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  • FBI Adopts General Dynamics VoIP Phone; Chris Marzilli Comments
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    FBI Adopts General Dynamics VoIP Phone; Chris Marzilli Comments

    General Dynamics C4 Systems‘s Sectera vIPer Universal Secure Phone has been chosen by the FBI as a replacement for the old Secure Terminal Equipment phones used by federal law enforcement and national security personnel. The vIPer Voice over Internet Protocol phones are designed to secure voice and data communications and can interoperate with all government secure phones, Defense Department networks […] More

  • Celeste Mohr: Raytheon, Navy Fire Air-to-Ground Missile in ‘Cave Scenario’
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    Celeste Mohr: Raytheon, Navy Fire Air-to-Ground Missile in ‘Cave Scenario’

    Raytheon and the U.S. Navy have demonstrated the Joint Standoff Weapon‘s air-to-ground functions by launching the weapons from aircraft flying at 25,000 feet to hit land targets. During the flight tests, two JSOW II C weapons followed the preplanned routes to reach the simulated cave targets, the company said Thursday. “Naval aviators employed JSOW’s firepower in a tactically realistic cave scenario […] More

  • Siemens to Acquire Rolls-Royce Energy’s Gas Turbine, Compressor Business for $1B
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    Siemens to Acquire Rolls-Royce Energy’s Gas Turbine, Compressor Business for $1B

    Siemens has moved to expand its oil and gas and decentralized power generation portfolio by agreeing to acquire Rolls-Royce Energy‘s gas turbine and compressor business for $1.3 billion. The companies intend to complete the deal by December and the transaction includes Rolls-Royce’s 2,500 aero-derivative gas turbines, which generated estimated revenues of $1.5 billion in Rolls-Royce’s 2013 fiscal year, Siemens said Tuesday. Rolls-Royce built […] More

  • Ciber to Upgrade Nevada Gaming Control Board System; Brian Haskett Comments
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    Ciber to Upgrade Nevada Gaming Control Board System; Brian Haskett Comments

    Ciber has been selected by the State of Nevada Gaming Control Board to modernize a records system used for storing data required in monitoring gaming organizations and to provide system migration services. Under the contract, Ciber will provide project management, develop system requirements, design documents and custom applications, implement user acceptance testing and manage data migration, the […] More

  • Jacobs to Help Nesma Build Saudi Arabian Hospitals; Bassim Shebaro Comments
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    Jacobs to Help Nesma Build Saudi Arabian Hospitals; Bassim Shebaro Comments

    Jacobs Engineering Group has won a three-year contract to help Nesma & Partners manage construction work on five hospitals for the Saudi Arabian National Guard Hospital Program. Jacobs said Tuesday it will help manage design and construction of a 300-bed maternity hospital in Riyadh, a 346-bed children’s hospital and 176-bed neurological hospital in Jeddah and two 300-bed National Guard hospitals […] More

  • Teledyne Subsidiary to Transfer, Update NASA Spacecraft Power Materials; Robert Mehrabian Comments
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    Teledyne Subsidiary to Transfer, Update NASA Spacecraft Power Materials; Robert Mehrabian Comments

    A subsidiary of Teledyne Technologies has won a potential $17.6 program to help carry out a technology transfer and flight hardware upgrade program for NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Teledyne Energy Systems will implement the Technology Maturation Program at JPL to turn skutterudite thermoelectric materials into flight-like components, the company said Tuesday. NASA and the company intend to develop a new Multi […] More

  • General Dynamics Delivers Video Intell Tech to SOCOM; Mike Manzo Comments
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    General Dynamics Delivers Video Intell Tech to SOCOM; Mike Manzo Comments

    General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems has completed delivery of nine TAC-MAAS video processing, exploitation and dissemination systems to the U.S. Special Operations Command. The systems are used to capture and analyze full-motion video from intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platforms to extract actionable tactical insights, the company said Monday. “With its suite of essential tools for video enhancement, event-tagging and geospatial […] More

  • Ken Asbury: CACI Digital Forensics Lab Receives Industry Accreditation
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    Ken Asbury: CACI Digital Forensics Lab Receives Industry Accreditation

    CACI International‘s computer and audio forensics laboratory in Alexandria, Virginia, has received accreditation from the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors and the Laboratory Accreditation Board-International based on testing and calibration requirements as well as industry standards. The company said Tuesday the accreditation covers CACI Digital Forensics Laboratory’s management, personnel, facilities, equipment, quality systems and procedures. “The accreditation . […] More

  • Cubic to Support AFRICOM Training Exercises; Al Sargeant Comments
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    Cubic to Support AFRICOM Training Exercises; Al Sargeant Comments

    Cubic Applications, part of Cubic‘s mission support services business, has won a potential five-year, $15.3 million contract to support the U.S. Africa Command‘s joint training and exercises by providing subject matter experts in the field. Beginning in July, the company’s strategic solutions group will support AFRICOM J7 Joint Training and Exercise Division activities in Stuttgart, Germany as well as […] More

  • Laurinda Pang Named EVP and CAO at Level 3 Communications; Jeff Storey Comments
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    Laurinda Pang Named EVP and CAO at Level 3 Communications; Jeff Storey Comments

    Laurinda Pang, formerly chief human resources officer at Level 3 Communications firm, will succeed Thomas Stortz as executive vice president and chief administrative officer, the company said Tuesday. In her new role, Pang will be responsible for global company functions to include human resources, corporate strategy, corporate development, corporate communications and corporate social responsibility. Jeff Storey, president and […] More

  • Murray Sargant Joins Informatica as SVP of the Asia Pacific Region and Japan
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    Murray Sargant Joins Informatica as SVP of the Asia Pacific Region and Japan

    Murray Sargant, formerly a vice president at SuccessFactors, has been appointed Informatica SVP of the Asia Pacific region and Japan, the company said Monday. He will work out of the Hong Kong office and be responsible for business, sales and customer facing operations for the company. “To compete globally as well as regionally, companies in Asia Pacific require innovative data […] More

  • Carl Salzano on Balancing a Clinical Approach with the “Heart-Side” of Veteran Rehabilitation
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    Carl Salzano on Balancing a Clinical Approach with the “Heart-Side” of Veteran Rehabilitation

    Carl Salzano retired in the Spring of 2014 as a senior vice president for acquisition services at Booz Allen Hamilton, where he also served as co-chairman of the Veteran and Wounded Warrior Committee. The U.S. Navy veteran joined Booz Allen in 1986 after holding leadership roles at firms including Bendix Aerospace and Advanced Technology. Soon […] More