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  • Former Cisco, Intel Exec Andy Elder Named Riverbed Sales SVP for EMEA Region
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    Former Cisco, Intel Exec Andy Elder Named Riverbed Sales SVP for EMEA Region

    Andy Elder, formerly president of Intel‘s security business operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, has joined Riverbed Technology as SVP of sales in the same regions. Riverbed said Thursday the 25-year industry veteran will oversee sales and go-to-market strategies as well as help drive the company’s growth and transformation efforts across EMEA in his new position. “Andy’s proven inspirational leadership […] More

  • Mitre Named General Steward of Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency
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    Mitre Named General Steward of Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency

    Mitre has entered into an agreement with The Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency to serve as a general steward in the development of the nonprofit network’s guiding principles, global agenda and work streams. The company said Thursday it will also supply strategic advice, establish working groups and provide expertise and financial support to the GIFT Action […] More

  • Diane Gongaware on Cisco’s Security Approach for Agencies & ‘Internet of Things’ Trends to Watch
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    Diane Gongaware on Cisco’s Security Approach for Agencies & ‘Internet of Things’ Trends to Watch

    Diane Gongaware in January started her second full year as vice president of U.S. public sector services at Cisco, where she manages the company’s sales of technical and security services to government agencies at the federal, state, local and education levels. The 10-year Cisco veteran first joined the company in August 2007 and her subsequent […] More

  • ULA’s Atlas V Rocket Sends NRO Payload Into Space
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    ULA’s Atlas V Rocket Sends NRO Payload Into Space

    The Lockheed Martin–Boeing joint venture United Launch Alliance has launched a National Reconnaissance Office payload aboard an Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-3 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in Calfornia. ULA said Wednesday the Atlas V lifted off with the NROL-79 payload at 12:50 p.m. Eastern time as part of NRO’s national defense mission. The rocket is based on the Evolved […] More

  • InfoReliance Wins Marine Training Program Support Recompete
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    InfoReliance Wins Marine Training Program Support Recompete

    InfoReliance has won a three-year, $16 million contract to help the U.S. Marine Corps manage an enterprise training program designed to support missions of the service branch’s training and education command. The company said Monday it will also continue to support development and enhancement of the Marine Corps Training Information Management System under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity recompete contract. “This win […] More

  • Cubic Unveils Radio Over IP Gateway Product; Mike Twyman Comments
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    Cubic Unveils Radio Over IP Gateway Product; Mike Twyman Comments

    Cubic has released a new radio over internet protocol gateway designed for multiple applications such as military operations, energy production and emergency services. Cubic said Thursday its Vocality subsidiary developed the OPUS RoIP device that will be on display at the U.K. government’s Security and Policing 2017 event from March 7 to 9. OPUS RoIP is built with four audio and serial ports along […] More

  • Drone Aviation Installs ISR Equipment on DoD’s Tactical Airship Platform
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    Drone Aviation Installs ISR Equipment on DoD’s Tactical Airship Platform

    Drone Aviation has integrated government-furnished intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance equipment onto a company-built tactical airship platform as part of a $346,000 contract from the Defense Department. The company said Wednesday it added communications and optical sensor systems to the Winch Aerostat Small Platform in an effort to increase the platform’s flexibility to perform missions and address ISR support requirements. WASP is also equipped with updated data […] More

  • Northrop Begins UAV Multispectral Sensor Payload Test
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    Northrop Begins UAV Multispectral Sensor Payload Test

    Northrop Grumman has conducted an inaugural flight test of a multispectral sensor payload onboard a high-altitude long-range unmanned aircraft system. Northrop said Wednesday it integrated the MS-177 sensor into an RQ-4 Global Hawk drone during the test flight held at the company’s facility in Palmdale, California. The sensor is designed to find targets with broad area search and sensing methods as well as help operators fix, track and […] More

  • Intel-CSIS Study: Incentive Misalignment Can Affect Enterprise Cyber Defense Programs
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    Intel-CSIS Study: Incentive Misalignment Can Affect Enterprise Cyber Defense Programs

    A joint report from Intel‘s security business and the Center for Strategic and International Studies has identified three areas of misaligned incentives that affect an organization’s ability to deter cyber criminals. Intel said Tuesday it commissioned research firm Vanson Bourne to survey more than 800 security executives and professionals across five industries such as the financial, government and healthcare sectors for the “Tilting […] More

  • Report: Sikorsky to Offer Black Hawk Variant to Air Force Huey Replacement Program
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    Report: Sikorsky to Offer Black Hawk Variant to Air Force Huey Replacement Program

    Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary plans to offer a modified version of the Black Hawk helicopter as a potential replacement for the U.S. Air Force‘s UH-1N Huey aircraft, DoD Buzz reported Wednesday. Oriana Pawlyk writes Sikorsky will pitch its HH-60U platform that is currently part of the Air Force’s inventory to the UH-1N replacement program. The military branch looks to procure 84 new helicopters as part of efforts […] More

  • Engility Develops Data Link Offering for In-Theater Operations; Lynn Dugle Comments
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    Engility Develops Data Link Offering for In-Theater Operations; Lynn Dugle Comments

    Engility has developed a new data link offering to aid interoperability, situational awareness and connectivity for in-theater operations. The company said Wednesday the Tactical Data Link Lite system is designed to integrate with Android and Windows devices and address size, weight and power requirements of military customers for the use of such technology in adverse environments. Engility will showcase the ruggedized platform during the JRE Operator’s Working Group […] More

  • CTC to Explore AI Automation Tools Under NGA Contract; Ed Sheehan Comments
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    CTC to Explore AI Automation Tools Under NGA Contract; Ed Sheehan Comments

    Concurrent Technologies Corp. has won a $498,000 contract from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to research artificial intelligence-based automation technologies. CTC said Wednesday it aims to develop an AI Analyst Virtual Assistant platform that would process large quantities of information through NGA’s Boosting Innovative GEOINT initiative. Ed Sheehan, CTC president and CEO, said the contract gives CTC an opportunity to “contribute to a […] More