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  • IBM Partners with Twitter in Patent Agreement; Ken King Comments
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    IBM Partners with Twitter in Patent Agreement; Ken King Comments

    IBM sold 900 patents to Twitter in December under a patent cross-license agreement, IBM said Friday. “[The deal] demonstrates our commitment to licensing access to our broad patent portfolio,” said Ken King, general manager of Intellectual Property for IBM. “We look forward to a productive relationship with Twitter in the future,” he added. The financial terms […] More

  • Ashish Dhawan Named Juniper Networks India Managing Director
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    Ashish Dhawan Named Juniper Networks India Managing Director

    Ashish Dhawan, enterprise for Asia head at Juniper Networks, has been named the company’s managing director for India and South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, Computer World.In reported Friday. Shantheri Mallaya writes Dhawan served as interim MD for the region after Ravi Chauhan left the position in January to pursue a different business venture. The […] More

  • Lockheed Demos MUOS Reach in North Pole
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    Lockheed Demos MUOS Reach in North Pole

    A Lockheed Martin demonstration using a wideband, multi-access payload and U.S. Navy satellites worked to exhibit radio coverage through the Arctic region and show how military field personnel could carry out polar communications. Lockheed tested the Wideband Code Division Multiple Access payload’s coverage by using radios in the North Pole and sent voice and data […] More

  • IBM, Texas A&M Form Computational Sciences Research Partnership; William LaFontaine Comments
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    IBM, Texas A&M Form Computational Sciences Research Partnership; William LaFontaine Comments

    IBM Corp. and Texas A&M University System have partnered to perform computational sciences research on agriculture, geosciences and engineering through big data analytics and high-performance computing systems. Goals of the research collaboration include to address requirements for extracting energy resources, managing smart grid, developing new materials, identifying and tracking diseases and monitoring food supplies worldwide, […] More

  • CenturyLink to Use IO Technology for New Data Centers in Phoenix, Scottsdale
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    CenturyLink to Use IO Technology for New Data Centers in Phoenix, Scottsdale

    CenturyLink Technology Solutions, formerly known as Savvis, is working to expand its data center reach in Phoenix and Scottsdale, Ariz. with the help of IO. Under the partnership, CenturyLink Technology will use IO’s Intelligent Control technology platform to provide control, data collection and business intelligence services across data centers, CenturyLink Technology announced Wednesday. Users and […] More

  • Consulting Firm IT Partners to Offer Clients On-Site SAP Support Services
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    Consulting Firm IT Partners to Offer Clients On-Site SAP Support Services

    IT Partners Inc. will offer on-site consultation services to users seeking to integrate SAP products into their information technology infrastructures. During onsite visits, IT Partners personnel will help companies design and integrate custom applications into existing systems, the company announced Wednesday. The new service offering also covers maintenance options, deployment work and information about SAP deployment best practices. Pittsburgh-based […] More

  • Deb Alderson: Sotera’s $900M C5ISR IDIQ Spot Part of Charleston Market Push
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    Deb Alderson: Sotera’s $900M C5ISR IDIQ Spot Part of Charleston Market Push

    Sotera Defense Solutions will develop tools and provide services for the U.S. Navy‘s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic under a potential $900 million contract. SPAWARSYSCEN intends for that equipment and work to help build, test and deploy C5ISR (command, control, communications, computers, combat Systems, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance), information operations, enterprise information services and space technologies, […] More

  • Stephen Pineau: Viscount Systems Targets Opportunity in Increased Security Requirements at Federal Facilities
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    Stephen Pineau: Viscount Systems Targets Opportunity in Increased Security Requirements at Federal Facilities

    Viscount Systems will deploy its access control technology and certification software to certain U.S. federal government facilities based in Maryland and Virginia. The undisclosed agency will use the company’s Freedom access control software and the VeriCert certification software at the sites, Viscount announced Thursday. As the U.S. government continues to move towards increased security requirements […] More

  • MWR InfoSecurity Wins Raytheon UK Cyber Technical Research Contest
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    MWR InfoSecurity Wins Raytheon UK Cyber Technical Research Contest

    Raytheon UK has selected MWR InfoSecurity as the winner of a technical research competition in cybersecurity for small medium enterprise, with the latter company taking home a $66,600 prize. MWR InfoSecurity was selected out of three short-listed SMEs and was recognized for its work develop an analysis tool for rogue code detection in Android applications, […] More

  • Northrop Surveillance Demo Plane Hits 100K Combat Flight Hours
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    Northrop Surveillance Demo Plane Hits 100K Combat Flight Hours

    Northrop Grumman‘s Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Demonstration aircraft has exceeded the 100,000-combat flight hour mark for the U.S. Navy since the aircraft’s initial six-month deployment in 2009. The Navy has used the BAMS-D to support maritime surveillance missions, Northrop said Wednesday. Capt. James Hoke, Triton program manager at the Naval Air Systems Command, said the branch […] More

  • George Batsakis: SRA to Compete on $6B DHS Diagnostics, Mitigation BPA
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    George Batsakis: SRA to Compete on $6B DHS Diagnostics, Mitigation BPA

    SRA International holds a position on the Department of Homeland Security‘s $6 billion blanket purchase agreement covering diagnostics and mitigation work on computer networks. The Tools and Continuous Monitoring as a Service BPA is intended to help government agencies access DHS’ database for continuous diagnostics, remediation tools and security dashboards, SRA announced Tuesday. George Batsakis, executive […] More

  • BAE Holds Prime Spot on DHS EAGLE II Contract
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    BAE Holds Prime Spot on DHS EAGLE II Contract

    BAE Systems is one of 15 companies that hold a prime position on a potential seven year, $22 billion contract covering information technology services for the Department of Homeland Security. The company is competing to provide systems, software and related IT support to DHS under the Enterprise Acquisition Gateway for Leading Edge Solutions II vehicle, BAE announced […] More