIC houses BHI’s health technology startup accelerator Relevant Health and aims to graduate early-stage technology firms into the commercial market of Montgomery County through various resources, BHI said Monday. “This arrangement enables each party to focus on […] More

  • SOM-Turner Construction Team to Build US Naval Academy’s Cyber Research Facility
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    SOM-Turner Construction Team to Build US Naval Academy’s Cyber Research Facility

    A team of comprised of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Turner Construction has been selected to design and build the U.S. Naval Academy’s academic building for cyber studies, computer science and other related disciplines. SOM said Thursday the Hopper Hall will be built to support the Naval Academy’s programs on the knowledge, study and research of cyber warfare and designed to boost  project-based […] More

  • Polycom Helps Spanish Defense Ministry Implement Unified Comms Platform
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    Polycom Helps Spanish Defense Ministry Implement Unified Comms Platform

    Spain’s defense ministry has adopted Polycom‘s unified communications platform to help maintain contact between the country’s defense headquarters and personnel across the world. The company said Nov. 3 its RealPresence Platform works to connect the Spanish defense headquarters with the armed forces, military headquarters and NATO. “Our communication needs are quite varied as we need to be able […] More

  • EPA Adopts Certara’s Population-Based Simulator to Aid Chemical Toxicity Tests
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    EPA Adopts Certara’s Population-Based Simulator to Aid Chemical Toxicity Tests

    Certara has provided its population-based simulator to support the Environmental Protection Agency‘s toxicity testing program. The company said Thursday EPA uses Simcyp Simulator to identify commercial chemicals that could pose risks to human health and should be tested further. Certara CEO Edmundo Muniz said the simulator is designed to simulate the behavior of virtual populations to provide individual variability […] More

  • Louis Berger Opens New Int’l HQ in London; Thomas Topolski Comments
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    Louis Berger Opens New Int’l HQ in London; Thomas Topolski Comments

    Louis Berger has moved its international headquarters from Paris to Richmond, London, as part of the professional services company’s expansion efforts. The establishment of the international HQ aligns with Louis Berger’s reorganization and modernization initiative on top of the company’s three-year business strategy to grow its presence in the U.K. and in Europe, Louis Berger said Monday. Thomas […] More

  • LAC Federal to Provide Cataloging Support Services to the Smithsonian Libraries
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    LAC Federal to Provide Cataloging Support Services to the Smithsonian Libraries

    LAC Federal has secured a five-year contract to provide cataloging and cataloging support services to the Smithsonian Libraries that include maintenance work on bibliographic records within online systems. The company said Monday it will offer original and copy cataloging of books, CDs, microfilm, electronic journals, magazines and other printed material on various western European and Asian languages. […] More

  • Lockheed Taps Elbit Systems for Israel F-35 Training Center Support Services
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    Lockheed Taps Elbit Systems for Israel F-35 Training Center Support Services

    Lockheed Martin has chosen Elbit Systems to provide support for the F-35 training center of Israel’s air force following a competitive selection process, Israel Defense reported Friday. The two companies aim to establish a contract in the coming months for the sustainment of the F-35 training facility at Nevatim Air Base, according to the report. Israel expects to receive the first […] More

  • Thales to Supply Aircraft Landing Tools to Air Force
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    Thales to Supply Aircraft Landing Tools to Air Force

    Thales has secured an order to develop and deliver three instrument landing platforms to the U.S. Air Force. The Thales-built Deployable – Instrument Landing System is a mobile system that works to help military pilots land aircraft at fixed bases and tactical airfields during low-visibility weather conditions, the company said Wednesday. The company will set […] More

  • Navy, Huntington Ingalls Finish Sea Trials of ‘Finn’ Guided Missile Destroyer
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    Navy, Huntington Ingalls Finish Sea Trials of ‘Finn’ Guided Missile Destroyer

    Huntington Ingalls Industries and the U.S. Navy have completed a final round of USS John Finn trials that sought to test the performance of the guided missile destroyer’s systems. The company said Friday the Navy’s Board of Inspection and Survey assessed the new Arleigh Burke-class ship’s overall operation during the two-day trial held in the Gulf of Mexico, the company said Friday. HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division […] More

  • DigitalGlobe Launches Lockheed-Built WorldView-4 Satellite; Rick Ambrose Comments
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    DigitalGlobe Launches Lockheed-Built WorldView-4 Satellite; Rick Ambrose Comments

    DigitalGlobe received initial signals from Lockheed Martin-built WorldView-4 satellite 45 minutes after it launched Friday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. WorldView-4 with a Harris Corp.-made imaging payload took off aboard a United Launch Alliance-made Atlas V rocket to join DigitalGlobe’s satellite constellation, Lockheed said Friday. Rick Ambrose, executive vice president of Lockheed’s space systems business, said the WorldView-4 […] More

  • Air Force Eyes Textron, Embraer, Leonardo-Finmeccanica Planes to Supplement A-10 Fleet
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    Air Force Eyes Textron, Embraer, Leonardo-Finmeccanica Planes to Supplement A-10 Fleet

    The U.S. Air Force wants to test four aircraft platforms from Textron, Embraer and Leonardo-Finmeccanica in an effort to augment the service branch’s fleet of A-10 Warthogs, The Witchita Eagle reported Wednesday. Jerry Siebenmark writes the Air Force Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation office looks to conduct a 135-day test of Textron’s Scorpion jet and AT-6 Wolverine as […] More

  • BAE-Irving Shipbuilding JV to Pursue Canadian Naval Support Program
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    BAE-Irving Shipbuilding JV to Pursue Canadian Naval Support Program

    BAE Systems and Irving Shipbuilding have formed a new joint venture that will compete on Canada’s Arctic Offshore Patrol Ships and Joint Support Ship In-Service Support contract. Canadian Naval Support Ltd. will combine Irving Shipbuilding’s technologies and BAE’s warship repair and maintenance expertise in pursuit of the AJISS program, BAE said Friday. BAE added that CNS aims to help […] More