General Dynamics’ Electric Boat subsidiary has signed a new lease agreement with real estate firm Quonset Development Corp. to add nearly 42 acres to the existing 100 acres of leased space at Quonset business park in Rhode Island. QDC’s board of directors approved the 25-year agreement as Electric Boat seeks to meet the U.S. Navy’s submarine program […] More

OMNIPLEX World Services Corp. has won a potential $51.1 million contract to deploy protective security officers for the Transportation Security Administration at various locations in Maryland and Northern Virginia. The firm-fixed-price contract, won through a recompete, contains one base year and four option years, OMNIPLEX said Nov. 26. “This is an exciting win for OMNIPLEX,” […] More

TW Scott serves as vice president of Lockheed Martin’s national product line within the Bethesda, Md.-based aerospace and security contractor’s information systems and global solutions business area. In that role, Scott oversees the delivery of advanced technologies, analytics and services to domestic and international governments and customers in the intelligence community. Scott is also responsible […] More

Exelis has been awarded a contract worth more than $8 million to deploy ground control approach radar system to Estonia. The Estonian armed forces aim to use the GCA-2020 to help the Ämari Air base support NATO initiatives, humanitarian efforts and missions, Exelis said Friday. Dave Prater, vice president and general manager of radar, reconnaissance […] More

D&B has selected the winners in a $30,000 competition that called on developers and designers to submit ideas for combating malfeasance in the public sector. More than 100 developers in 22 teams participated in the Inaugural DC Tecathon at Microsoft’s Chevy Chase Campus in Washington, the company announced Nov. 21. “Techathons are in line with the visionary […] More

Karl Stumpf serves as a senior vice president at RTKL Associates and leads the company’s global workplace practice group, where he manages the corporate office and projects related to the federal government, academic, civic and cultural segments. In his role at the Arcadis subsidiary, Stumpf manages a group of architects, engineers, planners and interior designers across seven global […] More

John Rader serves as the vice president of electronic and sensor solutions of the electronic and information solutions division at Boeing Network and Space Systems, where he manages the division’s electronic warfare portfolio. Rader focuses on EW technologies related to surface, subsurface, land and airborne communications and signal intelligence sensors for the company’s C4ISR offerings. Programs […] More

Matt Genz serves as vice president of human resources of DRS Technical Services, a lifecycle telecommunications systems group within DRS Technologies. He was promoted to the role in January 2009 and is responsible for the recruitment, retention, compensation administration, employee relations, performance management and employee development of the company. Genz, a three-decade human resources industry […] More

SAP and a United Arab Emirates-based university will collaborate to educate students on business software applications through problem-solving exercises, technology demonstrations and research activities, The Gulf Today reported Tuesday. Ajman University for Science and Technology joined an SAP alliance program designed to give academic institutions access to the company’s enterprise-grade software portfolio for training purposes, […] More

Businesses and enterprises will increasingly look to cloud computing as a necessity rather than an option and a majority of data center traffic will likely travel through a cloud platform next year, according to a Carpathia Hosting list of predictions. In that forecast published Monday, the hosting services provider also says both startup and established […] More

  Boeing subsidiary Argon ST is working with Hilbert Technology to develop a context independent anomaly detection system for the U.S. Army. Argon has been under contract to support the Joint Unified Multi-Capable Protection System project and has worked to develop a military sensor test bed, laboratory and data center over the past seven years, Hilbert said […] More

Optum has won a $4 million project to help the Maryland state government update its health care exchange, MedCity News reported Sunday. Group spokesman Matt Stearns told the publication the two-month project involves performance and stability upgrades on the Marylandhealthconnection.gov website. Meredith Cohn writes the Columbia-based company is a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, the same […] More