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  • FirstNet Senior Manager Steven Smith Joins Sevatec’s Advisory Board
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    FirstNet Senior Manager Steven Smith Joins Sevatec’s Advisory Board

    Steven Smith, senior manager of the First Responder Network Authority, has joined the board of advisers of Fairfax, Virginia-based technology services contractor Sevatec. He brings to Sevatec’s advisory board three decades of information technology management experience in both the public and private sectors, the company said Thursday. “We are fortunate to have [Smith] lending his broad federal government […] More

  • Boeing’s Matthew Jones, Aerojet Rocketdyne’s Susan Nelson Join CompTIA Space Enterprise Council
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    Boeing’s Matthew Jones, Aerojet Rocketdyne’s Susan Nelson Join CompTIA Space Enterprise Council

    CompTIA has appointed Matthew Jones, director of C4ISR and advanced technology and government operations at Boeing, as chair of the technology industry association’s space enterprise council. Susan Nelson, director of government affairs and Washington operations at Aerojet Rocketdyne, will serve as vice chair of SEC, CompTIA said Thursday. “Under Matt and Susan’s guidance, we expect the […] More

  • Oracle Invests $1.4B to Support EU Computer Science Education Efforts
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    Oracle Invests $1.4B to Support EU Computer Science Education Efforts

    Oracle will invest $1.4 billion in direct and in-kind to support computer science education across member states of the European Union in support of efforts to educate 3.1 million students in 110 countries. Oracle said Thursday the contract, that includes a one-year base period and four option years, will look to offer CS, Java and Database instruction training […] More

  • ManTech’s Bill Varner Chosen for Purdue University Engineering Alumni Award
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    ManTech’s Bill Varner Chosen for Purdue University Engineering Alumni Award

    Bill Varner, president of the mission, cyber and intelligence solutions group at ManTech International, received an alumni award from Purdue University’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at an awards banquet held Oct. 28. Varner graduated from Purdue in 1975 with a master’s degree in electrical engineering. ECE’s annual Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineer Award program recognizes alumni based on […] More

  • CAE to Train Army Fixed-Wing Aviators at New Dothan Training Center in Alabama
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    CAE to Train Army Fixed-Wing Aviators at New Dothan Training Center in Alabama

    CAE has finished construction of an Alabama-based facility where some of the company’s employees and subcontractor personnel will provide fixed-wing training for U.S. Army  aviators. The company said Wednesday it also secured occupancy certificate for the Dothan Training Center and installed a Grob G120TP flight training device at the facility. CAE is scheduled to deliver C-12 King Air full-flight simulators […] More

  • Fitch Ratings Unveils Global Defense Spending Environment Handbook
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    Fitch Ratings Unveils Global Defense Spending Environment Handbook

    Fitch Ratings has released the latest edition of its Defense & Security Handbook that contains an overview of the current global defense spending environment as well as profile reports on 22 U.S. and European companies. The credit rating agency said Wednesday its report spotlights the Defense Department‘s budget, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program and defense contractors’ pensions. Fitch forecasts […] More

  • Palo Alto Networks Integrates Firewall Product With AWS Load Balancer, Auto-Scaling Platforms
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    Palo Alto Networks Integrates Firewall Product With AWS Load Balancer, Auto-Scaling Platforms

    Palo Alto Networks has integrated its virtualized firewalls with the auto scaling and elastic load balancing platforms of Amazon Web Services in an effort to help joint customers secure their workloads. The companies seek to help clients automatically scale cyber breach prevention tools as their cloud-based workloads fluctuate through the use of VM-Series firewalls in conjunction with AWS Lambda, CloudFormation Templates and Amazon CloudWatch services, Palo […] More

  • Iridium Sets Satellite Constellation NEXT Launch Date for Dec. 16; Matt Desch Comments
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    Iridium Sets Satellite Constellation NEXT Launch Date for Dec. 16; Matt Desch Comments

    Iridium Communications has scheduled the launch of its next-generation global satellite constellation Iridium NEXT for Dec. 16 aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will carry 10 Iridium NEXT satellites to low-Earth orbit to replace an existing commercial satellite network in space, Iridium said Thursday. The planned launch announcement follows […] More

  • Avaya Helps Indiana Transport Dept Implement New Traffic Surveillance Platform
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    Avaya Helps Indiana Transport Dept Implement New Traffic Surveillance Platform

    The Indiana Department of Transportation has implemented an Avaya-built network and surveillance technology to monitor traffic flow on the state’s urban interstate highways. Avaya said Wednesday its Fabric Connect system works to provide round-the-clock video feeds from approximately 350 cameras in various locations and helps INDOT personnel to observe road incidents so they can immediately dispatch response teams. Fabric Connect replaced the department’s previous video […] More

  • OGSystems, Narrative Science Partner on New Location-Based Intell Offering; Omar Balkissoon Comments
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    OGSystems, Narrative Science Partner on New Location-Based Intell Offering; Omar Balkissoon Comments

    OGSystems and natural language generation technology provider Narrative Science have teamed up to develop a new location-based intelligence platform offering for enterprise customers. The BlueGlass platform integrates remote sensing, big data and cognitive analytics features to help clients gain situational insights in real time through anomaly alerting and activity reports about potential risks, OGSystems said Wednesday. […] More

  • VA, Flow Health Partner to Build Medical Knowledge Graph for AI Training
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    VA, Flow Health Partner to Build Medical Knowledge Graph for AI Training

    The Department of Veterans Affairs has forged a five-year alliance with Flow Health to develop a medical knowledge graph that will incorporate deep learning to aid medical decision-making and train artificial intelligence systems on how to personalize care plans. The VA-Flow Health partnership aims to understand common elements that impact a person’s susceptibility to diseases as well as […] More

  • Tory Bruno: ULA Seeks to Provide Pricing Data on Space Launch Services Via New Website
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    Tory Bruno: ULA Seeks to Provide Pricing Data on Space Launch Services Via New Website

    United Launch Alliance has introduced a new website designed to provide customers with pricing information on space launch services in an effort to facilitate the decision-making process during the spacecraft development phase. ULA’s RocketBuilder website works to provide users an option to choose a launch date, rocket configuration and the satellite’s orbit as well as […] More