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  • Liz Anthony, Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, Jill Singer Among Women in Technology Leadership Award Finalists
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    Liz Anthony, Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, Jill Singer Among Women in Technology Leadership Award Finalists

    Women in Technology has named the finalists for the nonprofit organization’s 19th Annual Leadership Awards, which recognize prominent female industry and government technology professionals. WIT said Wednesday it will honor awardees during its gala ceremony that will be held on May 17 in Tysons Corner, Virginia. Finalists include Jill Singer, vice president of national security for AT&T‘s public […] More

  • Cubic to Demo Firearms Training Simulators
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    Cubic to Demo Firearms Training Simulators

    Cubic‘s global defense business will display a range of firearms training simulators at the National Shooting Sports Foundation’s Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade Show, scheduled to take place from Jan. 23 to 26 in Las Vegas. Cubic Global Defense will offer hands-on demonstrations for its PRISim Suite and present multiple live-fire range systems through a remodeled QuickRange […] More

  • Julie Boland Named EY Vice Chair & Regional Managing Partner
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    Julie Boland Named EY Vice Chair & Regional Managing Partner

    Julie Boland, managing partner at EY‘s Cleveland office, has been named as the company’s vice chair and regional managing partner for the U.S. Central Region, effective July 1. EY said Wednesday Boland will oversee teams, market leadership, talent development and customer service for the company’s regional practice. She will also support several of the company’s largest […] More

  • Thomson Reuters Includes Leidos on Top 100 Tech Companies List; Roger Krone Comments
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    Thomson Reuters Includes Leidos on Top 100 Tech Companies List; Roger Krone Comments

    Leidos has been included in Thomson Reuters‘ 2018 list of the top 100 technology companies worldwide. The information services provider launched its Top 100 Global Technology Leader program to rank global technology firms based on eight performance metrics, Leidos said Thursday. Leidos Chairman and CEO Roger Krone said the company works to develop creative technology platforms “to […] More

  • InferLink to Update Search System on DHS Cybersecurity Research Portal
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    InferLink to Update Search System on DHS Cybersecurity Research Portal

    InferLink has received a $750,000 contract to update search functionality on a Department of Homeland Security website designed for the cyber research and development community. DHS’ science and technology directorate said Tuesday the company will develop search tools and methods for the Information Marketplace for Policy and Analysis of Cyber-risk and Trust, managed by the Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects […] More

  • Saab to Support EU-Funded Unmanned Maritime Tech Research Project
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    Saab to Support EU-Funded Unmanned Maritime Tech Research Project

    Saab has been selected to join a European Union-funded research project that seeks to demonstrate the use of unmanned systems to increase situational awareness in naval environments. The OCEAN2020 project will include two live demonstrations slated to occur off the Italian Mediterranean coast sometime in 2019 and in the Baltic Sea during 2020, Saab said Tuesday. Saab will […] More

  • FedBid to Continue Procurement Marketplace Services for U.S. Navy
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    FedBid to Continue Procurement Marketplace Services for U.S. Navy

    Compusearch Software Systems‘ FedBid subsidiary has secured a potential five-year contract to provide the U.S. Navy access to an online technology platform for buying multiple commodity goods and services. FedBid said Tuesday the service branch will continue to use the company’s commercial e-commerce portal that is designed to comply with the Federal Acquisition Regulation and Defense FAR Supplement. The […] More

  • DoD Taps Carahsoft to Supply ForeScout Software, Services Under Military BPA
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    DoD Taps Carahsoft to Supply ForeScout Software, Services Under Military BPA

    The Defense Department has selected Carahsoft to supply ForeScout Technologies-built software and services as a facilitating partner via a military enterprise-wide blanket purchasing agreement. Carahsoft said Tuesday it will distribute ForeScout software including the ForeScout CounterAct agentless security system, ControlFabric Architecture, ForeScout training and ActiveCare support services, Enterprise Manager and Extended Modules for third-party orchestration to aid […] More

  • Octo Consulting to Help Maintain, Update HHS Quality & Safety Review System
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    Octo Consulting to Help Maintain, Update HHS Quality & Safety Review System

    Octo Consulting Group has received a potential five-year, $10 million blanket purchase agreement to maintain and update a quality and safety review system at the Department of Health and Human Services. The company said Tuesday it will help manage the QSRS platform that HHS’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality uses to monitor patient safety and adverse events nationwide. […] More

  • Accenture Opens New Innovation Hub in Boston, Massachusetts; Kathleen O’Reilly Comments
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    Accenture Opens New Innovation Hub in Boston, Massachusetts; Kathleen O’Reilly Comments

    Accenture has opened a new innovation hub in Boston, Massachusetts built to help partners grow and transform their organizations within the digital economy. The company said Tuesday the hub located in Boston’s Back Bay is the second of 10 new innovation hubs to be developed as part of Accenture’s $1.4 billion investment to train and […] More

  • Drone Delivery Canada to Expand Testing Program to UAS Site in New York
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    Drone Delivery Canada to Expand Testing Program to UAS Site in New York

    Drone Delivery Canada has announced its commercial unmanned aircraft system testing program is being expanded to cover the U.S., starting at the first quarter of 2018. The company said Monday the testing program will have activities that are to take place at the Griffiss International Airport’s Federal Aviation Administration-approved UAS test venue in Rome, New York. DDC’s Sparrow […] More

  • SSL Ships Hispasat Satellite to Cape Canaveral Launch Site
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    SSL Ships Hispasat Satellite to Cape Canaveral Launch Site

    A communications satellite made by Maxar Technologies‘ SSL subsidiary for  Hispasat has been delivered to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, where it will lift off aboard a SpaceX-built Falcon 9 rocket. SSL said Tuesday the Hispasat 30W-6 satellite will provide communications services for television, broadband, corporate networks and other telecommunications applications in Europe, North Africa and […] More