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  • Alicia Ryan: Pentagon Approves LSINC-Deloitte Mentorship Arrangement
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    Alicia Ryan: Pentagon Approves LSINC-Deloitte Mentorship Arrangement

    Deloitte will work to help Huntsville, Ala.-based small business LSINC compete for prime and subcontract awards under the Defense Department’s Mentor-Protege program. LSINC said Thursday it brings its woman-owned small business status, community connections and its engineering and manufacturing offerings to the partnership as the companies pursue federal and commercial projects in the U.S. “We […] More

  • Cisco to Invest $1B in Global Cloud Network; Robert Lloyd Comments
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    Cisco to Invest $1B in Global Cloud Network; Robert Lloyd Comments

    Cisco will spend more than $1 billion during the next two years to expand its cloud computing business and deliver enterprise cloud services through a global partner ecosystem. The Intercloud network will offer a suite of analytics, security and data sovereignty architectures to support the Internet of Everything, Cisco said Monday. Telstra, Canopy, Logicalis Group, […] More

  • GDNexus Issues ISR Need Statement; Jay Mork Comments
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    GDNexus Issues ISR Need Statement; Jay Mork Comments

    GDNexus, General Dynamics’ online community of technology providers, has released a need statement for the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance sector. The first ISR domain need statement outlines the integration of analytics into image and video processing, General Dynamics said Monday. Jay Mork, chief technology officer at General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, said GDNexus aims to […] More

  • Charles Greenberg: Software AG Data Mgmt Platform Built to Synch Shared Data
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    Charles Greenberg: Software AG Data Mgmt Platform Built to Synch Shared Data

    Software AG has added Terracotta’s in-memory technology into a mobile data management platform in an effort to help synchronize shared enterprise data. Charles Greenberg, senior manager of global MDM product marketing services at Terracotta wrote in a blog post Monday that Software AG’s browser-based webMethods OneData platform is built to manage data on customer, product, […] More

  • General Dynamics Embeds Open Architecture into New Navy Combat Ship; Carlo Zaffanella Comments
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    General Dynamics Embeds Open Architecture into New Navy Combat Ship; Carlo Zaffanella Comments

    General Dynamics’ information systems division has integrated its open architecture computing infrastructure into the U.S. Navy’s newly-minted Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ship. The company’s open architecture is built to function as the core mission system for the USS Jackson, which was christened at the Austal shipyard in Mobile, Ala., on Saturday, General Dynamics said Monday. Carlo […] More

  • Software AG Bundles Big Data Analytics Tools into BI Offering; John Bates Comments
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    Software AG Bundles Big Data Analytics Tools into BI Offering; John Bates Comments

    Software AG has rolled out a business intelligence product prepackaged with data analytics tools designed to help enterprises adopt big data techniques, the IT Business Edge reported Friday. Mike Vizard writes the Intelligent Business Operations bundle includes technologies the company has acquired through the years, including in-memory computing, predictive analytics and open application programming interfaces. […] More

  • Tony Smeraglinolo: Engility to Continue Army Systems Engineering Support Work
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    Tony Smeraglinolo: Engility to Continue Army Systems Engineering Support Work

    An Engility Holdings subsidiary has been awarded a position on a $10 million systems engineering support contract with the U.S. Army Armament Research Development and Engineering Center. Dynamics Research Corp. will provide systems analysis and architecting, product data acquisition and management, model-based systems engineering and other related services to the center’s systems engineering directorate, the company said Monday. Tony Smeraglinolo, […] More

  • Triple Canopy JV Celebrates Anniversary of DoE Services Contract; Ignacio Balderas Comments
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    Triple Canopy JV Celebrates Anniversary of DoE Services Contract; Ignacio Balderas Comments

    National Strategic Protective Services, a joint venture of Triple Canopy and Securiguard, has completed its first year of a security contract with the Department of Energy‘s Oak Ridge, Tenn. facility. During the past year, NSPS received a “very good” rating and a 96 performance score from the DoE for its work on the Oak Ridge facilities, the company announced Monday. […] More

  • Taylor Wilkerson of LMI Named CCALS Technical Advisory Committee Chair
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    Taylor Wilkerson of LMI Named CCALS Technical Advisory Committee Chair

    Taylor WIlkerson, LMI program manager, has been named the new chairman of the technical advisory committee of the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Logistics Systems. The appointment of Wilkerson, a supply chain and risk analysis and assessment veteran, supports the fact that LMI is one of CCALS’ first backers in the industry, the company said in […] More

  • Robert Zapfel Named Xerox President of Services Business, Corporate EVP
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    Robert Zapfel Named Xerox President of Services Business, Corporate EVP

    Robert Zapfel has been named the president of Xerox‘s services business and the corporate executive vice president, effective April 1. Zapfel will replace Lynn Blodgett, who will retire at the end of 2014, the company announced Monday. Blodgett, who joined the company in 2010 after the acquisition of Affiliated Computer Services, will assist in Zapfel’s transition […] More

  • Rich Armstrong: DRS Builds Magnet Motors for Drilling Contractors, Clients
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    Rich Armstrong: DRS Builds Magnet Motors for Drilling Contractors, Clients

    DRS Technologies has delivered its permanent magnet motors offering to Weatherford International Ltd., a provider of equipment for the oil and gas industry. The rugged PR Series 1600 HP magnet motor technology is built to be integrated with Weatherford’s oil drilling mud pump, DRS said Friday. “We believe permanent magnet motor technology and the direct […] More