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ST Engineering North America Unveils New Website; Tom Vecchiolla Comments
ST Engineering North America has introduced a new website to provide its future and existing clients better access to its services and products. â€œAt this critical point in our nationâ€™s history, it is important for us to let our customers and community know that we have more than 6,000 hard-working Americans employed to keep Americaâ€™s infrastructure working,â€ Tom Vecchiolla, president and CEO of ST Engineering North America and a previous Wash100 award winner, told ExecutiveBiz.
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April 9, 2020, 4:01 am
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Boeing, Army Conduct S-100 Camcopter UAV Cargo Delivery Demonstration
Boeing conducted a demonstration in March to test the capability of the S-100 Camcopter unmanned air vehicleÂ to resupply warfighters with small cargo packages as part of the U.S. Armyâ€™s Expeditionary Warrior Experiment, FlightGlobal reported Tuesday.
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April 8, 2020, 5:18 am
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Don Widener on BAE’s Partnership With UiPath, AI Work
Don Widener, technical director ofÂ advanced analytics lab andÂ ISR analysis portfolio at BAE Systems, told Unite.AI in an interview published Tuesday about the companyâ€™s partnership with UiPath to deliver machine learning and automation capabilities to the intelligence community and defense agencies through a robotic operations center.
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April 8, 2020, 4:30 am
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Agencies Slow to Transition to EIS Telecom Contract; Chris Smith, Tony Wellen Quoted
TheÂ General Services Administration expected nine out of 17 major agencies to award task orders by March 31 through the $50B Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions telecommunications contract but only one of those agencies used EIS to issue a task order, Federal News Network reported Monday.
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April 7, 2020, 4:27 am
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Boeing to Perform Another Uncrewed Starliner Orbital Flight Test
Boeing has announced that it will conduct another unmanned orbital flight test of the CST-100 Starliner crew capsule.
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April 7, 2020, 2:55 am
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Peraton’s Dean Bellamy: Congress Should Address Space Traffic Management
Dean Bellamy, senior director of space strategies and development at Peraton, told Politico in an interview published Friday he believes Congress needs to initiate action to better manage space traffic as more companies launch satellites into orbit.
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April 6, 2020, 3:52 am
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Palantir Helps HHS Synthesize COVID-19 Data With Analytical Tools
Palantir, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based big data analytics firm, is collaborating with the Department of Health and Human Servicesâ€™ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to help analyze large sets of health data to understand the spread of the new coronavirus, FedScoop reported Thursday.
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April 3, 2020, 4:50 am
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Bob Genter on SAIC’s Integration of Unisys Federal Amid COVID-19
Bob Genter, executive vice president and general manager of civilian business at Science Applications International Corp., said the fast completion of the acquisition of Unisysâ€™ federal arm has helped SAIC navigate the integration process during the coronavirus pandemic, the Washington Business Journal reported Thursday.
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April 3, 2020, 3:58 am
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Contractors Negotiate Arrangements With Intell Agencies to Continue Classified Work During Pandemic
Some contractors working with agencies within the intelligence community are negotiating arrangements with contract officers on a case-by-case basis to continue to perform classified work during the coronavirus pandemic, the Washington Business Journal reported Wednesday.
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April 2, 2020, 4:22 am
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General Atomics Installs CAE’s Predator Mission Trainer at North Dakota Facility; Todd Probert Quoted
General Atomicsâ€™ aeronautical systems business has installed and started using the CAE-developed Predator Mission Trainer at its flight test and training center in North Dakota.
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April 2, 2020, 4:21 am
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Govini Predicts COVID-19 Will Affect Military Readiness; Tara Murphy Dougherty Quoted
A new Govini analysis shows that U.S. military readiness is likely to see a major impact in the next few weeks as the coronavirus pandemic spreads to manufacturing hubs and military bases in the countryâ€™s western and southern areas, Defense One reported Monday.
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April 1, 2020, 4:51 am
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Zscaler’s Patrick Perry: DoD Should Shift Focus to Data Security
Patrick Perry, director of emerging technology for federal DOD/IC at Zscaler, wrote in a commentary published Tuesday on Defense Systems that the Department of Defense should change its focus from network security to data security to better manage large data volumes and increasing bandwidth requirements.
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April 1, 2020, 3:28 am