A joint venture of Thales Group and Finmeccanica has secured a contract to design and develop a satellite platform that will work to deliver mobile and broadcasting services across multiple spectrum networks. Thales Alenia Space will build a dual-mission telecommunications satellite for Inmarsat and Greek satcom operator Hellas-Sat, Thales Group said Thursday. Under the agreement, […] More

Parsons and the New York Southern Tier Communities of Broome, Tioga and Sidney have received the Best Regional Collaboration award in the NY Rising to the Top Competition for their post-disaster reconstruction and rebuilding plans. The team’s plans included a Regional Resiliency Summit to gather sector and stakeholder feedback and a Regional River Initiative to discuss issues and opportunities in watershed resiliency, […] More

Serco has received the Champions of Veteran Enterprise Award from the National Veteran Small Business Coalition for providing contracting opportunities to small businesses owned by veterans and service-disabled veterans. The company will be presented the award at the 2014 Veteran Entrepreneur Training Symposium on June 17 for subcontracting 14.3% to such businesses and exceeding the 3-percent goal mandated by […] More

Ed Morche leads Level 3 Communications‘ government markets group as its senior vice president and general manager, leading all functional activities in support of the firm’s civilian, defense, intelligence and other customers. In that role, the more-than-20-year telecommunications veteran also sets strategic direction for the firm’s capture strategy for government contracts. Morche recently caught up […] More

Praescient Analytics will market TransVoyant’s cloud-based data analytics offerings with the goal of helping customers respond to global security threats. TransVoyant’s algorithms, analytics and data streams will be available to Praescient clients under the partnership, TransVoyant said Monday. Katie Crotty, CEO of Praescient Analytics, said TransVoyant designed its technologies to help address customer requirements for situational […] More

Science Applications International Corp. has won a potential $14 million software and engineering services to help the U.S. Army‘s Surface Deployment and Distribution Command operate ocean cargo deployment software. The company will also work with the command to connect commercial and military carriers with the Integrated Booking System Software under the potential four-and-eight-month order, SAIC said Wednesday. U.S. Transportation […] More

AT&T held an application development contest from May 2 to May 3 for participants to build disaster preparedness apps in an effort to contribute to public safety programs. Developers formed groups and collaborated to develop 15 public safety mobile apps for the first-responder community during the hackathon at 1776 in Washington, AT&T said Friday. Jim Bugel, […] More

IBM has built a cloud-based computing infrastructure to house KPJ Healthcare Berhad‘s medical records and administrative data from at least 20 hospitals in Malaysia and five overseas medical facilities. The healthcare provider aims to consolidate and centralize its information technology infrastructure in order to connect with other services across the network, IBM said Monday. “By moving our IT […] More

Carl Salzano retired in the Spring of 2014 as a senior vice president for acquisition services at Booz Allen Hamilton, where he also served as co-chairman of the Veteran and Wounded Warrior Committee. The U.S. Navy veteran joined Booz Allen in 1986 after holding leadership roles at firms including Bendix Aerospace and Advanced Technology. Soon […] More

Damian Harvey, country manager for Australia and New Zealand at Vormetric, said Australian information technology professionals have yet to become fully aware of the damage an insider threat could bring to their companies. “We are still seeing organizations spend millions on perimeter defenses while neglecting to lock up their data or appropriately control access,” Harvey said Thursday. […] More

Hewlett-Packard has released an enterprise-class storage disk array that is designed to help customers consolidate storage, make data available and recover from disasters. HP XP7 Storage is built to consolidate up to 4.5 petabytes of data in a single array, deliver up to 3 million I/O per second, support different media choices and use multiarray virtualization to protect data, the […] More

The shipping and distribution industry is increasingly turning to cloud computing for use in business operations, Verizon‘s Maria Montenegro wrote in a blog post published Tuesday. Montenegro, a communications manager at the company, said one of the drivers of cloud adoption in the industry is is the need for IT and software applications to manage […] More