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  • CAE Taps Rockwell Collins to Build Visual Display System for French Air Force’s PC-21 Simulators
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    CAE Taps Rockwell Collins to Build Visual Display System for French Air Force’s PC-21 Simulators

    CAE has awarded Rockwell Collins a subcontract to provide a new visual display system for Pilatus PC-21 simulators in support of a French training program designed to train future fighter pilots and weapon systems officers in France. Rockwell Collins said Thursday it will build two Spectraview Visual Display Systems at a company facility in Salt Lake City, Utah, and […] More

  • Trend Micro to Offer Security Platform via AWS GovCloud
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    Trend Micro to Offer Security Platform via AWS GovCloud

    Trend Micro has made its cloud security platform available to federal customers via Amazon Web Services‘ U.S. government public cloud to help agencies maintain continuous compliance with security requirements. The Deep Security offering is designed to help customers secure workload and increase operational efficiency in the cloud, Trend Micro said Thursday. The XGen-powered platform also features the […] More

  • AAR to Help Manage DLA Aviation Spare Parts Supply Chain
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    AAR to Help Manage DLA Aviation Spare Parts Supply Chain

    AAR has received a potential five-year, $43.9 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to supply aviation spare parts to the Defense Logistics Agency. The company said Tuesday its OEM Aftermarket Solutions business will provide total supply chain management services intended to help DLA distribute, procure and manage its inventory of depot and field-level aviation spare parts. “The contract allows AAR […] More

  • KBR Subsidiary to Continue Army Prepositioned Stock Afloat Program Support
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    KBR Subsidiary to Continue Army Prepositioned Stock Afloat Program Support

    A KBR subsdiary has received a $47.4 million contract modification to maintain, supply, transport and provide logistics support for the U.S. Army‘s Prepositioned Stocks-3 Charleston Afloat Program. KBRwyle will perform work under the modification in Goose Greek, South Carolina through Aug. 14, 2020, the Defense Department said Thursday . The Army Contracting Command obligated $45.6 million from the service branch’s […] More

  • General Dynamics Mission Systems, IDA Join Wireless Innovation Forum
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    General Dynamics Mission Systems, IDA Join Wireless Innovation Forum

    General Dynamics‘ mission systems business and the Institute for Defense Analyses have joined the non-profit mutual-benefit Wireless Innovation Forum that aims to advance the use of wireless communications and spectrum-sharing technologies. WInnForum said Thursday the two new members will work alongside radio manufacturers, acquisition authorities, service providers, standards bodies, regulatory agencies, operators and researchers in the group’s spectrum innovation efforts. […] More

  • Former US Ambassador Caroline Kennedy Elected to Boeing Board
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    Former US Ambassador Caroline Kennedy Elected to Boeing Board

    Caroline Kennedy, former U.S. ambassador to Japan, has joined the board of directors at Boeing and she will serve on the board’s audit and finance committees. Dennis Muilenburg, Boeing chairman, president and CEO, said in statement published Thursday that Kennedy will contribute her professional, diplomatic and global perspectives to the board’s company oversight efforts. Kennedy previously served on various nonprofit […] More

  • Accenture Survey: 73% of Govt Technology Leaders Cite Security, Privacy as Potential Emerging Tech Advantages
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    Accenture Survey: 73% of Govt Technology Leaders Cite Security, Privacy as Potential Emerging Tech Advantages

    Seventy-three percent of 774 government technology leaders who responded to a global survey by Accenture said they believe the use of emerging technology can help public agencies secure data and protect privacy. Accenture said Wednesday it surveyed government technology leaders from nine countries about emerging technologies such as analytics, predictive modeling, internet of things, automation, biometrics and […] More

  • Cisco’s Diane Gongaware: Agencies Should Advance Data Analytics Via Collaboration, Network Creation
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    Cisco’s Diane Gongaware: Agencies Should Advance Data Analytics Via Collaboration, Network Creation

    Diane Gongaware, vice president of U.S. public sector services at Cisco, has said government agencies should establish an information technology network that will work to help them analyze and derive insights from large data workloads as a result of the adoption of internet-connected devices. Gongaware wrote in a FedTech article published Tuesday that an IT […] More

  • Navy Solicits Bids for USS Fitzgerald Retrieval Contract
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    Navy Solicits Bids for USS Fitzgerald Retrieval Contract

    The U.S. Navy has begun to solicit proposals for a contract to transport the damaged USS Fitzgerald guided-missile destroyer back to U.S., United Press International reported Wednesday. The service branch is currently investigating the collision of USS Fitzgerald with a Philippine-flagged container ship off the coast of Honshu, Japan, in June. The Navy posted a solicitation notice on […] More

  • Northrop Subsidiary Reviews Design of Inmarsat Satellite L-Band Reflectors
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    Northrop Subsidiary Reviews Design of Inmarsat Satellite L-Band Reflectors

    Northrop Grumman‘s Astro Aerospace subsidiary has conducted a preliminary design review of L-band reflectors for two communications satellites that Airbus currently develops for Inmarsat. Astro Aerospace will work to mature the reflectors’ design before the Inmarsat-6 satellite program undergoes a critical design review later this year, Northrop said Wednesday. Inmarsat awarded Airbus’ defense and space business a […] More

  • TAPE Joins Booz Allen’s Navy C4ISR Support Contract Team
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    TAPE Joins Booz Allen’s Navy C4ISR Support Contract Team

    Technical and Project Engineering has joined a team led by Booz Allen Hamilton that won a position on an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to support the US Navy’s C4ISR program. The team will provide management and technical support services under the SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific contract, TAPE said Tuesday. Booz Allen is one of three awardees on the multiple-award IDIQ […] More