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Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Newport News Shipbuilding division has laid the keel for the future USS John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier at a ceremony in Newport News, Virginia. Sponsored by former President Kennedy’s daughter Caroline Kennedy, the carrier will be the second ship of the Gerald R. Ford carrier class, HII said Saturday. The carrier is designated CVN 79 and […] More
CGI will provide outsourced information and communications technology services to the city council of Edinburgh in Scotland under a seven-year, $293.4 million contract in support of the council’s shift toward digital services. The company said Monday the contract is part of efforts to modernize the Scottish capital’s ICT infrastructure that includes the online delivery of public services and automation of back-office processes. […] More
Spain has awarded General Dynamics’ Spain-based branch company Santa Barbara Sistemas a $99 million contract for research-and-development work on an 8×8 armored vehicle prototype, Defense News reported Saturday. Esteban Villarejo writes Spain seeks a replacement for the 6×6 BMR armored vehicle and U.S.-made M-113 armored personnel carrier. General Dynamics has proposed its Piranha Class 5 platform for Spain’s armored vehicle […] More
Lockheed Martin has selected Orbital ATK to build propellant and pressurant tanks for Lockheed’s new A2100 satellite platform. Orbital ATK will supply a composite pair of liquid propellant tanks, titanium-lined pressurant tanks and titanium-lined ion propulsion xenon tanks to Lockhed under the five-year contract, Orbital ATK said Monday. Mike Cacheiro, vice president of global supply […] More
Federal information technology leaders can avoid the potential security risks of shadow IT activities within their agencies by implementing multiple strategies, Joel Dolisy, chief information officer and chief technology officer of SolarWinds, wrote in an opinion piece published Friday on GCN. Dolisy recommended that agency IT managers create a watch list of suspicious or unauthorized […] More
FireEye has disclosed findings pertaining to an advanced persistent threat group that it says is based in China and targets data on diplomatic issues in Asia. The group called Watermain has worked since 2011 to send spear phishing emails that contain a script designed to create backdoors in infected computers, FireEye said Thursday. “Collecting intelligence on India […] More
Fleet Management Solutions will continue its deliveries of systems designed to help government agencies handle their vehicle fleets under a new five-year contract from the General Services Administration. Shelley Lynch-Holmes, vice president of emerging markets at FMS, said Friday the Teletrac company will provide “GPS tracking and telematics for vehicles and heavy equipment.†Agencies will use the […] More
Chris Wilkinson, formerly the account executive of intelligence community for Microsoft, has joined Infoblox as federal account executive. Wilkinson takes responsibility of Infoblox’s initiatives to create new business opportunities and forge partnerships with the company’s customers in IC. He most recently oversaw Microsoft’s sales to IC agencies and handled the sales of Microsoft services portfolio. Wilkinson previously held […] More
Karen Velkey, formerly director of corporate compensation at Huntington Ingalls Industries, has been promoted to corporate VP of benefits and compensation. She will report directly to Chief Human Resources Officer and Corporate VP Bill Ermatinger and oversee the company’s executive compensation, salary and wage administration, deferred compensation, health and welfare insurance, retirement and incentive programs, […] More
A Chemring Group subsidiary has signed an agreement with the U.S. Navy to manufacture propellant grains for the service’s anti-personnel obstacle breaching system. Chemring Ordnance will produce up to 11,000 extruded double base N-5 propellant grains under the four-year partnership, Chemring said Monday. “We look forward to expanding this partnership into additional opportunities to jointly manufacture […] More
A Parsons-led team has been awarded a task order of an undisclosed value to help the U.S. Missile Defense Agency engineer and integrate a weapon system against ballistic missile threats. Parsons said Thursday it will also provide architecture and technical baseline development, testing and verification services for the agency’s Ballistic Missile Defense System. “Our team […] More
The U.S. Navy will conduct at-sea trials of Lockheed Martin‘s F-35C jet aboard the USS Eisenhower aircraft carrier in October as part of the program’s second development testing phase, Defense News reported Thursday. Lara Seligman writes that the tests will verify the carrier-variant joint strike fighter’s launch and recovery functions and performance under nighttime and suboptimal conditions. […] More
