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  • ICF Evaluates Charles River Analytics’ New Semantic-Based Search Tool
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    ICF Evaluates Charles River Analytics’ New Semantic-Based Search Tool

    ICF has tested Charles River Analytics‘ new semantic-based search tool designed to help U.S. Army intelligent tutoring system authors to search for existing training reference materials. Charles River said Tuesday ICF conducted a double-blind evaluation of the Content Retrieval and Extraction for Advanced Tutoring Environments in comparison with traditional keyword searching techniques. Instruction system designers who used […] More

  • Motorola Solutions to Help Navy Sustain Anti-Terrorism, Force Protection Radio Systems 
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    Motorola Solutions to Help Navy Sustain Anti-Terrorism, Force Protection Radio Systems 

    The U.S. Navy has awarded a $20.5 million contract option to Motorola Solutions for life cycle sustainment work on the military branch’s enterprise land and mobile radio systems. Motorola Solutions will provide radio equipment preventive maintenance, asset and configuration management, password management and software update installation services for the Naval Facilities Engineering Command’s Anti-Terrorism/Force Protection Ashore Program, the Defense Department said Thursday. The company will also […] More

  • HackerOne, Synack to Help Pentagon Create “Bug Bounty” Contract Vehicle
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    HackerOne, Synack to Help Pentagon Create “Bug Bounty” Contract Vehicle

    The Defense Department has chosen HackerOne and Synack to create a contract vehicle that will work to help DoD components and services launch “bug bounty” programs. DoD said Thursday the contract vehicle will facilitate efforts to standardize a crowdsourced approach to digital security through challenges designed to identify and address vulnerabilities on department-run websites. The department seeks to launch additional challenges similar to the Hack the […] More

  • Lockheed to Establish ICBM Replacement Program Mgmt Office at Northern Utah AF Base
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    Lockheed to Establish ICBM Replacement Program Mgmt Office at Northern Utah AF Base

    Lockheed Martin has selected Falcon Hill National Aerospace Research Park at Hill Air Force Base in Utah as the location of the company’s program management office for the U.S. Air Force‘s Intercontinental Ballistic Missile replacement effort. Lockheed said Thursday it signed a lease agreement with Falcon Hill developer Woodbury Corp. for 25,000 square feet of office space to house the former’s PMO […] More

  • MBDA Shuffles Executive Leadership Positions
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    MBDA Shuffles Executive Leadership Positions

    MBDA has appointed Pasquale Di Bartolomeo, Dave Armstrong and Gianni Bongianni to new roles within the company in a series of executive appointments. The company said Monday Di Bartolomeo, executive group director for strategy, will take the additional role of managing director of MBDA Italia as successor to Antonio Perfetti, effective immediately. Di Bartolomeo was with Leonardo-Finmeccanica prior to joining MBDA in […] More

  • MEF Releases List of Finalists for 2016 Excellence Awards; Nan Chen Comments
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    MEF Releases List of Finalists for 2016 Excellence Awards; Nan Chen Comments

    MEF has announced finalists for the company’s 2016 Excellence Awards that recognizes service, application, technology and professional excellence in the global Third Network community. The company said Thursday it will present the awards in November at the MEF Excellence Awards Dinner as part of the MEF16 global networking conference. Global and regional senior analysts from ATLANTIC-ACM, Current Analysis, Frost […] More

  • FERC’s Larry Gasteiger to Join PSEG as Federal Regulatory Policy Chief
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    FERC’s Larry Gasteiger to Join PSEG as Federal Regulatory Policy Chief

    Larry Gasteiger, chief of staff at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, has been appointed as chief of federal regulatory policy at Newark, N.J.-based energy utility holder Public Service Enterprise Group. The energy company said Thursday Gasteiger will assume his new role in late October and will report to Tamara Linde, PSEG executive vice president and general counsel. “(Gasteiger’s) experience […] More

  • DARPA Program Eyes Alternative Agricultural Threat Response System Using Gene Therapy
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    DARPA Program Eyes Alternative Agricultural Threat Response System Using Gene Therapy

    A Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program looks to develop an alternative to traditional agricultural threat response with the use of targeted gene therapy designed to protect plants within a growing process. DARPA said Wednesday the Insect Allies proposal will look to use a natural two-step delivery system that will transfer modified genes to plants via insect transmission to confer protective […] More

  • Andras Szakal: IBM, Cloud Service Providers Adapt Offerings to Meet Client Demands
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    Andras Szakal: IBM, Cloud Service Providers Adapt Offerings to Meet Client Demands

    Andras Szakal, vice president and chief technology officer of IBM‘s U.S. federal business, has participated in a panel discussion that tackled how public sector organizations utilize and acquire cloud services, Sys-Con Media reported Wednesday. Dana Gardner writes Szakal discussed how cloud service providers have created purpose-built cloud environments for federal government entities which have enterprise applications that […] More

  • Capgemini to Test, Evaluate USCIS Systems Under $53M Task Order
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    Capgemini to Test, Evaluate USCIS Systems Under $53M Task Order

    Capgemini‘s government solutions business unit has secured a three-year, $53 million task order to provide independent testing and evaluation services to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The company said Thursday the task order was awarded through the Department of Homeland Security‘s Enterprise Acquisition Gateway for Leading-Edge Solutions II contract vehicle. Doug Lane, president and CEO of Capgemini Government […] More

  • Sutherland’s Teresa Weipert: Agencies Should Adopt Multichannel Engagement Tools to Optimize Citizen Experience
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    Sutherland’s Teresa Weipert: Agencies Should Adopt Multichannel Engagement Tools to Optimize Citizen Experience

    Teresa Weipert, senior vice president of Sutherland Global Services’ government solutions business, has said government agencies should adopt omni-channel automated engagement platforms in an effort to facilitate interactions with citizens. Weipert wrote in an article published Thursday on Nextgov that such multichannel citizen engagement tools will work to provide agencies “a single 360-degree view of the customer […] More

  • ATCC Lands NCI Contract to Build Cancer Models Distribution Infrastructure
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    ATCC Lands NCI Contract to Build Cancer Models Distribution Infrastructure

    ATCC has been awarded a contract by the National Cancer Institute to develop a technology infrastructure to support the production, intake and distribution of cancer cell lines for the international research community. The company said Wednesday it will build the infrastructure for the Human Cancer Models Initiative that aims to generate as many as 1,000 new cancer cell models. HCMI is a […] More