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Matt Desch: Iridium Installs NEXT Satellite Air Traffic Surveillance Payload

Iridium Communications has integrated an Aireon-built air traffic surveillance payload system into a NEXT satellite that is scheduled to go into space between 2015 and 2017. Aireon will utilize the hosted Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast receiver payload to help the aviation industry access information about aircraft position and status, Iridium said Monday. The payload integration effort […] More

by Mary-Louise Hoffman June 2, 2015, 6:54 am
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CTC Receives Multiple Defense Dept Support Contracts; Ed Sheehan Comments

Concurrent Technologies Corp. has been awarded three contracts to provide assistance to certain programs of the U.S. Navy and the Defense Logistics Agency. CTC said Friday it received a $2.2 million task order to help the Navy’s Bureau of Medicine and Surgery conduct industrial hygiene surveys and evaluate workplace hazard control measures. “It is of […] More

by Mary-Louise Hoffman June 2, 2015, 5:39 am
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Lisa Bruch, Mike Leff: GSA Eyes Telecom Evolution for Agencies Under EIS

CenturyLinkâ€™s Lisa Bruch and AT&Tâ€™s Mike Leff both view the General Services Administrationâ€™s Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract vehicle as a way to meet changing federal telecommunicationsÂ requirements, FCW reported Saturday. Bruch, CenturyLinkâ€™s vice president of federal sales and marketing, told FCWÂ she thought GSA succeeded in its last effort to manage evolving technological requirements of agencies under […] More

by Jay Clemens June 1, 2015, 1:34 pm
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Steve Risseeuw on SAP’s ‘Co-Innovation’ Tech Approach With Agencies, Push for Collaboration

Steve Risseeuw heads SAP‘s work with the Defense Department and its component agencies as a vice president at the technology services contractor. The 15-year information technology industry veteran started his current VP role in 2013 after three years of leadership over the company’s Army account and is also an eight-year veteran of Oracle, where he […] More

by Ross Wilkers May 28, 2015, 1:11 pm
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Tom Romeo: Maximus, MicroPact Partner to Help Manage Gov’t Programs with Technology

Maximus and MicroPact have partnered to combine their technology and service offerings with the goal of helping customer agencies manage cases and business processes. MicroPact said Thursday that Maximus agreed to leverage the integrated case and business process management platform entellitrak to support health, financial and civilian programs in the government sector. Tom Romeo, president […] More

by Mary-Louise Hoffman May 28, 2015, 12:26 pm
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Joe Jordan: FedBid Marketplace Now Includes Contract Mgmt Tools

FedBid has updated its business-to-government online marketplace to include new tools designed to help agencies create and manage indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity or blanket purchase agreement contracts. â€œBPAs and IDIQs are often used by government buyers to help leverage savings and streamline the process for purchasing frequently-used goods and services that are needed across their organizations,” Joe Jordan, […] More

by Mary-Louise Hoffman May 27, 2015, 12:15 pm
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Microsoft’s Susie Adams: Data Governance Critical for Federal BYOD Programs

Susie Adams, chief technology officer of Microsoft‘s federal government business, has recommended that agencies implement user-focused security policies to manage personal devices in the workplace, GCN reported Friday. â€œItâ€™s about governance first,â€ Adams told GCN in an interview. â€œMaintaining control over employee access to data regardless of the device becomes probably the most important thing […] More

by Mary-Louise Hoffman May 26, 2015, 12:07 pm
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Exelis, UrsaNav, DHS, Coast Guard to Test Potential GPS Backup; Ed Sayadian Comments

Exelis has partnered with UrsaNav, the U.S. Coast Guard and the Department of Homeland Security to demonstrate a potential alternative to USCG’s decommissioned Loran-C radio navigation system. Exelis, UrsaNav, USCG and DHS signed a cooperative agreement to test the eLoran low-frequency technology as a backup for GPS infrastructure being used by the public and private […] More

by Mary-Louise Hoffman May 22, 2015, 9:18 am
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Biff Lyons, Parsons SVP, on Converged Security Trends to Watch and Cyber’s Year Ahead

Biff Lyons oversees the national security division of Parsons Corp.’s government services segment in his senior vice president role at the Pasadena, Calif.-headquartered engineering contractor. Lyons joined Parsons in 2011 upon that company’s acquisition of SPARTA, where he held a 13-year careerÂ in roles such as VP andÂ operations manager of advanced systems technology operation, as well […] More

by Ross Wilkers May 20, 2015, 12:54 pm
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Booz Allen Unveils ‘Build & Field’ Initiative for Internet of Things; Susan Penfield Comments

Booz Allen HamiltonÂ has launched a program to help the company create and deploy Internet of Things technologies in the areas ofÂ security, analytics and mobile devices under theÂ mantraÂ of “build and field.” The companyÂ said TuesdayÂ it will work to deliverÂ end-to-end services to address cyber risk and other challenges with the emergence of IoT platforms. “The proliferation of IoT […] More

by Anna Forrester May 13, 2015, 9:57 am
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Lockheed Completes SBIRS Increment 2 Ground Station Integration; Vinny Sica Comments

Lockheed MartinÂ has completed development and integration work on theÂ Space-Based Infrared System‘s Increment 2 ground station and will move forward to certification tests for the U.S. Air ForceÂ space program. The company said MondayÂ Increment 2 will command the combined infrared surveillance operations of theÂ Defense Support Program, SBIRS geosynchronous orbit satellites and highly elliptical orbit payloads. “The transition […] More

by Anna Forrester May 12, 2015, 4:21 am
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Ed Sayadian: Exelis to Back 4 FAA UAS Research, Test Sites

ExelisÂ has signed an agreement with four Federal Aviation Administration-designated test facilities to study the integration of unmanned aircraft systems into U.S. civilian airspace. The sitesÂ will use Exelisâ€™ Symphony RangeVue sense-and-avoid tool for operators and test personnel to access real-time and historical aircraft surveillance data via a Web platform, Exelis said Tuesday. Symphony RangeVueÂ is designed to […] More

by Jay Clemens May 5, 2015, 11:05 am