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  • Parsons Secures Contract for Life Cycle Mgmt Support at MDA Facilities
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    Parsons Secures Contract for Life Cycle Mgmt Support at MDA Facilities

    Parsons has landed a $9.8 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract from the Missile Defense Agency to provide life cycle management support services for Technical Engineering, Advisory and Management Support facilities. Parsons Government Services will offer advisory and assistance services including facility and infrastructure planning, programming, design, acquisition, construction and configuration management, the Defense Department said Thursday. The company […] More

  • Saab Receives Estimated $130M Order for Airborne Early Warning & Control System
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    Saab Receives Estimated $130M Order for Airborne Early Warning & Control System

    An unnamed customer has placed an estimated $130 million order with Saab‘s airborne early warning and control division for the delivery of an AEW&C system. The contract covers work for Saab’s surveillance and support services business areas, the defense and security company said Monday. Deliveries will run from 2016 to 2018, Saab added. Saab’s AEW&C system is designed to facilitate situational […] More

  • DHS Solicits White Papers for Security Tool R&D Program for Mobile Apps
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    DHS Solicits White Papers for Security Tool R&D Program for Mobile Apps

    The Department of Homeland Security has solicited white papers for a five-year contract that aims to conduct research and develop security tools for mobile applications, Federal Times reported Friday. Aaron Boyd writes DHS said in a broad agency announcement posted on FedBizOpps that the Mobile Application Security R&D project seeks to “identify innovative approaches that […] More

  • Air Force Selects McKenna Principals for Data Access Control System Dev’t
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    Air Force Selects McKenna Principals for Data Access Control System Dev’t

    McKenna Principals has received  a $15 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to design and develop an operational prototype of a data access control software. The Defense Department said Thursday the Data Framework and Access Control Enterprise II system will work to facilitate the Department of Homeland Security‘s data exchange with DoD and other agencies as well as maintain information security. […] More

  • DHS Seeks Ideas for ‘Agile’ IT Development Program
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    DHS Seeks Ideas for ‘Agile’ IT Development Program

    The Department of Homeland Security has asked industry to suggest “agile” methods and best practices to design and build information technology systems. DHS said in a notice posted Wednesday on FedBizOpps that it looks to establish a department-wide contract vehicle for agile design and development support services. The DHS Office of the Chief Procurement Officer and the Office of the Chief […] More

  • Raytheon to Help Maintain US Army’s Persistent Surveillance Systems
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    Raytheon to Help Maintain US Army’s Persistent Surveillance Systems

    Raytheon has received a potential five-year, $49.8 million contract to operate and sustain persistent surveillance and dissemination system of systems for the U.S. Army. The company will carry out the contract work through July 1, 2020, at locations to be determined with each task order, the Defense Department said Thursday. The surveillance system is designed to be […] More

  • DMI Develops Mobile App for DoD Cemetery Maintenance, Operations
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    DMI Develops Mobile App for DoD Cemetery Maintenance, Operations

    DMI will deploy a mobile application meant to help cemetery operations teams manage catalogs and assign location tags at Defense Department national military cemeteries. The company will provide the Enterprise Interment Services System app and build a common virtual database and network environment for more than 42 military cemeteries across the U.S., DMI said May 24. DMI intends for the enterprise app […] More

  • CFM International to Provide Supplies, Services for P-8 Aircraft CFM56 Engines
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    CFM International to Provide Supplies, Services for P-8 Aircraft CFM56 Engines

    The Navy has awarded CFM International a $32.5 million firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to deliver field assessment, repairs and replacement support for CFM56 engines on the Boeing Poseidon P-8 aircraft. Services include unscheduled depot maintenance and repair, Sermetel protective coatings and other required non-standard repairs, the Defense Department said Thursday. CFM will conduct work in Cincinnati, Ohio, with an […] More

  • Cisco Executive Chair John Chambers Joins OpenGov Board of Directors
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    Cisco Executive Chair John Chambers Joins OpenGov Board of Directors

    John Chambers, executive chairman and former CEO of Cisco, has joined the board of directors of OpenGov and invested in the latter company’s cloud-based financial intelligence and planning services. OpenGov said Thursday the company seeks to draw on Chambers’ experience in work with local and county governments, special and school districts as well as state and federal public […] More

  • Sandia Labs’ Program Aims to Offer Career Opportunities for Battlefield-Injured Military Personnel
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    Sandia Labs’ Program Aims to Offer Career Opportunities for Battlefield-Injured Military Personnel

    Two U.S. Army female veterans from Albuquerque, New Mexico, have become the first women to join a Sandia National Laboratories-run career development initiative for injured soldiers in the battlefield. Iraq war veterans Gabrielle Holcomb and Lindsey Kibler joined the Wounded Warrior Career Development Program that aims to hire injured military personnel for up to three years […] More

  • Iridium’s Scott Scheimreif, Other Execs Tackle Future Navigation Products
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    Iridium’s Scott Scheimreif, Other Execs Tackle Future Navigation Products

    Iridium’s Scott Scheimreif, ABI Research’s Patrick Connolly and Gopher Protocol’s Danny Rittman discuss future location tracking and navigation offerings and market prospects with Investorideas.com. Connolly said ABI Research predicts the global positioning device market will reach nearly $2 billion by 2021 as the market experiences a transition period, Investorideas.com said Thursday. “The market is undergoing […] More

  • Donald Brown: Interactive Intelligence Cloud Offerings Meet Data Center Compliance Requirements
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    Donald Brown: Interactive Intelligence Cloud Offerings Meet Data Center Compliance Requirements

    Interactive Intelligence Group‘s customer engagement platforms have passed compliance programs that work to validate internal controls for security, availability and confidentiality of data center cloud operations. The company said Thursday its PureCloud offering attained a statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements and International Standard on Assurance Engagements SOC2 Type II from the auditing standards board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. PureCloud is […] More