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  • Carl Willis-Ford of SRA Named Senior Member at ISSA; Bill Ballhaus Comments
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    Carl Willis-Ford of SRA Named Senior Member at ISSA; Bill Ballhaus Comments

    Carl Willis-Ford, SRA International senior technical advisor, has been named a senior member at the Information Systems Security Association, SRA said Thursday. The 25-year data security and security policy expert has consulted and educated members of government on data security during his career and serves on the Technical Working Group for the NIST-sponsored Federal Information Systems Security Educators Association. […] More

  • Wayne Lewandowski on Building Out Vormetric’s Federal Practice, Protecting Data Rather than Perimeters, and the Role of Collaboration in Cybersecurity
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    Wayne Lewandowski on Building Out Vormetric’s Federal Practice, Protecting Data Rather than Perimeters, and the Role of Collaboration in Cybersecurity

    Wayne Lewandowski serves as vice president of Vormetric‘s federal operations, where he works to drive growth with the company’s customers in the Defense, civilian and intelligence communities. Lewandowski has spent more-than-20-years working in the federal market with emerging integrators and technology companies, most recently helping establish virtualization and storage consulting company Plan B Government Systems‘ […] More

  • George Newstrom on Disruptive Technologies in Government, Securing the Cloud & Improving Private-Public Collaboration
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    George Newstrom on Disruptive Technologies in Government, Securing the Cloud & Improving Private-Public Collaboration

    George Newstrom leads Dell Services Federal Government as its vice president and general manager, a position he rose to after joining the firm in 2011 to help expand its reach in the cybersecurity and intelligence spaces. Newstrom is a retired U.S. Marine Corps electronics and communications officer and also served as secretary of technology for the […] More

  • LBT Secures Exclusive Rights to UT-Battelle’s Power Restoration Forecasting Tech
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    LBT Secures Exclusive Rights to UT-Battelle’s Power Restoration Forecasting Tech

    GPS tool maker Location Based Technologies will market and integrate its GPS technology with UT-Battelle‘s VERDE Analytics power restoration forecasting system under an exclusive licensing deal between both parties. LBT said Tuesday the combination of data related to navigation, the environment and weather situations is intended to help mobile service providers track assets, work crews and power operations […] More

  • Johns Hopkins APL-Navy Research Team Makes Anti-Corrosion Paint Additive; Frank Furman Comments
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    Johns Hopkins APL-Navy Research Team Makes Anti-Corrosion Paint Additive; Frank Furman Comments

    The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and Office of Naval Research have developed a paint additive they hope can help prevent corrosion of vehicles’ metal surfaces. The U.S. Navy said Wednesday that the polyfibroblast powder is designed to be mixed with commercial paint primers and for its composition to help scratched paint heal over the exposed metal. Navy […] More

  • NC County Adopts Microsoft Cloud, Mobile Tools
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    NC County Adopts Microsoft Cloud, Mobile Tools

    Microsoft is helping government employees in North Carolina’s Mecklenburg County perform business transactions and public services with the company’s software suite, cloud and mobile offerings. Mecklenburg County is using the Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Surface Pro devices and Windows Azure cloud platform, Microsoft said Wednesday. The county’s Food Services Department uses Microsoft’s products for food and restaurant inspectors to run state applications and medical examiners […] More

  • DARPA Enlists Boeing Prototype for ‘X-Plane’ Program; Dan Newman Comments
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    DARPA Enlists Boeing Prototype for ‘X-Plane’ Program; Dan Newman Comments

    Boeing and the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency ahave signed a $17 million agreement for the company to continue developing a prototype vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft for flying at speeds of up to 460 miles per hour. The company is building the Phantom Swift with two lifts inside the fuselage in order to create vertical lift and provide both […] More

  • Exelis Adds SATCOM Tech Into Army Combat Vehicle; Nick Bobay Comments
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    Exelis Adds SATCOM Tech Into Army Combat Vehicle; Nick Bobay Comments

    Exelis installed its satellite communications on-the-move technology into the U.S. Army Stryker vehicle during the Army Expeditionary Warfighting Experiment at Fort Benning, Ga. The Global Network On the Move Active Distribution system is built to provide command, control, communications and intelligence tools to armored combat and sport utility vehicles, Exelis said Thursday. “We are proud to have had GNOMAD deployed […] More

  • Kronos to Build Gov’t Purchasing Workforce Mgmt Tech; Greg Smith Comments
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    Kronos to Build Gov’t Purchasing Workforce Mgmt Tech; Greg Smith Comments

    Kronos has been selected to develop a workforce management technology for the U.S. Communities Government Purchasing Alliance, a cooperative that acquires resources for public sector entities at the state and local levels. Maryland’s Harford County Public Schools district conducted the solicitation and evaluation process on behalf of the alliance, Kronos said Tuesday. Greg Smith, public sector […] More

  • Diana Gowen: CenturyLink Lands 3rd Quantico Base Network, Telecom Services Contract
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    Diana Gowen: CenturyLink Lands 3rd Quantico Base Network, Telecom Services Contract

    CenturyLink has won a potential two-year, $8.5 million contract to design, plan and install a telecommunications system for the Marine Corps in Quantico, Va. and Washington. The company said Wednesday that it will also work to support Marine Corps tenants such as the Navy Criminal Investigations Service and Marine Helicopter Squadron One, which flies the U.S. president onboard a helicopter. Diana […] More

  • North Star Group to Help DOI Create IT Services Delivery Arm; Robert Olsen Comments
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    North Star Group to Help DOI Create IT Services Delivery Arm; Robert Olsen Comments

    North Star Group will help the Interior Department build a new information technology service delivery organization under a potential five-year, $22.2 million blanket purchase agreement with DOI’s office of the chief information officer. The company said Monday it will provide cybersecurity, cloud computing, financial analysis, organizational change management and other support services to DOI’s CIO under the department’s […] More

  • Kratos to Help East Regional School District Deploy Security Tools; Ben Goodwin Comments
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    Kratos to Help East Regional School District Deploy Security Tools; Ben Goodwin Comments

    A division of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has won a $4.5 million contract to provide security and surveillance services and products to an unidentified public school system in the eastern U.S. The contract with Kratos Public Safety & Security is worth up to $10 million if the school system issues follow-on orders within the next 30 days, the […] More