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  • Druva Data Protection System Gets DHS Product Approval
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    Druva Data Protection System Gets DHS Product Approval

    A Druva data protection system has received approval under the Department of Homeland Security’s Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation product list. The Druva Insync is an integrated data protection platform designed to protect end-user data within specified endpoints and cloud storage, Carahsoft said Monday. The system also includes features for management, compliance monitoring, auditing, remediation and self-restoration. The CDM program was […] More

  • Marillyn Hewson: Lockheed, DoD in Talks Over F-35 Lot 11
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    Marillyn Hewson: Lockheed, DoD in Talks Over F-35 Lot 11

    Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson has said the company and the Defense Department are engaged in a “complex negotiation” over the next contract to build the 11th batch of 130 F-35 fighter jets. “Our government customer needs to understand the cost,” Hewson told CNBC in an interview posted Thursday. “We need to make sure that we […] More

  • Juniper’s David Mihelcic: Federal IT Leaders Should Use Network Elements in Cyber Threat Detection
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    Juniper’s David Mihelcic: Federal IT Leaders Should Use Network Elements in Cyber Threat Detection

    David Mihelcic, federal chief technology and strategy officer at Juniper Networks, has said federal information technology administrators should leverage firewalls, switches, routers and other network components to protect agency networks from cyber threats amid the prevalence of internet-connected devices. Mihelcic wrote in a FedTech guest post published Wednesday that agency IT leaders should combine those […] More

  • StandardAero Subsidiary to Help Maintain UK Gazelle Helicopter Fleet
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    StandardAero Subsidiary to Help Maintain UK Gazelle Helicopter Fleet

    A StandardAero subsidiary has received a potential four-year contract to help maintain the U.K. Army Air Corps’ Gazelle AH Mk1 helicopters that have been in service for nearly five decades. Vector Aerospace will commence maintenance work on 26 Gazelle units at the Fleetlands facility in Gosports, England, where the platform currently undergoes safety modification upgrades, StandardAero said […] More

  • GetSAT to Provide Satellite Terminals for US Government’s Communications-On-The-Move Requirement
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    GetSAT to Provide Satellite Terminals for US Government’s Communications-On-The-Move Requirement

    GetSAT has received a multimillion dollar contract to supply land and maritime variants of the company’s micronized communications terminal to the U.S. government. The government has selected GetSAT’s MicroSAT and MiliSAT L/M platforms that are designed to support Ka- and Ku-band communications on-the-move, the company said Friday. The rugged terminals are based on InterFLAT technology that can transmit […] More

  • Australian Agency Selects Data#3 as Microsoft Licensing Services Provider
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    Australian Agency Selects Data#3 as Microsoft Licensing Services Provider

    Data#3 has won a contract from Australia’s digital transformation agency to provide Microsoft software licensing services to the country’s government. The company said Friday it offered a platform to address DTA’s requirements and demonstrated the company’s technical and consultative skills to win the competitive tender process. Contract work will support Australian agencies at the federal, state and territory levels. […] More

  • CACI to Open Oklahoma-Based Shared Services Center; Ken Asbury Comments
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    CACI to Open Oklahoma-Based Shared Services Center; Ken Asbury Comments

    CACI International has announced it will establish a shared services center in Oklahoma City to expand its business operations and workforce in the state. The company said Thursday it aims to consolidate some of CACI’s transactional functions into the Oklahoma-based SSC in an effort to simplify the delivery of services to customers. CACI President and […] More

  • Lockheed-MBDA JV to Pursue Germany’s Integrated Air & Missile Defense System Program
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    Lockheed-MBDA JV to Pursue Germany’s Integrated Air & Missile Defense System Program

    Lockheed Martin and MBDA have formed a joint venture to negotiate a contract to develop the German armed forces’ TLVS integrated air and missile defense system. The TLVS GmbH joint venture is slated to become the prime contractor of the deal, which is under negotiations with Germany’s military procurement office, MBDA said Thursday. MBDA representative Dietmar Thelen and […] More

  • Report: SOCOM Briefs Industry on Purpose Built Non-Standard Commercial Vehicle Program
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    Report: SOCOM Briefs Industry on Purpose Built Non-Standard Commercial Vehicle Program

    The U.S. Special Operations Command held an industry day in February to discuss with vendors its performance specifications and technical requirements for the Purpose Built Non-Standard Commercial Vehicle program, The Drive reported Wednesday. The PB-NSCV program seeks to facilitate the procurement of a purpose-built vehicle with a common chassis and drivetrain designed to replace SOCOM’s fleet […] More

  • Orbital ATK to Provide Afghan Air Force ISR Aircraft Under $86M USAF Contract
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    Orbital ATK to Provide Afghan Air Force ISR Aircraft Under $86M USAF Contract

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded Orbital ATK and $86.4 million contract to manufacture  armed intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft for Afghanistan’s air force. Orbital ATK will provide AC-208 aircraft under the “pseudo” foreign military sales contract, the Defense Department said Thursday. Contract work will occur in Fort Worth, Texas through June 9, 2019. The 645th Aeronautical Systems […] More

  • Former GSA Deputy CIO Steve Grewal Named Cohesity Federal CTO
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    Former GSA Deputy CIO Steve Grewal Named Cohesity Federal CTO

    Steve Grewal, formerly deputy chief information officer at the General Services Administration, has joined Cohesity as chief technology officer of federal and Eastern U.S. business at the San Jose, California-based data storage vendor. The 15-year government information technology veteran will lead Cohesity’s expansion efforts expansion efforts in the federal market, Cohesity said Wednesday. Prior to his two-year tenure at GSA, Grewal worked at […] More

  • Air Force Vet Lisa Disbrow Appointed Johns Hopkins APL Senior Fellow
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    Air Force Vet Lisa Disbrow Appointed Johns Hopkins APL Senior Fellow

    Lisa Disbrow, former undersecretary and acting secretary of the U.S. Air Force, has been named a senior fellow at the Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory. She will work with APL’s technical professionals to help inform policy and technology decisionmaking in the U.S. government and military, the laboratory said Tuesday. Disbrow managed nearly 660,000 airmen and USAF’s […] More