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  • Kevin Bell Appointed Northrop’s Corporate Lead Exec in Dayton; Timothy Jones Comments
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    Kevin Bell Appointed Northrop’s Corporate Lead Exec in Dayton; Timothy Jones Comments

    Kevin Bell, a former business development representative and sector lead executive at Northrop Grumman, has been named its corporate lead executive for Dayton, Ohio, including the U.S. Air Force facilities in the region. The company said Monday Bell will report to Timothy Jones, vice president for aviation and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. “[Bell] understands the challenges that our […] More

  • Stephen Pace Joins Raytheon As Cyber Portfolio Sales SVP
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    Stephen Pace Joins Raytheon As Cyber Portfolio Sales SVP

    Stephen Pace, a former sales executive at network security firms Pwnie Express and Core Security, has joined Raytheon as senior vice president of global sales for the firm’s cyber products business. In his new role, he will be responsible for helping the unit develop and implement strategies intended to drive sales of its cybersecurity offerings […] More

  • Bostonia Secures $3M to Fund Expanded Work on GSA Facility; Anita Molino Comments
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    Bostonia Secures $3M to Fund Expanded Work on GSA Facility; Anita Molino Comments

    Bostonia Group has structured an additional $3.25 million in lease-backed secured notes to finance expanded tenant improvement work on a 30,170 sq ft General Services Administration facility in Tamuning, Guam. The company, through Bostonia Partners and Bostonia Global Securities, have structured and placed two previous batches of notes worth $12.5 million issued by developer Micronesia CSL Development […] More

  • Porticor, HP Form Cloud Encryption Partnership; Gilad Parann-Nissany Comments
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    Porticor, HP Form Cloud Encryption Partnership; Gilad Parann-Nissany Comments

    Cloud computing security company Porticor will integrate its encryption technology with the HP Atalla platform as the companies aim to help users securely pass data across public, private or hybrid clouds. Porticor’s data protection technology is built to protect the expanding fan of cloud environments and to combine data encryption with patented encryption and homomorphic management technologies […] More

  • Oracle Unveils New Clinical Research Data Mgmt Platform; Steve Rosenberg Comments
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    Oracle Unveils New Clinical Research Data Mgmt Platform; Steve Rosenberg Comments

    Oracle has released a new data management product that works to help life sciences organizations analyze, process and integrate large volumes of data from clinical trials. The Health Sciences Data Management Workbench platform is built to operate with an Oracle-designed life sciences data hub and automatically gathers multi-source study findings, Oracle said Monday. Steve Rosenberg, […] More

  • Accenture Awarded Contract by DigitalGlobe for App Development, Testing
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    Accenture Awarded Contract by DigitalGlobe for App Development, Testing

    Accenture will provide staffing for application development and testing projects to DigitalGlobe for the latter company’s projects around the world. Application service professionals from Accenture will work with DigitalGlobe and perform services such as writing of application code, Accenture said Monday. “Accenture is making its application services professionals available to DigitalGlobe for a wide variety […] More

  • Microsoft Launches GovCon Alliance; Cornelis Bosch Comments
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    Microsoft Launches GovCon Alliance; Cornelis Bosch Comments

    Microsoft has selected To-Increase to participate in this week’s launch of the Microsoft GovCon Alliance along with other government contracting companies whose offerings support Microsoft Dynamics AX. To-Increase said Monday its has included regulatory compliance management among its construction, manufacturing and professional offerings for government contractors as a member of the alliance. “The business of government contracting is […] More

  • Norway Tests Raytheon Missiles for Military Observers
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    Norway Tests Raytheon Missiles for Military Observers

    Norway’s air force launched four Raytheon-built-air-to-air missiles during a live fire exercise in the Northern part of the country Monday in front of military observers from other countries. All four Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles hit their targets in the sky during the exercise at the Andoya Rocket Range, the company said Monday. Testers fired the […] More

  • Antonio De Palmas: Boeing, Head Italia Partner to Develop Cybersecurity Offerings
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    Antonio De Palmas: Boeing, Head Italia Partner to Develop Cybersecurity Offerings

    Boeing Co. has partnered with Italian military supplier Head Italia to develop cybersecurity tools intended to help customers secure their data and infrastructure. Head Italia’s information technology professionals will work to contribute market insights and forge partnerships with defense and government sector customers in Italy, Boeing said Thursday. Boeing will supply analytics tools, cybersecurity training, […] More

  • Raytheon Test-Fires Precision-Guided Projectile; Michelle Lohmeier Comments
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    Raytheon Test-Fires Precision-Guided Projectile; Michelle Lohmeier Comments

    Raytheon has performed the first live fire test for its precision-guided weapon system. The Excalibur S, built with a laser spot tracker, worked to destroy its target following a GPS-guided target detection and laser-designated direct hit, Raytheon said Sunday. Michelle Lohmeier, vice president of Raytheon Missile Systems’ land warfare systems product line, said the laser-guided Excalibur […] More

  • Raytheon, Thales to Update TOW Weapon System; Michelle Lohmeier Comments
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    Raytheon, Thales to Update TOW Weapon System; Michelle Lohmeier Comments

    Raytheon and Thales have entered into a development and production agreement to update the former’s tube-launched, optically tracked, wireless-guided, anti-armor weapon system, with Thales investing $20.2 million for the endeavor. Raytheon said Monday the collaboration will involve 27 months of design and development work and five years of production for two new missile subassemblies to boost system fuze […] More

  • Canada to Install Lockheed Sensors on Land Vehicles; Dana Rocca Comments
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    Canada to Install Lockheed Sensors on Land Vehicles; Dana Rocca Comments

    The Canadian defense department has purchased eight Lockheed Martin-built Gyrocam sensor systems under a foreign military sales contract with the U.S. Marine Corps, planning to equip vehicles with the technology. Lockheed has received three orders from international customers for the sensors, including one to support Canadian Armed Forces route opening capability teams and another from Selex ES for […] More