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  • CACI Wins Spot on Army’s $497M Communications, Network Contract; John Mengucci Comments
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    CACI Wins Spot on Army’s $497M Communications, Network Contract; John Mengucci Comments

    CACI International has won prime position on a $497 million U.S. Army multiple-award contract for communications and networking services. The service’s Communications-Electronic Research, Development and Engineering Center awarded the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a three-year base period and two option years in the second quarter of its fiscal year 2014, the company said Monday. “This new work in communications […] More

  • Former Astronaut Jim Halsell to Speak to University of Florida Students about Dynetics and Space
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    Former Astronaut Jim Halsell to Speak to University of Florida Students about Dynetics and Space

    Jim Halsell, Dynetics technical director for advanced space launch systems, will speak at the University of Florida on Wednesday to discuss various topics related to space exploration and engineering. Halsell, a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force colonel, will also talk about his role at Dynetics, the company said Friday. The event will be […] More

  • DynCorp Picks 26 Employees for Chairman’s Valor Award; Steve Gaffney Comments
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    DynCorp Picks 26 Employees for Chairman’s Valor Award; Steve Gaffney Comments

    DynCorp International has selected 26 of its employees working on the Afghanistan Ministry of Defense Program to receive the Chairman’s Valor, the highest award the company gives its personnel. The employees were commended for their work during a terrorist attack on Camp Pinnacle in Afghanistan on July 2, 2013, the company said Monday. “Each day, DynCorp […] More

  • Leidos Agrees to D.C. United Sponsorship Deal; John Jumper Comments
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    Leidos Agrees to D.C. United Sponsorship Deal; John Jumper Comments

    Leidos, a spinoff from SAIC, has signed a multi-year agreement with D.C. United to serve as the team’s presenting partner and official sponsor. Under the agreement, the logo of the security, health and engineering solutions company will be displayed in the team’s jerseys, D.C. United announced Monday. Leidos and D.C. United will also partner for […] More

  • Dell Virtual Desktop Tools to Support Texas School Districts
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    Dell Virtual Desktop Tools to Support Texas School Districts

    Dell has deployed desktop virtualization offerings to two school districts in Texas as part of efforts to refresh their computer workstations and optimize their access to technology while addressing legacy systems and budget constraints. The Socorro Independent School District and San Felipe Del Rio Consolidated Independent School District deployed technology such as Dell Wyse Datacenter for Citrix […] More

  • Air Force to Test Raytheon Team’s Hyperspectral UAV Sensor
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    Air Force to Test Raytheon Team’s Hyperspectral UAV Sensor

    The U.S. Air Force will test a hyperspectral imaging sensor developed by a Raytheon-lead contracting team for the service’s MQ-1 Predator unmanned aircraft, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Sunday. John Keller writes the Air Force intends to negotiate a contract with Raytheon for the flight testing of a pod-based Airborne Cueing and Exploitation System-Hyperspectral system. […] More

  • John Giamatteo: McAfee-Verizon Team Aims for Cross-Device Security Via New Platform
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    John Giamatteo: McAfee-Verizon Team Aims for Cross-Device Security Via New Platform

    McAfee and Verizon will expand their partnership to offer a new security platform designed to protect multiple Internet-enabled devices from malicious intrusion. The McAfee-powered Internet Security Suite Multi-Device platform is built for residential and business subscribers of Verizon’s FiOS service, the companies said Monday. The product works to keep malware off customers’ laptops, computers, tablets […] More

  • Microsoft Launches Cloud-Based GPS Data Collection Tool
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    Microsoft Launches Cloud-Based GPS Data Collection Tool

    Microsoft has introduced a new cloud-based mobile tool built to detect and gather location data from GPS satellites, The Register reported Monday. Simon Sharwood writes the Cloud-Offloaded GPS Experimental Kit is developed for mobile devices to log GPS signals for cloud processing. Microsoft built the Low Energy Assisted Positioning cloud server to receive GPS signals and […] More

  • Carlos Fernandes Op-Ed on Combating Cyber Threats: Predict, Prevent and Persist
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    Carlos Fernandes Op-Ed on Combating Cyber Threats: Predict, Prevent and Persist

    Carlos Fernandes serves as director of Salient Federal Solutions‘ Cyber Security Center of Excellence and recently wrote an op-ed piece for the Insurance Technology Association. The more-than 21-year information security veteran was the founder, managing principal and CEO of Agile Cybersecurity Solutions prior to joining Salient. The Air Force veteran has also held leadership roles at CACI, L-3, Booz Allen […] More

  • Unisys’ Dave Frymier: Cyber Framework Adoption Requires Standards, Incentives
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    Unisys’ Dave Frymier: Cyber Framework Adoption Requires Standards, Incentives

    Dave Frymier, chief information security officer at Unisys, believes a national infrastructure cybersecurity framework can be implemented by offering incentives or establishing mandatory standards, eWEEK reported Tuesday. “This framework addresses more of an economic problem more than a technical one,” Frymier told the magazine. Robert Lemos writes the National Institute of Standards and Technology issued […] More

  • Ball Aerospace Hands Orion’s Antennas to Lockheed, NASA; Jim Oschmann Comments
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    Ball Aerospace Hands Orion’s Antennas to Lockheed, NASA; Jim Oschmann Comments

    Ball Aerospace & Technologies has delivered four phased array antennas for the Orion spacecraft to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and prime contractor Lockheed Martin, as preparations are underway ahead of Orion’s inaugural flight in September. The antennas are intended to help comprise of Orion’s voice, video and data communications systems and be installed on Orion’s exterior, […] More

  • Jay Whitehurst: TCS Mobile Mapping Tool Built to Contain Weather Info, Search Tools
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    Jay Whitehurst: TCS Mobile Mapping Tool Built to Contain Weather Info, Search Tools

    TeleCommunication Systems has launched a new mapping and navigational technology offering for mobile device users. TCS developed the Gokivo 2.0 app with existing location-based services technologies for users to view weather conditions in real time through the DopplerNav weather overlay, TCS said Monday. Jay Whitehurst, president of TCS’ commercial software group, said Gokivo 2.0 is intended to […] More