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  • Army Maj. James Covington Joins Dewberry Under Rotational Program
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    Army Maj. James Covington Joins Dewberry Under Rotational Program

    Maj. James Covington, a former aide-de-camp at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, has joined professional services firm Dewberry to support various projects under a one-year rotational program. He brings 15 years of engineering experience and will work on projects in the areas of alternative delivery, water, resilience, transportation, civil, and land planning and development, Dewberry said Tuesday. Covington […] More

  • GTS Books $67M Army Contract for Power & Energy Generation Services
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    GTS Books $67M Army Contract for Power & Energy Generation Services

    General Technical Services has received a potential five-year, $67M contract for tactical and expeditionary power and energy generation services to the U.S. Army‘s Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center. GTS said Tuesday it will provide scientific, engineering, prototyping and analytical services to help CERDEC’s Command Power and Integration Directorate generate, store, manage and distribute power sources. Work will take place over […] More

  • Lockheed Gets $64M Navy Contract for Aegis System Engineering Support
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    Lockheed Gets $64M Navy Contract for Aegis System Engineering Support

    Lockheed Martin has landed a potential $64M contract to provide design agent field engineering services for U.S. Navy guided missile cruisers and destroyers, U.S. Coast Guard ships and allied vessels equipped with the Aegis combat system. The company will perform test and evaluation, implement engineering changes, modify ordnance, modernize systems, conduct logistics, develop ordnance alterations kits and integrate technologies on the […] More

  • Report: AWS Eyes Space Market Entry
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    Report: AWS Eyes Space Market Entry

    Amazon Web Services recently posted job openings for a data processing engineer and a product manager for space and satellite platforms, CNBC reported Wednesday. This Just In, a website that reports on AWS endeavors, discovered the cloud services provider’s listings that were removed for unknown reasons. The engineer would be tasked to develop and maintain satellite […] More

  • IBM, Hortonworks, Red Hat Unveil Hybrid Cloud Deployment Initiative; Rob Bearden Quoted
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    IBM, Hortonworks, Red Hat Unveil Hybrid Cloud Deployment Initiative; Rob Bearden Quoted

    IBM, Hortonworks and Red Hat have launched a new initiative designed to help users field and run big data workloads in hybrid cloud environments. The companies will leverage IBM Cloud Private for Data, Hortwonworks DataPlane, HortonWorks Data Flow and Hortonworks Data Platform with the Red Hat OpenShift enterprise Kubernetes-based container offering to allow users to deploy containerized workloads […] More

  • Leonardo, Aireon Partner to Apply Space-Based Data for Air Traffic Management
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    Leonardo, Aireon Partner to Apply Space-Based Data for Air Traffic Management

    A new partnership with Aireon will allow Italian aerospace company Leonardo to integrate space-based automatic dependent broadcast data into an air traffic management automation system. Integration of this Aireon-provided data into Leonardo’s LeadInSky ATM automation system would help air navigation service providers manage airspace and flight routes through the use of a global, real-time dataset, […] More

  • BAE Starts $50M Expansion Project in Alabama; Paul Markwardt Quoted
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    BAE Starts $50M Expansion Project in Alabama; Paul Markwardt Quoted

    BAE Systems has broken ground on a Huntsville, Ala., facility for the development and production of aircraft survivability and precision munition systems, Rocket City Now reported Monday. The company first unveiled details of its $45.5M expansion project at Cummings Research Park in July. Paul Markwardt, vice president and general manager of BAE’s electronic systems business, said the […] More

  • Former GSA Official Joanne Collins Smee Joins Xerox Executive Team
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    Former GSA Official Joanne Collins Smee Joins Xerox Executive Team

    Joanne Collins Smee, former director of technology transformation services at the General Services Administration, has been appointed as chief commercial officer and executive committee member at Xerox. As CCO, she will oversee sales and channel strategies and the delivery of products and service offerings through an order-to-cash process, Xerox said Monday. She previously managed technology and […] More

  • ECS Offers Cloud Services Through Microsoft Partnership Program
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    ECS Offers Cloud Services Through Microsoft Partnership Program

    Microsoft has designated Fairfax, Va.-based technology and engineering company ECS as a direct partner under a program that offers multiple cloud services to the public and private sectors. ECS said Monday it offers Azure, Office 365, Enterprise Mobility Suite, Dynamics 365 and Visual Studio offerings across global markets, regions and a cloud platform designed for U.S. government customers. The company […] More

  • SOSi Gets US Diplomatic Mission Support Contract; Frank Helmick Quoted
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    SOSi Gets US Diplomatic Mission Support Contract; Frank Helmick Quoted

    The U.S. Army has awarded SOS International a potential four-year, $5M contract to support security assistance efforts of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. SOSi said Monday it will provide technical, human resources and accounting services to the embassy’s security cooperation office. The contract supports U.S. security assistance programs focused on helping the Iraqi military to facilitate […] More

  • Applied DNA Sciences Awarded DLA Marking Services Extension
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    Applied DNA Sciences Awarded DLA Marking Services Extension

    Applied DNA Sciences has received a potential three-year contract to continue to support the Defense Logistics Agency‘s counterfeit prevention efforts. The company said Tuesday it will also help DLA verify products and test programs that involve FSC 5962 microcircuits. “We appreciate the DLA’s continuing support of our taggant technology platform in extending this contract for the marking […] More

  • Serco Inc. Lands Army Acquisition & Logistics Support Order; Dave Dacquino Quoted
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    Serco Inc. Lands Army Acquisition & Logistics Support Order; Dave Dacquino Quoted

    Serco Group‘s North American subsidiary has received a potential three-year, $43M task order to support U.S. Army Sustainment Command’s global procurement and logistics activities. Serco Inc. said Monday it will provide support for related planning, contracting, training and management efforts under the order awarded through the One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services procurement vehicle. The Reston, Va.-based […] More