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  • Exelis installs Deicing Management solution at Philadelphia Int’l Airport
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    Exelis installs Deicing Management solution at Philadelphia Int’l Airport

    Exelis today announced it has successfully integrated its new deicing management solution at Philadelphia International Airport. The Symphony DeiceVue solution automates tasks in the deicing process that were previously done manually, improving coordination, efficiency and accuracy of operational reports, said Exelis. Ted Carniol, general manager of commercial aviation solutions for Exelis comments. “For the first […] More

  • Report: Small UAV Market to Reach $582M in Value by 2019
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    Report: Small UAV Market to Reach $582M in Value by 2019

    The small unmanned aerial vehicle market is projected to grow by the end of 2019 at a 22 percent compound annual growth rate to a total market value of $582.2 million, according to a recent MarketsandMarkets report. The six-year global forecast on the small and man-portable UAV market classifies the technology based on trends, propulsion, payload, application, region […] More

  • Dell’s Tim Sedlack on Fed IT GRC Software Implementation and Continuous Compliance
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    Dell’s Tim Sedlack on Fed IT GRC Software Implementation and Continuous Compliance

    Tim Sedlack, senior product manager at Dell‘s software division, has urged federal agencies to implement governance, risk and compliance software to keep pace with changing compliance requirements for information technology controls across government. Sedlack, in a Q&A with FedConnects published Wednesday, noted that 54 percent of government IT organizations are either reactive instead of proactive in addressing network issues or do not […] More

  • API Technologies inks $2M deal for Next-gen Radar Warning Solution
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    API Technologies inks $2M deal for Next-gen Radar Warning Solution

    API Technologies Corporation today announced it has won a new, $2 million task order to produce its radar warning receiver indicator solution. The power and security solution provider will assume production to be used for integration into an Electronic Warfare Management System, said API. No additional information is available due to security concerns. More

  • DHS Awards Level 3 LAN Managed Services contract for End-to-End solutions
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    DHS Awards Level 3 LAN Managed Services contract for End-to-End solutions

    Level 3 Communications Inc., today announced that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has selected the company to deliver local area network managed services for the agency within the National Capital Region through the Washington Interagency Telecommunications System (WTIS) 3 contract. The global telecommunications carrier will provide end-to-end solutions–cable installation, network design, engineering, monitoring and […] More

  • Red Hat, Cisco Establish Center of Excellence in India
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    Red Hat, Cisco Establish Center of Excellence in India

    Red Hat and Cisco have opened a new Center of Excellence in India that offers their combined open source and enterprise cloud technologies to clients, PCQuest reported Wednesday. Included in the center’s offerings are OpenShift by Red Hat, Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform and Red Hat CloudForms, Adeesh Sharma writes. According to the report, the new center is […] More

  • Kevin Peppe: Raytheon Moves to Next Phase of Navy AMDR Program After Design, Integrated Baseline Reviews
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    Kevin Peppe: Raytheon Moves to Next Phase of Navy AMDR Program After Design, Integrated Baseline Reviews

    Raytheon has completed its preliminary design and integrated baseline reviews for the U.S. Navy‘s Air and Missile Defense Radar to establish design maturity, alignment of requirements and program execution plan validity. The company said Wednesday the Missile Defense Agency joined other program stakeholders and partners for the reviews, determining a low-risk design and on-schedule preparations for AMDR’s integration into […] More

  • Siemens Orlando Office Buildings to Sell for $14M
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    Siemens Orlando Office Buildings to Sell for $14M

    The Siemens Orlando office buildings in Florida will be bought by Owens Realty Capital for $14.3 million through Wells Real Estate Fund‘s Fund XIII and Fund XIV Associates, the Orlando Business Journal reported Tuesday. Anjali Fluker writes that the two buildings in Quadrangle Corporate Park were built 12 years ago and cover 82,560 square feet of space. The sale is expected […] More

  • Bill Lynn: Gov’t, Defense Industry Should Turn to Acquisition Reform, Globalization, Consolidation
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    Bill Lynn: Gov’t, Defense Industry Should Turn to Acquisition Reform, Globalization, Consolidation

    Bill Lynn, DRS Technologies and Finmeccanica North America chief executive officer, urges the U.S. government and the defense industry to collaborate on establishing acquisition reform, fostering globalization and consolidating industry operations. Lynn, who is a former deputy secretary of the Defense Department, wrote Tuesday in Breaking Defense that the above actions are expected to ensure that the […] More

  • Joe Kopfman, EVP of Contracts and Chief Compliance Officer, Discusses His 35 Year Career at American Systems
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    Joe Kopfman, EVP of Contracts and Chief Compliance Officer, Discusses His 35 Year Career at American Systems

    Joe Kopfman serves as executive vice president of contracts and administration as well as chief compliance officer at American Systems where he oversees the ethics program, contracts, legal, purchasing, pricing, M&A, security, facilities and general administration support departments within the company. He has been with the firm since 1978 and has served in a number of leadership positions […] More

  • General Dynamics Provides Ohio County With NextGen-911 Emergency System; Charlie Plummer Comments
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    General Dynamics Provides Ohio County With NextGen-911 Emergency System; Charlie Plummer Comments

    General Dynamics‘ information technology business has provided Ohio’s Morgan County with an IP-based NextGen-911 emergency system to boost communications and information dissemination among first responders. The company said Tuesday NextGen-911, as a replacement to the legacy Enhanced 911 system, uses a geographic information system to locate emergency services callers and can route calls to the corresponding response units. According to Charlie […] More