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  • Ed Swallow, Randy Kendall Chosen For New VP Roles at The Aerospace Corp
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    Ed Swallow, Randy Kendall Chosen For New VP Roles at The Aerospace Corp

    Ed Swallow, a 12-year Northrop Grumman veteran, will join The Aerospace Corp. on April 4 as vice president of the nonprofit organization’s civil and commercial group. The nonprofit organization said Thursday it also appointed Randy Kendall, vice president of civil and commercial operations, to succeed the retiring Ray Johnson as VP of the space launch business area on July 1. […] More

  • Lockheed VP Stephanie Hill Makes WTCI Winners List
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    Lockheed VP Stephanie Hill Makes WTCI Winners List

    Stephanie Hill, vice president and general manager of the information systems and global solutions-civil group at Lockheed Martin, has been named a recipient of the Maryland International Business Leadership Award for 2015. The World Trade Center Institute, which hands out the prize each year to individuals that demonstrate vision, excellence and international success in leadership, bestowed the […] More

  • Fluor to Provide Project Mgmt Support for Azerbaijan Oil/Gas Processing Facility
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    Fluor to Provide Project Mgmt Support for Azerbaijan Oil/Gas Processing Facility

    Fluor has won a contract to provide the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic project management support for a new oil and gas processing and petrochemical complex near Baku, Azerbaijan. The company said Wednesday it will help SOCAR select contractors to provide procurement, engineering, construction, commissioning and startup services for the complex and some offsite facilities. Taco de Haan, president of Fluor’s energy and […] More

  • Sysorex Joins Octo Consulting’s Army IT Support Contract Team
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    Sysorex Joins Octo Consulting’s Army IT Support Contract Team

    Sysorex has joined an Octo Consulting-led team that won a position under a potential $249 million contract from the U.S. Army to provide a range of enterprise information technology services. Octo Consulting and Sysorex will collaborate to support the military service’s program executive office for enterprise information systems through the EITS program, Sysorex said Wednesday. Nadir […] More

  • BlackBerry Subsidiary, IBM, Samsung Develop Tablet for Gov’t and Enterprise
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    BlackBerry Subsidiary, IBM, Samsung Develop Tablet for Gov’t and Enterprise

    BlackBerry‘s Secusmart subsidiary has worked with IBM and Samsung to develop a tablet that supports SecuSUITE for BlackBerry 10 to enable secure mobile communications for government and enterprise users. BlackBerry said Saturday the SecuTABLET is based on Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5 and is awaiting security certification for classified data from the German Federal Office for Information Security. “Working alongside […] More

  • Ike Song: Northrop to Integrate Wind River Software into UH-60V Avionics Mission System
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    Ike Song: Northrop to Integrate Wind River Software into UH-60V Avionics Mission System

    Northrop Grumman has chosen Wind River to supply an embedded software technology for integration into a Northrop-designed avionics mission equipment package for the U.S. Army‘s UH-60V helicopters. Wind River will deliver its VxWorks 653 operating system platform to Northrop as part of the Black Hawk cockpit digitization program, Wind River said Wednesday. Dinyar Dastoor, vice […] More

  • Carpathia Releases IT Mgmt Platform for AWS Cloud Users; Peter Weber Comments
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    Carpathia Releases IT Mgmt Platform for AWS Cloud Users; Peter Weber Comments

    Carpathia has introduced a technology offering designed to centrally monitor information technology workloads that are hosted by Carpathia and run on Amazon Web Services cloud environment. The Cloud Operations Platform for AWS will work to provide enterprise clients a consolidated view of their Carpathia- and AWS-supported IT applications through a single portal, Carpathia said Wednesday. […] More

  • Willie May: NIST Report on 2012 Federal Tech Transfer to Support Future Efforts
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    Willie May: NIST Report on 2012 Federal Tech Transfer to Support Future Efforts

    The National Institute of Standards and Technology has published a report on the government’s technology transfer activities in fiscal 2012 in support of the Lab-to-Market Cross-Agency Priority Goal under the President’s Management Agenda in 2014. NIST said Tuesday the report provides a baseline for measuring the government’s performance toward fulfilling the technology transfer CAP goal. “We will use future editions of this […] More

  • Pat Tracey of HP on the Federal Cloud Market in 2015, How Mobile Changes IT Thinking
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    Pat Tracey of HP on the Federal Cloud Market in 2015, How Mobile Changes IT Thinking

    Pat Tracey serves as vice president of homeland security and defense for HP Enterprise Services‘ U.S. public sector business and also leads the unit’s work with the Justice Department. The 34-year Navy veteran and retired vice admiral joined HP Enterprise Services in 2006 when it was known as EDS and also oversees the business’ services to Pentagon agencies […] More

  • SAIC to Advise Stratcom on Mgmt, Technical Aspects; Mark Escobar Comments
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    SAIC to Advise Stratcom on Mgmt, Technical Aspects; Mark Escobar Comments

    Science Applications International Corp. has received a potential $72 million subcontract from Constellation West to advise U.S. Strategic Command on the management, engineering and technical aspects of its missions. SAIC will assist in the USSTRATCOM’s Systems and Missions Support III program and operate the command’s information technology and telecom services, SAIC said Wednesday. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity […] More

  • SRA, MicroPact Start BPM Alliance for Federal Clients; Kris Collo Comments
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    SRA, MicroPact Start BPM Alliance for Federal Clients; Kris Collo Comments

    SRA International has partnered with MicroPact to develop business process management software for federal government agencies. SRA’s software engineers will deploy BPM and case management services to clients via MicroPact’s entellitrak platform and use SRA’s Agile for Gov framework, MicroPact said Monday. Kris Collo, CEO and founder of MicroPact, said the companies intend to help agencies […] More

  • John Lee: Carahsoft Keeps Eye on FedRAMP Website Redesign
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    John Lee: Carahsoft Keeps Eye on FedRAMP Website Redesign

    John Lee, vice president of cloud solutions at information technology services provider Carahsoft Technology, has noted the redesigned website of the General Services Administration‘s Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. Lee wrote Tuesday on the Carahsoft website that the revamp works to ease cloud vendors and government customers through the FedRAMP process and reflect new information […] More