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  • DARPA to Use C-130 to Demo ‘Gremlins’ UAS Launch, Retrieval Operations in 2019
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    DARPA to Use C-130 to Demo ‘Gremlins’ UAS Launch, Retrieval Operations in 2019

    The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency plans to use a C-130 aircraft to demonstrate in 2019 the launch and recovery of unmanned aircraft systems in mid-air, Fire Aviation reported Thursday. DARPA plans to equip the drones with several payloads designed to perform intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, signals intelligence and electronic warfare missions once deployed, according to […] More

  • CenturyLink to Establish Outbound Sales Center in Northeastern Louisiana
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    CenturyLink to Establish Outbound Sales Center in Northeastern Louisiana

    CenturyLink has announced it will open an outbound sales center in Monroe, Louisiana, and hire up to 150 employees to work there. The company said Thursday the new center will offer updated technology products and services to small business customers. Vernon Irvin, president of CenturyLink’s government, education, medium-and small-business groups, said the company established the outbound sales center […] More

  • Elbit Systems’ In-Fill Radar & Tower System Gets CBP OK
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    Elbit Systems’ In-Fill Radar & Tower System Gets CBP OK

    Elbit Systems‘ U.S. subsidiary has received approval from the Customs and Border Protection to implement an in-fill radar and tower system the company built to help CBP agents protect the country’s borders. CBP certified the system from Elbit Systems of America to support the agency’s air and marine border security operations in Texas, the company said Thursday. […] More

  • Lockheed Starts Orion Crew Capsule Construction for Exploration Mission-2
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    Lockheed Starts Orion Crew Capsule Construction for Exploration Mission-2

    Lockheed Martin has begun construction work at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana, on a spacecraft designed to transport astronauts to the moon as part of Exploration Mission-2. The Orion crew capsule will launch aboard the Space Launch System rocket as part of EM-2 mission that is expected to establish the framework for […] More

  • General Dynamics Tests CBP Remote Video Surveillance Platform in Texas
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    General Dynamics Tests CBP Remote Video Surveillance Platform in Texas

    A General Dynamics business unit has tested in Texas a remote video surveillance platform designed to support border security operations. General Dynamics Information Technology partnered with Parsons’ government services business to help the Department of Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Protection field six Relocatable-Remote Video Surveillance Systems in McAllen and Laredo, Texas, the company said […] More

  • Former PwC Partner Jean Hobby Elected to CA Technologies Board
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    Former PwC Partner Jean Hobby Elected to CA Technologies Board

    Jean Hobby, a 33-year PwC veteran and former global strategy partner of the professional services firm, has been elected to serve on CA Technologies‘ board of directors. She will also serve on CA Technologies’ audit committee and her appointment will bring the number of board members to 11, the company said Thursday. Hobby served as PwC global strategy […] More

  • CTC CEO Ed Sheehan Receives Pennsylvania Business Leadership Recognition
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    CTC CEO Ed Sheehan Receives Pennsylvania Business Leadership Recognition

    Ed Sheehan, president and CEO of Concurrent Technologies Corp., has been named to Pennsylvania Business Central’s annual top 100 list of executives recognized for their business and economic development leadership in the state. CTC opened in August 2017 the Center for the Advanced Nuclear Manufacturing in Pennsylvania under Sheehan’s purview, according to his profile information published Jan. […] More

  • Siemens Plans New STEM Education, Training Initiatives
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    Siemens Plans New STEM Education, Training Initiatives

    Siemens‘ philanthropic arm has announced plans to launch new educational and training programs to boost student engagement in science, technology, engineering and math. The company said Thursday these initiatives will replace Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology that ended in 2017 after 19 years of providing annual scholarship opportunities to high school students. Siemens Foundation […] More

  • IBM Vet Sanjay Brahmawar to Join Software AG as CEO
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    IBM Vet Sanjay Brahmawar to Join Software AG as CEO

    Sanjay Brahmawar, a 14-year IBM veteran, has been appointed by Software AG‘s supervisory board to serve as CEO of the enterprise software vendor effective Aug. 1. Software AG said Wednesday he will succeed Karl-Heinz Streibich, who is due to retire from the company after 14 years at the helm. Brahmawar currently serves as general manager for global revenue […] More

  • Joseph Averkamp Joins Parsons as VP, Systems Product Sales Lead
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    Joseph Averkamp Joins Parsons as VP, Systems Product Sales Lead

    Parsons has appointed Joseph Averkamp, formerly chief technology lead at Conduent‘s tolling and intelligent transportation systems business, as a vice president and systems product sales lead. Parsons said Thursday Averkamp will support business development and marketing growth efforts of the company’s systems group within the eastern U.S. region. He holds more than 28 years of industry experience in the areas […] More

  • L3 Delivers Coast Guard’s First HC-130J Aircraft Equipped With New Mission System
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    L3 Delivers Coast Guard’s First HC-130J Aircraft Equipped With New Mission System

    L3 Technologies has completed delivery of an HC-130J aircraft equipped with a Minotaur mission system suite to the U.S. Coast Guard as part of a potential five-year contract. The company said Wednesday its aerospace systems business installed and tested the government-furnished MSS+ on the aircraft in an effort to increase the service branch’s long-range surveillance capacity. An aircraft completion ceremony took […] More