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  • Joe Brock: Pragmatics Continues R&D Support for Special Operations Forces
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    Joe Brock: Pragmatics Continues R&D Support for Special Operations Forces

    Pragmatics has received a more than $10 million task order to provide support services for the Special Operations Forces’ intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations. The company will work to develop, integrate, operate and maintain activities to support SOF’s program for critical functionality, Pragmatics said Wednesday. “We will develop and manage the technologies needed to meet DCGS-SOF’s evolving […] More

  • Laurent Collet-Billon Joins Thales Board of Directors
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    Laurent Collet-Billon Joins Thales Board of Directors

    Laurent Collet-Billon, a former executive at France’s defense procurement agency and representative of the state’s golden share in Thales, has been elected into the company’s board of directors following Bruno Parent’s resignation as board member. The company said Wednesday Bertrand Le Meur, a general armaments engineer, will replace replace Collet-Billon as the French state’s representative. Collet-Billon will serve as board member until Thales’ […] More

  • Francesco Cordua Joins RTKL as Commercial Practice VP; Lance Josal Comments
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    Francesco Cordua Joins RTKL as Commercial Practice VP; Lance Josal Comments

    Francesco Cordua has been appointed vice president of the commercial practice at RTKL, where he will oversee the group’s retail and interior brand strategy and manage The Environments Studio at the company’s Washingto office. “[Francesco] understands the process behind good design and knows how to translate these concepts to meet client objectives,” Katie Sprague, an RTKL senior vice president, said […] More

  • Mary Henry to Become Independent Director on Avaya’s Board; Kevin J. Kennedy Comments
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    Mary Henry to Become Independent Director on Avaya’s Board; Kevin J. Kennedy Comments

    Mary Henry, formerly partner and managing director at Goldman Sachs, will become an independent director of Avaya’s board of directors. Henry also serves as a director of personal business analytics provider FirstRain and Avida Labs, which provides services for cancer patients, Avaya said Thursday. “Her expertise and perspective will be a tremendous asset to the […] More

  • Jim Sponnick: ULA’s Delta 2 Rocket Completes 51st NASA Space Launch Mission
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    Jim Sponnick: ULA’s Delta 2 Rocket Completes 51st NASA Space Launch Mission

    The Delta 2 rocket built by United Launch Alliance has carried a NASA carbon-monitoring satellite into space Wednesday, marking the rocket’s 51st launch mission for the space agency. “It is our honor to launch this important mission that will gather the scientific data to better understand planet earth,” Jim Sponnick, ULA vice president for Atlas […] More

  • Manish Gupta: FireEye Combines Threat Detection Offering with Email Security Tools
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    Manish Gupta: FireEye Combines Threat Detection Offering with Email Security Tools

    FireEye has moved to expand its threat detection capabilities by incorporating traditional email security features into the company’s offering. The FireEye Email Threat Prevention Cloud tool has been updated with anti-spam and anti-virus protection systems, FireEye said Tuesday. “By unifying our advanced threat detection capabilities with the traditional email security tools enterprises have relied on, organizations can now […] More

  • Miguel Santos: Boeing Eyes South Africa for A&D Business Expansion
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    Miguel Santos: Boeing Eyes South Africa for A&D Business Expansion

    Boeing plans to bolster its footprint in the South African market by investing in areas such as flight training, aircraft parts manufacturing and biofuel production, defenceWeb reported Wednesday. “We want to further our presence in South Africa in a variety of ways: manufacturing, pilot training, defense, commercial,” said Miguel Santos, vice president for Boeing’s African […] More

  • Mike Miller: Orbital Sciences-Built Satellite Begins CO2 Research Mission
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    Mike Miller: Orbital Sciences-Built Satellite Begins CO2 Research Mission

    Orbital Sciences and NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have commenced in-orbit testing for a satellite the company built to monitor atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide. The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 spacecraft has reached its target orbit nearly an hour after it lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base aboard a Delta II rocket Wednesday morning, Orbital said […] More

  • Autonomic Resources Unveils Gov’t IT Continuous Monitoring Service
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    Autonomic Resources Unveils Gov’t IT Continuous Monitoring Service

    Autonomic Resources has launched a continuous monitoring program with the goal of helping cloud service providers and government customers meet federal security requirements. The ARC-P CM service offering is designed to help agencies monitor system vulnerabilities, manage compliance and develop incident response strategies, Autonomic Resources said Tuesday. Other services include security awareness training, attestation reports […] More

  • AMA to Continue NASA Engineering Support Under $50M Contract Option
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    AMA to Continue NASA Engineering Support Under $50M Contract Option

    Analytical Mechanics Associates will extend its engineering support for NASA‘s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia under the company’s third option in its contract with the space agency. The contract option has a one-year period of performance beginning Oct. 1 and is valued at around $50 million, NASA said Monday. The full indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract is worth up to $341.3 million and covers scientific research; […] More

  • Gene Colabatistto: CAE Boosts Training Portfolio With 4 New Int’l Contracts
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    Gene Colabatistto: CAE Boosts Training Portfolio With 4 New Int’l Contracts

    CAE has secured four training systems contracts totaling $103.3 million from global defense clients, as group president for defense and security Gene Colabatistto reiterates the company’s focus on its integrated training solutions portfolio. The company said Wednesday its new contracts are to provide or upgrade training and visual systems for the New Zealand, German and Iraqi air force, as well […] More

  • IBM Unveils Big Data Service; Doug Hunt Comments
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    IBM Unveils Big Data Service; Doug Hunt Comments

    IBM Corp. has introduced a new big data service offering on its cloud marketplace in an effort to help customers manage enterprise-wide business content. Clients are able to gain access to business content using browser, desktop and mobile platforms in a synchronized and secure environment through the big data service on the IBM Cloud marketplace, […] More