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  • Esri, Waze Forge Public Sector Transportation Systems Partnership; Andrew Stauffer Comments
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    Esri, Waze Forge Public Sector Transportation Systems Partnership; Andrew Stauffer Comments

    Esri and Waze have forged a partnership to develop intelligent transportation systems for government agencies to share publicly-available traffic information with their communities. Current government customers of the Esri ArcGIS platform will be able to exchange data and merge information into emergency dispatch and street maintenance systems through the Waze Connected Citizens Program, Esri said Wednesday. “Municipalities can […] More

  • BlueLine Grid, Cisco to Integrate Collaboration Tools for Public Safety Market
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    BlueLine Grid, Cisco to Integrate Collaboration Tools for Public Safety Market

    Cisco and BlueLine Grid have partnered to integrate the companies’ collaboration platforms in an effort to help facilitate digital public-safety communications between law enforcement agencies and and private sector stakeholders. Matt Melton, director of sales at BlueLine Grid, wrote in a guest post published Tuesday on Cisco’s website that the companies will highlight their partnership during the annual International Association of Chiefs of […] More

  • Carahsoft to Supply VMware Virtualization Products to New Jersey School Boards Association
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    Carahsoft to Supply VMware Virtualization Products to New Jersey School Boards Association

    Carahsoft Technology has received a contract from the New Jersey School Boards Association for various VMware products to help provide local school districts and charter schools access to virtualization technology. Carahsoft said Monday its VMware software, hardware, cloud and professional services portfolio will work to support efforts to establish or continue digital learning programs as part of NJSBA’s Technology for […] More

  • Report: Lockheed-MBDA-Leonardo Team Bids for Germany’s Medium Extended Air Defense System Program
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    Report: Lockheed-MBDA-Leonardo Team Bids for Germany’s Medium Extended Air Defense System Program

    A team composed of Lockheed Martin, MBDA Deutschland and Leonardo-Finmeccanica has submitted a final proposal to the government of Germany to compete for the development of the Medium Extended Air Defense System, Defense News reported Tuesday. Jen Judson writes Richard Edwards, executive vice president of Lockheed’s missiles and fire control business, told Defense News that the […] More

  • VSE Lands $53M Maritime Support Orders Under Navy FMS Deal
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    VSE Lands $53M Maritime Support Orders Under Navy FMS Deal

    VSE has secured $53.4 million in delivery orders to provide maritime program support for multiple U.S. allies as part of the company’s foreign military sales contract from the Naval Sea Systems Command. The orders include logistics, planning, repair and maintenance management, supply, technical assistance, training and engineering services, VSE said Tuesday. JR Brown, president of VSE’s federal services group, said […] More

  • Lockheed-Built Air Force Satellite Takes New Mission With NSF’s South Pole Station
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    Lockheed-Built Air Force Satellite Takes New Mission With NSF’s South Pole Station

    A Lockheed Martin-built legacy U.S. Air Force satellite has begun to provide communications services for the National Science Foundation‘s South Pole-based Amundsen-Scott Station. Lockheed said Tuesday the Defense Satellite Communications System III B7 replaced NSF’s decommissioned Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-3 in June to establish communication and data links between Amundsen-Scott Station and the U.S. Antarctic Program facility in New Zealand. DSCS III B7 […] More

  • Report: Norway’s Defense Dept Plans F-35 ‘Block Buys’ in 2019 and 2020
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    Report: Norway’s Defense Dept Plans F-35 ‘Block Buys’ in 2019 and 2020

    Norway’s defense department seeks funds to procure an additional 12 Lockheed Martin-built F-35 jets in 2019 and 2020 through an annual budget proposal submitted to the country’s parliament, Star-Telegram reported Monday. Max Baker writes Norway is the first international partner in the fighter aircraft program  to propose a multiyear procurement of F-35s. “Norway and other international partners on the F-35 program have been […] More

  • Steve Costalas Receives Executive Mosaic’s Top General Counsel Executives Award
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    Steve Costalas Receives Executive Mosaic’s Top General Counsel Executives Award

    STEVE COSTALAS SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, GENERAL COUNSEL & SECRETARY VENCORE, INC. Steve Costalas is Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Vencore, Inc.  Vencore has over 40 years of proven experience providing information solutions, engineering and analysis to the U.S. Intelligence Community, Department of Defense and Civilian Agencies.  Vencore employs more than 3,800 people focused on […] More

  • Battelle, USAF Enter Cooperative Agreement for Aircraft Ice Protection Tech R&D
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    Battelle, USAF Enter Cooperative Agreement for Aircraft Ice Protection Tech R&D

    Battelle and the U.S. Air Force‘s Life Cycle Management Center will collaborate to build anti-icing technology for aircraft under a cooperative research-and-development agreement. The Air Force said Tuesday that Battelle is developing an ice protection technology with the use of a carbon nanotube dispersant as a resistive heater for anti-ice and de-ice purposes. The nonprofit will continue to test […] More

  • McMurdo to Help Army Develop Personnel Recovery Device; Mark Cianciolo Comments
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    McMurdo to Help Army Develop Personnel Recovery Device; Mark Cianciolo Comments

    McMurdo has secured a contract of an undisclosed value to develop prototypes of a custom personnel recovery device to aid the U.S. Army‘s search and rescue of soldiers in distress. The PRD will be part of the Army’s Personnel Recovery Support System as a militarized locator beacon, McMurdo said Tuesday. The Orolia Group company will incorporate a dual-mode feature into the device to assist in training and […] More

  • CA Technologies Study: 82% of Senior IT Execs View Identity-Centric Security as Critical to Business
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    CA Technologies Study: 82% of Senior IT Execs View Identity-Centric Security as Critical to Business

    A new study by CA Technologies has found that 82 percent of senior information technology and business executives believe that implementation of an identity-centric approach to security plays a critical role in their businesses. CA Technologies said Tuesday it commissioned marketing research provider Coleman Parkes to poll 1,770 IT executives in 10 industry sectors across 21 counties between May and […] More

  • Tetra Tech to Support USAID’s Water Supply, Sanitation Efforts in Africa and Asia
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    Tetra Tech to Support USAID’s Water Supply, Sanitation Efforts in Africa and Asia

    Tetra Tech has secured a $29 million contract from the U.S. Agency for International Development to support development efforts on water supply, sanitation and hygiene systems across sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. The company said Tuesday it will collaborate with USAID’s Global Health Bureau to promote good hygiene practices and rural sanitation under the five-year Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Partnerships and […] More