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  • Marillyn Hewson: Lockheed Eyes 20% Mark for Int’l Sales
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    Marillyn Hewson: Lockheed Eyes 20% Mark for Int’l Sales

    Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson has described her company’s investments in emerging products and technologies that aim to help clients address affordability requirements in an interview with Defense News published Sunday. She also outlined Lockheed’s push to expand its business worldwide in the Q&A with Defense News Editor Vago Muradian. “We are driving to grow our international business. It is now 18 percent of our […] More

  • NCI Lands Army IT Support Contract Extension
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    NCI Lands Army IT Support Contract Extension

    NCI Inc. has won a $5.2 million task order to provide quality control and engineering services for a range of U.S. Army information technology systems globally. The company will also continue to support IT projects of the Army’s  Information Systems Engineering Command at military installations in the U.S., Europe and the Pacific, NCI said Tuesday. […] More

  • Scott Fuselier: General Dynamics Fidelis-CrowdStrike Team to Offer Clients Threat Intell
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    Scott Fuselier: General Dynamics Fidelis-CrowdStrike Team to Offer Clients Threat Intell

    General Dynamics Fidelis Cybersecurity Solutions will collaborate with CrowdStrike to offer Fidelis XPS customers access to threat intelligence that support measures to remediate, prevent, detect and attribute cyber attacks. CrowdStrike Intelligence Exchange will automatically send customers information on threat actors, such as behavioral patterns and common targets, for application onto historical and current network traffic, General Dynamics said Tuesday. “We […] More

  • Ball Aerospace, DigitalGlobe, Exelis, Lockheed Prep WorldView-3 Satellite for Launch
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    Ball Aerospace, DigitalGlobe, Exelis, Lockheed Prep WorldView-3 Satellite for Launch

    A commercial launch services team of Ball Aerospace & Technologies, DigitalGlobe, Exelis and Lockheed Martin has completed payload fairing assembly work on the WorldView-3 remote sensing satellite ahead of its scheduled launch next week. Ball said Tuesday the DigitalGlobe Earth observation satellite will launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base via the Atlas V launch vehicle to provide high-resolution satellite imagery and geospatial data for […] More

  • Chris Green: BAE Helps Clients Counter Money Laundering with Updated Offering
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    Chris Green: BAE Helps Clients Counter Money Laundering with Updated Offering

    BAE Systems’ applied intelligence division has updated its anti-money laundering suite in an effort to help customers comply with evolving regulations. The NetReveal anti-money laundering suite of products features modules to detect, prevent, probe and disclose money-laundering incidents, BAE Systems said Tuesday. Chris Green, managing director of financial crime at BAE Systems Applied Intelligence, said […] More

  • Jun Choi: Northrop, Infor Partner to Deliver Enterprise Apps in Federal Sector
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    Jun Choi: Northrop, Infor Partner to Deliver Enterprise Apps in Federal Sector

    Northrop Grumman and enterprise software company Infor have forged an alliance to help U.S. government customers implement and operate applications for managing organizational functions. Infor said Tuesday that Northrop will provide deployment and management services for public agencies that will acquire Infor software offerings through the partnership. Jun Choi, Northrop director for enterprise business solutions, […] More

  • John Filippe Joins Cherokee Nation Businesses as IT VP, Todd Gourd Named CIO
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    John Filippe Joins Cherokee Nation Businesses as IT VP, Todd Gourd Named CIO

    John Filippe, a U.S. Navy veteran and information technology professional, has joined Cherokee Nation Businesses as IT vice president for gaming and hospitality. Filippe holds 17 years of experience within the gaming industry and has worked with U.S. tribal organizations to integrate IT systems as well as establish network connectivity, CBN announced July 23. He […] More

  • Margaret Johnson Named Microsoft Business Development EVP; Satya Nadella Comments
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    Margaret Johnson Named Microsoft Business Development EVP; Satya Nadella Comments

    Margaret Johnson, formerly executive vice president and global market development head at Qualcomm, has joined Microsoft as business development EVP for the software giant. She will report directly to CEO Satya Nadella and be responsible for helping to drive new business and partnership deals across different sectors, Microsoft said Tuesday. “Peggy shares our worldview and […] More

  • Brian Anderson: Johns Hopkins APL Eyes Second-Phase of Observation Mission
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    Brian Anderson: Johns Hopkins APL Eyes Second-Phase of Observation Mission

    Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory looks to receive a National Science Foundation grant to continue its observation missions using an Iridium satellite constellation, SpaceNews reported Monday. Dan Leone writes Johns Hopkins APL is eyeing the 66-satellite Next constellation Iridium plans to launch between 2015 and 2017 under the second phase of APL’s Active Magnetosphere […] More

  • Verizon’s Mark Bartolomeo: ‘Internet of Things’ Must Center on Network Security
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    Verizon’s Mark Bartolomeo: ‘Internet of Things’ Must Center on Network Security

    Mark Bartolomeo, head of connected solutions at Verizon Enterprise Solutions, has urged industry to focus on building a network that utilizes cybersecurity measures and greater cloud capacity in a shift toward the “Internet of Things.” Marie McGehee, the company’s director of corporate communications, wrote Monday that industry usually looks at the future connected machines and devices instead of the network connecting […] More

  • Serco to Help SPAWAR Maintain Mine-Resistant Vehicles
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    Serco to Help SPAWAR Maintain Mine-Resistant Vehicles

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Serco -Inc. a one-year, $9 million contract to provide integration and maintenance services for the military’s fleet of mine-resistant ambush protected vehicles. Serco will work with the Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Command to maintain command, control, communications, computers and intelligence systems on the armored fighting vehicles, Serco said Tuesday. The […] More

  • EMCOR Subsidiary to Help Maintain 340 CBP Arizona, Texas Facilities; Mike Rodgers Comments
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    EMCOR Subsidiary to Help Maintain 340 CBP Arizona, Texas Facilities; Mike Rodgers Comments

    A subsidiary of EMCOR Group has won two contracts to provide repair and preventive maintenance services for U.S. Customs and Border Protection facilities systems in Arizona and the Texas Gulf Coast. “The services EMCOR Government Services will provide CBP at its 340 sites across the Arizona and the Texas Gulf Coast Regions are integral in supporting its critical mission,” Mike Rodgers, president […] More