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  • Elizabeth Buske to Lead SPARC as Marc Murphy Steps Down
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    Elizabeth Buske to Lead SPARC as Marc Murphy Steps Down

    SPARC is an Agile Systems Delivery Hub of Booz Allen Hamilton, located in Charleston, SC. Elizabeth Buske, a principal at Booz Allen Hamilton has been selected to succeed Marc Murphy at the Charleston, South Carolina-based software development firm, The Post and Courier reported Wedneday. Thad Moore writes Murphy, who also serves as vice president at […] More

  • Clint Green Named ViON Advanced Analytic Strategy, Dev’t Director; Tom Frana Comments
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    Clint Green Named ViON Advanced Analytic Strategy, Dev’t Director; Tom Frana Comments

    Clint Green, former chief technology officer at ViON subsidiary Ascolta, has been appointed director of advanced analytic strategy and development at the Herndon, Virginia-based information technology infrastructure services provider. ViON said Wednesday he helped establish Ascolta’s strategic framework and technical vision and has worked on big data, analytics, Hadoop, networking and disaster recovery platforms throughout his career. “Clint brings a wealth of […] More

  • Army, Navy Commend Top FY 2013-2015 Defense Suppliers in Incentive Program; Katrina McFarland, Sean Stackley Comment
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    Army, Navy Commend Top FY 2013-2015 Defense Suppliers in Incentive Program; Katrina McFarland, Sean Stackley Comment

    The U.S. Army and Navy have released their respective lists of vendors the services commend for the companies’ performance as defense suppliers across the fiscal years 2013 through 2015. The fiscal year 2016 Superior Supplier Incentive Program list identifies the top-performing business units within defense corporations and provides opportunities for those businesses to discuss prospects with […] More

  • CACI, AOC, Center for Security Policy to Hold National Security Symposium; Ken Asbury Comments
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    CACI, AOC, Center for Security Policy to Hold National Security Symposium; Ken Asbury Comments

    CACI International, the Association of Old Crows and the Center for Security Policy will sponsor an annual national security symposium on Sept. 22 at the Gannett Conference Center in McLean, Virginia. The ninth leg in the Asymmetric Threat symposia series will focus on the discussion around global threats to U.S. national security, CACI said Thursday. […] More

  • Lockheed-KAI Team Test Flies Second T-50A Trainer Aircraft; Doug Batista Comments
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    Lockheed-KAI Team Test Flies Second T-50A Trainer Aircraft; Doug Batista Comments

    A team comprised of Lockheed Martin and Korea Aerospace Industries has tested a second T-50A aircraft in pursuit of the U.S. Air Force‘s T-X trainer replacement contract. “We now have two aircraft in flight test proving our upgrade and we’re nearing completion of our assembly and training operations center in Greenville, South Carolina,” Doug Batista, Lockheed’s T-50A program manager, […] More

  • Hughes, Partners Demo Integrated Mobile Satcom Tech
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    Hughes, Partners Demo Integrated Mobile Satcom Tech

    Hughes Network Systems, Klas Telecom, GetSAT and NexTech Solutions have collaborated to demonstrate a mobile satellite communications platform for voice, data and video connectivity. The integrated communications-on-the move satcom technology worked to facilitate high-definition video call among six participants located in different locations when the system was mounted on a sports utility vehicle as well as on a U.S. Navy watercraft during tests conducted June […] More

  • General Atomics Installs Radiation Monitoring Systems in New US Nuclear Power Plant
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    General Atomics Installs Radiation Monitoring Systems in New US Nuclear Power Plant

    A business unit of General Atomics has equipped the Watts Bar Unit 2 nuclear power plant with full plant radiation monitoring systems after the company’s selection by the Tennessee Valley Authority. General Atomics electromagnetic systems’ radiation monitoring systems are now in operation at Watts Bar Unit 2, which is the first new U.S. nuclear power plant since 1996, the company said Tuesday. […] More

  • Air National Guard Tests Lockheed-Built Laser Guided Training Rounds With F-16 Aircraft
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    Air National Guard Tests Lockheed-Built Laser Guided Training Rounds With F-16 Aircraft

    A U.S. Air National Guard unit has discharged eight laser-guided bomb training units built by Lockheed Martin from a fighter aircraft during flight tests conducted at the Barry M. Goldwater Ranges near Gila Bend in Arizona. The ANG unit evaluated the Enhanced Laser Guided Training Rounds on the F-16C/D Block 40/42 aircraft and the ELGTR assessments indicated an accuracy of within 9.8 feet, Lockheed said […] More

  • Army Orders Additional Cubic Laser Engagement Training Systems
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    Army Orders Additional Cubic Laser Engagement Training Systems

    Cubic has received more than $10 million in new orders from the U.S. Army for the company’s tactical engagement system that works to help the service branch facilitate live, force-on-force training of soldiers. Cubic said Wednesday its Instrumentable-Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System Individual Weapon Systems 2 will support mission readiness exercises at the Army’s home stations. Dave Buss, president of Cubic’s […] More

  • ICF to Support HUD Community-Focused Technical Assistance & Capacity Building Program
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    ICF to Support HUD Community-Focused Technical Assistance & Capacity Building Program

    The Department of Housing and Urban Development has awarded three cooperative agreements worth a total of $11.2 million to ICF International to support the department’s technical assistance and capacity building program. ICF said Wednesday it will provide various services in support of the Community Compass program, manage the HUD Exchange platform, support group and self-directed learning among grantees and help public […] More

  • Raytheon Gets NSA Certification for Ethernet Encryption Tool; John Droge Comments
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    Raytheon Gets NSA Certification for Ethernet Encryption Tool; John Droge Comments

    Raytheon has received certification from the National Security Agency for its Ethernet encryption system that works to safeguard Top Secret-level data and sensitive compartmented information in networked communication platforms. The NSA Type 1 certification seeks to authorize Raytheon to sell its KG-350 Layer 2 Ethernet encryption tool to government, military and commercial clients, the company said […] More

  • Lockheed, Allied Minds Subsidiary to Seek RF Detection Tech Applications in New Markets
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    Lockheed, Allied Minds Subsidiary to Seek RF Detection Tech Applications in New Markets

    Lockheed Martin and the Allied Minds subsidiary HawkEye 360 have partnered to aid the adoption of HawkEye 360’s space-based radio frequency detection and mapping technology across new market segments. Lockheed said Tuesday the partnership will explore new applications for HawkEye 360’s RF technology as the latter awaits regulatory approvals on its plan to deploy a constellation of small satellites in low-Earth orbit. HawkEye 360’s planned […] More