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  • Financial Aid Mgmt Veteran Bob Evans Joins Attain as Managing Director; Greg Baroni Comments
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    Financial Aid Mgmt Veteran Bob Evans Joins Attain as Managing Director; Greg Baroni Comments

    Bob Evans, former president and CEO of Evans Consulting Group, has joined Attain as managing director and will oversee the formation of a new financial aid management and student services practice. The practice, to be established under the company’s Higher Education and Academic Medical Centers division, is expected to address institutions’ operational, enrollment and retention concerns, Attain said […] More

  • BAE, Ballard Collaborate on 6th AFCB Green Bus; Steve Karaffa Comments
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    BAE, Ballard Collaborate on 6th AFCB Green Bus; Steve Karaffa Comments

    BAE Systems has renewed its commitment to produce fuel cell hybrid buses in collaboration with Ballard Power Systems, ElDorado National and the University of California. Under the California Energy Commission-funded project, BAE will provide the propulsion and power management systems while Ballard will supply the “plug-and-play” power module and engineering support, Ballard said Tuesday. According to […] More

  • Harris to Add Internet in Central Asian Country’s Tactical Comm System; Brendan O’Connell Comments
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    Harris to Add Internet in Central Asian Country’s Tactical Comm System; Brendan O’Connell Comments

    Harris Corp. has won a $78 million contract to add a mobile tactical Internet to a tactical communications system for an unnamed country based in Central Asia that seeks to bolster its military’s command-and-control capabilities. The country plans to use the expanded Harris Integrated Tactical Area Communications System to enable voice, data and video connectivity in the field, Harris said […] More

  • SAIC to Help Army Command Maintain, Operate Cargo Deployment Software
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    SAIC to Help Army Command Maintain, Operate Cargo Deployment Software

    Science Applications International Corp. has won a potential $14 million software and engineering services to help the U.S. Army‘s Surface Deployment and Distribution Command operate ocean cargo deployment software. The company will also work with the command to connect commercial and military carriers with the Integrated Booking System Software under the potential four-and-eight-month order, SAIC said Wednesday. U.S. Transportation […] More

  • Minda Suchan: Exelis Designed Sensor to ID Gases in ‘Hard-to-Reach’ Areas
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    Minda Suchan: Exelis Designed Sensor to ID Gases in ‘Hard-to-Reach’ Areas

    Exelis has finished a series of flight tests on a sensor and processing system the company built to detect potentially hazardous substances and gases by pointing in multiple directions. The company’s team in Rochester, N.Y. placed several types of materials around the region to evaluate how the sensor recorded and stored data for processing on board […] More

  • SAP Launches Patient Relationship Mgmt Tool; Martin Kopp Comments
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    SAP Launches Patient Relationship Mgmt Tool; Martin Kopp Comments

    SAP AG has unveiled a patient relationship management service offering that the company designed to help healthcare providers address patient requirements. The integrated tool contains patient administration and billing features from the SAP Patient Management application, SAP said Wednesday. Martin Kopp, vice president of industry business services for healthcare providers at SAP, said the company […] More

  • Insitu Drone Used to Monitor Bushland Fires; Andrew Duggan, Kevin Moore Comment
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    Insitu Drone Used to Monitor Bushland Fires; Andrew Duggan, Kevin Moore Comment

    Insitu’s Australia-based subsidiary has demonstrated its unmanned aircraft system to observe bushland fires for the New South Wales Rural Fire Service. Insitu Pacific deployed the ScanEagle aircraft in January to report on fire movement across the Wollemi National Park bushland through the General Dynamics Mediaware-built video streaming system, Insitu Pacific said Tuesday. Kevin Moore, chief […] More

  • QinetiQ to Continue Hardware Service Work on Int’l Space Station Module
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    QinetiQ to Continue Hardware Service Work on Int’l Space Station Module

    QinetiQ will continue to help maintain hardware components the company developed for the International Space Station’s Columbus module under a contract extension through the end of this year. The company said Tuesday that it has also been working with Airbus to support the QinetiQ-developed scientific instruments for research inside the module. Airbus acts as a subcontractor and oversees replacement […] More

  • National Science Foundation Invests $15M in Internet Projects
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    National Science Foundation Invests $15M in Internet Projects

    The National Science Foundation is pumping $15 million into three projects to develop and assess future Internet systems, FedScoop reported Tuesday. Various education institutions from across the U.S. have formed three groups to build fresh network architectures, explore alternatives and test new concepts, according to the report. NSF intends for the pilot networks to bolster […] More

  • Lockheed Obtains Approval to Export Autopilot System; Kevin Westfall Comments
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    Lockheed Obtains Approval to Export Autopilot System; Kevin Westfall Comments

    Lockheed Martin has obtained approval to export its autopilot system to international markets. The Kestrel autopilot and a version of Indago system are now controlled under the Export Administration Regulations, Lockheed said Wednesday. “The Kestrel 3.0 suite allows sensors to cross check each other for accuracy and fault detection,” said Kevin Westfall, director of unmanned solutions at […] More

  • Northrop to Help Univ. of North Dakota Train UAS Pilots; Bob Gamache Comments
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    Northrop to Help Univ. of North Dakota Train UAS Pilots; Bob Gamache Comments

    Northrop Grumman has inked a three-year cooperative agreement with the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks to provide pilot training for unmanned aircraft systems through the SandShark trainer technology. The company said Tuesday it will contribute two SandShark aircraft and one ground station to the university’s flight training program for international students. SandShark operators utilize commercial broadband Internet or 4G cellular […] More

  • Lockheed Welcomes 28th Global F-16 Customer; Roderick McLean Comments
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    Lockheed Welcomes 28th Global F-16 Customer; Roderick McLean Comments

    Lockheed Martin officially welcomed Romania to the group of countries that utilize the F-16 4th generation multi-role fighter, Lockheed said Wednesday. The Romanian Air Force will become the 28th F-16 customer when it receives 12 aircraft from Portugal in a third-party transfer. “We look forward to supporting Romania’s aircraft fleet modernization and establishing an enduring relationship as […] More