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Ken Asbury: CACI-Virginia Tech UAV Cybersecurity Partnership Eyes Future Nat’l Security Workers

CACI InternationalÂ has partnered with the Ted and Karyn Hume Center for National Security and Technology at Virginia Tech to provide support for cybersecurity research on unmanned aerial vehicles. The company said TuesdayÂ the five-year partnership under the Hume center’s Cyber-Physical System Security program covers student mentorship, curriculum development and research projects. “The threat of cyber attacks […] More

by Anna Forrester February 9, 2016, 10:51 am
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Booz Allenâ€™s Joshua Petty: Technology Adoption Should Be Kept â€˜Simpleâ€™ for Chief Legal Officers

Joshua Petty, deputy general counsel at Booz Allen Hamilton, has said companies should make technology adoption â€œsimpleâ€ for chief legal officers and other personnel within the legal department, Corporate Counsel reported Wednesday. Stephanie Forshee writes Petty made the statement during a panel discussion at the ALM Media-hosted LegalTech Conference held Wednesday in New York City. […] More

by Jane Edwards February 5, 2016, 11:38 am
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Harris, NASA Complete Webb Telescope Mirror Installation; Bill Ochs, Gary Matthews Comment

NASA and industry partner Harris Corp. have completed their work to install the Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.-builtÂ primary mirrors forÂ the James Webb Space Telescope ahead of itsÂ scheduled launch in 2018. The space agency said Thursday Harris installed Webb’s 18 mirrors with the final one in place Wednesday and will also lead integration work and tests […] More

by Ross Wilkers February 5, 2016, 9:24 am
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WSJ: CACI CEO Ken Asbury Says Organic Growth the Focus Post-NSS Buy

Ken Asbury, president and CEO of CACI International, has said the company is open to the possibility of additional acquisitions that could be integrated with its portfolio at least a year from now, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Asbury told WSJ reporter Doug Cameron in an interview that CACI will turn its focus on […] More

by Jane Edwards February 5, 2016, 8:51 am
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Intelâ€™s Diversity Hiring Rate Hit 43% in 2015; Brian Krzanich, Neil Green Comment

A new Intel report says 43.1 percent of the technology firmâ€™s new hires in 2015 were women and underrepresented minorities, exceeding the companyâ€™s annual diversity hiring goal of 40 percent. Intel said in the report released Wednesday the company increased the employment of women and underrepresented minorities in 2015 by nearly 43 percent and 31 […] More

by Jane Edwards February 4, 2016, 4:03 am
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Unisys Opens Client Service Center in Georgia; PV Puvvada Comments

Unisys has opened a new client service center in Augusta, Georgia, to continue to provide information technology services to commercial and government customers. Unisys said Monday the company currently works with the state’s Labor Department, Augusta Economic Development Authority and Fort Gordon Cyber Center of Excellence to hire IT professionals for the new center. The […] More

by Jay Clemens February 2, 2016, 9:48 am
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GSA Taps American Systems for Transition Coordination Support Task Order; Peter Smith Comments

American Systems has been awarded a potential five-year, $34.3 million task order to provide transition planning and policy development support to the General Services Administrationâ€™s transition coordination center. GSA established TCC in an effort to help federal agencies transition from multiple telecommunication and legacy network contracts to the NS2020 Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract, the company […] More

by Jane Edwards February 2, 2016, 8:30 am
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CenturyLink Lands DISA Network Services Contract; Tim Meehan Comments

CenturyLinkÂ has won four task orders worth $10 million combined from the Defense Information Systems Agency to supply network and data transmission services to Defense Information Systems Network users in various regions across the U.S. The company will deliver Ethernet private line and Internet Protocol services to support networks in Colorado, Virginia, Alabama and Nebraska through […] More

by Jay Clemens January 28, 2016, 8:58 am
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Army Awards Cybersecurity Contract to Parsons; Mary Ann Hopkins Comments

Parsons will provide cybersecurity services to the U.S. Army under the awarded Deployable Defensive Cyberspace Operations Infrastructure contract. The company said Monday the contract covers cyberspace weapons systems that work to detect possible cyber threats in support of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology. Mary Ann Hopkins, […] More

by Anna Forrester January 26, 2016, 5:55 am
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Omniplex Buys Social Intelligenceâ€™s Govt Solutions Business; Michael Santelli Comments

Omniplex World ServicesÂ has purchased Social Intelligenceâ€™s government solutions business in an effort to gain access to public online data and social media information for use in background investigation process. Omniplex will run the business as itsÂ Social Intelligence Government Solutions division and named Steve Lewis, former operations manager at Social Intelligence and a 30-year defense intelligence […] More

by Jane Edwards January 20, 2016, 5:58 am
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HPE’s Marilyn Crouther: Public IT Sector Should Adapt to Business Transformation

Marilyn Crouther, senior vice president and general manager ofÂ Hewlett Packard Enterpriseâ€™s U.S. public sector business, has said the public information technology sector should learn how to adapt to transformation in order to be more agile and respond to industry demands. Crouther wrote in a blog post published Thursday on the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics […] More

by Jane Edwards January 15, 2016, 9:11 am
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Raytheon-Vista Cyber JV Adopts ‘Forcepoint’ Name, Seeks Focus on Internal Net Monitoring

The cybersecurity joint venture ofÂ Raytheon andÂ technology investment firm Vista Equity PartnersÂ hasÂ passedÂ the half-yearÂ mark since its mid-2015 launchÂ and has enteredÂ the nextÂ chapter underÂ a new identity. Waltham, Mass.-based Raytheon, maker of Patriot missiles and other military weapons, made aÂ largeÂ betÂ onÂ the government and commercial cyber markets in April 2015Â when it agreed to acquireÂ majority controlÂ ofÂ Websense from Vista for nearly $2 billion in […] More

by Ross Wilkers January 14, 2016, 11:30 am