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  • GSA Opens Bidding on $2.5B Satellite Comms Follow-On GWAC Vehicle
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    GSA Opens Bidding on $2.5B Satellite Comms Follow-On GWAC Vehicle

    The General Services Administration is seeking vendors to provide satellite communications technologies and related services to U.S. government agencies through a potential 10-year, $2.5 billion contract vehicle. The Complex Commercial Satellite Communications Solutions program will cover fixed and mobile satcom services and ancillary equipment such as terminals, subscriber identity module cards, teleports and terrestrial tail circuits, GSA […] More

  • NSA Issues 1st Open Procurement Notice for ‘Innovative Mission Capabilities’
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    NSA Issues 1st Open Procurement Notice for ‘Innovative Mission Capabilities’

    The National Security Agency has issued a notice on FedBizOpps for small businesses to provide “innovative mission capabilities” in what would be the agency’s first open procurement effort, Nextgov reported Thursday. Aliya Sternstein writes interested companies will need to register for access to an NSA database called the Acquisition Resource Center. “NSA’s posting on FedBizOpps […] More

  • General Dynamics Selected for Denmark’s Military Ground Vehicle Support Work
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    General Dynamics Selected for Denmark’s Military Ground Vehicle Support Work

    A General Dynamics subsidiary has been awarded a framework contract to provide post-production support for three types of wheeled armored vehicles currently in use by the Danish army. General Dynamics European Land Systems will help overhaul, maintain, repair and upgrade the Denmark’s fleets of Piranha 3, Duro IIIP and Eagle IV military ground vehicles, General Dynamics said Monday. The multiyear […] More

  • Navy Taps Exelis for Electronic Countermeasure Weapon Repair Services
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    Navy Taps Exelis for Electronic Countermeasure Weapon Repair Services

    Exelis has been awarded a potential five-year, $28.5 million contract to repair weapons replaceable assemblies for the U.S. Navy‘s Integrated Defensive Electronic Countermeasures initiative. The firm-fixed-price contract has an initial value of $7.6 million and contains a two-year base performance period that will run through December 2017, the Defense Department said Monday. Exelis, a subsidiary of Harris […] More

  • CSRA Subsidiary to Provide Mgmt Support for Air Force Ground Weapon System
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    CSRA Subsidiary to Provide Mgmt Support for Air Force Ground Weapon System

    SRA, a subsidiary of technology services contractor CSRA, has won a potential three-year, $35 million contract to manage and maintain the weapon system architecture of the processing, exploitation and dissemination facility of the U.S. Air Force’s Distributed Common Ground System. The service branch awarded the time-and-materials, firm-fixed-price contract through competitive procurement with four bids received, the […] More

  • Bill Ballhaus Joins Blackboard as Chairman, President & CEO
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    Bill Ballhaus Joins Blackboard as Chairman, President & CEO

    Bill Ballhaus, former president and CEO of SRA International, has joined educational technology firm Blackboard as its chairman, president and chief executive. He replaces Jay Bhatt, who will remain with the company as a special adviser to the chairman, Blackboard said Monday. “I am excited to join Blackboard and continue its progress in helping millions of […] More

  • Laura Jolley Appointed Sterling Global Operations HR VP; Alan Weakley Comments
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    Laura Jolley Appointed Sterling Global Operations HR VP; Alan Weakley Comments

    Laura Jolley, a 12-year veteran at Sterling Global Operations, has been appointed as vice president of human resources at the Knoxville, Tenn.-based stability operations services provider. Jolley previously served as SGO recruiter, human resources generalist, human resources business partner, HR manager and director of human resources, the company said Monday. “As SGO has continued to […] More

  • Ray Duquette: Technology, Mission Rehearsal Key in CAE’s Flight Simulation Programs
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    Ray Duquette: Technology, Mission Rehearsal Key in CAE’s Flight Simulation Programs

    Ray Duquette, president and general manager of CAE‘s U.S. arm, has said the company builds simulation technology to replicate what the company believes will happen to pilots during military or commercial aircraft flights, the Tampa Tribune reported Saturday. “We do both training and mission rehearsal with multiple simulators networked,” Duquette told Tribune reporter Yvette Hammett in an interview. “We […] More

  • Ball Aerospace to Build 2nd Imaging Instrument for NASA’s Landsat 9
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    Ball Aerospace to Build 2nd Imaging Instrument for NASA’s Landsat 9

    Ball Aerospace & Technologies will manufacture the second Operational Land Imager instrument for NASA‘s Landsat 9 Earth observation satellite under a potential six-year, $19.3 million sole-source letter contract. The company said Thursday it will build Operational Land Imager-2, which works to generate satellite imagery that will support studies on the impact of natural and man-induced activities on Earth’s surface. […] More

  • Deloitte’s JR Reagan: Researchers Explore Biomimetic Methods to Thwart Cyber Crime
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    Deloitte’s JR Reagan: Researchers Explore Biomimetic Methods to Thwart Cyber Crime

    JR Reagan, global chief information security officer at Deloitte, has said some computer security researchers experiment with biomimicry principles in a bid to develop new data protection tools based on defense mechanisms seen in nature. He wrote in a Deloitte Insights piece published Monday the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has studied the potential application of ant colonies’  behavior for continuous monitoring […] More

  • Cubic Awarded Army Future Study Plan Support Task Order; Bill Toti Comments
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    Cubic Awarded Army Future Study Plan Support Task Order; Bill Toti Comments

    Cubic has received a three-year, $15 million task order to conduct preparation, execution, assessment and analytical integration work for the U.S. Army’s future study plan and unified quest events. The Army intends for the FSP/UQ events to identify strategic and operational challenges, issues and solutions to existing and future development, Cubic said Monday. Bill Toti, […] More