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  • Jacobs Receives $62M Contract for Connecticut City Wastewater Infrastructure Modernization
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    Jacobs Receives $62M Contract for Connecticut City Wastewater Infrastructure Modernization

    Jacobs Engineering Group has received a potential 10-year, $62M contract to modernize, manage and sustain wastewater facilities in Waterbury, Conn. The contract’s scope of work includes modernization of the city’s watershed system, adjustment of treatment and waste collection processes and planning of long-term fixes, Jacobs said Thursday. Waterbury approached the company after the local community experienced […] More

  • Serco Reaches USPTO Patent Application Processing Milestone; Tom Watson Quoted
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    Serco Reaches USPTO Patent Application Processing Milestone; Tom Watson Quoted

    Serco Inc., the British contractor’s North American arm, has processed 4M patent applications for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The company said Thursday its intellectual property team has helped USPTO analyze drawings, specifications and claims from applicants, as well as assign domestic and international classification symbols representative of invention proposals since 2006. To date, Serco personnel have examined more […] More

  • Fortinet Anticipates Threat Actors to Leverage AI, Machine Learning in 2019
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    Fortinet Anticipates Threat Actors to Leverage AI, Machine Learning in 2019

    Fortinet’s threat research arm predicts cyber adversaries will exploit artificial intelligence and machine learning to launch attacks on organizations’ networks and other information technology infrastructure in 2019 and beyond. Researchers from FortiGuard Labs expect cyber criminals to accelerate zero-day attacks through the use of the AI fuzzing technique, the company said Thursday. AI fuzzing works […] More

  • Noblis to Help Air Force Update Distributed Common Ground System; Vernon Ingram Quoted
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    Noblis to Help Air Force Update Distributed Common Ground System; Vernon Ingram Quoted

    Noblis will provide engineering technical services for a ground-based system that supports U.S. Air Force intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations under a three-year, $22M contract. The company said Thursday it will help integrate the Air Force Distributed Common Ground System Open Architecture into the DCGS enterprise network to support operations at the AF Life Cycle Management Center’s Command […] More

  • Perspecta, Abaco Systems Enter Cyber Tech Marketing Partnership
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    Perspecta, Abaco Systems Enter Cyber Tech Marketing Partnership

    Perspecta has teamed up with Abaco Systems through its research arm to market a data bus platform that works to help warfighters safeguard weapons systems from cyber attacks. Perspecta Labs developed the 1553 Bus Defender platform, also called MIL-STD-1553, under a research program of the Defense Department, the company said Thursday. Abaco has begun to […] More

  • ViON’s Liz Anthony Gets Public Sector Marketing Award; Tom Frana Quoted
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    ViON’s Liz Anthony Gets Public Sector Marketing Award; Tom Frana Quoted

    Liz Anthony, senior vice president of marketing at ViON, has received the Government Marketing University’s 2018 Gainer for her leadership in the company’s marketing efforts across the public sector. ViON said Thursday the award recognizes its One Is All You Need campaign aimed to promote MarketPlace, a single access point for sourcing, evaluation, procurement and management of information […] More

  • Rubrik Unveils Cloud Data Mgmt Platform for Microsoft Azure
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    Rubrik Unveils Cloud Data Mgmt Platform for Microsoft Azure

    Rubrik has introduced a platform designed to help enterprise customers manage and secure data from on-premise information technology infrastructure to a Microsoft cloud environment. The Rubrik Accelerator for Microsoft Azure offering allows customers to automate processes to move cloud-based information such as backup, recovery and archival schedules, the data management company said Wednesday. Mike Tornincasa, executive vice president of worldwide sales […] More

  • General Dynamics Unit to Help Manage Navy, Marine Platforms
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    General Dynamics Unit to Help Manage Navy, Marine Platforms

    General Dynamics‘s information technology business has won a potential five-year, $64.6M contract for project management and engineering services to land, sea and air systems of the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps. Efforts under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract will aim to help both service branches gather, detect, evaluate, identify, exploit, neutralize and distribute technologies for […] More

  • DOE Allocates $98M for 40 Energy Tech Dev’t Projects
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    DOE Allocates $98M for 40 Energy Tech Dev’t Projects

    The Energy Department has announced 40 projects that will share up to $98M in total funds to build technology platforms that would update the U.S. energy system. DOE said Thursday the funding support is part of the OPEN 2018 program managed by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy. Companies, universities and nonprofit organizations proposed projects focused […] More

  • Arizona State University, AWS to Support Smart City Development
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    Arizona State University, AWS to Support Smart City Development

    Arizona State University and Amazon Web Services have partnered to address community limitations in the Phoenix area through the use of cloud technologies. The partnership will establish the ASU Smart City Cloud Innovation Center to support smart city designers, generate options for technology alternatives, boost economic development and facilitate distribution of government technologies across the […] More

  • Dan Jablonsky: DigitalGlobe-NRO Imagery Contract Extension Reflects Gov’t Customer Continuity
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    Dan Jablonsky: DigitalGlobe-NRO Imagery Contract Extension Reflects Gov’t Customer Continuity

    Dan Jablonsky, president of DigitalGlobe, has said the National Reconnaissance Office‘s move to extend a satellite imagery services contract with the company can serve as evidence that the government favors “continuity” amid an influx of entrants into the industry, SpaceNews reported Wednesday. DigitalGlobe, a Maxar Technologies business, received a potential $900M contract extension to provide commercial imagery to […] More

  • Deloitte Launches New Drone Application Assistance Service
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    Deloitte Launches New Drone Application Assistance Service

    Deloitte has launched a new service aimed at helping customers leverage drones for business applications and understand the risks involved when utilizing said technologies. The company said Wednesday its new Deloitte US Global Drone Solutions offering is made to assist clients in forming drone strategies for data collection and integration into business activities including analytics, […] More