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The U.S. Air Force is seeking technical concept papers from vendors as part of the service’s move to develop intelligence and cyber systems. In a broad agency announcement released Wednesday, the Air Force wants companies to submit ideas that address kill chain integration in order to detect threats. The Air Force requires concepts that aim […] More
Boeing has received an order from the government of Qatar for additional C-17 Globemaster III airlifters. Tommy Dunehew, vice president of international customer service and sales for Boeing military aircraft, said Monday the C-17s are intended to aid the Qatar Armed Forces in its transport, airdrop and humanitarian missions. The aircraft is designed to carry […] More
The Justice Department is conducting market research on potential sources of cybersecurity operations support services to the Justice Security Operations Center. In a notice posted June 3 on FedBizOpps, DOJ said it is seeking vendors with the resources and experience to support JSOC’s threat detection, monitoring and response functions. The department noted that its needed capabilities […] More
IBM will offer its open source technology as a service on its Bluemix cloud platform and embed the tool into its commerce and analytics offerings. The company said Monday the move to offer Apache Spark open source project, which is designed to quickly process large-scale data, as a cloud service aims to help application developers immediately load and […] More
U.S. Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James has said the military service expects to hold a competition for Long-Range Strike Bomber subsystems that will not be part of the LRS-B development and initial production contract, Bloomberg reported Monday. Anthony Capaccio writes James told Bloomberg the Air Force could name the prime contractor for the LRS-B program […] More
A Parsons Brinkerhoff-led consortium has won a $700 million rail contract with the California High-Speed Rail Authority, Railway Technology reported Monday. The consortium will work to deliver and manage the high-speed railway project under the program’s first phase, according to the report. Railway Technology reports the contract runs through 2022. Network Rail‘s consulting arm Network Rail […] More
The National Veteran Small Business Coalition has recognized Parsons for surpassing a mandate by Congress for contractors to award 3 percent of contracts to service-disabled and veteran-owned small businesses. Parsons said Monday it accepted the award Thursday at the 2015 Veteran Entrepreneur Training Symposium hosted by NVSBC in Norfolk, Virginia. According to the company, it awarded […] More
Neustar Senior Vice President and Fellow Rodney Joffe has been reappointed to a third term on the Federal Communications Commission’s Communications, Security, Reliability and Interoperability Council. Joffe will assist in work on the recommendations of communication security, reliability and interoperability best practices to the FCC, Neustar said Tuesday. “Since the early 1990s, Rodney has recognized the […] More
Dan Gutierrez, vice president of mid-Atlantic operations at MacAulay-Brown, has been promoted to VP of operations for the Dayton, Ohio-based company’s national security group. MacB said Monday it also named Napoleon Stewart director of military intelligence programs and appointed Donald Chaney director of intelligence community programs within the national security programs division. Gutierrez will be […] More
Raytheon has agreed to extend for another 10 years its partnership with Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace AS to develop medium-range National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System. The agreement, signed at the Paris Air Show, will work to incorporate new medium-range air-to-air missiles and sensors as part of efforts to improve optimal system functions for NASAMS clients worldwide, Raytheon […] More
Lockheed Martin plans to hire up to 130 additional workers through 2017 to help facilitate testing and sustainment of Trident II D5 fleet ballistic missile systems that the company has built for the U.S. Navy. The company said Monday it currently employs approximately 500 engineers and technicians at a facility in Cape Canaveral, Florida, to […] More
A KPMG International report says insurers can identify new investment opportunities if they develop innovation strategies and engage in public-private alliances. KPMG said Friday it believes the insurance sector has the potential to help address climate change, disaster and infrastructure management and economic development issues by offering long-term debt financing products. “Insurers will either need […] More
