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  • John Casey: General Dynamics Team Awaits Navy Feedback on Submarine Construction Work-Sharing Plan
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    John Casey: General Dynamics Team Awaits Navy Feedback on Submarine Construction Work-Sharing Plan

    General Dynamics‘ Electric Boat subsidiary and Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Newport News Shipbuilding division are awaiting the U.S. Navy‘s decision on their proposed teaming arrangement for the Ohio-class submarine replacement program, Defense News reported Monday. Christopher Cavas writes John Casey, executive vice president of marine systems at General Dynamics, said the companies submitted a work-sharing plan to […] More

  • DOE, GSA Issue RFI for Green Building Tech
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    DOE, GSA Issue RFI for Green Building Tech

    The Energy Department and General Services Administration has asked industry, academia and nonprofit organizations to provide data on green building technologies to support DOE’s High Impact Technology Catalyst program and GSA’s Green Proving Ground program. GSA said Monday the agencies’ joint request for information is focused on the areas of energy management, renewable energy, water conservation and reuse, and on equipment such as […] More

  • Blue Canopy to Provide AWS Cloud-Based HPC, Analytics to SEC
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    Blue Canopy to Provide AWS Cloud-Based HPC, Analytics to SEC

    Blue Canopy Group has received a five-year, $39 million prime contract to build a high-performance computing infrastructure hosted on Amazon Web Services‘ cloud environment for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission‘s office of information technology. The HPCI will feature a big data analytics function in support of SEC’s efforts to detect high-frequency trading and stop fraud, Blue Canopy […] More

  • Lockheed Martin Builds Lasers With Fiber Modules for Army
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    Lockheed Martin Builds Lasers With Fiber Modules for Army

    Lockheed Martin has commenced the production of lasers with commercial fiber components for the U.S. Army based on a modular design that supports varied laser power as per mission requirement. The company said Monday the first laser will have a power of 60 kilowatts, which the Army can extend to 120 kilowatts due to its modularity. “With modular lasers, […] More

  • ActioNet to Extend NNSA On-Demand Cloud Infrastructure Services
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    ActioNet to Extend NNSA On-Demand Cloud Infrastructure Services

    ActioNet has received a task order modification to provide additional cloud infrastructure support services to the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration on demand. NNSA said in a FedBizOpps notice published Thursday the modification expands ActioNet’s work under a five-year, $6.3 million infrastructure-as-a-service contract originally awarded in February 2013. The company will help reconfigure an IaaS […] More

  • Sparton Receives Top Raytheon Supplier Award; Jamie Shaddix Comments
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    Sparton Receives Top Raytheon Supplier Award; Jamie Shaddix Comments

    Sparton Corp. has earned a top award from Raytheon in recognition of the company’s role as a supplier of subassemblies and efforts toward affordability. Sparton said its Plaistow, New Hampshire-based facility is among the 12 recipients of the five-star recognition from Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems. “Receiving this prestigious honor three years in a row is a remarkable […] More

  • Jim Lawler on ICF’s GovCon Recruiting Agenda and Job Search Advantages for Candidates
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    Jim Lawler on ICF’s GovCon Recruiting Agenda and Job Search Advantages for Candidates

    Jim Lawler started the latest chapter of his three-decade human resources career in late 2014 when he joined Fairfax, Va.-based ICF International as senior vice president of HR. Lawler previously served as chief HR officer at TASC for four years and designed that company’s HR organization, compensation and benefits programs and HR leadership team. ExecutiveBiz recently […] More

  • Pentagon Taps Orion Health’s EHR Info ‘Engine’ for Military Health System
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    Pentagon Taps Orion Health’s EHR Info ‘Engine’ for Military Health System

    Orion Health will provide an interoperability and information exchange platform for implementation across the Military Health System for the Defense Healthcare Management System Modernization program at the Defense Department. The company’s Rhapsody Integration Engine works to facilitate interoperability between DoD’s EHR platform and civilian centers that provide healthcare services to uniformed personnel, the company said Monday. Orion Health is part of […] More

  • Ball Aerospace Integrates ‘Green’ Propulsion Tech on BCP-100 Spacecraft Bus; Jim Oschmann Comments
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    Ball Aerospace Integrates ‘Green’ Propulsion Tech on BCP-100 Spacecraft Bus; Jim Oschmann Comments

    Ball Aerospace & Technologies has completed the integration of an Aerojet Rocketdyne-built propulsion subsystem into a small satellite Ball is building for NASA‘s Green Propellant Infusion Mission. NASA aims to launch the Ball Commercial Platform-100 spacecraft equipped with Aerojet Rocketdyne’s Green Propellant Propulsion System into orbit next year, Ball Aerospace said Monday. Aerojet Rocketdyne delivered […] More

  • FireEye, F5 Networks Forge Enterprise Security Partnership; Steve Pataky Comments
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    FireEye, F5 Networks Forge Enterprise Security Partnership; Steve Pataky Comments

    FireEye Inc. and F5 Networks have partnered to jointly provide security products and services to enterprise clients. The partnership will combine F5’s application delivery infrastructure and FireEye’s threat protection offering, FireEye said Monday. “Our partnership with F5 addresses critical business issues for our customers, matching [information technology] growth and security to support the business,” said Steve […] More

  • Boeing Helps Air Force Update F-22 Simulator Displays
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    Boeing Helps Air Force Update F-22 Simulator Displays

    Boeing has built and integrated a new visual display technology into the F-22 Raptor flight simulation centers of the U.S. Air Force. The company equipped the F-22 Mission Training Centers with its Constant Resolution Visual Systems with the goal of helping fighter pilots train in 360-degree simulated flying missions, Boeing said Friday. The Air Force […] More

  • Tory Bruno: RD-180 Ban Keeps ULA From Air Force GPS III Launch Bid
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    Tory Bruno: RD-180 Ban Keeps ULA From Air Force GPS III Launch Bid

    United Launch Alliance CEO Tory Bruno has said the Boeing–Lockheed Martin joint venture cannot submit a bid for the GPS III satellite launch contract due to a ban on the Russia-made RD-180 engine, Reuters reported Friday. Irene Klotz writes Bruno made the remarks in Florida after the U.S. Air Force issued a request for proposals on Wednesday for GPS 3 satellites the service branch […] More