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  • IBM Launches Analytics Platform for Energy & Utility Sector; Brad Gammons Comments
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    IBM Launches Analytics Platform for Energy & Utility Sector; Brad Gammons Comments

    IBM has unveiled its new cloud-based analytics offering for the energy and utility sector that works to facilitate situational awareness and data-driven decision-making for managing the energy generation-to-distribution process. The company said Tuesday the IBM Insights Foundation for Energy platform combines data integration, visualization and analytics software to deliver insights on asset performance. “Utilities need flexible and comprehensive […] More

  • Northrop Gets Additional Order for Naval Aircraft Laser Mine Detectors
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    Northrop Gets Additional Order for Naval Aircraft Laser Mine Detectors

    Northrop Grumman has been awarded a contract of an undisclosed value to produce five more AN/AES-1 Airborne Laser Mine Detection Systems for installation on the U.S. Navy‘s MH-60 helicopters. The company said Monday it will also provide subsystems, equipment and spares and technical support for the ALMDS mine countermeasure pods. AN/AES-1 systems are designed with pulsed […] More

  • Ambit Group to Support DHS IT Investment Mgmt for $28M
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    Ambit Group to Support DHS IT Investment Mgmt for $28M

    The Ambit Group has received three task orders worth an estimated $28 million to provide program and project management services to several agencies within the Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Today reported Monday. DHS awarded the task orders via the Enterprise Acquisition Gateway for Leading-Edge Solutions II contract vehicle to facilitate efficiencies in information technology investments, the report said. […] More

  • Darrell Pope Named Dynamic Aviation Flight Operations VP
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    Darrell Pope Named Dynamic Aviation Flight Operations VP

    Darrell Pope has been named vice president of flight operations for Dynamic Aviation. He most recently served at Dynamic Aviation as director of ISR flight operations and previously as ISR flight operations manager, Dynamic Aviation said Tuesday. Pope began his aviation career with the U.S. Army, where he flew rotary and fixed-wing aircraft for 28 […] More

  • Kelly Collins, Dan Dzenitis Take Public Sector Leadership Roles at Digital Reasoning
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    Kelly Collins, Dan Dzenitis Take Public Sector Leadership Roles at Digital Reasoning

    Kelly Collins, a more than 30-year enterprise technology professional, has joined Digital Reasoning as president of the cognitive computing firm’s public sector business. Digital Reasoning also named two-decade U.S. Navy veteran Dan Dzenitis a sector vice president for business development, the company said Tuesday. Collins will oversee the organization’s customer services and strategic partnerships across […] More

  • Lockheed Orders Northrop Beam Radars for Taiwan’s F-16s; Jeff Leavitt Comments
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    Lockheed Orders Northrop Beam Radars for Taiwan’s F-16s; Jeff Leavitt Comments

    Lockheed Martin has ordered radar systems from Northrop Grumman for Lockheed’s project to upgrade Taiwan’s fleet of F-16 fighter jets. Northrop is scheduled to deliver the first lot of 142 APG-83 beam radars to Lockheed in 2016, Northrop said Monday. The fire control radar is designed to provide air-to-air and air-to-ground radar functions to F-16 planes. Jeff […] More

  • DRS Launches New Product Accreditation Program; Todd Brown Comments
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    DRS Launches New Product Accreditation Program; Todd Brown Comments

    DRS Technologies has unveiled a new product accreditation program in an effort to highlight the original equipment manufacturers’ products that incorporate DRS’ thermal imaging technologies. The Powered by DRS Technologies accreditation is open to OEMs that integrate DRS’ Tamarisk thermal imaging camera modules, infrared detectors and thermal systems into their products, DRS said Monday. Todd Brown, senior director for worldwide […] More

  • Mike Jones: Booz Allen Adds Singapore Hub to Address Asia Tech Demand
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    Mike Jones: Booz Allen Adds Singapore Hub to Address Asia Tech Demand

    Booz Allen Hamilton has opened the company’s Southeast Asia operations hub in Singapore as part of efforts to expand its business in the region. Mike Jones, an executive vice president at Booz Allen, said Tuesday the company’s expansion in Singapore is intended to address the region’s demand for new technologies “to improve productivity.” Don Pressley, a […] More

  • Adobe Unveils Cloud Services for Gov’t Clients; John Landwehr Comments
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    Adobe Unveils Cloud Services for Gov’t Clients; John Landwehr Comments

    Adobe has introduced new cloud service offerings for government customers in an effort to help public sector organizations develop and deliver content and websites to citizens. The company unveiled the product at the Adobe digital government assembly, where the company also announced tools and resources designed to complement the offerings, Adobe said Tuesday. John Landwehr, Adobe’s public sector chief […] More

  • Matt McQueen on Northrop’s Gov’t Relations Teamwork With Execs and Stakeholder Definitions
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    Matt McQueen on Northrop’s Gov’t Relations Teamwork With Execs and Stakeholder Definitions

    At Northrop Grumman‘s information systems sector, Matt McQueen acts as its main spokesperson and communications liason to external stakeholders as the sector’s director of strategic and external communications. McQueen’s career at Northrop prior to that role includes nearly a decade as director for the sector’s government and industry relations functions and more recently as the company’s government relations lead for all state […] More

  • Cisco: Mobile Apps Could Help Public Services Reach More People
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    Cisco: Mobile Apps Could Help Public Services Reach More People

    The public sector’s use of mobile applications continues to grow as U.S. and international government units eye increased use of those tools to support citizen services, Jason Deign wrote in a piece published Monday on the Cisco website. Deign writes that mobile apps work to grow service delivery to more citizens and enable “anytime, anywhere” access. “If you think about reaching the […] More