Trace Systems has added retired U.S. Army Signal Officer Joshua Gillen and Sandra Jamshidi, a former U.S. Navy information professional officer, to its information solutions group’s leadership team.

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The General Services Administration has selected Plus3 IT Systems to offer information technology services to government customers under a potential 10-year, Multiple Award Schedule contract.

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Accurate Energetic Systems and Spectra Technologies have won spots on a potential five-year, $45M contract to supply the U.S. Army with explosive products.

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Lockheed Martin has chosen OSI Maritime Systems to produce a navigation management system for use on the U.S. Navy‘s future Freedom-variant Littoral Combat Ships, for which Lockheed is the prime contractor. OSI said Wednesday it will provide the Integrated Bridge and Navigation System that is designed to integrate with warships and comply with the American Bureau of Shipping Class Rules for Navigational Integrated Bridge System. Chris […] More

Leidos subsidiary Systems Made Simple has secured a potential three-year, $29 million task order to support data repositories the Department of Veterans Affairs uses to share healthcare information with the Defense Department and other external government agencies. Systems Made Simple will develop, expand, update, maintain and plan the implementation of functionalities for the VA/DoD Identity Repository, Veterans Information Solution, Health Data Repository and Administrative […] More

OGSystems conducted a mind mapping data collection exercise with a focus on the evolution of geospatial intelligence to unveil its new Immersive Engineering service at the May 2016 GEOINT Symposium in Orlando, Florida. Immersive Engineering works to integrate integrate commercial sector techniques with the attributes of Lean Startup, Visioneering, Scaled Agile Framework enterprise (SAFe) and human-centered design approaches, OGSystems said Friday. Omar […] More

BAE Systems has been chosen by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop an undersea navigation technology for the U.S. Navy under the Positioning System for Deep Ocean Navigation program. The goal of the program is to enable undersea vehicles to navigate underwater without having to periodically go above surface to access the space-based global positioning system, BAE said Monday. […] More

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. will exhibit its intelligence and geospatial technologies at a symposium for the defense and homeland security communities Monday through Thursday in Tampa, Florida. The company’s software and hardware technologies are built to help clients gather and process intelligence for geospatial, measurement and signature, laser and cyber applications, Ball Aerospace said Thursday. […] More

Precise Systems on Nov. 10 closed the transaction to acquire Excet, a provider of scientific research and engineering services to Department of Defense customers, including the U.S. Army and Navy. Excet's areas of expertise include alternative energy, biotechnology, synthetic biology and chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosives threat assessment, and many of its employees are holders of advanced degrees in various disciplines, Precise Systems said.

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Catherine Ni has been appointed vice president of close combat systems at aerospace and defense company Lockheed Martin. Ni said Friday on LinkedIn she had spent roughly the past nine months holding the same position in an acting capacity, during which time she learned many things, had to think outside the box and became connected with "many great individuals across the enterprise."

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Earnest Jones, a 25-year public and federal industry veteran, was named chief technology officer of Strategic Data Systems, a provider of information technology, cybersecurity and engineering services to the Department of Defense and other government customers. Jones served as a senior military officer in the U.S. Army and contributed IT and cyber operations mission support during his time at the Pentagon.

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Unmanned systems have evolved beyond their traditional role of providing intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance in defense missions, according to Amentum Executive Vice President Tim Saffold. During an interview, Saffold discussed the broader applications of unmanned systems in defense, the functions they can perform in critical infrastructure upkeep and environmental surveillance and the role autonomy has in their evolution.

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