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  • Marine Corps Orders $15M in Harris Falcon III Radios; George Helm Comments
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    Marine Corps Orders $15M in Harris Falcon III Radios; George Helm Comments

    Harris Corp. will provide Falcon III radios and related accessories to the U.S. Marine Corps AN/MRC-145 program under a $15 million contract designed to expand the branch’s communications network capabilities. The Falcon III AN/PRC-117G-based wideband radio systems can be mounted on land transports, have upgradeable software and are integrated with soldier radio waveform technology, Harris […] More

  • Oracle Launches Cloud Tool for Financial Services
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    Oracle Launches Cloud Tool for Financial Services

    Oracle has rolled out a new cloud tool that seeks to address the security needs and other requirements for financial services clients that seek to migrate their information technology systems. “Today’s savvy financial services companies are looking to migrate their applications to the cloud to take advantage of modern technologies, like social and mobile capabilities,” Thomas Kurian, […] More

  • CACI, Appcelerator Form Mobile App Deployment Partnership; John Mengucci Comments
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    CACI, Appcelerator Form Mobile App Deployment Partnership; John Mengucci Comments

    CACI International has formed a cooperative alliance with Appcelerator to offer defense and civilian agencies tools for the development and deployment of mobile applications. CACI said Tuesday the partnership will integrate the Appcelerator Platform with its Code Analysis Tool in an effort to speed the development, tests and updates to applications and automatically identify potential vulnerabilities in the code before deployment. John Mengucci, CACI chief […] More

  • CAE to Distribute VirtaMed’s Surgical Simulators in North America; Robert Amyot Comments
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    CAE to Distribute VirtaMed’s Surgical Simulators in North America; Robert Amyot Comments

    CAE‘s healthcare business has signed a distributor agreement to include VirtaMed‘s interventional surgical simulators in CAE’s portfolio of medical simulation products for healthcare clients in Canada and the U.S. CAE said Friday it will distribute VirtaMed’s arthroscopic, gynecologic and urologic simulators such as ArthroS, HystSim, PelvicSim and UroSim with CAE’s LapVR, EndoVR and CathLabVR. “The orthopedic market is adopting simulation, and we look forward to providing the ArthroS […] More

  • General Dynamics, Rockwell Collins Ship 1,200 Radios to US Army
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    General Dynamics, Rockwell Collins Ship 1,200 Radios to US Army

    General Dynamics and Rockwell Collins have delivered more than 1,200 radios to the U.S. Army for soldiers to share information with their commanders. The AN/PRC-155 radio system is designed to help troops connect with command centers via the Warfighter Information Network – Tactical Increment 2 platform, General Dynamics said Monday. This new batch of radios […] More

  • Deltek: NRC Has Issued $635M in Contracts to IT Vendors Over Past 5 Years
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    Deltek: NRC Has Issued $635M in Contracts to IT Vendors Over Past 5 Years

    Deltek estimates the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has obligated a total of $635 million for information technology contracts from fiscal 2010 to fiscal 2014, the Washington Post reported Sunday. Kathleen Sievers, a senior manager at Deltek, writes NRC reported $107 million in IT contract obligations in FY 2010 and $150 million contract spending last fiscal year. […] More

  • Lockheed Martin, Illumina Form Genomics Service Alliance; Horace Blackman, Jay Flatley Comment
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    Lockheed Martin, Illumina Form Genomics Service Alliance; Horace Blackman, Jay Flatley Comment

    Lockheed Martin and Illumina have partnered to jointly develop genomics services in an effort to deliver personalized healthcare to the public. Lockheed will combine its information systems and integration resources with Illumina’s genetic sequencing tools in the project that aims to help countries consolidate genomics into their national health systems, Lockheed said Monday. “We envision the advantages […] More

  • Jeff Barr: AWS Updates Cloud Portfolio for US Govt Market
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    Jeff Barr: AWS Updates Cloud Portfolio for US Govt Market

    Amazon Web Services has added multiple services to the company’s suite of cloud computing offerings designed to help U.S. government clients manage sensitive data in cloud environments. The AWS GovCloud (US) portfolio now includes the Glacier storage service, CloudTrail log management documentation and VM Import system for virtual machine migration, AWS chief evangelist Jeff Barr […] More

  • Chris Marzilli: General Dynamics Combines Offerings for Navy Missions
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    Chris Marzilli: General Dynamics Combines Offerings for Navy Missions

    General Dynamics’ new mission systems unit showcased its naval portfolio at this year’s Surface Navy Association National Symposium in Arlington, Virginia. Chris Marzilli, president of the unit, said Monday the restructured group aims to strengthen GD’s targeted technology, service and other product offerings for its defense clients. General Dynamics created the mission systems unit through […] More

  • Jacobs Wins USACE Design, Engineering Award for Fort Bragg Training Center
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    Jacobs Wins USACE Design, Engineering Award for Fort Bragg Training Center

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has given its highest design award to Jacobs for the company’s work on the $28 million Mission Training Complex at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Jacobs conceptualized, engineered and oversaw construction of the 137,000-square-foot LEED facility, which received merit and excellence awards in 2013 from the American Institute of Architects, Jacobs said Tuesday. The […] More

  • ASDReports: GEOINT Market to Grow Over 10 Years Beyond C2, Intelligence
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    ASDReports: GEOINT Market to Grow Over 10 Years Beyond C2, Intelligence

    A new ASDReports market forecast indicates that the global geospatial intelligence market will reach a value of $9.7 billion within the next 10 years, C4ISR & Networks reported Wednesday. Michael Peck reports that the study points to growing international capabilities and technology developments in the areas of digital mapping and modeling. Geographic information systems now have applications beyond command-and-control and intelligence […] More

  • Visiongain: Military Land ‘Vetronics’ Market to Stall in 2015, Pick Up After 2017
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    Visiongain: Military Land ‘Vetronics’ Market to Stall in 2015, Pick Up After 2017

    A new report by Visiongain indicates a slowdown in defense spending on military land vehicle electronics over the next year due to the end of ground troop deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq. The market will stall in North America and most of Europe, but Visiongain said Tuesday that modernization programs in Australia and France will help the market reach […] More