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  • Army Orders Additional Cubic Laser Engagement Training Systems
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    Army Orders Additional Cubic Laser Engagement Training Systems

    Cubic has received more than $10 million in new orders from the U.S. Army for the company’s tactical engagement system that works to help the service branch facilitate live, force-on-force training of soldiers. Cubic said Wednesday its Instrumentable-Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System Individual Weapon Systems 2 will support mission readiness exercises at the Army’s home stations. Dave Buss, president of Cubic’s […] More

  • ICF to Support HUD Community-Focused Technical Assistance & Capacity Building Program
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    ICF to Support HUD Community-Focused Technical Assistance & Capacity Building Program

    The Department of Housing and Urban Development has awarded three cooperative agreements worth a total of $11.2 million to ICF International to support the department’s technical assistance and capacity building program. ICF said Wednesday it will provide various services in support of the Community Compass program, manage the HUD Exchange platform, support group and self-directed learning among grantees and help public […] More

  • Raytheon Gets NSA Certification for Ethernet Encryption Tool; John Droge Comments
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    Raytheon Gets NSA Certification for Ethernet Encryption Tool; John Droge Comments

    Raytheon has received certification from the National Security Agency for its Ethernet encryption system that works to safeguard Top Secret-level data and sensitive compartmented information in networked communication platforms. The NSA Type 1 certification seeks to authorize Raytheon to sell its KG-350 Layer 2 Ethernet encryption tool to government, military and commercial clients, the company said […] More

  • Lockheed, Allied Minds Subsidiary to Seek RF Detection Tech Applications in New Markets
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    Lockheed, Allied Minds Subsidiary to Seek RF Detection Tech Applications in New Markets

    Lockheed Martin and the Allied Minds subsidiary HawkEye 360 have partnered to aid the adoption of HawkEye 360’s space-based radio frequency detection and mapping technology across new market segments. Lockheed said Tuesday the partnership will explore new applications for HawkEye 360’s RF technology as the latter awaits regulatory approvals on its plan to deploy a constellation of small satellites in low-Earth orbit. HawkEye 360’s planned […] More

  • Study: 71% of IT Execs Link Workforce Shortage to Companies’ Cyber Vulnerabilities
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    Study: 71% of IT Execs Link Workforce Shortage to Companies’ Cyber Vulnerabilities

    A report by Intel Security and the Center for Strategic and International Studies has found that 71 percent of information technology professionals believe the shortage of cybersecurity professionals make business organizations more vulnerable to cyber attacks. Intel Security said Wednesday it commissioned technology market research firm Vanson Bourne in May to conduct online interviews with 775 […] More

  • Boeing, Bastion Technologies Enter Into Mentor-Protege Relationship; John Mulholland, Jorge Hernandez Comment
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    Boeing, Bastion Technologies Enter Into Mentor-Protege Relationship; John Mulholland, Jorge Hernandez Comment

    Boeing and engineering company Bastion Technologies have signed up for NASA‘s mentor-protege program with the goal to build up the latter company’s aerospace market expertise. The two companies aim to exchange manufacturing, quality, marketing and business development strategies under an agreement that will run for 18 months, Boeing said Tuesday. Bastion President Jorge Hernandez said the company’s partnership with Boeing […] More

  • Q.E.D Systems to Provide Touch Labor Services for Non-Nuclear Production Trades on Navy Submarines
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    Q.E.D Systems to Provide Touch Labor Services for Non-Nuclear Production Trades on Navy Submarines

    Q.E.D. Systems has received a potential $30.1 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide non-nuclear production trade touch labor services onboard the Virginia-class and Los Angeles-class submarines. The company will supply non-nuclear welders, pipefitters, firewatchers, shipwrights, shipfitters, painters, electricians, weight handlers and outside machinists under the contract, the Defense Department said Tuesday. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract has a […] More

  • Lockheed Gets Navy Approval for IED Countermeasure System
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    Lockheed Gets Navy Approval for IED Countermeasure System

    The U.S. Navy has approved a countermeasure technology Lockheed Martin developed to help protect U.S. and coalition forces against improvised explosive devices. Lockheed said Tuesday its Symphony Block 40 platform is mounted on vehicles and designed to jam electronic trigger signals of radio-controlled IED threats. The company integrated an open architecture into the counter-IED system to provide continuous threat spectrum coverage for military users. Joe Ottaviano, […] More

  • Cohesity’s Encryption Module Achieves NIST Data Security Certification
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    Cohesity’s Encryption Module Achieves NIST Data Security Certification

    Cohesity has achieved the National Institute of Standards and Technology‘s Federal Information Processing Standards 140-2 certification for the company’s encryption module. The company said Tuesday the certification allows government agencies to use Cohesity’s hyperconverged secondary storage offering to handle sensitive information. Cohesity added security tests of the encryption module took place part of Cohesity’s storage platform and on the same hardware that the […] More

  • Carahsoft Adds Virtustream Cloud Software to Public Sector Offerings; Craig Abod Comments
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    Carahsoft Adds Virtustream Cloud Software to Public Sector Offerings; Craig Abod Comments

    Carahsoft Technology has included Virtustream‘s suite of enterprise-grade cloud software products and services on three contracting vehicles managed by the General Services Administration, NASA and the U.S. Army. Carahsoft said Tuesday it will begin to market Virtustream offerings to agencies through the GSA Schedule as well as NASA’s Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement V and the Army’s Information Technology Enterprise Solutions–Software vehicles. “We are excited to […] More

  • Northrop-Built Global Hawk Hits 200K Flight Hours; Mick Jaggers Comments
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    Northrop-Built Global Hawk Hits 200K Flight Hours; Mick Jaggers Comments

    The Northrop Grumman-built Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system has logged 200,000 flight hours. The company said Tuesday Global Hawks operated by the U.S. Air Force recorded 88 percent of the total flight hours while UAVs run by NASA, U.S. Navy and Germany logged the remaining flight hours. “This milestone is especially meaningful as it comes just […] More

  • Accutype Services Certified to Offer Medical Transcription Services Under GSA Schedule 36
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    Accutype Services Certified to Offer Medical Transcription Services Under GSA Schedule 36

    Accutype Services has received certification to deliver medical transcription services to the federal government under the General Services Administration‘s Schedule 36 contract. The woman-owned company said Tuesday its medical transcription offering is registered on the GSA Advantage electronic ordering system. Deborah Walton, Accutype Services operations manager, said the contract works to open new markets for the company and expand its services beyond the […] More