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  • Lockheed to Help Establish F-35 Bases for US, Foreign Military Clients
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    Lockheed to Help Establish F-35 Bases for US, Foreign Military Clients

    Lockheed Martin‘s aeronautics business has received a $43.2 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to support the standup of F-35 bases at multiple sites. The Defense Department said Friday the modification covers labor, interim contractor support and sustainment program management services to the global fighter aircraft program. Work will occur through January 2019 in Florida, Texas, South Carolina and California. The […] More

  • General Dynamics Opens Contact Center Job Opportunities Through Census Bureau Contract
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    General Dynamics Opens Contact Center Job Opportunities Through Census Bureau Contract

    General Dynamics‘ information technology business has announced more than 40 job vacancies for bilingual customer service representatives and quality assurance specialists at a company-operated contact center in Imeson, Jacksonville, The Jax Daily Record reported Friday. The positions will support census questionnaire assistance services covered by a $430 million contract that General Dynamics Information Technology secured from the U.S. Census […] More

  • L3 Micreo Unveils Wideband Radio Frequency Tech
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    L3 Micreo Unveils Wideband Radio Frequency Tech

    L3 Micreo, a subsidiary of L3 Technologies, has developed a new wideband radio frequency technology designed to support military communications. The modular optical link is built to operate in frequencies ranging from 10 megahertz to 40 gigahertz and transmit converted broadband RF signals through a fibre-optic link, L3 Micreo said Tuesday. Sarah Eary, general manager at L3 Micreo, said the […] More

  • General Dynamics Gets Contract Option for Navy Ship Planning Yard Services
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    General Dynamics Gets Contract Option for Navy Ship Planning Yard Services

    General Dynamics has been awarded a $44.3 million contract modification to provide planning yard services for the U.S. Navy‘s guided missile destroyers and frigates. The Navy exercised an option under a previously awarded contract for the company to support integrated planning yard efforts for Arleigh Burke-class and Oliver Hazard Perry-class vessels, the Defense Department said Friday. DoD […] More

  • CenturyLink Network, Managed Services Win 7 Awards at MEF 2017 Event
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    CenturyLink Network, Managed Services Win 7 Awards at MEF 2017 Event

    CenturyLink has received seven awards during the MEF 2017 Awards networking event in Orlando, Florida, which recognized companies’ network and managed services offerings. The company said Friday it secured the awards for its application, service and technology innovation, including software-defined wide-area networking. Andrew Dugan, senior vice president of technology planning, network architecture and security at CenturyLink, […] More

  • Grant Thornton Adds GPO Vet Davita Vance-Cooks to Public Sector Practice
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    Grant Thornton Adds GPO Vet Davita Vance-Cooks to Public Sector Practice

    Davita Vance-Cooks, former head of the U.S. Government Publishing Office, has joined Grant Thornton as a director within the professional services firm’s public sector practice. Vance-Cooks will support the operations transformation and change management efforts of the practice’s civilian business, Grant Thornton said Friday. As GPO director, Vance-Cooks led a modernization strategy to expand public access to digital […] More

  • Reports: Virgin Orbit Lands DoD Contract to Demo Air Launch System
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    Reports: Virgin Orbit Lands DoD Contract to Demo Air Launch System

    Virgin Orbit, the small satellite launch venture spun out of commercial space company Virgin Galactic, has secured a contract to demonstrate its air-launched rocket technology through the Defense Department‘s Space Test Program, TechCrunch reported Thursday. The report said Long Beach, California-based Virgin Orbit expects the LauncherOne prototype flight to take place as early as January 2019. LauncherOne […] More

  • Boeing Subsidiary to Distribute Rolls-Royce Engine Products in Defense Market
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    Boeing Subsidiary to Distribute Rolls-Royce Engine Products in Defense Market

    Boeing‘s subsidiary Aviall has signed a sales and distribution agreement to offer a suite of Rolls-Royce-made engines to the defense sector. Aviall will market AE 2100 turboprop, AE 3007 turbofan and AE 1107C turboshaft engine variants that are designed to power multiple types of military aircraft, Boeing said Thursday. Eric Strafel, Aviall president and CEO, said the company seeks to help […] More

  • Riverbed’s Davis Johnson: Updated Network Key to Agencies’ Cybersecurity, Tech Migration Efforts
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    Riverbed’s Davis Johnson: Updated Network Key to Agencies’ Cybersecurity, Tech Migration Efforts

    Davis Johnson, vice president of U.S. public sector at Riverbed Technology, has said he believes federal agencies should prioritize network modernization when updating their information technology systems. Johnson wrote in a GCN article published Thursday that the adoption of a software-defined wide-area network seeks to help agencies streamline network management and optimize cloud-based applications. He noted that […] More

  • SAP NS2 Plans IT, Cyber Business Expansion in Virginia; Mark Testoni Comments
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    SAP NS2 Plans IT, Cyber Business Expansion in Virginia; Mark Testoni Comments

    SAP National Security Services plans to invest $6 million and create 95 new jobs through expansion of its information technology and cybersecurity business operations in Fairfax County, Virginia. “We are pleased to expand our operations in Fairfax County’s thriving technology corridor,” Mark Testoni, SAP NS2 president and CEO, said in a statement published Thursday. “This area offers us access […] More

  • Zane Burke: Cerner, Leidos & Accenture Could Team Again on VA EHR Rollout; Jerry Hogge Comments
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    Zane Burke: Cerner, Leidos & Accenture Could Team Again on VA EHR Rollout; Jerry Hogge Comments

    Cerner President Zane Burke has said the health information technology company hopes to retain its partnership with Leidos and Accenture for the delivery of a modernized electronic health record system to the Department of Veterans Affairs, Healthcare IT News reported Thursday. The team known as the “Leidos Partnership for Defense Health” won a potential $9 billion […] More

  • Lockheed Hands Over 5th MUOS Satellite to Navy
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    Lockheed Hands Over 5th MUOS Satellite to Navy

    The U.S. Navy has assumed full operational control of the fifth Lockheed Martin-built Mobile User Objective System satellite. Lockheed said Thursday the Naval Satellite Operations Center took control of MUOS-5 on Oct. 11 following the satellite’s on-orbit test and the delivery of equipment needed for satellite operations. The MUOS constellation of five satellites is designed to deliver ultra-high frequency satellite […] More