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The Department of Homeland Security intends to award a $2 million contract to Implant Sciences Corp. to help the agency build systems for identifying explosives at U.S. airport security checkpoints. DHS aims to bolster air travel safety by developing new tools and methods for explosives trace detection, Implant Sciences said Thursday. “Implant Sciences will work […] More

Grant Thornton moved to expand its healthcare portfolio with the addition of Louis Feuerstein as managing director for audit and healthcare chief for Metro New York and New England. Feuerstein has spent over 30 years managing accounting and consulting services in both healthcare and non-profit organizations, Grant Thornton said Thursday. He will be based in Iselin, […] More

Citrix has opened a new 170,000-square-foot office in Raleigh, North Carolina’s warehouse district that will house Citrix Mobile Workspace tools and work to integrate Citrix technologies. The company said it aims to facilitate creativity, productivity, collaboration and employee engagement as well as highlight its vision of a mobility-enabled enterprise. “Raleigh is experiencing tremendous business growth and has firmly established itself as […] More

A Cubic subsidiary that builds game-based training platforms has joined an industry alliance designed to encourage collaboration among technology developers, universities and government agencies. The EDGE Innovation Network offers a collaborative environment for organizations to build new tools to help first responders, warfighters and law enforcement officers perform their missions, Cubic said Wednesday. Bill Rebarick, […] More

Lockheed Martin is developing a small reactor the company believes has potential to generate power through nuclear fusion, Reuters reported Wednesday. Andrea Shalal writes Tom McGuire, a program lead at Lockheed’s Skunk Works unit, said the organization seeks to attract government, academic and commercial partners for its compact fusion reactor project. Skunk Works conducted a study […] More

Industry has unveiled an Internet of Things reference model to help define the technology, identify its challenges and standardize IoT terminology for developers, chief information officers and IT leaders. The Internet of Things World Forum Steering Committee drafted the framework, unwrapped at this week’s Cisco-hosted IoTWF in Chicago, in a bid to push IoT adoption […] More

Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory will host a research center for the Justice Department‘s National Institute of Justice to test and conduct operational evaluations of non-forensic technologies for state and local law enforcement, corrections agencies, and courts. APL has signed a five-year cooperative agreement with DOJ to house the National Criminal Justice Technology Research, Test and […] More

Strategic Defence Intelligence expects the growing demand for ISR systems and military technology advancements to fuel growth of the electronic warfare technology market over the next 10 years. The global EW systems market is forecast to achieve a 2.68 percent compound annual growth rate to be $13.2 billion in value by 2024, Strategic Defense Intelligence […] More

Bechtel is transferring several employees from its site in Frederick, Maryland, to Virginia as part of a reorganization program, the Frederick News-Post reported Tuesday. Ed Waters Jr. writes Michelle Michael, a Bechtel spokesperson, told the newspaper the company will still have a presence in the county and the relocation will occur in phases. The company […] More

Booz Allen Hamilton has appointed five new partners to provide consulting services for the Middle East and North Africa as the firm aims to expand its footprint in both regions. The firm said Tuesday the new partners for the MENA region are Walid Fayad, Raymond Khoury, Nabih Maroun, Mahir Nayfeh and Nadim Batri. Ramez Shehadi, an executive vice president and managing director at Booz Allen, will […] More

Boeing and SpaceX have been told by NASA to continue work under the agency’s Commercial Crew Transportation Capability program to help transport U.S. astronauts to and from the International Space Station. The agency said Thursday it instructed the companies to proceed despite a pending protest with the Government Accountability Office because a halt to work could “delay meeting critical crew size requirements, and may result […] More

Raytheon has entered into a business cooperation agreement with Poland-based PIT-RADWAR to build on potential opportunities in the country’s air defense industry and export operations to international markets. Their technology partnership also covers radar equipment and subsystems; command-and-control equipment, software and subsystems; mission planning architecture, simulation and software; and system-level integration, verification and validation tests, Raytheon said Tuesday. Mike Shaughnessy, vice president […] More