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  • MBDA Begins Air-to-Air Missile Delivery for UK’s F-35 Fleet
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    MBDA Begins Air-to-Air Missile Delivery for UK’s F-35 Fleet

    MBDA has begun deliveries of its Advanced Short Range Air-to-Air Missiles to the U.K. military for integration with the country’s fleet of Lockheed Martin-built F-35B Lightning II aircraft. The U.K. defense ministry will use ASRAAMs in air-launched fire tests and flight trials necessary to achieve initial operating capability for the fighter jets of the country’s air […] More

  • Salient CRGT Receives Nuclear Regulatory Commission Data Mgmt Contract; Mark Colturi Comments
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    Salient CRGT Receives Nuclear Regulatory Commission Data Mgmt Contract; Mark Colturi Comments

    Salient CRGT has received a two-year, $1.44 million task order to develop and deploy a data management tool for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The company will provide master data management and enterprise data exchange services to NRC using its current technology through an agile approach, Salient CRGT said Monday. Mark Colturi, senior vice president of Salient […] More

  • Report: BAE Could Secure New US Contracts for Electromagnetic Railguns
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    Report: BAE Could Secure New US Contracts for Electromagnetic Railguns

    BAE Systems could land new U.S. government contracts for electromagnetic railguns after Defense Secretary Ashton Carter outlined the $582.7 billion defense budget plan for fiscal 2017, The Telegraph reported Saturday. Alan Tovey writes Carter told his audience at a recent Economic Club of Washington event that part of the FY 2017 defense budget would fund research […] More

  • Mike McConnell Joins Securonix Senior Advisory Board; Sachin Nayyar Comments
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    Mike McConnell Joins Securonix Senior Advisory Board; Sachin Nayyar Comments

    Mike McConnell, former director of national intelligence, has joined Securonix as a member of the company’s senior advisory board. McConnell is a retired military officer and has served as chairman of the board of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance before former President George W. Bush appointed him as director of national intelligence in 2007, […] More

  • Joe Czyzyk Appointed Chairman of US Vets; Ted Lieu Comments
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    Joe Czyzyk Appointed Chairman of US Vets; Ted Lieu Comments

    Joe Czyzyk, chairman and CEO of air cargo services provider Mercury Air Group, has been named chairman of the nonprofit organization U.S. Vets. U.S. Vets said Monday Czyzyk joined the veteran-focused organization’s board of directors in 2012 and served with the U.S. Navy in Vietnam under the naval mobile construction battalion. “As a veteran of the U.S. […] More

  • Mike Eison Named Dynetics’ Army Electronic Systems Group Director
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    Mike Eison Named Dynetics’ Army Electronic Systems Group Director

    Mike Eison, a former principal research scientist and engineer at Auburn University’s Samuel Ginn College of Engineering, has joined Dynetics as director of Army electronic systems within the company’s cyber and missile defense business. He brings missile system design and performance management experience to his new position, Ronnie Chronister, Dynetics’ director of Army, cyber and missile […] More

  • Deltek Kicks Off Architecture, Engineering, GovCon Studies; Patrick Smith Comments
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    Deltek Kicks Off Architecture, Engineering, GovCon Studies; Patrick Smith Comments

    Deltek has launched its 2016 surveys for government vendors and architecture and engineering firms with the goal to analyze potential operational, financial and program management issues these companies may face. The surveys run through Feb. 29 and Deltek will develop market data based on survey results in order to help firms gauge competition and conduct business planning, Deltek said […] More

  • Lockheed Adds Solutionary to Cybersecurity Alliance; Angie Heise Comments
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    Lockheed Adds Solutionary to Cybersecurity Alliance; Angie Heise Comments

    Lockheed Martin has introduced Solutionary to the former company’s cybersecurity alliance in an effort to help bolster initiatives to combat cyber attacks. Solutionary, an NTT group security company, provides managed security, professional security and global threat intelligence services for information technology infrastructures, cloud environments and mobile data, Lockheed said Thursday. Angie Heise, vice president of commercial […] More

  • Navy Seeks R&D Support for Anti-Terror Technical Office
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    Navy Seeks R&D Support for Anti-Terror Technical Office

    The U.S. Navy has issued a solicitation for research and development programs that will work to support the mission of the combating terrorism technical support office. A broad agency announcement published Feb. 2 on FedBizOpps indicated that CTTSO is interested in R&D projects that deal with chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosives, advanced analytic capabilities […] More

  • Chad Woolf: AWS Guidance Aims to Help Agencies Secure Cloud Network Connections
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    Chad Woolf: AWS Guidance Aims to Help Agencies Secure Cloud Network Connections

    Amazon Web Services has developed a framework meant to help agencies and vendors architect Trusted Internet Connection-ready cloud computing tools that comply with the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program’s moderate baseline security requirements. The Guidance for TIC Readiness on AWS was produced after the cloud service provider completed its FedRAMP-Trusted Internet Connection Overlay testing program, Chad Woolf, AWS’ director […] More

  • NOAA to Use Northrop-Built Global Hawk for Weather Pattern Data Collection
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    NOAA to Use Northrop-Built Global Hawk for Weather Pattern Data Collection

    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will use a Northrop Grumman-built unmanned aerial system to carry out missions that aim to study El Nino-related weather conditions over the Pacific Ocean. NOAA will utilize NASA’s Global Hawk UAV for the Sensing Hazards with Operational Unmanned Technology missions that will take place starting this month through March, Northrop said Friday. […] More

  • NTT Data’s Tim Conway Outlines Practices to Modernize Govt Operations
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    NTT Data’s Tim Conway Outlines Practices to Modernize Govt Operations

    Tim Conway, president of public sector at NTT Data, has highlighted several practices for information technology that he believes will help refresh the way government operates. Conway wrote in an opinion piece for Nextgov published Monday that chief information officers consider legacy modernization as among their upgrade priorities. He said technologies such as business analytics, […] More