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  • General Atomics Conducts 1st Predator B ER Long-Wing Flight; Linden Blue Comments
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    General Atomics Conducts 1st Predator B ER Long-Wing Flight; Linden Blue Comments

    General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems group conducted the first flight of the extended-range variant of its Predator B remotely piloted aircraft at Gray Butte Flight Test Facility on Feb. 18 to demonstrate launch ability, airworthiness and landing capability. The Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper extended-range long-wing upgrades include 13 feet of additional wingspan designed to boost aircraft endurance by 13 hours, short-field takeoff and landing modifications […] More

  • Report: San Bernardino Police Used Thomson Reuters Tool to Track Suspects; Steve Rubley Comments
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    Report: San Bernardino Police Used Thomson Reuters Tool to Track Suspects; Steve Rubley Comments

    Police officers in San Bernardino County in California used a Thomson Reuters-built investigative platform to locate the suspects involved in a terrorist attack at a county training seminar on Dec. 2, the San Bernardino Sun reported Wednesday. Doug Saunders writes the police officers used Clear, an online database that works to help law enforcement and […] More

  • General Dynamics Lands Smith & Wesson Gun Barrel Contract; James Debney Comments
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    General Dynamics Lands Smith & Wesson Gun Barrel Contract; James Debney Comments

    A General Dynamics business unit has received a multi-year contract from Smith & Wesson to manufacture hammer-forged gun barrels for integration with the latter’s M&P pistol. General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems will produce the gun barrels for the pistol that Smith & Wesson proposed to the U.S. Army in order to compete for the […] More

  • Charles River Analytics Lands Naval Research Contract for Big Data Framework
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    Charles River Analytics Lands Naval Research Contract for Big Data Framework

    Charles River Analytics has been awarded a $400,000 contract from the Office of Naval Research to develop a multi-source naval analytics and analytic services framework for warfighting environments as part of the Navy‘s branch-wide tactical cloud computing project. The Navy is developing its Tactical Cloud Reference Implementation to create on-demand access for shared sensors and computing resources, Charles River said Wednesday. […] More

  • General Dynamics Picks GKN Aerospace to Supply Fuel Tanks for UK Ajax Units
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    General Dynamics Picks GKN Aerospace to Supply Fuel Tanks for UK Ajax Units

    General Dynamics‘ European land systems unit has selected GKN Aerospace to supply the British military with fuel tanks for the Ajax ground vehicle units under a $29.6 million contract throughout 2023. The fuel tanks will be manufactured and produced with self-seal technology and explosion suppression foam in an effort to improve vehicle durability, GKN Aerospace said Tuesday. General Dynamics landed a […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls Subsidiary to Extend DOE Environmental Program Support
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    Huntington Ingalls Subsidiary to Extend DOE Environmental Program Support

    A subsidiary of Huntington Ingalls Industries has received a potential five-year, $13.7 million contract to support environmental surveillance, education and research activities at an Energy Department facility in Idaho. HII said Wednesday its unit SN3 will continue to provide ESER services to the department’s Idaho operations office in partnership with Wastren Advantage. The contract has […] More

  • Fluor-Led Team Chosen for $2B Maryland Light Rail Project
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    Fluor-Led Team Chosen for $2B Maryland Light Rail Project

    Purple Line Transit Partners — a team comprised of Fluor, Meridiam Infrastructure Purple Line and Star America Purple Line — has been chosen for the $2 billion Purple Line Light Rail Project in Maryland. Fluor said Wednesday the team will provide design, construction, financing, operations and maintenance services to the Maryland Department of Transportation and the Maryland Transit […] More

  • USPS Seeks Info on Centralized Analytics Platform
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    USPS Seeks Info on Centralized Analytics Platform

    The U.S. Postal Service has asked industry to provide information on a centralized analytics software platform that will work to carry out machine learning methods and provide USPS data-driven insights for use in decision-making. USPS said in a FedBizOpps notice published Feb. 16 that it will consider commercial-off-the-shelf analytics tools that can be customized to […] More

  • Raytheon-Sponsored Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Kicks Off; David Wajsgras Comments
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    Raytheon-Sponsored Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Kicks Off; David Wajsgras Comments

    The Raytheon-sponsored 2016 National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition for 2016 will start Monday in an initiative to educate and develop both current talent and future generations of cybersecurity workers. “Now more than ever before, the U.S. and countries around the world are connected by global information networks,” David Wajsgras, president of Raytheon’s intelligence, information and services unit, said in a […] More

  • Former Boeing Chairman & CEO Jim McNerney Joins CD&R as Senior Adviser
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    Former Boeing Chairman & CEO Jim McNerney Joins CD&R as Senior Adviser

    Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has named former Boeing Chairman and CEO Jim McNerney as its new senior adviser to provide support for its investment and value-creation strategies. McNerney brings decades worth of experience in management while he held senior leadership positions for a number of global companies, CD&R said Wednesday. “His exceptional record is one grounded […] More

  • Harris Corp. Gets DoD Award for Geospatial Data Business Mentorship
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    Harris Corp. Gets DoD Award for Geospatial Data Business Mentorship

    Harris Corp. has been chosen for the Defense Department‘s Nunn-Perry Award in recognition of the company’s partnership with Spatial Data Integrations under the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency‘s mentor-protege program. Harris said Wednesday it mentored the woman-owned company in geospatial content management, open source data collection and quality control strategies. North Carolina Central University is also part of the mentor-protege team and has […] More

  • Grant Thornton’s Mark Scoles Joins FASB Emerging Issues Task Force
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    Grant Thornton’s Mark Scoles Joins FASB Emerging Issues Task Force

    The Financial Accounting Standards Board has appointed Mark Scoles, a partner-in-charge at Grant Thornton‘s accounting principles group, to its Emerging Issues Task Force. FASB is an independent nonprofit organization in the private sector that establishes accounting and reporting standards for companies and organizations that follow Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. Scoles will assume his role on FASB’s EITF on March […] More