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  • Accenture Opens Baltimore CMS, SSA Contract Support Hub
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    Accenture Opens Baltimore CMS, SSA Contract Support Hub

    An Accenture subsidiary has unveiled a facility in Baltimore in order to provide support for Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services‘ and Social Security Administration‘s information technology programs and contracts. Accenture Federal Services will use the Innovation Center for Technology to support SSA’s Specialized Assistance and Advisory Services initiative and IT Support Services Contract as well […] More

  • NJVC Opens 4th St. Louis Office to Support Software Services Practice; Bill Cloin Comments
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    NJVC Opens 4th St. Louis Office to Support Software Services Practice; Bill Cloin Comments

    NJVC has unveiled a new corporate office in St. Louis to provide enterprise information technology services to government clients and support the company’s software services practice. The facility headquartered at the CIC St. Louis technology hub will house employees of the firm’s software services group that works to develop custom applications and related tools designed to help […] More

  • FAA Grants Experimental Certificate to General Atomics-built Predator C Avenger
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    FAA Grants Experimental Certificate to General Atomics-built Predator C Avenger

    General Atomics has received an experimental certificate from the Federal Aviation Administration for its Predator C Avenger remotely piloted aircraft. The FAA certificate would allow the General Atomics Aeronautical Systems-built Avenger system to operate in the U.S. National Airspace System, the company said Monday. The Avenger unmanned aerial vehicle has an electro-optical/infrared sensor, Lynx radar […] More

  • Booz Allen’s Systems Delivery Group Gets CMMI Maturity Level 5 Appraisal; Gary Labovich Comments
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    Booz Allen’s Systems Delivery Group Gets CMMI Maturity Level 5 Appraisal; Gary Labovich Comments

    Booz Allen Hamilton’s systems delivery organization has achieved Maturity Level 5 rating under the CMMI Institute’s Capability Maturity Model Integration for Development framework. The CMMI ML 5 status was granted after an independent appraiser evaluated Booz Allen’s implementation of process-based methods in software development, the company said Monday. Gary Labovich, executive vice president at Booz Allen, said the […] More

  • SAP NS2’s Mark Testoni: Data Digitization, Open Source Platforms Could Help in Law Enforcement, Intelligence Operations
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    SAP NS2’s Mark Testoni: Data Digitization, Open Source Platforms Could Help in Law Enforcement, Intelligence Operations

    Mark Testoni, president and CEO of SAP National Security Services, told CNBC Asia in an interview aired Wednesday that commercial open-source platforms that companies use for consumer sentiment can now be applied in intelligence and law enforcement operations. Testoni said that law enforcement agencies have started to use such platforms to identify individuals who are associated with nefarious […] More

  • Germany’s Potential $4.5B Missile Defense Deal With Lockheed-MBDA Team Faces Possible Delay
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    Germany’s Potential $4.5B Missile Defense Deal With Lockheed-MBDA Team Faces Possible Delay

    Germany may not be able to wrap up by the end of 2016 a potential $4.5 billion deal with Lockheed Martin and MBDA for a missile defense system, Reuters reported Sunday. Andrea Shalal writes Ralf Brauksiepe, Germany’s state secretary, wrote in a document released Friday that it is uncertain whether the Medium Extended Air Defense System program […] More

  • Finland Picks L-3 Division to Supply Infrared Imaging Tools for Airbus-Built H215 Choppers
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    Finland Picks L-3 Division to Supply Infrared Imaging Tools for Airbus-Built H215 Choppers

    An L-3 Communications division has secured an order from an agency in Finland to supply infrared imaging tools for installation onboard Airbus Group-built H215 helicopters. L-3 WESCAM will integrate its MX-15 electro-optical and infrared imaging systems with Finnish Border Guard’s H215 aircraft designed for use in search-and-rescue and maritime border patrol missions, L-3 Communications said Monday. […] More

  • Patria Taps Esterline to Update Cockpit Avionics Platform on Finland Air Force’s Hawk Aircraft
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    Patria Taps Esterline to Update Cockpit Avionics Platform on Finland Air Force’s Hawk Aircraft

    Finland-based aerospace company Patria has awarded an Esterline subsidiary a contract to update the cockpit avionics platform onboard the Finnish air force’s fleet of BAE Systems-built Hawk trainer aircraft. Esterline CMC Electronics will integrate its Cockpit 4000 glass-based avionics suite with seven Hawk Mk51 planes under the contract, Esterline said Monday. The Cockpit 4000 avionics platform […] More

  • SAIC Subcontracts Fulcrum for Cybercom Operations Support; Jeff Handy Comments
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    SAIC Subcontracts Fulcrum for Cybercom Operations Support; Jeff Handy Comments

    Fulcrum has received a subcontract from Science Applications International Corp. to provide technology and operations support services to the U.S. Cyber Command. Fulcrum will work to help SAIC provide cyber strategy planning assistance, digital and non-digital information services related to Internet-of-Things security, cyber operations, and intelligence support to Cybercom under a potential five-year, $460 million multiple-award […] More

  • Northrop Gets DARPA Contract Modification for Counterfeit IC Detection Microchip
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    Northrop Gets DARPA Contract Modification for Counterfeit IC Detection Microchip

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded Northrop Grumman a potential $7.2 million contract modification to begin work on the second phase of the Supply Chain Hardware Integrity for Electronics Defense program. The modification exercises the initial option to a previously awarded contract with a 21-month base term and brings the total contract value from $12.3 million […] More

  • Textron Airborne Solutions Eyes Tactical Live Air Training Market; Russ Bartlett Comments
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    Textron Airborne Solutions Eyes Tactical Live Air Training Market; Russ Bartlett Comments

    Textron has changed the name of its aviation training business in an effort to focus on live tactical airborne training services for U.S. and allied military forces. Textron Advanced Aviation Training rebranded as Textron Airborne Solutions following the parent company’s acquisition of Airborne Tactical Advantage Co., Textron said Friday. Textron Airborne Solutions will integrate ATAC, […] More

  • 5 Veteran-Owned Firms Win Spots on Navy Construction IDIQ
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    5 Veteran-Owned Firms Win Spots on Navy Construction IDIQ

    The U.S. Navy has awarded five service-disabled, veteran-owned small businesses positions on a potential five-year, $30 million contract to perform construction work in Guam. Global Engineering Services, M-80 Systems, Pacific Industrial Coatings, Pearl Construction Environmental Service and Relyant Global will compete for task orders under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Navy said Wednesday. The multiple-award contract […] More