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  • Maj. Gen. Dwyer Dennis: USAF Could Seek Trainer Contract Bids Later This Year
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    Maj. Gen. Dwyer Dennis: USAF Could Seek Trainer Contract Bids Later This Year

    U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Dwyer Dennis has said a budget-related postponement of the T-X trainer replacement initiative allowed the military service to rethink the program’s acquisition and requirements process, Aviation Week reported Monday. Amy Butler writes Dennis, director of global reach programs in the Air Force’s office of the assistant secretary for acquisition, told […] More

  • Mark Enzweiler: CRN Recognizes Red Hat Channel Program with 5-Star Rating
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    Mark Enzweiler: CRN Recognizes Red Hat Channel Program with 5-Star Rating

    Red Hat Inc.’s channel program has achieved a five-star rating in CRN’s Partner Program Guide award for 2015. The recognition marks the third consecutive year Red Hat receives the award for its program intended to help partners deliver open source services to their customers, Red Hat said Monday. “We’re thrilled that CRN has chosen to […] More

  • Frank Sheppard to Manage Parsons-DOE Project; Mary Ann Hopkins Comments
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    Frank Sheppard to Manage Parsons-DOE Project; Mary Ann Hopkins Comments

    Frank Sheppard Jr., a Parsons vice president and former deputy project manager for the Energy Department‘s salt waste processing facility, will take over as SWPF project manager effective immediately. The company said Monday Sheppard will succeed the retiring Louis Jackson and oversee the facility’s operations in Aiken, South Carolina. “Frank is a key member of the SWPF management […] More

  • Chuck McGann Named to GTRA’s Tech Advisory Board; Kelly Yocum Comments
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    Chuck McGann Named to GTRA’s Tech Advisory Board; Kelly Yocum Comments

    Chuck McGann, chief cyber strategist at CRGT, has joined the Government Technology Research Alliance as a member of the group’s technology advisory board. CRGT said Tuesday the alliance’s goal is to facilitate technology collaboration between the government and industry through executive briefings, roundtables, knowledge exchange panel discussions, council meetings and summits. “Chuck brings a wealth […] More

  • Randy Morgan on Parsons’ Secure Mission Solutions Buy and Cyber Focus
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    Randy Morgan on Parsons’ Secure Mission Solutions Buy and Cyber Focus

    Randy Morgan spent 10 years in executive roles at SPARTA before its 2011 acquisition by Parsons Corp., where he is now executive vice president of operations in the government services business. He now oversees nine support departments for the business and oversees work to improve and maintain operations across the unit. In this conversation with […] More

  • McKinsey: Global A&D Market to See APAC, Middle East Shift
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    McKinsey: Global A&D Market to See APAC, Middle East Shift

    A new report by McKinsey & Company indicates a positive outlook in the aerospace and defense industry in terms of global defense spending and market growth over the next three years. John Dowdy and Elizabeth Oakes report that an October 2014 survey of senior executives at aerospace and defense companies points to a market shift from North America […] More

  • GSA Issues Multiagency Renewable Energy Procurement RFP
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    GSA Issues Multiagency Renewable Energy Procurement RFP

    The General Services Administration is looking for a contractor to develop, install and maintain a solar photovoltaic technology at nine federal buildings in the northern parts of California and Nevada. GSA said Thursday it plans to award a potential 20-year power purchase agreement through the Federal Aggregated Solar Procurement Pilot initiative. The program is part of […] More

  • Cubic Completes First Phase of UAS Air Range System; Bill Toti Comments
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    Cubic Completes First Phase of UAS Air Range System; Bill Toti Comments

    Cubic’s global defense business has completed the initial phase of a manned/unmanned air range system for the U.S. Air Force. Cubic collaborated with the Wright State Research Institute and the Air Force Research Laboratory to develop and execute the live, virtual and constructive unmanned aerial systems in an effort to establish a simulation environment for […] More

  • IBM: US Corporations Targeted in Online Banking Fraud
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    IBM: US Corporations Targeted in Online Banking Fraud

    IBM‘s security researchers have identified an international cyber crime group using phishing emails, sophisticated malware and scam phone calls to steal money from large U.S.-based companies, Reuters reported Thursday. Bill Rigby writes the hackers send unsolicited emails attached with a Dyre malicious software to corporate employees in order to execute fraudulent wire transfers. Dyre is […] More

  • Orbital ATK to Augment ULA Rocket for Launch of NASA Solar Probe
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    Orbital ATK to Augment ULA Rocket for Launch of NASA Solar Probe

    Orbital ATK will work with United Launch Alliance on the launch of NASA‘s Solar Probe Plus spacecraft by providing the third stage to augment ULA’s Delta IV Heavy rocket. The third-stage rocket component features avionics, attitude control and inertial navigation functions and uses the STAR 48BV motor for propulsion, Orbital ATK said Friday. It will help bring SPP to orbit around […] More

  • NASA Forms Alliance to Further Composite Materials Development Project; Jaiwon Shin Comments
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    NASA Forms Alliance to Further Composite Materials Development Project; Jaiwon Shin Comments

    NASA has teamed up with a number of organizations for its research and development program intended to help bolster future aircraft performance through the use of composite materials. NASA started the advanced composites project in an effort to reduce the amount of time spent on product development and certification by 30 percent for composites infused into aeronautics applications,” […] More

  • Serco Ranked Top Business Services Employer in Forbes List; Dan Allen Comments
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    Serco Ranked Top Business Services Employer in Forbes List; Dan Allen Comments

    Serco has received recognition as the top employer in the business services category and in the Washington metropolitan area in Forbes Magazine’s list of America’s Best Employers for 2015. The company said Thursday it is also No. 39 in the ranking of overall best employers out of 500 companies in this year’s list. “On behalf of the 10,000 Serco employees, we […] More