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  • Raytheon to Develop New Missile Design for Army Long-Range Precision Fires Program
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    Raytheon to Develop New Missile Design for Army Long-Range Precision Fires Program

    Raytheon will design a new missile for a U.S. Army program to acquire new tactical missile system weapons for the service branch. The company said Wednesday its Long-Range Precision Fires design will be built to integrate into the M270 MLRS and M142 HIMARS rocket launchers. Thomas Bussing, Raytheon vice president for advanced missile systems, said the new missile […] More

  • Matt Rahman Joins Tangible Security as Commercial Cyber Solutions SVP, GM
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    Matt Rahman Joins Tangible Security as Commercial Cyber Solutions SVP, GM

    Virginia-based software company Tangible Security has appointed Matt Rahman as the company’s commercial cyber solutions senior vice president and general manager. The former IOActive chief strategy officer and executive vice president joins Tangible Security to lead the commercial cyber business practice in an effort to drive focus on company growth, Tangible Security said Tuesday. “We are […] More

  • Gov. Terry McAuliffe, Rep. Will Hurd to Headline FireEye Government Forum
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    Gov. Terry McAuliffe, Rep. Will Hurd to Headline FireEye Government Forum

    Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas) and Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe will be among the keynote speakers at a FireEye-hosted forum to be held in Washington April 12. FireEye said Tuesday that Hurd and McAuliffe will headline the FireEye Government Forum with the theme “The Path to Cyber Resilience” with attending FireEye executives David DeWalt, board chairman and CEO, and Kevin […] More

  • CTC President and CEO Edward Sheehan to Keynote at NCMA Forum
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    CTC President and CEO Edward Sheehan to Keynote at NCMA Forum

    Ed Sheehan, president and CEO of Concurrent Technologies Corp., will deliver a keynote address at the National Contract Management Association’s Subcontract Management Training Forum on March 17 and 18 in Virginia. The forum would tackle practices and knowledge on the government, commercial and supply chains along with addressing current issues faced by supply chain leaders, CTC […] More

  • CSRA Adds Former Jacobs CEO Craig Martin to Board of Directors; Mike Lawrie Comments
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    CSRA Adds Former Jacobs CEO Craig Martin to Board of Directors; Mike Lawrie Comments

    Craig Martin, a former president and CEO of Jacobs Engineering, has been elected to join the board of directors of the Falls Church, Virginia-based IT services company CSRA. The 30-year professional services industry vet will join CSRA to provide his technical expertise in the business, the company said Tuesday. “We’re excited that Craig is joining CSRA’s board of […] More

  • AAR to Design, Build Shelters for Army’s Fuel Usage Reduction Efforts; Lee Krantz Comments
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    AAR to Design, Build Shelters for Army’s Fuel Usage Reduction Efforts; Lee Krantz Comments

    AAR Mobility Systems has been awarded a potential five-year, $49 million contract to design, produce and test two types of 20-foot shelters for the U.S. Army. The company will also make a set of Automatic Test Equipment maintenance shelters to contain the test systems as well as Next Generation Automatic Test System storage shelters for system-specific tools required in tests on systems […] More

  • Symantec Releases New Online Data Encryption Platform
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    Symantec Releases New Online Data Encryption Platform

    Symantec has rolled out a new data encryption portfolio that the company developed to help organizations secure their websites. The Encryption Everywhere package is designed to allow web hosting providers to encrypt online portals for enterprise clients, Symantec said Tuesday. “There are almost a billion websites today, yet only about 3 percent of those sites are encrypted, which means cybercriminals have been […] More

  • General Atomics Test Fires Railgun Projectile Guidance Electronics Unit; Nick Bucci Comments
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    General Atomics Test Fires Railgun Projectile Guidance Electronics Unit; Nick Bucci Comments

    General Atomics has completed an open range testing exercise on a company-built railgun projectile guidance electronics unit. The hypersonic projectiles for the guidance electronics unit worked to transmit component performance data to a ground station via a telemetry link during the tests conducted at the U.S. Army Dugway Proving Ground in Utah, General Atomics said Sunday. […] More

  • Endgame Unveils Cyber Operations Platform to Automate Attacker Searches, Defense Mechanisms
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    Endgame Unveils Cyber Operations Platform to Automate Attacker Searches, Defense Mechanisms

    Endgame will a release new cyber operations platform to the market March 30 in an effort to help enterprise organizations detect, block and disable cyber threats in the early stages of the attack. The company said Feb. 29 it designed the product as a stealth tool with little-to-no detectable persistence, to integrate automated detection methods and give users precision response functions that […] More

  • NASA Picks 4 Proposals for Deep Space Solar Array Tech Development Program
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    NASA Picks 4 Proposals for Deep Space Solar Array Tech Development Program

    NASA has chosen four proposals to enter contract negotiations as part of a program to develop solar array technologies to operate in high-radiation and low-temperature environments for future deep space missions. The space agency said Tuesday initial contract awards have a value of $400,000 each and cover a nine-month period of design, testing and analysis work for the Game Changing Development program. […] More

  • Air Force Awards Two R&D Space Tech Task Orders to IAI Subsidiary
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    Air Force Awards Two R&D Space Tech Task Orders to IAI Subsidiary

    A subsidiary of Integrity Applications has been awarded two task orders worth $27.8 million combined for research and development services to the U.S. Air Force. Pacific Defense Solutions will work to develop electro-optical space situational awareness systems and also integrate and produce components under the first task order, Defense Department said Monday. The second task order covers R&D services for […] More

  • GPO Taps Amazon Web Services for Library Mgmt System Cloud Migration
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    GPO Taps Amazon Web Services for Library Mgmt System Cloud Migration

    The U.S. Government Publishing Office has started to transition its public-facing websites to an Amazon Web Services cloud computing infrastructure. GPO said Thursday it will use company’s services to migrate Integrated Library System web portals in an effort to comply with the government-wide Federal Cloud First policy. “Moving these sites to the cloud demonstrates our ongoing commitment to leverage the best […] More