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  • Rockwell Collins Tactical Radio Selected for Peru’s Seasprite Navy Helicopters
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    Rockwell Collins Tactical Radio Selected for Peru’s Seasprite Navy Helicopters

    Peru’s navy has selected a Rockwell Collins-designed tactical radio for installation on the agency’s fleet of SH-2G Super Seasprite helicopters. The company said Thursday its Talon V/UHF tactical radios are built to give pilots secure voice and data communications for missions in areas such as surface and sub-surface maritime, blue water and littoral surveillance, and search-and-rescue operations. Alan Prowse, vice president […] More

  • HPE’s Marilyn Crouther Honored for Contributions to Washington’s Federal IT Sector
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    HPE’s Marilyn Crouther Honored for Contributions to Washington’s Federal IT Sector

    Marilyn Crouther, senior vice president and general manager of Hewlett Packard Enterprise‘s public sector, has received recognition from FedScoop as part of an annual list of notable female executives in the Washington government information technology community. FedScoop said Thursday that Crouther and 49 other women honorees have demonstrated  leadership in efforts to help federal agencies to carry out IT […] More

  • Deloitte’s Howard Byrd Among Panelists at Compusearch’s Gov’t Contracts Mgmt Discussion
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    Deloitte’s Howard Byrd Among Panelists at Compusearch’s Gov’t Contracts Mgmt Discussion

    Howard Byrd, director of federal contracts at Deloitte Services LP, joined other panelists in a Compusearch Software Systems-hosted discussion on the migration to the “next generation” of government contracts management. The GovCon Contracts Maturity panel discussion was the first in Compusearch’s Executive Panel series on GovCon best practices, Compusearch said Tuesday. Other panelists include Kelly […] More

  • Elbit Systems Border Surveillance System Gets Border Patrol Chief Certification
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    Elbit Systems Border Surveillance System Gets Border Patrol Chief Certification

    The Chief of the U.S. Border Patrol has certified to Congress that an Elbit Systems of America-built Integrated Fixed Towers border surveillance system meets operational requirements, as part of the 2014 Consolidated Appropriations Act. Parent company Elbit Systems said Thursday IFT works to provide long-range, 360-degree, all-weather surveillance for optimized situational awareness and agent safety. The company added the […] More

  • NSF Launches Arctic Research Center at UC-Santa Barbara Analysis Hub
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    NSF Launches Arctic Research Center at UC-Santa Barbara Analysis Hub

    The National Science Foundation has opened a $5.9 million Arctic region-focused scientific research data center in the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis at the University of California, Santa Barbara. NSF’s Arctic Data Center will work to serve as the Arctic research community’s data preservation and discovery storage, the agency said March 23. The center will work to […] More

  • Deloitte, MIT, Datawheel Launch US Public Data Visualization Engine
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    Deloitte, MIT, Datawheel Launch US Public Data Visualization Engine

    Deloitte, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Datawheel have launched a new visualization engine to display U.S. public data. MIT’s Macro Connections Group partnered with Deloitte and Datawheel to develop Data USA that works to aggregate and visualize data from multiple sources including government agencies such as Commerce Department, Labor Deparment and Education Department, Deloitte said Monday. […] More

  • DoD Certifies Fidelis Threat Defense Offering; Kurt Bertone Comments
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    DoD Certifies Fidelis Threat Defense Offering; Kurt Bertone Comments

    A Fidelis Cybersecurity-designed threat defense offering has been added to the Defense Department’s list of products certified for interoperability and information assurance via an assessment stage. DoD approved the Fidelis Network product for deployment within defense agencies and networks as it has been included in the department’s Unified Capabilities  Approved Products List, Fidelis said Monday. Kurt Bertone, chief […] More

  • Sandia Lab, CFRTA Sign Partnership Agreement for Emergency Planning Concepts Development
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    Sandia Lab, CFRTA Sign Partnership Agreement for Emergency Planning Concepts Development

    Sandia National Laboratories and the California Fire and Rescue Training Authority have signed a memorandum of agreement for the development of new emergency planning, exercise and response concepts. Sandia aims to build on its nine-month agreement with California for emergency response scenarios on wildfire, chlorine tanker release and radiological dispersal device for CFRTA and the state, Sandia […] More

  • Raytheon to Help Redesign NSF’s Online Networking, Research Lab; Mark Berman Comments
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    Raytheon to Help Redesign NSF’s Online Networking, Research Lab; Mark Berman Comments

    A subsidiary of Raytheon has been awarded an $8 million contract to help redesign the National Science Foundation‘s internet-based laboratory for networking and distributed systems research in an effort to help scientists meet the requirements of technologies online. Raytheon BBN Technologies will work to expand the Global Environment for Network Innovations platform to help further the studies in […] More

  • General Atomics, Navy Conduct Aircraft Arresting Gear Test on Super Hornet
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    General Atomics, Navy Conduct Aircraft Arresting Gear Test on Super Hornet

    General Atomics‘ electromagnetic systems arm and the U.S. Navy have tested an aircraft arrestment system on a Boeing-built F/A-18E Super Hornet at the Runway Arrested Landing Site in the Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. The company said Friday its Advanced Arresting Gear turbo-electric system is designed to control deceleration of carrier aircraft. Dean Key, GA director of launch and recovery production programs and AAG design and development, […] More