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  • General Dynamics Awarded FMS Contract to Support Logistics for Taiwan IMSE System
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    General Dynamics Awarded FMS Contract to Support Logistics for Taiwan IMSE System

    General Dynamics landed a $34.7 million foreign military sale contract to provide logistics support for Taiwan’s Improved Mobile Subscriber Equipment system. The Defense Department said Friday the firm-fixed-price, multi-year contract has an estimated completion date of Dec. 28, 2019. General Dynamics will carry out work in Taiwan. The mobile subscriber equipment system is the U.S military’s tactical communications network developed in […] More

  • FAA Plans Cybersecurity Methodology Support Contract Award to Mischel Kwon & Associates
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    FAA Plans Cybersecurity Methodology Support Contract Award to Mischel Kwon & Associates

    The Federal Aviation Administration plans to award security consulting firm Mischel Kwon & Associates a single-source contract to continue to provide cybersecurity methodology support services for FAA’s security operations center. FAA’s William J. Hughes Technical Center said in a Feb. 9 notice posted on FedBizOpps the contract has a base period of six months and three […] More

  • Lockheed to Produce Radars for Romania; Mark Mekker Comments
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    Lockheed to Produce Radars for Romania; Mark Mekker Comments

    Lockheed Martin has been selected to supply ground-based radars to Romania that will work to operate independently in remote areas to address the customer’s needs. Lockheed will produce two TPS-77 radars and digital array row transceivers for the country under the contract agreement, the company said Monday. “The feedback we receive from our ongoing collaborations with countries […] More

  • DoD, SBA, CPSC Pick SAS Tools for Big Data Analytics, Management
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    DoD, SBA, CPSC Pick SAS Tools for Big Data Analytics, Management

    SAS has been chosen by the U.S. Defense Department, Small Business Administration and Consumer Product Safety Commission to provide technology platforms that will work to help the agencies examine huge amounts of data. The company said Monday agencies are increasingly adopting big data analytics, visualization, text mining and Hadoop technologies to help address their data collection, storage and management […] More

  • Raytheon-Led Team Offers T-100 For Air Force T-X Program; CAE’s Gene Colabatistto Comments
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    Raytheon-Led Team Offers T-100 For Air Force T-X Program; CAE’s Gene Colabatistto Comments

    Raytheon has teamed up with CAE, Finmeccanica and Honeywell to introduce the T-100 training jet as part of their efforts to compete for the U.S. Air Force’s T-X trainer aircraft program. The T-100 aircraft is a variant of the Alenia Aermacchi-built M-346 training jet and comes with a ground-based training platform, Raytheon said Monday. Gene Colabatistto, group president for […] More

  • TechNavio Names Top 5 Military Manpack and Vehicular Radio Vendors
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    TechNavio Names Top 5 Military Manpack and Vehicular Radio Vendors

     TechNavio released a new report in February on global military manpack and vehicular radio systems that includes the research firm’s list of the top five vendors in the field and other prominent companies. The Global Military Manpack and Vehicular Radios Market 2016-2020 report named Barrett Communications, Finmeccanica, Harris, Radmor and Thales as the five key vendors in the market while Codan, Elbit Systems, […] More

  • Millennium Space Systems Starts Air Force Satellite Bus-Testbed Integration
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    Millennium Space Systems Starts Air Force Satellite Bus-Testbed Integration

    Millennium Space Systems has has started to integrate a spacecraft bus into a U.S. Air Force testbed sponsored by the Space and Missile Systems Center and managed by NASA. The Wide Field Of View spacecraft bus platform is projected to be “functionally integrated, tested and checked out by summer 2016,” Millennium said Feb. 15. The spacecraft is based on […] More

  • Raytheon to Integrate Speech Recognition Tech Into Entrada’s Mobile Health IT Platform
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    Raytheon to Integrate Speech Recognition Tech Into Entrada’s Mobile Health IT Platform

    A Raytheon subsidiary has agreed to combine its speech-to-text conversion technology with Entrada‘s cloud-based mobile productivity platform as the companies aim to simplify the documentation of patient data. Entrada’s technology is designed to help caregivers dictate a patient’s narrative into an electronic health record via a mobile application, Raytheon said Monday. The mobile-based healthcare platform will be integrated with Raytheon BBN […] More

  • Cardno TEC-AECOM Joint Venture Lands $50M Navy Contract
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    Cardno TEC-AECOM Joint Venture Lands $50M Navy Contract

    The U.S Navy has awarded the Cardno TEC–AECOM joint venture a $50 million environmental planning and engineering services contract. The Defense Department said Monday the joint venture will provide construction, renovation, demolition, dredging, base realignment and closure and operational services for ship homeporting and waterfront activities. The firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract will cover the Naval Facilities Engineering Command’s Atlantic area […] More

  • CACI Recognized for Competitiveness in the Global IT Services Market; Ken Asbury Comments
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    CACI Recognized for Competitiveness in the Global IT Services Market; Ken Asbury Comments

    Fortune magazine has selected CACI International for its annual list of the “most admired companies” around the world. The publication ranked CACI as the seventh-best information technology services provider based on criteria such as global competitiveness, innovation, social responsibility and quality of management, the company said Monday. CACI President and CEO Ken Asbury, a Wash100 inductee, […] More

  • Jeff Geppert Appointed a Battelle Senior Research Lead; Sudip Parikh Comments
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    Jeff Geppert Appointed a Battelle Senior Research Lead; Sudip Parikh Comments

    Jeff Geppert, formerly an internal research coordinator for health and consumer solutions at Battelle, has been named one of 11 senior research leaders at the nonprofit science and research organization. Geppert will oversee the company’s efforts to maintain the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services‘ inventory of hospital and physician quality measures that work to help hospitals […] More

  • Carahsoft, HPE Among FireEye’s 2015 Global Partner Awardees; David DeWalt Comments
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    Carahsoft, HPE Among FireEye’s 2015 Global Partner Awardees; David DeWalt Comments

    FireEye has named Carahsoft Technology and Hewlett Packard Enterprise as its 2015 Global Distributor of the Year and Global Alliance Partner of the Year awardees in recognition of their efforts to protect their clients’ network infrastructure from cyber threats. Carahsoft and HPE received their respective awards at FireEye’s Momentum annual partner and sales conference that kicked […] More