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Washington, D.C.’s public transportation agency has chosen a BlackBerry division to implement a unified network for agency personnel, first responders and local emergency organizations to communicate in the event of a crisis. BlackBerry said Tuesday the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority will use AtHoc‘s Connect alerting and crisis communication platform to distribute information to and from Metro’s enterprise monitoring, helpdesk and customer service facilities. […] More

South Korea intends to procure a variant of the Boeing-built AH-64 Apache attack helicopter for its military to defend the country against threats from North Korea, United Press International reported Monday. Elizabeth Shim writes Boeing unveiled its AH-64E platform during a ceremony held Monday at the company’s facility in Mesa, Arizona, and attended by South Korean government officials. Stars and Stripes […] More

Andy Start, president for Inmarsat‘s global government business, has said the company expanded geographic coverage of its Ka-band broadband satellite network to address public sector clients’ communication demands, Satnews reported Monday. Inmarsat now offers the Global Xpress satcom service to government customers throughout the Americas and Atlantic Ocean regions, the publication reports. Start told the MilSatCom conference in London […] More

A new PwC report says the value of merger and acquisition deals in the global aerospace and defense sector reached $52 billion in the third quarter of this year alone, surpassing the M&A deal value the sector has recorded for any full year. According to PwC’s Mission Control report, significant deals in the sector during the […] More

Tribalco has received the General Services Administration‘s approval for the novation of Professional Software Engineering‘s spot on the $50 billion GSA Alliant governmentwide acquisition contract. Tribalco said Friday it will be able to offer its information technology products and services to military and federal civilian agencies through GSA Alliant. “This contract is a key element of Tribalco’s growth […] More