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Lockheed Martin will help the Bahrain International Airport calculate and analyze route cases under a new contract with the Bahrain Airport Company to implement the BEONTRA B Route Development tool at the airport. Lockheed said Wednesday this would be the first implementation of the route analysis product in the Middle East following its acquisition of BEONTRA earlier […] More
Northrop Grumman has completed its work to manufacture the fuselage for NATO’s Alliance Ground Surveillance unmanned aerial vehicle and is sending the fuselage to a plant in Palmdale, California for the final stages of production. In a notice posted July 28, NATO said the overall AGS Core system will have both ground and air segments. For the air segment, Northrop will provide […] More
General Dynamics Fidelis Cybersecurity Solutions will collaborate with CrowdStrike to offer Fidelis XPS customers access to threat intelligence that support measures to remediate, prevent, detect and attribute cyber attacks. CrowdStrike Intelligence Exchange will automatically send customers information on threat actors, such as behavioral patterns and common targets, for application onto historical and current network traffic, General Dynamics said Tuesday. “We […] More
A commercial launch services team of Ball Aerospace & Technologies, DigitalGlobe, Exelis and Lockheed Martin has completed payload fairing assembly work on the WorldView-3 remote sensing satellite ahead of its scheduled launch next week. Ball said Tuesday the DigitalGlobe Earth observation satellite will launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base via the Atlas V launch vehicle to provide high-resolution satellite imagery and geospatial data for […] More
Mark Bartolomeo, head of connected solutions at Verizon Enterprise Solutions, has urged industry to focus on building a network that utilizes cybersecurity measures and greater cloud capacity in a shift toward the “Internet of Things.” Marie McGehee, the company’s director of corporate communications, wrote Monday that industry usually looks at the future connected machines and devices instead of the network connecting […] More
A subsidiary of EMCOR Group has won two contracts to provide repair and preventive maintenance services for U.S. Customs and Border Protection facilities systems in Arizona and the Texas Gulf Coast. “The services EMCOR Government Services will provide CBP at its 340 sites across the Arizona and the Texas Gulf Coast Regions are integral in supporting its critical mission,” Mike Rodgers, president […] More
Steve Schooner serves as Nash & Cibinic professor of government procurement law and co-director of the government procurement law program at the George Washington University Law School. He also served as senior associate dean for academic affairs of the Law School between 2006 and 2008. Schooner joined GWU’s faculty in 1998 after a stint at the Office of Federal Procurement […] More
A subsidiary of Booz Allen Hamilton plans to unveil a deployable broadband communications system to support the information-sharing functions of first responders and public safety workers in the aftermath of an emergency. The firm said Monday that Booz Allen Hamilton Engineering Services will exhibit the system at this week’s APCO 2014 Conference in New Orleans. The deployable communications system is intended to operate […] More
Iridium Communications will conduct compatibility tests on the first satellite engineering model for the Iridium NEXT satellite constellation following its delivery to the company’s technical support center. The company said Monday the model will be integrated into the Iridium Satellite Control System to demonstrate its features and check its compatibility with the constellation. “We are very excited about […] More
Wes Bush, chief executive officer of Northrop Grumman, urges the government to allow federal contracting personnel flexibility in making procurement decisions to achieve efficiency, The Washington Post reported Sunday. Bush spoke at the recent National Contract Management Association World Congress about the need to practice a flexible acquisitions approach amid the government’s tendency to award contracts to vendors […] More
Debbie Thurman serves as vice president of contracts and procurement at URS’ federal services division, headquartered in Germantown, MD. Thurman’s organization is responsible for all phases of contracting and procurement actions and includes approximately 300 professional staff members company-wide. She spoke with our sister site ExecutiveBiz to discuss the evolving budget environment and how she aims to […] More
Kevin Winter serves as Booz Allen Hamilton’s vice president and chief information officer, with responsibility in executing the firm’s IT infrastructure strategy and ensuring its delivery of services to their clients. Prior to Booz Allen, he held leadership positions at SRA International, most recently as vice president and chief information security officer. He has also […] More
