Booz Allen Hamilton has secured a $178M contract from the U.S. Navy’s Naval Information Warfare Center and the U.S. Air Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center to provide technical engineering services to support the modernization of global positioning systems, the company announced on Friday.

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American Systems will compete for task orders to support the U.S. Air Force's Global Application Research, Development, Engineering and Maintenance initiative through a $427M multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract.

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Kratos Defense and Security Solutions has secured a potential $14.9M subcontract from Vista Technical Services to carry out support services for the U.S. Army.

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ManTech International and Purdue University Global have teamed up to offer an apprenticeship program that aims to further build up employees’ cyber capabilities and establish a trained cybersecurity workforce. The Cybersecurity Registered Apprenticeship program will also fund college-level instruction to develop a pipeline of cyber professionals in support of the country’s security requirements, ManTech said Friday.

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KeyW has secured a six-year multimillion dollar task order to support the U.S. Army‘s  training systems as a subcontractor to Lockheed Martin under a potential $3.53 billion contract. Hanover, Md.-based KeyW said Tuesday it will assist the Army program executive office for simulation, training and instrumentation in efforts to sustain the reliability of Soldier Systems Constructive […] More

Dan Cooper, president of Xerox‘s Global Imaging Systems subsidiary, has been appointed to serve as CEO of the subsidiary once Tom Salierno retires from the position in April. Xerox said Friday Cooper is a nearly two-decade GIS veteran and previously served as president of information technology services provider Electronic Systems Inc., which he helped advance into a […] More

Saab and Armscor have received a $23 million contract to deliver support services for the South African air force’s JAS 39 Gripen aircraft weapon systems. The support contract entails airworthiness management, engineering support, maintenance, repair, spare parts delivery and technical document update services, Saab said Friday. The companies will perform work through a period from November 2017 to February 2020. The […] More

Information Technology is evolving at a rapid rate–and so are the cyber threats, defying traditional cybersecurity measures across multiple domains. A 20-year IT veteran with a vision of what comes next is Mona Bates, Chief Information Officer and Vice President of Information Technology for Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems. Bates has held multiple senior leadership positions […] More

“I don’t think of difficulties; I think of welcome challenges.” EM: Let’s start with your background and how you get to where you are today. Your title is Executive VP of Joint Unmanned Systems and Training Solutions for AECOM. Tim Saffold: I am pleased and feel privileged to be working on the AECOM team with the […] More

American Systems has received a potential five-year, $36.1 million task order from the U.S. Navy to perform forensic and technical analysis of improvised explosive devices and other explosive ordnance components. The company said Monday it will assist the expeditionary exploitation unit one as EXU-1 works to develop and revise the doctrine and documents of the Navy, […] More

A new Research and Markets report predicts the global airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance market will hit a compound annual growth rate of 3.88 percent from 2017 through 2021. Research and Markets reported that many countries have started to augment their maritime security systems amid escalating possibilities of terrorist attacks through sea routes and illegal dealings […] More

Global Technical Systems has secured an $18.5 million delivery order from the U.S. Navy to produce and test 36 common processing system units that will work to help address the computer requirements of various Navy combat systems. The open architecture-based Technical Insertion Twelve Hybrid CPS will comprise an enclosure assembly as well as processing, storage/extraction and input/output subsystems, the […] More