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  • BAE’s US Arm Taps CH2M to Help Implement Aircraft Landing Tech at Marine Corps, Navy Facilities
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    BAE’s US Arm Taps CH2M to Help Implement Aircraft Landing Tech at Marine Corps, Navy Facilities

    BAE Systems‘ U.S. subsidiary has selected CH2M to support the installation of airfield and shore-based landing systems at more than 35 U.S. Marine Corps and Navy facilities globally. The two companies will collaborate to help the Navy’s air traffic control systems division implement the Instrument Landing System and Instrument Carrier Landing System as part of the service branch’s Air Traffic Control […] More

  • In-Q-Tel, Evident.io Forge Cloud-Based Security Platform Devt Partnership
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    In-Q-Tel, Evident.io Forge Cloud-Based Security Platform Devt Partnership

    In-Q-Tel has partnered with Evident.io to help the Pleasanton, California-based technology company further develop a compliance automation and security platform designed to help U.S. intelligence agencies secure their data infrastructure in Amazon Web Services public cloud environments. The company’s Evident Security Platform is an agent-less system that is built on AWS’ application programming interfaces and works to automate security […] More

  • Former Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James Elected to Textron Board
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    Former Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James Elected to Textron Board

    Deborah Lee James, former secretary of the U.S. Air Force, will officially join Textron on July 1 as a member of the board of directors. Textron said Thursday she will bring three decades of homeland and national security experience in the public and private sectors to the company. “Deborah’s deep expertise in national security, government procurement, strategic planning, cybersecurity, logistics […] More

  • PV Puvvada Named Vice Chair of Professional Services Council’s Executive Committee, Directorial Board
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    PV Puvvada Named Vice Chair of Professional Services Council’s Executive Committee, Directorial Board

    PV Puvvada, president of Unisys‘ federal business, has been appointed as vice chair of the Professional Services Council’s executive committee and board of directors. Unisys said Friday Puvvada will lead strategy development and implementation at PSC in his new role. “PV has been a key contributor to PSC for years, and we are pleased he has accepted this […] More

  • Navy Plans Radio Supply, Upgrade IDIQ Award to Rockwell Collins
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    Navy Plans Radio Supply, Upgrade IDIQ Award to Rockwell Collins

    The Naval Surface Warfare Center’s Corona division plans to award a sole-source contract to Rockwell Collins to update the U.S. Navy‘s 721S radios and supply 721SR units. A FedBizOpps notice published Tuesday says the service branch intends to use a firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a five-year ordering period for the radio procurement and upgrade efforts. NSWC Corona wants Rockwell Collins to supply commercial 721S radios to replace […] More

  • TSA Orders Additional Smiths Detection-Built Explosive Detectors; Sally Nordeen Comments
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    TSA Orders Additional Smiths Detection-Built Explosive Detectors; Sally Nordeen Comments

    Smiths Detection has received a $45 million order to supply the Transportation Security Administration with additional explosives detection systems for installation at various airports across the U.S. The company said Wednesday that it will deliver 26 CTX 9800 DSi systems as part of the order with an option to provide 12 more EDS units to TSA. Sally Nordeen, senior director of global EDS […] More

  • Cubic Breaks Ground on Huntsville, Alabama Facility Expansion; Mike Twyman Comments
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    Cubic Breaks Ground on Huntsville, Alabama Facility Expansion; Mike Twyman Comments

    Cubic has begun construction of an expanded facility for the GATR Technologies  business of the defense and transportation contractor’s mission solutions segment. The company said Thursday the project will extend GATR’s current 35,000-square-foot facility in Huntsville, Alabama to 63,000 square feet. Cubic added the expanded facility will consolidate GATR’s production and operations and house the unit’s engineering, business development and administrative offices. “We anticipate the facility expansion […] More

  • Report: DHS Scraps $1.5B Agile Devt Support Contract Vehicle
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    Report: DHS Scraps $1.5B Agile Devt Support Contract Vehicle

    The Department of Homeland Security has called off a potential $1.5 billion contract vehicle that was designed to help DHS components procure agile design and development services from small businesses, Federal News Radio reported Wednesday. The decision to cancel the Flexible Agile Support for the Homeland contract vehicle came following a series of protests filed with […] More

  • Cisco, IBM Forge Alliance to Integrate Cybersecurity Offerings
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    Cisco, IBM Forge Alliance to Integrate Cybersecurity Offerings

    Cisco and IBM have partnered to integrate their cybersecurity offerings and foster collaboration on threat intelligence. IBM said Wednesday Cisco will create new applications for IBM’s QRadar security analytics platform and the first two apps will work to help security teams understand and mitigate advanced threats. The Cisco-made apps will be available on IBM’s Security App Exchange system. IBM will […] More

  • FedBid Awarded 5-Year Army Reverse Auction Service Extension
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    FedBid Awarded 5-Year Army Reverse Auction Service Extension

    FedBid has secured a potential five-year contract to continue to provide reverse auction services to the U.S. Army‘s contracting offices. The company said Wednesday it will provide sourcing, quality assurance and account management support staff to help drive efficiency in the service branch’s acquisition process. The contract has one base year and four one-year options. FedBid […] More

  • MarkLogic, NTT Data Seek to Facilitate Database, IT Services Delivery Via Expanded Partnership
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    MarkLogic, NTT Data Seek to Facilitate Database, IT Services Delivery Via Expanded Partnership

    MarkLogic and NTT Data have agreed to expand their business partnership to accelerate the delivery of database platforms and data utilization support services to customers in Japan, North America, Europe and South America. The companies will create “go-to-market strategies” through the expanded alliance in order to facilitate customer development efforts across the three continents and […] More

  • BAE-QinetiQ Alliance Seeks to Promote Adoption of Electric Drive Tech for Combat Vehicles
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    BAE-QinetiQ Alliance Seeks to Promote Adoption of Electric Drive Tech for Combat Vehicles

    BAE Systems and QinetiQ have entered into a teaming agreement with the goal to help foster worldwide adoption of an electric drive transmission technology designed for ground combat vehicles. QinetiQ said May 25 it aims to combine the firm’s electric drive expertise with BAE’s systems design, development, manufacturing and integration experience in efforts to  support utilization of the E-X-Drive system. E-X-Drive is designed to power communications, […] More