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  • General Dynamics Provides Ohio County With NextGen-911 Emergency System; Charlie Plummer Comments
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    General Dynamics Provides Ohio County With NextGen-911 Emergency System; Charlie Plummer Comments

    General Dynamics‘ information technology business has provided Ohio’s Morgan County with an IP-based NextGen-911 emergency system to boost communications and information dissemination among first responders. The company said Tuesday NextGen-911, as a replacement to the legacy Enhanced 911 system, uses a geographic information system to locate emergency services callers and can route calls to the corresponding response units. According to Charlie […] More

  • Bechtel-Managed National Laboratories Win 6 R&D 100 Awards; Craig Albert Comments
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    Bechtel-Managed National Laboratories Win 6 R&D 100 Awards; Craig Albert Comments

    Bechtel‘s research partners from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory have received multiple 2014 R&D 100 Awards from R&D Magazine for their national security, energy and health technology inventions. The awards recognize the year’s top 100 scientific and engineering technology products or inventions that also have commercial potential, Bechtel said Wednesday. “The work of these […] More

  • Jane Sherburne Joins Teledyne Board of Directors; Robert Mehrabian Comments
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    Jane Sherburne Joins Teledyne Board of Directors; Robert Mehrabian Comments

    Jane Sherburne, formerly senior executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary of The Bank of New York Mellon, will join Teledyne Technologies’ board of directors. Teledyne will have 11 board members upon the addition of Sherburne on Aug. 1, the company said Wednesday. “She has extensive experience with compliance programs, corporate governance matters, merger […] More

  • Northrop to Provide Engineering Support for Navy Combat System Upgrade; Mike Barrett Comments
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    Northrop to Provide Engineering Support for Navy Combat System Upgrade; Mike Barrett Comments

    Northrop Grumman has received a $12 million task order from the U.S. Navy to support the Combat Direction Systems Activity at Dam Neck in upgrading the Ship Self-Defense System Mark 2 combat system. The company said Tuesday it will develop new hardware prototypes to replace old components and provide systems engineering and integration as well as lifecycle engineering services. […] More

  • Scott Smith: Iridium to Begin High-Volume Production of NEXT Antennas
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    Scott Smith: Iridium to Begin High-Volume Production of NEXT Antennas

    Iridium Communications is set to produce antennas for the NEXT constellation in large volumes following completion of the first five flight main mission antennas. Thales Alenia Space built the antennas to handle the transmission of data between Iridium customer devices, Iridium Communications said Monday. “The main mission antennas are a critical component of each satellite, and […] More

  • Denmark Receives Bids From Lockheed, Boeing and Airbus for Fighter Jet Tender
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    Denmark Receives Bids From Lockheed, Boeing and Airbus for Fighter Jet Tender

    Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Airbus are bidding on a tender offer worth an estimated $5.5 billion to provide Denmark’s military with as many as 30 fighter jets, Reuters reported Monday. Teis Jensen and Ole Mikkelsen report that Danish officials will deliberate on the bids ahead of the award in mid-2015. The report said Saab was also qualified to bid on the […] More

  • CCSi Receives VA Contract to Allow Rural-area Veteran Access to Benefit Systems
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    CCSi Receives VA Contract to Allow Rural-area Veteran Access to Benefit Systems

    Creative Computing Solutions Inc., today announced it has been awarded a contract to support the Department of Veterans Affairs through the delivery of services to various offices across the nation. This task order is just one more award that CCSi has received under the VA’s Transformation Twenty-one Total Technology (T4) contract. “Veterans living in rural […] More

  • In-Q-Tel Invests in Expect Labs’ Platform for Voice-Enabled Apps
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    In-Q-Tel Invests in Expect Labs’ Platform for Voice-Enabled Apps

    In-Q-Tel has invested in and signed a technology development deal with Expect Labs to build voice-enabled applications for government using the latter’s MindMeld API developer platform, GCN reported Monday. The report said MindMeld API provides developers a platform to build voice-enabled interfaces for apps, devices or websites as well as includes indexing and contextual analysis capabilities. George Hoyem, an investments partner at In-Q-Tel, […] More

  • Dave Prater: Exelis Wins Saudi Air Traffic Tech Contract, Extends Footprint in the Region
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    Dave Prater: Exelis Wins Saudi Air Traffic Tech Contract, Extends Footprint in the Region

    Exelis has won a foreign military sales contract worth at least $9 million to provide the Saudi Arabian National Guard with ground control approach radar for military air traffic management operations. The company said Monday it will supply SANG with the GCA-2020 radar as part of the contract awarded through the U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center. According […] More

  • John Kennedy Joins Xerox as CMO, Corporate VP; Hervé Tessler Comments
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    John Kennedy Joins Xerox as CMO, Corporate VP; Hervé Tessler Comments

    John Kennedy, formerly vice president of global business services at IBM, has joined Xerox Corp. as chief marketing officer and corporate VP. He most recently led IBM’s marketing and demand generation within the company’s business services division, Xerox said Monday. “John brings a global view and a proven track record of success changing brand perception […] More

  • Chip Mallare Joins Parsons as VP, Senior Program Director; Todd Wager Comments
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    Chip Mallare Joins Parsons as VP, Senior Program Director; Todd Wager Comments

    Chip Mallare, a 20-year engineering design and program management veteran, has joined Parsons as vice president and senior program director at the company’s bridge and tunnel division. Mallare, who previously handled Bay Area Rapid Transit projects, will be responsible for Parsons’ bridge and tunnel projects in the western U.S., the company said Monday. “We are […] More

  • Frances West Named IBM’s First Chief Accessibility Officer
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    Frances West Named IBM’s First Chief Accessibility Officer

    Frances West, currently head of IBM‘s Human Ability and Accessibility Center, has been appointed as the company’s first-ever chief accessibility officer. West will lead IBM’s collaborative efforts with government, business and academic organizations to support inclusive technology policies and standards in her new position, IBM said Tuesday. “We believe that technology can bridge individual differences, […] More