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  • Accenture Secures Spot on UK Govt Cloud Services Vehicle; Mark Lyons Comments
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    Accenture Secures Spot on UK Govt Cloud Services Vehicle; Mark Lyons Comments

    Accenture has been included in the U.K. government’s catalog listing of approved vendors for cloud and digital services. Through its spot on the G-Cloud 4 vehicle, Accenture will make its cloud portfolio available through the government-hosted Cloudstore platform and the Digital Services Framework, Accenture said Tuesday. “Through these two vehicles public sector organizations now have much […] More

  • Quantum Obtains Funding for Threat Detection Tech; Mark Tinker Comments
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    Quantum Obtains Funding for Threat Detection Tech; Mark Tinker Comments

    Quantum Technology Sciences has obtained $2.3 million in initial funding from private investors to market a threat detection technology. Quantum’s technology offering is built to identify threats from air, water, land and underground environments and notify security personnel, Quantum said Tuesday. Mark Tinker, Quantum CEO, said the technology is aimed at helping to detect threats and […] More

  • Dell, Three Wire, Sqrrl Team to Build US Govt Cyber Data Platform
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    Dell, Three Wire, Sqrrl Team to Build US Govt Cyber Data Platform

    Dell, Three Wire Systems and enterprise software developer Sqrrl have forged an alliance with the goal of delivering a big data management platform for U.S. government cyber operators. The companies seek to offer federal customers a technology for managing emails, system configurations, audits, intelligence feeds, networks and social collaborations across an enterprise, Three Wire says. […] More

  • Jacobs to Provide Delaware DOT with Support Services; Kevin McMahon Comments
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    Jacobs to Provide Delaware DOT with Support Services; Kevin McMahon Comments

    Jacobs Engineering Group has received a contract for an undisclosed amount from the Delaware Department of Transportation for various system support work, Jacobs said Tuesday. Jacobs will help plan event and incident management as well as conduct homeland security inspections, evaluations and reviews of current infrastructure. “We are very pleased to receive this award from the Delaware […] More

  • Exelis Delivers Image Payload for U.S. Weather Satellite; Eric Webster Comments
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    Exelis Delivers Image Payload for U.S. Weather Satellite; Eric Webster Comments

    Exelis has delivered the first of four meteorological payloads for a future U.S. weather satellite of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, moving the program forward toward the planned satellite launch in 2016, Exelis said Tuesday Eric Webster, Exelis Geospatial Systems vice president for weather systems, said, “Delivery . . . is an important milestone because it […] More

  • Elbit Systems to Maintain Simulators for Israel’s Army
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    Elbit Systems to Maintain Simulators for Israel’s Army

    Elbit Systems will maintain and operate simulators for Israel’s defense ministry under a five-year, $23 million contract. The contract covers work on fixed and mobile ground simulators used by the country’s army, Elbit said Wednesday. Israel uses the simulators to train forces on using armored combat vehicles, tanks and on carrying out other types of military […] More

  • IHS Jane’s Forecasts Rise in Defense Spending; Paul Burton Comments
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    IHS Jane’s Forecasts Rise in Defense Spending; Paul Burton Comments

    IHS Jane’s is projecting a 0.6 percent rise in military budgets worldwide during 2014, Agence France-Presse reported Tuesday. The annual defense budgets review attributed that growth to the increase in demands for arms in Asia, the Middle East and Russia, according to the report. “We have seen substantial increases in defense spending from countries like […] More

  • Airbus Group, EOS Jointly Develop Aircraft Production Tech Benchmark; Jon Meyer Comments
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    Airbus Group, EOS Jointly Develop Aircraft Production Tech Benchmark; Jon Meyer Comments

    Airbus Group Innovations and EOS have partnered to assess and compare environmental lifecycles of two aircraft production technologies. The team applied the rapid investment casting and direct metal laser sintering processes to an Airbus A320 nacelle hinge bracket for overall lifecycle benchmarking, EOS said Tuesday. Jon Meyer, additive layer manufacturing research team lead at EOS, […] More

  • Battelle to Help CDC Maintain Biological Specimens; Sudip Parikh Comments
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    Battelle to Help CDC Maintain Biological Specimens; Sudip Parikh Comments

    Battelle has been awarded a five-year, $12.6 million contract to help run a national repository of human biological samples for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The nonprofit research firm will help CDC maintain blood, tissue, urine and genomic specimens that are stored inside large metal vats at the agency’s CASPIR biostorage facility in […] More

  • Brent Shafer Named Philips North America CEO; Frans van Houten Comments
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    Brent Shafer Named Philips North America CEO; Frans van Houten Comments

    Brent Shafer has been tapped to serve as the next chief executive officer of Philips North America where he will be responsible for the company’s operations in the healthcare, consumer lifestyle and lighting markets. Shafer succeeds Greg Sebasky who retired Feb. 3 and will report directly to Frans van Houten, Royal Philips CEO, the company […] More

  • Michael Wilmer Appointed Thacher Associates COO
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    Michael Wilmer Appointed Thacher Associates COO

    Michael Wilmer, a defense sector veteran formerly employed by Booz Allen Hamilton, has been named chief operating officer at enterprise integrity monitoring company Thacher Associates LLC. He brings more than three decades of leadership experience to his new position and will aim to help the organization grow and implement compliance programs for corporate clients, Thacher […] More

  • Barry Salzberg, Deloitte Chief, Joins New Profit Inc.’s Board
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    Barry Salzberg, Deloitte Chief, Joins New Profit Inc.’s Board

    Barry Salzberg, CEO of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd., has joined the board of directors of venture philanthropy and social innovation organization New Profit Inc. Salzberg will support New Profit’s growth strategy and work to help develop new approaches for driving social change such as finding financing vehicles and public-private partnerships, New Profit announced Tuesday. He said that New […] More