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  • Chenega to Support Defense Health Agency’s Med-COI Enclave Transition Effort
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    Chenega to Support Defense Health Agency’s Med-COI Enclave Transition Effort

    Chenega has been awarded a $9 million contract by the Defense Health Agency to help DHA transition service local area network assets to the Medical Community of Interest enclave. The Alaska native village corporation’s healthcare services business will work to collect data, conduct asset inventory, coordinate with onsite and remote medical treatment facilities under the firm-fixed contract, the […] More

  • LJT Secures NASA Contract Extension for Launch Range Operations Support
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    LJT Secures NASA Contract Extension for Launch Range Operations Support

    LJT & Associates has received a $54 million indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract to continue to help NASA manage the space agency’s launch facility in Wallops Island, Virginia. NASA said Saturday that JLT will extend the company’s operations support at Wallops Flight Facility from Oct. 1, 2016 to March 31, 2018 under the “bridge” contract. Work covers radar, telemetry, logistics, tracking and communication services as well […] More

  • DynCorp Receives ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management Certification; John Bennett Comments
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    DynCorp Receives ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management Certification; John Bennett Comments

    DynCorp International has achieved an ISO 9001:2015 certification from Perry Johnson Registrar for the company’s performance in the quality management systems category. ISO 9001:2015 comprises certifications for private security company management systems, environmental management, safety management and quality management for aviation, space and defense organizations, DynCorp said Friday. John Bennett, senior director of performance excellence […] More

  • BAE Systems Seeks Australian SMEs to Support Type 26 Global Combat Ship Production
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    BAE Systems Seeks Australian SMEs to Support Type 26 Global Combat Ship Production

    An estimated 150 small and medium-size Australian enterprises will offer their products and services in a meeting with BAE Systems and 20 of its suppliers as the SMEs seek to participate in the Australian navy’s Type 26 Global Combat Ship maritime defense project. BAE said Monday it currently works to mature the design for the ships under the Type 26 program and […] More

  • RiverTech to Help NASA Secure Stennis Space Center
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    RiverTech to Help NASA Secure Stennis Space Center

    RiverTech LLC has received a potential $25.5 million contract from NASA to provide security services at the agency’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. NASA said Saturday that RiverTech will work to protect physical infrastructure and personnel, manage access control, perform badging, handle 911-dispatch center and provide traffic control and locksmith services to the facility. The initiative seeks to secure […] More

  • Summit Consulting to Provide Financial Mgmt Services to Treasury Dept
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    Summit Consulting to Provide Financial Mgmt Services to Treasury Dept

    Summit Consulting has received a contract of an undisclosed value to provide financial management services to a federal credit program run by the Treasury Department’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund. The analytics advisory firm said Thursday it will collaborate with CoMetrics and Bryant Miller Olive to conduct portfolio monitoring and credit risk management activities for the CDFI Fund’s Bond Guarantee Program. Summit […] More

  • Navy Explores Industry Sources to Facilitate New Defense Systems R&D Project
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    Navy Explores Industry Sources to Facilitate New Defense Systems R&D Project

    The U.S. Navy has begun a market survey in search of potential vendors that can help the service branch to research and develop new technology that will work to advance defense systems-related scientific and technical data. A sources source notice posted Wednesday on FedBizOpps stated the Naval Surface Warfare Center-Panama City division looks to conduct weapons systems R&D as part of the Navy’s Rapid […] More

  • Harman International CEO Dinesh Paliwal Joins Raytheon Board
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    Harman International CEO Dinesh Paliwal Joins Raytheon Board

    Dinesh Paliwal, chairman, president and CEO of Harman International, has joined the board of directors at Raytheon. Paliwal has led Stamford, Connecticut-based Harman’s overall operations over the past nine years as well as its efforts to develop connected platforms and services for automakers, consumers, and enterprises globally, Raytheon said Friday. He also held a 22-year career at ABB Group, where he previously served as president […] More

  • Security Magazine Lists 19 Most Influential People in Security for 2016
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    Security Magazine Lists 19 Most Influential People in Security for 2016

    Security Magazine has unveiled its list of the 19 Most Influential People in Security for 2016 in an article published Sept. 1. Diane Ritchey writes colleagues and associates nominated the top security leaders based on leadership qualities and the impact of their security projects and programs on shareholders, their organizations, their peers, the public and the overall security landscape. The […] More

  • Deloitte Presents to HHS Blockchain Adoption Opportunities to Address Health Info Exchange Concerns
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    Deloitte Presents to HHS Blockchain Adoption Opportunities to Address Health Info Exchange Concerns

    Deloitte‘s response to the Department of Health and Human Services‘ blockchain ideation challenge focuses on six current “pain points” in the Health Information Exchange and the potential use of blockchain to address them. Deloitte said Thursday HIE users face challenges in the difficulty to establish a trust network, costs per transaction, the lack of a Master Patient Index, inconsistent data standards, […] More

  • Engility to Provide Training, Advisory Support to USMC; Lynn Dugle Comments
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    Engility to Provide Training, Advisory Support to USMC; Lynn Dugle Comments

    The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic has awarded Engility a potential two-year, $16 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide training and advisory services to the U.S. Marine Corps. Engility said Friday it will work to support Marine training on new equipment and software for the service branch’s command-and-control systems. CEO Lynn Dugle said the company will deliver a mix of live, virtual and simulation environments […] More

  • Vormetric Launches Thales Orchestration Tool to Manage Encryption
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    Vormetric Launches Thales Orchestration Tool to Manage Encryption

    Thales‘ Vormetric company has unveiled a tool that works to provide security orchestration for the Vormetric Data Security Platform of products with encryption across data centers and cloud environments. Vormetric said Thursday the Thales Orchestrator is comprised of a patented system that helps deploy encryption and rotate encryption keys without taking applications offline as well as a cloud-based service to manage Salesforce Platform Encryption key […] More