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  • Brian Clark: NCI Open to Cyber, Health IT Acquisitions
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    Brian Clark: NCI Open to Cyber, Health IT Acquisitions

    NCI President Brian Clark told analysts Wednesday the company could look to purchase companies with cybersecurity and health information technology offerings, the Washington Post reported Friday. “I’m hopeful that we’ll be able to complete a deal this year and accelerate our top line as we head into 2015,” Clark said at a conference call Wednesday, […] More

  • Airbus, A*STAR Form Data Analytics Team; Axel Krein Comments
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    Airbus, A*STAR Form Data Analytics Team; Axel Krein Comments

    Airbus and a Singapore-based research agency have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore areas of mutual interest such as data analytics.  The partnership with Singapore’s agency for science, technology and research is intended to help customers manage fuel efficiency through new methods of operational data analysis, Airbus said Feb. 10. Asia-Pacific region business accounts […] More

  • Army Exercises One-Year Leidos Training, Simulation Contract Option
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    Army Exercises One-Year Leidos Training, Simulation Contract Option

    Leidos has been awarded a one-year, $11 million option under a contract with the U.S. Army to develop live virtual and constructive training environments. The company said Monday it will continue supporting the Army’s SE Core Common Virtual Environment Management program with terrain databases, as well as cultural and moving models for operational training. SE Core CVEM works […] More

  • General Dynamics Subsidiary, L-3, Navantia to Collaborate on Coast Guard Cutter Vessel Design
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    General Dynamics Subsidiary, L-3, Navantia to Collaborate on Coast Guard Cutter Vessel Design

    General Dynamics‘ Bath Iron Works subsidiary will work with L-3 Communications and Spain-based shipbuilder Navantia to create a preliminary design for the Coast Guard’s future Offshore Patrol Cutter vessel. The Coast Guard will select a competing team after the 18-month first phase to develop a detail design and build between nine and 11 ships for the planned 25-ship […] More

  • Philips to Support Telemonitoring Clinical Program; Brian Rosenfeld Comments
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    Philips to Support Telemonitoring Clinical Program; Brian Rosenfeld Comments

    Philips has been chosen to support Partners HealthCare At Home in providing telemonitoring services for patients with chronic illnesses and those who are newly discharged, the companies said Wednesday. The telemonitoring program is intended to remotely track a patient’s health status and alert nursing staff when preemptive medical intervention is needed to avoid hospital readmission for the […] More

  • Brazil’s National Police Dept Deploys Teradata Data Analytics Platform
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    Brazil’s National Police Dept Deploys Teradata Data Analytics Platform

    Teradata has worked with Brazil’s national police agency to deploy a new analytics platform for border security operations. The platform is based on the Teradata Active Enterprise Data Warehouse tool and the agency aims to use the platform to manage traffic on federal highways, the company announced Monday. Brazil President Dilma Rousseff has made it a […] More

  • Singapore Buys Raytheon-Thales JV Digital Radar System
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    Singapore Buys Raytheon-Thales JV Digital Radar System

    Thales Raytheon Systems has sold a set of GroundMaster 200 radars to Singapore, adding to that country’s land-based air defense systems highlighted at the Singapore Air zdhow, AINonline reported Friday. Chris Pocock writes the Raytheon-Thales Group joint venture designed the 3D digital radar system to transmit signals in the S-band for target detection at any altitude. […] More

  • Raytheon Celebrates National Engineers Week with Student Focus; William Swanson Comments
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    Raytheon Celebrates National Engineers Week with Student Focus; William Swanson Comments

    Raytheon Co. is celebrating National Engineers Week with a line-up of programs geared towards helping students enjoy science, technology, engineering and math. The programs for the week support the company’s MathMovesU education program for students and faculty members across the country, Raytheon announced Monday. Some of the programs include live events and hands-on engineering activities […] More

  • Thales to Supply French Navy With 2 Identification Systems
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    Thales to Supply French Navy With 2 Identification Systems

    Thales has been awarded a contract to provide the French Navy‘s Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier with two latest-generation identification friend or foe systems. Under the contract awarded by the French Defence Procurement Agency, Thales will install its BlueGate IG Systems to provide the French carriers with effective Mode 5 and Mode S capabilities, Thales […] More

  • Rep. Derek Kilmer, Wash. State Org to Host GovCon Workshop
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    Rep. Derek Kilmer, Wash. State Org to Host GovCon Workshop

    Rep. Derek Kilmer and the Washington State Procurement Technical Assistance Center will host a workshop Feb. 24 to discuss federal government contracting practices with state businesses and organizations. Jerome Punderson, Naval Sea Systems Command director of contracts, will serve as the keynote speaker for the event in the Carwein Auditorium at the University of Washington-Tacoma’s Keystone Building, […] More

  • Patrick McBride Named iSIGHT Marketing, Communications VP
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    Patrick McBride Named iSIGHT Marketing, Communications VP

    Patrick McBride, a former co-founder and CEO of META Security Group, has been appointed to serve as vice president of marketing and communications at iSIGHT Partners. McBride will be responsible for working to grow the company’s standing in the global threat intelligence market and expand the sales pipeline, iSIGHT announced Monday. “The next generation of […] More

  • Tony Cole on FireEye’s Mandiant Acquisition, Nature of Cyber Threats
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    Tony Cole on FireEye’s Mandiant Acquisition, Nature of Cyber Threats

    Tony Cole serves as vice president and global government chief technology officer at FireEye, where he works with public sector agencies and other systems integrators to gain knowledge of the global cyber threat landscape and adapt enterprise approaches to address the threats. The former U.S. Army officer and Symantec business development leader addresses security conferences […] More