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LGS Innovations Helps Army Update C4 Systems; Kevin Kelly Comments

LGS InnovationsÂ has completed upgrade work on a communications infrastructure at aÂ U.S. Army-run facility located at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait. The Army’s Kuwait-based main communications facility is responsible for managing the service’s C4 operations across Southwest Asia, LGSÂ said Tuesday. According to LGS, the C4 system modernization is part of the Pentagon’sÂ Joint Information EnvironmentÂ project. â€œLGS is proud […] More

May 7, 2014, 7:43 am
in Industry News, News

Fluor Corp. JV to Construct $743M Int’l Gas Pipeline

Fluor Corp. and Empresas ICA‘s joint ventureÂ ICA Fluor has announced a pipeline contract worth $743 million withÂ TAG Pipelines Sur S. de R.L. de C.V., Fluor said Wednesday. The pipeline will funnel gas through the Mexican states ofÂ San Luis PotosÃ, QuerÃ©taro and Guanajuato, Fluor said. The projects is part of theÂ Los Ramones transportation system and is […] More

May 1, 2014, 11:09 am
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Deloitte Partners with Virginia Tech for Business Intell and Analytics Center; Nick Gonnella Comments

Deloitte is partnering with Virginia Tech to launch theÂ Pamplin College Center for Business Intelligence and Analytics which will be located in Blacksburg, Va., the company said Monday. The goals of the new center include the development of a business intelligence minor, availability of financial and data resources, experiential opportunities for business students and to build […] More

April 21, 2014, 12:53 pm
in Healthcare IT, News

Deloitte Consulting to Help Fix State Health Insurance Exchange

Deloitte Consulting has won a $4.95 million contract from MNsure, the agency overseeing Minnesota’sÂ health insurance exchange, to fix short-term problems and chart a course for the future of the exchange, the Minneapolis Star Tibune said Thursday. Jackie Crosby writes Deloitte built exchanges inÂ Connecticut, Kentucky, Rhode Island and Washington and was one of the top candidates […] More

April 17, 2014, 1:10 pm
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Tina Kuhn on Northrop’s Cyber Work with NATO and Intl Customers, the Budget Environment as a Catalyst for Change & Building Cyber Defenses From the Ground Up

ExecutiveBiz recently spoke with Tina Kuhn, a top cybersecurity executive with Northrop Grumman Information Systems, on Northrop’s international expansion, opportunities for transformation within the government budget environment, how to “build-in” cyber defenses, and more in the cyber space. Kuhn joined Northrop in 2012 after holding a series of GovCon leadership roles focusing on intelligence and […] More

April 16, 2014, 1:23 pm
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Carlos Fernandes on Salient Fed’s ‘Precognitive Capabilities’ in Cyber, the IPv6 Transition, and the Paradigm Shift Necessary to Protect American Networks

Carlos Fernandes joined Salient Federal Solutions in January to serve as director of its Cyber Security Center of Excellence and develop and implement the Fairfax, Va.-based IT, training and engineering services contractor’s cybersecurity strategy. The former U.S. Air Force Intelligence Applications Officer had previously served as an adviser to Salient and brings more-than-21-years of information […] More

April 16, 2014, 12:22 pm
in Executive Spotlight, Featured, General, News

Mark Jones of CA Technologies on Application Testing, the Business of ACA and Data Interoperability

Mark Jones serves asÂ senior sales director at CA Technologies, where he oversees the public sector healthcare vertical. He has been at the Islandia, NY.-based firmÂ for close to 20 years where he has held a number of leadership roles and has worked with federal customers for 18 years. Jones spoke to ExecutiveBiz about a variety of […] More

April 11, 2014, 1:39 pm
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John Heller: PAE to Support Naval Training Center Under $167M Contract

PAE has won a potential $167 million contract to provide range operation, maintenance and logistics services to a U.S. Navy training center, the company said Tuesday. The Arlington,Va.-based company intends to support up to 2,000 training exercises at theÂ Fleet Area Control and Surveillance Facility Detachment Southern CaliforniaÂ Offshore Range (SCORE) withÂ exercise planning, briefing, dataÂ collection and debriefing […] More

April 8, 2014, 10:07 am
in Big Data & Analytics News, News

ThreeWire Systems Releases White Paper on IT Asset Mgmt Offering

ThreeWire Systems has published a white paper detailing the different options and insights provided by its information technology asset management offering. The ITAM offering brings together procurement, finance and IT so that a business can better purchase, distribute and deploy its hardware and software assets. The tool builds a complete inventory of all hardware and […] More

April 1, 2014, 10:39 am
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Mike McMahon: Day & Zimmermann Targets Operations and Management Issues By Using Multiple Delivery Models

Operations and management issues remain an obstacle for those in the domestic power industry, a workforce challenge Day & Zimmermann addresses by offering clients options that use various delivery methods in an effort to increase labor availability, skill and management options, Power Magazine reported on Jan. 1. The company holds training programs with trade schools […] More

April 1, 2014, 12:40 am
in Big Data & Analytics News

Marc Randall: New Avaya Automated Solutions Target Downtime and Performance Issues

Avaya has rolled out new solutions that seek to simplify network data delivery. Automated Campus includes automated onboarding of user devices intended to save IT hours and minimize service delays and downtime, Avaya said Wednesday. The unified end-to-end, cloud-based network covers data center management up to the end device using Avayaâ€™s software-defined data center framework […] More

April 1, 2014, 12:38 am
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Tim Reardon on Lockheed’s Recent Reorg, More Than $1B Cyber Business and Int’l Expansion

Tim Reardon serves as vice president and general manager of Bethesda, Md.-basedÂ Lockheed Martin‘sÂ defense & intelligence solutions business units, a 15,000-employee organization. The 15-yearÂ Lockheed veteranÂ was most recently theÂ president of the information systems and global solutions-national unit and has previously served as the president of theÂ former IS&GS-global unit and theÂ enterprise integration group. Reardon, a 10-year CIA veteran, […] More

March 28, 2014, 11:01 am