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  • Boeing’s Insitu to Produce 5th Batch of Navy Blackjack UAS Under $72M Deal
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    Boeing’s Insitu to Produce 5th Batch of Navy Blackjack UAS Under $72M Deal

    Boeing subsidiary Insitu has received a $71.6 million contract to manufacture a fifth batch of RQ-21A Blackjack unmanned aircraft systems for the U.S. Navy. The Defense Department said Tuesday that Insitu will produce six Blackjack air vehicles, ground control stations, launch-and-recovery systems and shipboard equipment kits under the low-rate initial production contract. Insitu will conduct the production work in Bingen, Washington, and […] More

  • Lockheed Martin Completes Review of Satellites for Saudi Arabia; Carl Marchetto Comments
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    Lockheed Martin Completes Review of Satellites for Saudi Arabia; Carl Marchetto Comments

    Lockheed Martin has concluded the critical design review for two satellites intended to support television, internet, telephone and communications services in the Middle East, Africa and Europe. Lockheed, Arab Satellite Communications Organization and King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology reviewed the technical specifications of Arabsat 6A and Hellas-Sat-4/SaudiGeoSat-1, Lockheed said Tuesday. The two satellites are […] More

  • Navy Eyes Multisourcing Approach for Follow-On Enterprise Network Services Procurement
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    Navy Eyes Multisourcing Approach for Follow-On Enterprise Network Services Procurement

    The U.S. Navy is considering changing its procurement strategy for the Next Generation Enterprise Network program from a sole-source method to a multiple-award contracting model, SIGNAL Magazine reported Wednesday. Robert Ackerman writes Capt. Michael Abreu, Naval Enterprise Networks program manager, said the Navy seeks to engage with vendors in order to determine if segmentation of NGEN offerings would help the military branch address future information technology requirements. A […] More

  • GSA to Host Workshop on Cybersecurity National Action Plan
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    GSA to Host Workshop on Cybersecurity National Action Plan

    The General Services Administration plans to conduct a workshop on the Cybersecurity National Action Plan at GSA’s headquarters in Washington on June 13. GSA said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Thursday it will discuss at the event the continuous diagnostics and mitigation/continuous monitoring-as-a-service program, acquisition strategy in support of CNAP as well as the results of […] More

  • Noel Allender Joins Leidos as Epic Practice Managing Director
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    Noel Allender Joins Leidos as Epic Practice Managing Director

    Noel Allender, formerly Jacobus Consulting senior managing director for delivery services, has been named as the new managing director of Leidos‘ Epic practice. Allender will handle sales and business expansion opportunities for professional services and health IT consulting and drive collaboration with business leaders and partners in service delivery, Leidos said Tuesday. “Noel has a fruitful […] More

  • Parsons to Provide R&D, Engineering Support Under Naval Research Lab IDIQ Contract; Mary Ann Hopkins Comments
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    Parsons to Provide R&D, Engineering Support Under Naval Research Lab IDIQ Contract; Mary Ann Hopkins Comments

    Parsons will provide engineering services as well as research and development support to the Naval Research Laboratory’s information technology division under a potential five-year, $245 million contract awarded by the U.S. Navy in May. The company said Tuesday it will work to support NRL-ITD across seven research areas that include artificial intelligence, data storage and computing, communications, security, […] More

  • Marc-Andre Giger Joins KPMG Switzerland as Public Sector Chief
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    Marc-Andre Giger Joins KPMG Switzerland as Public Sector Chief

    Marc-Andre Giger, formerly director of public sector and health at PwC Switzerland, has joined KPMG as head of the public sector in Switzerland, effective June 1. Giger will succeed Armin Haymoz in the role and will serve the auditing firm’s public sector customers through its office in Bern, Switzerland, KPMG said Monday. Prior to PwC, […] More

  • CMS, FDA Vet Mark McClellan Joins American Well as Advisory Board Vice Chairman; Ido Schoenberg Comments
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    CMS, FDA Vet Mark McClellan Joins American Well as Advisory Board Vice Chairman; Ido Schoenberg Comments

    Mark McClellan, director of the Health Policy Center at Duke University, has joined telehealth technology and services company American Well as vice chairman of the advisory board. McClellan previously served as director of the Health Care Innovation and Value initiatives at Brookings Institution and managed the Richard Merkin program on payment reform and clinical leadership, […] More

  • MarketsandMarkets Forecasts 8.3% CAGR for Airport, Marine Port Security Market Through 2025
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    MarketsandMarkets Forecasts 8.3% CAGR for Airport, Marine Port Security Market Through 2025

    A MarketsandMarkets report forecasts the airport and marine port security market’s value will grow from $53.84 billion this year to $110.52 billion in 2025, representing an 8.3 percent compound annual growth rate. The research firm said Friday the market growth will be driven by governmental efforts to implement advanced security systems at various ports of entry. The surveillance technology segment is projected […] More

  • Motorola Solutions, ST Electronics to Collaborate on Communications Security Offerings; Eduardo Conrado Comments
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    Motorola Solutions, ST Electronics to Collaborate on Communications Security Offerings; Eduardo Conrado Comments

    Motorola Solutions and Singapore Technologies Electronics have partnered to develop secured communications technology offerings for public safety, national security and enterprise applications. The companies aim to produce broadband, cybersecurity and purpose-built applications that will be available to first responders, Motorola Solutions said Tuesday. Eduardo Conrado, executive vice president of strategy and innovation office at Motorola Solutions, said the […] More

  • Pentagon Force Protection Agency Renews AtHoc Crisis Comms Tech Contract
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    Pentagon Force Protection Agency Renews AtHoc Crisis Comms Tech Contract

    The Pentagon Force Protection Agency has awarded a BlackBerry division a potential four-year contract to help the agency expand deployment of a suite of crisis communications applications at the Defense Department. AtHoc said Tuesday its Networked Crisis Communications Suite will support about 37,000 users throughout the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Defense Security Services and the Washington Headquarters Services. “Their […] More

  • VA Taps Philips for Ambient Assisted Living Tech Research Grant; Hans-Aloys Wischmann Comments
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    VA Taps Philips for Ambient Assisted Living Tech Research Grant; Hans-Aloys Wischmann Comments

    Royal Philips has secured grant funds from the Department of Veterans Affairs to explore location-aware assisted technologies for the VA as part of an effort to aid veterans with mild cognitive impairments. The company said Thursday it will research an ambient assisted living technology that equips traditional homes with sensors, actuators, interfaces and artificial intelligence to help address veterans’ […] More