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  • Rita Flaherty: Lockheed Builds F-35, Apache Aircraft  Sensors in Orlando, Fla.
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    Rita Flaherty: Lockheed Builds F-35, Apache Aircraft Sensors in Orlando, Fla.

    Rita Flaherty, vice president of business development at Lockheed Martin, has said the company’s missiles and fire control business has designed and developed at least 11,000 sensor platforms through its Orlando, Fla.-based facility in support of military intelligence and surveillance missions, Orlando Business Journal reported Thursday. Those platforms include the Modernized Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night […] More

  • DynCorp Subsidiary Receives IACET Re-Accreditation for Educational Training
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    DynCorp Subsidiary Receives IACET Re-Accreditation for Educational Training

    The International Association for Continuing Education and Training has given DynCorp International subsidiary Phoenix Consulting a re-accreditation status which will allow the company to offer IACET Continuing Education Units for five years. DynCorp said Thursday that Phoenix Consulting will now join over 500 organizations around the world authorized to use the IACET name and accredited provider logo on […] More

  • Lockheed to Supply Navy Upgrade Kits for Submarine EW Support Tech
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    Lockheed to Supply Navy Upgrade Kits for Submarine EW Support Tech

    Lockheed Martin has received a $47 million contract modification to procure upgrade kits and associated spares for the U.S. Navy’s submarine electronic warfare support system. The Defense Department said Thursday the company’s rotary and mission systems business will also assemble, integrate and test and deliver the AN/BLQ-10 modernization kits by December 2020. The system is designed to locate and […] More

  • Boeing-Bell JV to Repair Osprey Aircraft Components Under $74M Contract
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    Boeing-Bell JV to Repair Osprey Aircraft Components Under $74M Contract

    The joint venture of Boeing and Textron’s Bell Helicopter subsidiary has secured a $74.2 million contract to repair 23 items the U.S. Navy uses on the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft. Bell-Boeing Joint Program Office will perform work at contractor facilities located in Fort Worth, Texas, and Ridley Park, Pa., through August next year. The Naval Supply Systems Command […] More

  • VMware to Acquire Dell EMC’s Service Assurance Tech Suite
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    VMware to Acquire Dell EMC’s Service Assurance Tech Suite

    Dell Technologies‘ VMware subsidiary has agreed to buy a Dell EMC software suite designed to provide communication service providers with root cause analysis management and assurance tools as they launch services on existing and 5G networks. VMware said Thursday it will integrate the Dell EMC Service Assurance Suite offering into its network functions virtualization portfolio for the telecommunications sector, […] More

  • NGA Taps Hexagon US Federal for Data Management Support
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    NGA Taps Hexagon US Federal for Data Management Support

    The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has selected Hexagon US Federal for a $9 million firm-fixed- price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide a variety of content management services as part of the agency’s navigational safety efforts. The company will assist in NGA’s Janus Maritime Tactical Ocean Data and Littoral Planning Charts operations for one base year and four […] More

  • General Dynamics Launches Enterprise-Level Encryptor Manager
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    General Dynamics Launches Enterprise-Level Encryptor Manager

    General Dynamics‘ mission systems business has launched a new remote platform built to help customers manage encryption devices on an enterprise level. The company said Thursday the GEM One R1.1 works to facilitate the management of health, status and connectivity in enterprise networks containing dispersed encryption devices. The platform is also designed to help users […] More

  • SSL to Build Flight System Component for NASA’s Psyche Asteroid Mission; Richard White Comments
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    SSL to Build Flight System Component for NASA’s Psyche Asteroid Mission; Richard White Comments

    Maxar Technologies’ SSL subsidiary has been tapped by Zin Technologies to develop and test a flight system designed for NASA’s Psyche mission that aims to explore a metal asteroid and help shed light on the Earth’s formation. The agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory designed the Psyche Compute Element that will work as the main computer onboard […] More

  • Tim Creighton Promoted to VATC VP Post
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    Tim Creighton Promoted to VATC VP Post

    Tim Creighton, formerly a program manager at Visual Awareness and Technologies Consulting and a 28-year U.S. Army veteran, has been promoted to vice president of operations at the military training contractor. VATC said Thursday Creighton will oversee operational activities and corporate functions as well as help maintain the company’s team functionality, customer service and growth efforts. […] More

  • USAID Seeks Info on Correspondence Tracking Systems
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    USAID Seeks Info on Correspondence Tracking Systems

    The U.S. Agency for International Development has submitted a request for information on systems used to track correspondence documents. USAID is in need of a system that would automatically receive and categorize solicited and unsolicited correspondence, and notify officials for feedback and approval, the agency said Wednesday in a FedBizOpps notice. The agency currently manages correspondence […] More

  • Election Tech Vendors, Cyber Org Team Up to Protect Voting Systems; BAE’s Peder Jungck Comments
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    Election Tech Vendors, Cyber Org Team Up to Protect Voting Systems; BAE’s Peder Jungck Comments

    A new group of elections systems providers and an information technology-centric cybersecurity data sharing organization have agreed to partner to safeguard voting platforms from possible election interference, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The Elections Industry Special Industry Group will provide election technology firms access to the IT Information Sharing and Analysis Center’s data sharing infrastructure […] More

  • Capture2 Helps Va.-Based Consulting Firm Secure Contracts With Tech
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    Capture2 Helps Va.-Based Consulting Firm Secure Contracts With Tech

    Line has adopted a Capture2-built software platform in a move to simplify the consulting services provider’s capture and proposal management process. Capture2 said Tuesday its technology helped Line win up to $44 million in contracts over a three-month period. Capture2Proposal is designed to integrate opportunity identification, capture management and secure proposal collaboration functions into one unified system. The […] More