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  • Executive Profile: Mark J. Nackman, General Dynamics AIS VP and General Counsel
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    Executive Profile: Mark J. Nackman, General Dynamics AIS VP and General Counsel

    Mark J. Nackman serves as vice president and general counsel for General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems and holds responsibility for legal, export, contracts and subcontracts. Prior to his current role, he served as assistant general counsel and supported both General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems’ cyber systems division and General Dynamics Fidelis Cybersecurity Solutions. Nackman is also an adjunct […] More

  • Philips to Build Ventilator for HHS Pandemic Response; Robin Robinson Comments
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    Philips to Build Ventilator for HHS Pandemic Response; Robin Robinson Comments

    Philips Respironics will work to develop a new portable ventilator for doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals to use in response to pandemics or other public health emergencies under a project for the Department of Health and Human Services. HHS said Wednesday awarded a three-year, $13.8 million contract to the Pittsburgh area-based business of Philips Healthcare for […] More

  • Chuck Harrington: Parsons Eyes MEA Market Growth With New Infrastructure Division
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    Chuck Harrington: Parsons Eyes MEA Market Growth With New Infrastructure Division

    Parsons has established a new infrastructure division that will integrate the company’s contracts, customer base and resources on the public and private infrastructure markets in the Mideast and Africa into a single business unit. Chuck Harrington, Parsons chairman and CEO, noted Wednesday that the company will continue building on its business growth in the MEA region […] More

  • Orbital Corp. Delivers 1st Engine for Insitu’s Small UAS; Terry Stinson Comments
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    Orbital Corp. Delivers 1st Engine for Insitu’s Small UAS; Terry Stinson Comments

    Boeing‘s subsidiary Insitu will start to perform testing and development work on the propulsion system for the ScanEagle unmanned aerial vehicle following Orbital Corp.‘s delivery of the first engine. Orbital said Tuesday that the internal-combustion engine was built specifically for small unmanned aircraft systems such as the ScanEagle. Terry Stinson, chief executive and managing director of Orbital, said the company will now move […] More

  • Lockheed, NASA Prepare MAVEN to Enter Mars Orbit; Bruce Jakosky Comments
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    Lockheed, NASA Prepare MAVEN to Enter Mars Orbit; Bruce Jakosky Comments

    Lockheed Martin flight controllers will oversee the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution spacecraft’s health and safety functions as the company and NASA prepare for MAVEN to enter Mars’ orbit on Sunday. MAVEN’s orbital insertion concludes its 10-month interplanetary mission and starts its mission to collect data on upper-atmosphere gases on Mars and their interaction with solar winds, NASA said Wednesday. “The MAVEN science mission focuses on […] More

  • Scott Seymour: Aerojet Rocketdyne to Integrate Rocket Engine Work at New Huntsville, AL Facility
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    Scott Seymour: Aerojet Rocketdyne to Integrate Rocket Engine Work at New Huntsville, AL Facility

    Aerojet Rocketdyne has opened its Advanced Hydrocarbon Propulsion Development Office in Huntsville, Alabama, which will be led by Jerrol Littles as the office centralizes the company’s hydrocarbon technology research and development operations. Scott Seymour, president and CEO of Aerojet Rocketdyne’s parent company GenCorp, said Tuesday that AHPDO will integrate the firm’s R&D and production capabilities as it aims to […] More

  • James Hasik: Army to ‘Attract More Companies’ for 3 Future Ground Vehicle Programs
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    James Hasik: Army to ‘Attract More Companies’ for 3 Future Ground Vehicle Programs

    The U.S. Army could soon field a set of lightweight ground vehicles that would work equip a joint forcible entry mission as part of the service’s efforts to develop its expeditionary portfolio, Defense News reported Monday. Joe Gould writes that the Army eyes an air-droppable mobile protected firepower tank, an ultra-lightweight combat vehicle and light reconnaissance vehicle as potential […] More

  • Sandia Labs Researchers Sequence Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Strain’s Genome
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    Sandia Labs Researchers Sequence Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Strain’s Genome

    A team of scientists at the Sandia National Laboratories has sequenced the genome of an antibiotic-resistant pathogen strain to understand how its resistance operates and spreads to other bacteria. Patti Koning writes in a piece published Aug. 22 that Sandia’s Zach Bent, Corey Hudson, Robert Meagher and Kelly Williams studied the composition of the Klebsiella pneumoniae strain and encoded the New […] More

  • Scott Kaine: Cyveillance Threat Intell Platform to Focus on Analysis
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    Scott Kaine: Cyveillance Threat Intell Platform to Focus on Analysis

    A QinetiQ subsidiary has launched a new cloud-based platform that aims to help security and risk professionals perform their own analyses of available threat intelligence using various investigative tools and data sources. Cyveillance‘s Cyber Threat Center platform also works to use intelligence reports, web search and social media monitoring to collect threat data that can be “distilled” to generate actionable security […] More

  • Battelle’s Matthew Shaw: US, Int’l Partners Focus on Early Bio-Threat Detection Systems
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    Battelle’s Matthew Shaw: US, Int’l Partners Focus on Early Bio-Threat Detection Systems

    Battelle‘s Matthew Shaw has outlined what he says is a growing focus of U.S. and international government, intelligence and law enforcement organizations on technologies to detect and classify biological threats that are both natural man-made. Shaw, head of the CBRNE defense business within Battelle’s national security segment, writes in a piece published Monday on Homeland Security Today that the […] More

  • Lockheed Tests Beam Control Turret’s 360-Degree Coverage; Doug Graham Comments
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    Lockheed Tests Beam Control Turret’s 360-Degree Coverage; Doug Graham Comments

    Lockheed Martin has completed a series of initial flight tests on its new beam control turret designed to provide military aircraft with a 360-degree coverage area to engage missiles or other aircraft with laser weapons. The company said Monday it worked with the University of Notre Dame and the Air Force Research Laboratory to demonstrate the functions of the Aero-adaptive Aero-optic Beam Control turret, which was […] More

  • Deltek’s Tim Zullo: Vendors Should Start Planning Process as FY 2015 Approaches
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    Deltek’s Tim Zullo: Vendors Should Start Planning Process as FY 2015 Approaches

    Deltek‘s Tim Zullo urges contractors to start on work to create strategic plans focused on business development opportunities in preparation for the start of the new fiscal year in October. “Opportunity-focused actions such as examining your core market, identifying adjacent markets, building a pipeline and developing an effective resource plan are some of the many steps […] More