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  • Leidos Subsidiary to Manage NATO Fuel Monitoring System; Larry Hill Comments
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    Leidos Subsidiary to Manage NATO Fuel Monitoring System; Larry Hill Comments

    A subsidiary of Leidos will manage the NATO Fuel Monitoring System and its enterprise- and facility-level subsystems under an estimated $13 million, 10-month prime contract with the NATO Support Agency. Varec will oversee the implementation, testing and maintenance of NFMS to support petroleum oils, lubricants and fuel sales, inventory and governance activities at NATO military installations, Leidos said Monday. “The contract […] More

  • URS to Help Convert Milwaukee Power Plant From Coal to Natural Gas; Art Lembo Comments
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    URS to Help Convert Milwaukee Power Plant From Coal to Natural Gas; Art Lembo Comments

    URS Corp. will work with We Energies to convert Milwaukee-based Valley Power Plant into a natural gas production facility from a coal plant. URS said Monday that the team will replace the plant’s coal-burning equipment with natural-gas piping and burners, as well asw modify combustion controls and other auxiliary equipment and plant controls. Art Lembo, general manager for URS’ power […] More

  • Cambridge to Help Army Update IP Router Network
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    Cambridge to Help Army Update IP Router Network

    Cambridge International Systems will help the U.S. Army work to increase the branch’s Internet Protocol transport router network from 10 gigabits to 100 gigabits. The Defense Information Systems Agency awarded a potential three-year, $30 million task order to Cambridge for the work under the Global Information Grid Services and Management-Engineering, Transition and Implementation vehicle, Cambridge said Wednesday. This is […] More

  • MarketsandMarkets: Cloud Adoption, Wireless Communication to Drive Cyber Market’s Growth Through 2019
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    MarketsandMarkets: Cloud Adoption, Wireless Communication to Drive Cyber Market’s Growth Through 2019

    A new five-year forecast from research firm MarketsandMarkets says cloud computing adoption and wireless communications will be among the forces that will drive growth in the global cybersecurity market through 2019. The cyber market will hit a value of $155.74 billion by 2019 with the largest contribution coming from the aerospace, defense and intelligence vertical, MarketsandMarkets […] More

  • Sarah Allen: Leidos Named a “Best for Vets” Employer by D.C. Publication
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    Sarah Allen: Leidos Named a “Best for Vets” Employer by D.C. Publication

    Leidos has joined 58 other firms on Miltary Times  “Best for Vets” Employers for 2014 list, Leidos said Wednesday. According to the the Reston, Va.-based company, the list features companies that prioritize culture and policies supporting military veterans. The company list was based off an almost 90-question analysis of a company’s efforts to best accommodate veterans and Leidos […] More

  • Ginni Rometty, Charlie Thomas and Chris Checco on the Disruptive Power of Real-Time Personalization, Predictive Analytics and Cognitive Computing
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    Ginni Rometty, Charlie Thomas and Chris Checco on the Disruptive Power of Real-Time Personalization, Predictive Analytics and Cognitive Computing

    Between Feb. 24 and Feb. 27, Mobile World Capital Barcelona hosted the 2014 Mobile World Congress, the annual conference and exhibition that attracts keynote speakers from some of the world’s foremost corporations, and exhibitions of the next-generation of cutting-edge innovations and technologies. The theme of this year’s event was “Creating What’s NEXT” and many participants […] More

  • Bill Jaffe on Tapping His Exec Experience to Grow TAPE and the Keys to Positioning a Business in GovCon
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    Bill Jaffe on Tapping His Exec Experience to Grow TAPE and the Keys to Positioning a Business in GovCon

    Bill Jaffe co-founded TAPE in 2003 and serves as executive vice president and general manager at the Alexandria, Va.-based SDVOSB – Service-Disabled, Veteran–Owned and Woman-Owned Small Business. Among his many leadership responsibilities, Jaffe manages TAPE’s corporate development, M&A and IDIQ activities. TAPE specializes in systems engineering and provides technological; program and management support; and training solutions […] More

  • Joy de Lisser: ATK Extends Work for Boeing-Lockheed JV Under $178M Launch Vehicle Hardware Subcontract
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    Joy de Lisser: ATK Extends Work for Boeing-Lockheed JV Under $178M Launch Vehicle Hardware Subcontract

    ATK will provide hardware to the United Launch Alliance for the Atlas V and Delta IV launch vehicles under a potential $178 million subcontract. ATK said Wednesday the order is for the U.S. Air Force‘s Phase 1 Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program and includes large composite structures such as payload adapters, interstages and nose cones. ULA is a 50-50 joint venture of Boeing […] More

  • Ken Claffey: New Xyratex ClusterStor Data Storage Tool Built for Info Sharing, Security Compliance
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    Ken Claffey: New Xyratex ClusterStor Data Storage Tool Built for Info Sharing, Security Compliance

    Xyratex has unveiled a new product in its ClusterStor range of high-performance computing and big data storage products that are built with multilevel security features and work to manage data storage throughput and data processing functions. The Seagate subsidiary said Tuesday that the ClusterStor Secure Data Appliance is built to meet the government’s Intelligence Community Directive 503 and Cross-Domain Solution requirements. Ken […] More

  • BAE Launches Photo Reporting App for Google Glass; DeEtte Gray Comments
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    BAE Launches Photo Reporting App for Google Glass; DeEtte Gray Comments

    BAE Systems has launched a mobile application for Google Glass devices, smartphones and tablets that collects geospatial intelligence data and generates photo reports from the field, with potential uses for reconnaissance and disaster relief. The GXP Xplorer Snap app showcased at the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation’s annual GEOINT Symposium leverages crowdsourcing for information gathering and sharing. “This simple, wearable technology […] More

  • Comtech to Support Army’s SatCom Tracking Program; Fred Kornberg Comments
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    Comtech to Support Army’s SatCom Tracking Program; Fred Kornberg Comments

    A Comtech Telecommunications subsidiary has won a three-year contract worth up to $38.2 million from the U.S. Army for sustainment support to its Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below – Blue Force Tracking program. The company said Monday Comtech Mobile Datacom Corporation will provide engineering and program management services and satellite network operations for the BFT-1 satellite tracking program. “We […] More