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  • Cobham Launches UHF Antenna for White Space Frequency
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    Cobham Launches UHF Antenna for White Space Frequency

    Cobham Antenna Systems’ microwave antennas unit has launched a dual-polar ,ultra-high-frequency antenna that is built to cover the white space frequency band for antenna operators and installers. The SA11-90-0.6VH/2178 wideband antenna covers the 470 megahertz-to-700 megahertz frequency range that was freed up after some analog television transmissions discontinued, Cobham said Thursday. The antennas are built […] More

  • Siemens Unveils New Healthcare Mgmt Platform Offering; John Glaser Comments
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    Siemens Unveils New Healthcare Mgmt Platform Offering; John Glaser Comments

    Siemens’ healthcare business unit has introduced a new healthcare management platform offering that is intended to help providers fulfill new care and payment requirements of different service models. The CareXcell system contains new technologies designed to help providers manage patient care and monitor risks through an open communication and data sharing platform, Siemens said Thursday. […] More

  • Conway Jones Named Alameda County Veterans Affairs Chairman
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    Conway Jones Named Alameda County Veterans Affairs Chairman

    Conway Jones Jr., a board member at Concurrent Technologies Corp., has been elected chairman of Alameda County, Calif.’s Veterans Affairs Commission. Jones will run the commission that assists and advise the county’s board of supervisors on needs and issues facing the veterans community, CTC announced Feb. 14. The board plans to build a new $210 million […] More

  • Raytheon’s Rebecca Rhoads Inducted Into Cal Poly’s Engineering Hall of Fame
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    Raytheon’s Rebecca Rhoads Inducted Into Cal Poly’s Engineering Hall of Fame

    Rebecca Rhoads, chief information officer and president of the global business services of Raytheon Co., has been inducted into the California State Polytechnic at Pomona, College of Engineering 2014 Hall of Fame. Rhoads was honored Thursday at the university’s National Engineers Week’s Girl Day celebration, Raytheon said Thursday. “If my example and this honor serve for anything, it […] More

  • Steve Gaffney: DynCorp’s ‘Red Shirt Friday’ Program Raises Money for Troops
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    Steve Gaffney: DynCorp’s ‘Red Shirt Friday’ Program Raises Money for Troops

    DynCorp International raised more than $12,700 in 2013 for the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors program by having company employees where red shirts every Friday. TAPS receives a $10 donation for each red polo shirt embroidered with the words “Support the troops- Red Shirt Fridays,” DynCorp said Wednesday. “The Red Shirt Friday campaign has been a great way for […] More

  • Deloitte, Xtec to Continue Biometric ID Work for DHS
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    Deloitte, Xtec to Continue Biometric ID Work for DHS

    Deloitte and software firm XTec have been awarded contract extensions for an undisclosed amount to continue providing biometric and credentialing tools to the Department of Homeland Security, Nextgov reported Wednesday. Aliya Sternstein writes the two companies were given another 12 months to help oversee the agency’s smart ID card program. The Deloitte task order includes […] More

  • Brad Antle: Salient’s EEOC Cloud Project to Include Open Source, Virtualization Tech
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    Brad Antle: Salient’s EEOC Cloud Project to Include Open Source, Virtualization Tech

    Salient Federal Solutions will host the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission‘s data center operations in a cloud computing environment under a potential five-year, $4 million contract. The company will use a managed services environment to host the commission’s telecommunications and e-government applications, as well as help migrate and integrate the EEOC’s systems into a cloud platform, Salient […] More

  • Unisys’s Darren McGrath Suggests ‘Holistic’ Approach to Mobile Strategies
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    Unisys’s Darren McGrath Suggests ‘Holistic’ Approach to Mobile Strategies

    Darren McGrath of Unisys said a new study suggests that companies with a “holistic” approach to their mobile strategy may have a greater chance of reaping its advantages to the fullest, Mobility Techzone reported Feb. 13. Joe Rizzo quoted McGrath, global director of mobility solutions at Unisys, as saying this “concerted” effort would demand participation […] More

  • David Zolet: CSC to Open Tech Center at Cyber Research Facility
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    David Zolet: CSC to Open Tech Center at Cyber Research Facility

    Computer Sciences Corp. plans to establish a technology center at a Bossier, La.-based cyber research facility, where the company intends to make available 800 jobs in four years. CSC selected the 3,000-acre National Cyber Research Park being developed by the Cyber Innovation Center in Bossier City for its planned 116,000-square-foot technology hub under a public-private […] More

  • General Atomics Affiliate Opens Robins AFB Office; Billy Gililland Comments
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    General Atomics Affiliate Opens Robins AFB Office; Billy Gililland Comments

    General Atomics systems integration has opened a program office in Warner Robins, Ga., to meet the needs of its Robins Air Force Base clients, the company said Wednesday. The General Atomics affiliated company delivers aeronautical engineering and maintenance services to clients such as the system program offices for the F-15,  C-130  and other aircraft. “GA-SI’s […] More

  • Mary Ann Hopkins: Parsons Team Worked to Help Destroy Libya’s Chemical Weapons
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    Mary Ann Hopkins: Parsons Team Worked to Help Destroy Libya’s Chemical Weapons

    Parsons worked with UXB International and Dynasafe International under a U.S. government program to help secure then destroy chemical weapons in Libya, as a prime contractor in the Cooperative Threat Reduction Integrating Contract II. The Nunn-Lugar CTR Program was funded by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency and tasked Parsons with securing the weapons storage facility and destruction area, […] More