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  • Austal USA Delivers ‘Montgomery’ Littoral Combat Ship to Navy
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    Austal USA Delivers ‘Montgomery’ Littoral Combat Ship to Navy

    Austal USA formally turned over the USS Montgomery littoral combat ship to the U.S. Navy at a ceremony held Thursday at the company’s shipyard in Mobile, Alabama. The Navy said Friday Montgomery, which is scheduled to be commissioned in September,  will be the military branch’s seventh LCS and fourth ship of its Independence class. Capt. Tom Anderson, the Navy’s LCS program manager, said the service […] More

  • Cisco, Israel Eye Digital Services Hub Under Strategic Partnership
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    Cisco, Israel Eye Digital Services Hub Under Strategic Partnership

    Cisco has forged a strategic partnership with Israel that seeks to expedite the deployment of digital platforms in the country over the next three years. The company will work with Israel’s social justice ministry and regional governors to turn eastern Negev into the country’s first smart region and establish a digital hub to facilitate delivery […] More

  • AFR: IBM to Open Canberra Cyber Center
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    AFR: IBM to Open Canberra Cyber Center

    IBM CEO Ginni Rometty has announced the company plans to establish a cybersecurity center in the country’s capital of Canberra, the Australian Financial Review reported Tuesday. Paul Smith writes Kevin Zuccato, former director of Australia’s High Tech Crime Centre, was appointed to lead IBM’s National Cyber Security Centre. The center will offer collaboration with security specialists and access to […] More

  • STG to Provide IT Support Services to 2nd Regional Cyber Center
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    STG to Provide IT Support Services to 2nd Regional Cyber Center

    STG has received a contract modification worth $34 million from the U.S. Army to provide information technology support to the 2nd Regional Cyber Center Western Hemisphere at Ft. Huachuca in Arizona. The Defense Department said Monday that STG is expected to complete the services by June 2017. DoD added that the Army Contracting Command had obligated […] More

  • ViaSat Hits 500-Unit Milestone for Small Tactical Terminal Production
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    ViaSat Hits 500-Unit Milestone for Small Tactical Terminal Production

    ViaSat has reached the 500-unit production milestone for its KOR-24A small tactical terminal under a rate that works to roll out more than 20 terminals per month. The company said Monday STT two-channel radios have worked to provide direct Link 16 network interoperability for U.S. and international military users through more than 1,000,000 operational flight hours. “We produced and delivered over 210 STTs to customers over […] More

  • RKF Engineering Wins Contract From DISA for Defense Electromagnetic Spectrum Services
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    RKF Engineering Wins Contract From DISA for Defense Electromagnetic Spectrum Services

    RKF Engineering Solutions has won a one-year, $19.7 million contract to support a Defense Information Systems Agency organization’s electromagnetic environmental effects engineering and analysis activities. The Washington, D.C.-based company will perform the contract work in Annapolis, Maryland, and Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, through June 26, 2017, the Defense Department said Monday. RKF Engineering Solutions will collaborate with […] More

  • Parsons to Help Design, Install Virginia’s I-66 Toll System
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    Parsons to Help Design, Install Virginia’s I-66 Toll System

    Parsons has secured a contract to provide management services for a tolling system design and installation project within a 10-mile segment of Interstate 66 in Virginia. The company said Monday the project encompasses work to install an all-lane system for toll collections from I-495 in the Capital Beltway to U.S. Route 29 in Rosslyn to help address traffic congestion in and out of Washington, […] More

  • Georgia Tech Purchases Marietta Real Estate from Lockheed
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    Georgia Tech Purchases Marietta Real Estate from Lockheed

    Georgia Tech has purchased four buildings and 52 acres from Lockheed Martin‘s south campus in Marietta to function as additional applied research facilities for the university. Lockheed said Monday that the new facilities will help to manage crowding in Georgia Tech’s other five buildings in Cobb County as its research enterprise expands. Tim Lee, Cobb County commission chairman, said the […] More

  • Mike Raymond Named Chief Strategy Officer of Octo Consulting
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    Mike Raymond Named Chief Strategy Officer of Octo Consulting

    Mike Raymond, a 37-year government information technology market veteran and former senior vice president at Dynanet Corp., has joined Octo Consulting Group as chief strategy officer of the Tysons Corner, Virginia-based digital services provider. He will oversee Octo Consulting’s business development and growth strategies in his new position and will report directly to CEO and founder Mehul Sanghani, […] More

  • Navy Orders Harris Electronic Warfare Decoy Tech; Ed Zoiss Comments
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    Navy Orders Harris Electronic Warfare Decoy Tech; Ed Zoiss Comments

    The U.S. Navy has ordered $27 million in maritime electronic warfare payloads from Harris Corp. in support of a Naval Research Laboratory program to implement decoy technology for the service branch. Harris said Monday that it will present an update to the Nulka decoy used by the Navy and the U.S. Coast Guard, as well as provide testing and engineering services in line […] More

  • American Systems to Extend Air Force Medical Evaluation Support Activity Support; Peter Smith Comments
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    American Systems to Extend Air Force Medical Evaluation Support Activity Support; Peter Smith Comments

    The U.S. General Services Administration has awarded American Systems a five-year, $10 million task order to extend its integrated test, evaluation and analytical support services to the U.S. Air Force Medical Evaluation Support Activity at Fort Detrick, Maryland. American Systems said Monday its serviecs will include program management, operational tests and market research-early acquisition program test support to the Defense Department‘s Operational Medicine […] More

  • Boeing’s Insitu Lands ScanEagle Drone Support Task Order With Coast Guard; Ryan Hartman Comments
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    Boeing’s Insitu Lands ScanEagle Drone Support Task Order With Coast Guard; Ryan Hartman Comments

    Boeing’s Insitu subsidiary has received a potential four-year, $12.3 million task order to provide support services for the ScanEagle unmanned aerial system to use onboard the U.S. Coast Guard’s National Security Cutter ship. The Coast Guard awarded the task order under a Naval Air Systems Command multiple-award contract, Insitu said Monday. The contract has a base period of one year worth $4.5 […] More