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Timothy J. Romenesko, chief operating officer of the expeditionary services segment at AAR, has been named vice chairman at the Illinois-based defense and aerospace company. AAR said Wednesday David P. Storch, chairman and CEO of AAR, will take over as president while Romenesko will continue to serve as COO of the business segment and strategic […] More
A U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics report says that the July national unemployment rate was unchanged at 5.3 percent and about 0.9 percentage points lower than the jobless rate recorded during the same month last year. Nonfarm payrolls were up in 34 U.S. states and down in 16 states plus the District of Columbia for the month […] More
AT&T Corp. has been selected to update the communications infrastructure of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s claims centers. The company will deploy interactive voice response and contact center services under a four-year contract, AT&T said Thursday. AT&T also selected Interactive Intelligence to provide software-based services for the project. The center is designed to collect, authenticate and process […] More
The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis has estimated the country’s real gross domestic product to have increased at a 3.7-percent annualized rate during the second quarter of calendar year 2015. BEA said Thursday that figure beats the advance estimate of 2.3 percent the bureau released in July. The bureau cites increases in personal consumption expenditures, state and local […] More
Ernst & Young and the Los Alamos National Laboratory have entered into a strategic alliance to bring the lab’s behavioral cybersecurity tools to the commercial marketplace amid a growing sophistication of attacks. “Defensive cybersecurity is an area that requires strong public-private partnerships to shift the balance,” Duncan McBranch, chief technology officer at LANL, said Tuesday. EY will exclusively offer technologies […] More
Raytheon and the Naval Undersea Warfare Center have agreed to extend their partnership to determine methods for the the AN/AQS-20A minehunting sonar system to detect undersea threats. Raytheon said Thursday it will conduct sea-based and laboratory tests with NUWC Division Newport in Rhode Island to leverage the AN/AQS-20A’s synthetic aperture sonar to capture images of underwater […] More
Tony Cothron and Lynn Schnurr of General Dynamics believe that the growing number of cybersecurity threats has driven collaboration between industry and the intelligence community, Federal News Radio reported Wednesday. Meredith Somers writes that Schnurr, vice president for defense intelligence at the company, told the station that the two sectors have collaborated together on areas such as biometrics and geospatial technology […] More
A Big Market Research study predicts the global market for managed security services to record a compound annual growth rate of 15.8 percent from 2014 through 2020. The research firm said Wednesday an increase in adoption of bring-your-own-device policies at workplaces and rising incidents of data breaches and cyber attacks are among the factors that will drive the […] More
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is seeking proposals for research on cyber defenses against distributed denial of service as part of the Extreme DDoS Defense or XD3 program. In a notice posted Aug. 14 on FedBizOpps, DARPA said the program aims to focus on technologies that physically or logically disperse cyber assets, disguise their characteristics or behaviors, […] More
IBM has consolidated the Blue Box private cloud-as-a-service into its global data center infrastructure that runs SoftLayer. The OpenStack-powered Blue Box Cloud, recently acquired by IBM, has been added to the OpenStack portfolio to help customers operate public cloud, IBM said Wednesday. “Today, we’ve taken a big step toward our goal of delivering private clouds to customers […] More
Symantec has teamed up with several companies in an effort to boost the adoption of new platforms designed to protect Internet of Things-based devices from cyber threats. Automated teller machine manufacturer Wincor Nixdorf will implement Symantec’s Embedded Critical Systems Protection tool that works to safeguard Internet-connected devices from zero-day attacks, Symantec said Tuesday. Symantec will combine its Certificate […] More
Northrop Grumman has dispatched the 150th KC-10 Extender aerial refueling tanker for the U.S. Air Force after the company performed depot-level maintenance work on the aircraft. “Deliveries were made on or ahead of schedule and met or exceeded quality expectations, which has been instrumental in the Air Force’s production of an untold number of combat […] More
