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  • Jacobs to Provide Transportation Design, Engineering Support in Georgia; Randy Pierce Comments
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    Jacobs to Provide Transportation Design, Engineering Support in Georgia; Randy Pierce Comments

    Jacobs Engineering Group will provide engineering, technical, administrative and professional support services for the Georgia Department of Transportation’s Lower Piedmont region under a three-year contract. The company said Tuesday the contract covers bridge and roadway design, utility coordination, environmental support and traffic engineering services for the region’s districts 2, 3 and 7. Randy Pierce, senior […] More

  • Ultra Electronics Unveils OPC Cybersecurity Offering; Benga Erinle Comments
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    Ultra Electronics Unveils OPC Cybersecurity Offering; Benga Erinle Comments

    Ultra Electronics 3eTI has introduced a new traffic monitoring and alerting product for OLE for Process Control systems in an effort to help industrial automation and control system customers counter cyber attacks. The tool is part of the company’s CyberFence product line designed to monitor and protect OPC applications, Ultra Electronics said Monday. Benga Erinle, […] More

  • Navy Tests Raytheon-Built Systems Onboard Zumwalt Destroyer Ship
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    Navy Tests Raytheon-Built Systems Onboard Zumwalt Destroyer Ship

    The U.S. Navy has demonstrated Raytheon-built computing applications onboard the lead ship in the branch’s Zumwalt class of destroyers. Raytheon said Wednesday the DDG 1000‘s total ship computing environment and engineering control systems functioned during a week-long trial at sea. The TSCE infrastructure comprises a combat management, ship and machinery control, embedded training, damage control and C4I […] More

  • Cornerstone OnDemand Secures FedRAMP Approval for Talent Mgmt Platform
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    Cornerstone OnDemand Secures FedRAMP Approval for Talent Mgmt Platform

    Cornerstone OnDemand has obtained a Federal Risk Authorization Management Program certification to offer the company’s cloud-based talent management platform to government agencies. Cornerstone said Tuesday it aims to help agency human resource managers recruit, train and engage workers through its software offering. “We look forward to continuing to serve the talent management needs of federal agencies and […] More

  • Boeing Subcontracts UTC Subsidiary for C-17, Apache Landing Gear Systems
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    Boeing Subcontracts UTC Subsidiary for C-17, Apache Landing Gear Systems

    A United Technologies Corp. subsidiary has won a subcontract from Boeing to continue to produce landing gear systems for integration with the U.S. Air Force’s C-17 Globemaster III aircraft and AH-64E Apache helicopters. UTC Aerospace Systems said Tuesday work on the contract is scheduled to conclude in 2018. The UTC subsidiary secured a contract in 2014 to […] More

  • DOE Seeks Proposals for Funding Opportunity on Energy Tech Transfer
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    DOE Seeks Proposals for Funding Opportunity on Energy Tech Transfer

    The Energy Department has issued the first request for proposals on the office of technology transition’s Technology Commercialization Fund, which seeks to support the transfer of energy-related technologies to the commercial market. DOE said Friday the $20 million funding opportunity aims to facilitate the commercialization of technologies developed as part of federally funded research projects at the 17 […] More

  • Gina Gallagher Joins AOC Key Solutions as President
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    Gina Gallagher Joins AOC Key Solutions as President

    Gina Gallagher, a 20-year federal market veteran, has been named president of Chantilly, Virginia-based proposal development consulting company AOC Key Solutions. She has previously served as vice president of sales and marketing at Systems Made Simple for five years and has played a key role in the company’s pursuit of various health information technology contracts in the government sector, […] More

  • Donald Carty, Anthony Bates Join VMware Board; Pat Gelsinger Comments
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    Donald Carty, Anthony Bates Join VMware Board; Pat Gelsinger Comments

    Donald Carty, a director at EMC, and GoPro President Anthony Bates have joined the board of directors of VMware. “With their business insight and experience across diverse industries as well as technology companies, their perspective and counsel will prove invaluable for the VMware board and executive team,” VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger said Tuesday. Carty has been with […] More

  • Former PSC Head Stan Soloway Forms Celero Strategies
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    Former PSC Head Stan Soloway Forms Celero Strategies

    Stan Soloway, formerly CEO of the Professional Services Council, has founded Celero Strategies LLC in an effort to help companies grow their federal market presence. Soloway said Monday “Celero will be focused on helping companies adapt to and succeed” in a market that he describes as “undergoing massive changes.” “We have also built a unique […] More

  • Ken Asbury: CACI-Virginia Tech UAV Cybersecurity Partnership Eyes Future Nat’l Security Workers
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    Ken Asbury: CACI-Virginia Tech UAV Cybersecurity Partnership Eyes Future Nat’l Security Workers

    CACI International has partnered with the Ted and Karyn Hume Center for National Security and Technology at Virginia Tech to provide support for cybersecurity research on unmanned aerial vehicles. The company said Tuesday the five-year partnership under the Hume center’s Cyber-Physical System Security program covers student mentorship, curriculum development and research projects. “The threat of cyber attacks […] More

  • Marine Corps Taps Jacobs for Special Ops Comm Training Services
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    Marine Corps Taps Jacobs for Special Ops Comm Training Services

    Jacobs Engineering Group has been awarded a contract of an undisclosed value to support the U.S. Marine Corps Special Operations Command’s tactical communications training program. The company said Tuesday it will help the command train Marine Raiders to operate modern data and radio communication systems. MARSOC also asked the company to provide technical strategies for […] More

  • Steve Williams: Finmeccanica’s ‘Falcon Shield’ Can Help Counter Drone Threats
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    Steve Williams: Finmeccanica’s ‘Falcon Shield’ Can Help Counter Drone Threats

    Steve Williams, capability manager for Finmeccanica‘s airborne and space systems division, has said his company developed its Falcon Shield system to help reduce the risks from small unmanned aerial vehicles, Defense News reported Monday. Lara Seligman writes Falcon Shield is designed as a modular system to ward off drone threats in small areas and large infrastructures. Williams […] More