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  • Cubic Gets $276M Contract to Update Queensland Public Transport Payment System
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    Cubic Gets $276M Contract to Update Queensland Public Transport Payment System

    Cubic has secured a potential $276 million contract to design, build and operate a ticketing system for public transportation across the Australian state of Queensland. The company said Wednesday its transportation systems business will provide a technology platform equipped with contactless payment and passenger information processing tools under the contract with Queensland’s department of transport and main […] More

  • IT Industry Vet Skip Liesegang Named DLT VP of Channels
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    IT Industry Vet Skip Liesegang Named DLT VP of Channels

    Skip Liesegang, former director of channels and distribution for the Americas at NetApp, has joined DLT Solutions to serve as vice president of channels. He will develop and enact programs that support growth and productivity for the public sector in his new role, DLT said Tuesday. Liesegang held his most recent position with NetApp for four years […] More

  • Northrop Switches on Webb Telescope’s Main Components
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    Northrop Switches on Webb Telescope’s Main Components

    Northrop Grumman has powered up two main components of NASA‘s James Webb Space Telescope as part of the program’s test and integration phase. The company said Wednesday it switched on the Optical Telescope element/Integrated Science instrument module and Spacecraft Element separately at facilities located in  Redondo Beach, Calif. Engineers used external power tools to generate compatible energy that would start […] More

  • Accenture Opens Cyber Fusion Center in Virginia; Julie Sweet, Sen. Mark Warner Comment
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    Accenture Opens Cyber Fusion Center in Virginia; Julie Sweet, Sen. Mark Warner Comment

    Accenture has established a facility in Arlington, Va., in a move to help organizations adopt new data protection and cybersecurity platforms. The company said Wednesday it will collaborate with clients at the Cyber Fusion Center to test cyber defense tools and help them predict attacks. The 28,000-square-foot facility has an incident response “war room” equipped with modern […] More

  • Boeing, USAF Eye 1st KC-46 Tanker Delivery in October; Matthew Donovan, Leanne Caret Comment
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    Boeing, USAF Eye 1st KC-46 Tanker Delivery in October; Matthew Donovan, Leanne Caret Comment

    Matthew Donovan, U.S. Air Force undersecretary, has said the service and Boeing expect the first KC-46 aerial refueling tanker to be delivered in October, which is two months ahead of the service’s previous projection, Bloomberg reported Thursday. The report said the agreement on the new schedule suggests that Boeing is close to fixing problems on […] More

  • Report: President’s Management Agenda to Drive Federal IT Contract Spending in Fiscal 2019
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    Report: President’s Management Agenda to Drive Federal IT Contract Spending in Fiscal 2019

    A Bloomberg Government report has found that 71 percent of federal government funds have been spent on information technology contracts since fiscal 2014 and most of those contracts support cybersecurity, cloud, artificial intelligence, data analytics and other IT modernization efforts. BGOV said Wednesday President Donald Trump’s management agenda that seeks to advance IT modernization initiatives is […] More

  • Stephen Labaton to Join Booz Allen in EVP Role
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    Stephen Labaton to Join Booz Allen in EVP Role

    Stephen Labaton, president of North American business at communications firm Finsbury, will join Booz Allen Hamilton in July as executive vice president of corporate affairs. He will oversee government and media relations, marketing, communications and corporate social responsibility functions in his new role, Booz Allen said Wednesday. “Stephen is uniquely qualified to help us in the […] More

  • Sikorsky’s S-97 Helicopter to Proceed With Full Flight Test
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    Sikorsky’s S-97 Helicopter to Proceed With Full Flight Test

    A second prototype of Sikorsky‘s S-97 Raider light tactical helicopter has reached a milestone necessary to enter into the full-flight testing phase, Defense News reported Wednesday. The report said pilots of the Lockheed Martin subsidiary operated the helicopter for 90 minutes Tuesday and have completed a flight-test card. Dan Spoor, vice president of future vertical lift at Sikorsky, told […] More

  • AWS Adds CACI as Premier Consulting Partner
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    AWS Adds CACI as Premier Consulting Partner

    Amazon Web Services has designated CACI International as a “premier” consulting partner under the AWS partner network. The designation reflects the Arlington, Va.-based contractor’s expertise to support government clients in cloud infrastructure, application migration and cloud-based DevSecOps, the company said Wednesday. CACI has helped clients secure information technology platforms at different data classification levels as the cloud company’s public sector partner and authorized […] More

  • Verizon Helps DoD Agency Implement Unified Comms Platform
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    Verizon Helps DoD Agency Implement Unified Comms Platform

    Verizon has led an effort to help a Defense Department agency migrate to a unified communications system that works to help users integrate voice, instant messaging, conferencing and video communications through a single platform. The telecommunications firm collaborated with Ribbon Communications, Black Box and Visioneering to advance the DoD agency’s transition to the UC platform, […] More

  • Northrop to Help Maintain Navy’s Mk 48 Submarine Torpedoes
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    Northrop to Help Maintain Navy’s Mk 48 Submarine Torpedoes

    Northrop Grumman has received a potential $17.9 million contract from the U.S. Navy to help the service branch’s Intermediate Maintenance Activity maintain Mk 48 submarine torpedoes for exercise and warshot use. The company will render an average of 56,160 annual man-hours to support the operation and management of an Mk48 depot-level repair facility, the Defense Department said Wednesday. […] More

  • BGOV: GSA Unveils New Contracting Opportunities for USDA IT Modernization
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    BGOV: GSA Unveils New Contracting Opportunities for USDA IT Modernization

    The General Services Administration announced on June 15 a set of new contracting opportunities related to the Agriculture Department Centers of Excellence for information technology modernization initiatives, Bloomberg Government reported Wednesday. GSA will launch eight digital service procurement efforts via contract vehicles such as Alliant, Professional Services Schedule, Schedule IT 70 and Veterans Technology Services 2. The programs support the […] More