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  • BAE Lands Contract for Navy Comm-Electronics Tech Support; Mark Keeler Comments
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    BAE Lands Contract for Navy Comm-Electronics Tech Support; Mark Keeler Comments

    BAE Systems has been awarded a two-year, $34 million contract to help maintain the communications and electronics systems of the Naval Air Warfare Center’s aircraft division. The company will work to handle logistics, support planning and integration, perform technical publications, manage configuration and provide engineering and training services to the center, BAE said Thursday. Mark Keeler, vice […] More

  • Thales Opens Info Systems Defense Hub; Laurent Maury Comments
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    Thales Opens Info Systems Defense Hub; Laurent Maury Comments

    Thales Group has opened a new facility in the Paris metropolitan region to help customers address enterprise information system threats and fend off an increasing number of cyber attacks. The new Elancourt-based cybersecurity operations center will work to prevent risks and anticipate threats to enterprise systems and handle services provided by a Thales computer emergency response team, Thales said […] More

  • Ken Asbury: CACI Holds $809M Navy BPM Support IDIQ Spot
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    Ken Asbury: CACI Holds $809M Navy BPM Support IDIQ Spot

    CACI International has won a five-year spot on the U.S. Navy’s $809 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that covers process management and data support services. The company said Thursday it is eligible to provide business systems and information technology support for the enterprise resource planning system of the Naval Supply Systems Command Business Systems Center. “CACI’s new contract with the […] More

  • Leidos SVP Robert Zitz to Keynote at Atlantic Council’s Cyber Student Competition
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    Leidos SVP Robert Zitz to Keynote at Atlantic Council’s Cyber Student Competition

    Robert Zitz, a senior vice president and strategic account executive at Leidos, will deliver a keynote address and serve as a judge at the Atlantic Council’s Cyber 9/12 Student Challenge  that will take place Friday and Saturday in Washington. Zits will discuss the potential impact of cybersecurity threats on U.S. critical infrastructure during his speech, Leidos said Thursday. The Atlantic Council’s […] More

  • Salient CRGT Lands Transportation Department Data Analytics Contract; Brad Antle Comments
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    Salient CRGT Lands Transportation Department Data Analytics Contract; Brad Antle Comments

    Salient CRGT has been awarded a five-year, $9 million contract to operate and maintain the hazardous materials safety portal of the Transportation Department. The company will integrate records from multiple agencies into a single platform to provide data warehousing support, dashboards, reports and applications to DOT’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, Salient CRGT said […] More

  • Xerox to Update New Jersey E-ZPass Group’s Customer Support; Don Hubicki Comments
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    Xerox to Update New Jersey E-ZPass Group’s Customer Support; Don Hubicki Comments

    Xerox has been selected to update the customer support system of the New Jersey E-ZPass Group in an effort to help process electronic toll transactions in the state. Xerox will provide a customer service center, violations processing and financial back-office services for the New Jersey E-ZPass System under the eight-year contract, Xerox said Wednesday. “When […] More

  • NCR Govt Lead Stan Ratcliffe on Self-Service Tech’s 2016 Prospects & The Future of ‘eGov’
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    NCR Govt Lead Stan Ratcliffe on Self-Service Tech’s 2016 Prospects & The Future of ‘eGov’

    NCR Government Systems — the kiosk and ATM machine maker’s federal subsidiary — works to bring the parent company’s self-checkout and check-in technologies to U.S. government agencies seeking to change their transactions and interactions with civilians and other constituents. The Germantown, Maryland-based subsidiary received two boosts to its pipeline in 2015 through a potential 10-year, $256 […] More

  • CBP Starts Tests of Unisys Facial and Iris Biometric ID Systems at San Diego Border Crossing
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    CBP Starts Tests of Unisys Facial and Iris Biometric ID Systems at San Diego Border Crossing

    The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency has started to test a Unisys-made facial and iris biometrics system at the Otay Mesa border crossing in San Diego to study the accuracy and efficiency of biometric technologies in an outdoor environment. Unisys said Thursday CBP started conducting tests on selected non-citizens exiting the U.S in February and will continue to do so until May 2016. […] More

  • Jordanian Agency Taps Gemalto to Produce Contactless Citizen ID Cards
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    Jordanian Agency Taps Gemalto to Produce Contactless Citizen ID Cards

    Gemalto has been selected by Jordan’s ministry of information, communication and technology to deliver citizen identity cards and automatic fingerprint identification systems to the country’s interior ministry through Amman-based banking and technology company OFFTEC. The digital security company said Tuesday its Sealys polycarbonate contactless e-ID ​cards and AFIS aim to support Jordan’s national security, immigration control and anti-election fraud efforts. […] More

  • Airbus, Actia Telecom Win Satcom Terminal Production Contract From French Agency
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    Airbus, Actia Telecom Win Satcom Terminal Production Contract From French Agency

    Airbus‘ defense and space subsidiary and Actia Telecom have landed a contract from the French defense procurement agency to install naval satcom terminals on 17 French navy vessels. The two companies will work together to equip the vessels with the Comcept broadband communication system, an all-IP network utilized by the French armed forces in 2015, Airbus said Monday. The […] More

  • Iridium Seeks to Provide Maritime Safety Comms Through IMO Recognition Process
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    Iridium Seeks to Provide Maritime Safety Comms Through IMO Recognition Process

    The International Maritime Organization has issued a report that details requirements for Iridium Communications to address in order for the company to be recognized as a Global Maritime Distress and Safety System mobile satellite services provider. IMO’s navigation, communication and search-and-rescue subcommittee released the report after it evaluated Iridium as a potential GMDSS service provider, Iridium […] More

  • Russell Granzow: DoD Certifies Philips’ Digital Pathology Tech
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    Russell Granzow: DoD Certifies Philips’ Digital Pathology Tech

    A Royal Philips-built digital pathology technology has been certified by the Defense Department as security compliant under the DoD Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process. DoD granted Philips a DIACAP certification and an authorization to operate for the company’s IntelliSite platform that is designed to manage pathological workflows, facilitate multisite collaboration among clinicians and secure electronic protected health information, Philips said Thursday. “This latest […] More