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Lockheed Opens Denver Satellite Sensing, Comms Tech Development Hub; Rick Ambrose Comments

Lockheed MartinÂ has opened a new center in Denver to house satellite sensing and communication technology development efforts. The radio frequency payload center is built toÂ accommodate the development, production and testing ofÂ reconfigurable payloads and satellite systems, Lockheed said Tuesday. Rick Ambrose, executive vice president of space systems at Lockheed, said the new facility aims to help […] More

by Jay Clemens July 7, 2015, 12:48 pm
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CAE Receives Military Aircraft Training System Orders; Gene Colabatistto Comments

CAE has announcedÂ $117.5 million in contract awards that coverÂ aircraft simulation and training platformsÂ forÂ the U.S. Army, the U.S. Navy and two international defense customers. The company said Tuesday its defense and security business booked the contracts during the first quarter of the company’s 2016 fiscal year. “Our focus on being a training systems integrator has enabled […] More

by Mary-Louise Hoffman July 7, 2015, 11:03 am
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Tom Lydon on Vistronix’s 2014 Acquisition Spree, ‘Agile Development’ in C4ISR

Tom Lydon joined Reston, Va.-basedÂ information technology contractor Vistronix in January 2013 as senior vice president of business development and brings almostÂ 25 years of defense industry experience to the company. Vistronix announced three acquisitions in DecemberÂ 2014 –Â buys of ACG, ExaTech andÂ Objective Solutions — and said the purchases were made to grow in the intelligence sector. Lydon […] More

by Ross Wilkers July 6, 2015, 12:58 pm
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Mike Tanner on Hitachi Data Systems’ US Federal Market Entry, Data Center Consolidation Trends

Mike TannerÂ serves asÂ president and CEO ofÂ Hitachi Data Systems Federal Corp. — the U.S. government market subsidiary of HDS — and has led the organization since its launch on April 1, 2013. He originally joined HDS in 2007 as a district sales manager and also spent seven years at Hewlett-Packard, where he helped lead sales of […] More

by Ross Wilkers June 30, 2015, 1:56 pm
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Ray Duquette: CAE to Build Poseidon Flight Simulators for US, Australian Military

CAE has received a contract from Boeing to build P-8A Poseidon flight training simulators for the U.S. Navy and the Royal Australian Air Force. Boeing ordered simulation hardware for an additional four P-8A operational flight trainers through the contract, CAE said Monday. “We are pleased to be supporting Boeing and the U.S. Navy in developing […] More

by Mary-Louise Hoffman June 30, 2015, 9:33 am
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Mac Curtis, Steve Omick: New ‘Vencore Labs’ Org to Have Gov’t, Commercial Sector Footprints

Vencore has relaunched and rebranded the organization formerly known as Applied Communications SciencesÂ as part of a push to offer new technologies for cybersecurity, data analytics and communications to government agencies and commercial customers. The new Vencore Labs organization is also one part of Vencore’s strategy to maintain its status as a “high-end” services company withÂ intellectual […] More

by Ross Wilkers June 29, 2015, 1:54 pm
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Michael Shrader on Carahsoft’s Federal Market Partnerships, Role of Product Resellers

Michael Shrader leads theÂ intelligence and innovative solutions business unitÂ atÂ Carahsoft as a vice president for the Reston, Va.-based technology product reseller. He previously spoke to ExecutiveBiz in February 2013 for a wide-ranging discussion on his company’s partnership with Splunk to offer data analytics software in the public sector and Carahsoft’s work to help its partners market […] More

by Ross Wilkers June 29, 2015, 12:53 pm
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Randy Wotring on URS’ Integration Into AECOM, His Federal Infrastructure Market Outlook

Randy Wotring joined AECOM upon that company’s estimated $4 billion acquisition of URS Corp. in late 2014 and now holds the titleÂ of group president of management services at AECOM. The 30-year public sector andÂ infrastructure veteran led URS’ federal services arm for 10 years as president prior to the transaction. Wotring discussed the integration of URS […] More

by Ross Wilkers June 24, 2015, 1:00 pm
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Cal Shintani on Oceus’ Public Safety Market Emphasis, Federal Broadband’s Evolution

Cal Shintani leadsÂ capture strategy, corporate strategy and proposal development functions for Oceus Networks as senior vice president and chief growth officer at the Reston, Va.-based mobile services contractor. Shintani last spoke to ExecutiveBiz for a Q&A conversation on his role at Oceus and GovCon market trends in June 2012, nearly five months after he joined […] More

by Ross Wilkers June 24, 2015, 11:53 am
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Tony Frazier: DigitalGlobe-NGA Open Source Project Eyes Geospatial Big Data Analytics

DigitalGlobe has partnered with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to launch the Hootenanny open source projectÂ in an effort to offer developers software tools forÂ crowdsourced mapping and geospatial big data analytics functions. DigitalGlobe said MondayÂ Hootenanny features the interactive iD EditorÂ interface for editing map features and the OpenStreetMap architecture for integrating geospatial big data. “Our human geography product […] More

by Anna Forrester June 23, 2015, 10:11 am
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Appian Obtains FedRAMP Approval for Cloud Services; Myles Weber Comments

Appian has received a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program authorization for the companyâ€™s cloud offerings. The companyÂ said Wednesday it would seek to provide security risk management and program transparency for federal operations with theÂ FedRAMP approval. Myles Weber, vice president of cloud and community services at Appian, said the FedRAMP authorization demonstrates the companyâ€™s efforts […] More

by Jay Clemens June 17, 2015, 8:21 am
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Rick Ambrose: Lockheed-Boeing JV Seeks US Approval for Russian Rocket Engine Purchase

Boeing and Lockheed Martin‘s joint venture United Launch Alliance is seeking a waiver from a federal ban on the use of the Russian-made RD-180 engine for U.S. military satellite launches, Reuters reported Sunday. Andrea Shalal writes ULA wants permission to continue using its Atlas V rockets until it has completed the development of a U.S. […] More

by Mary-Louise Hoffman June 15, 2015, 9:23 am