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LGS to Help CenturyLink Update DoD’s Research, Engineering Network; Tim Meehan, Kevin Kelly Comment

LGS InnovationsÂ will work as a subcontractor for on an initiative to upgrade theÂ Defense Departmentâ€™s Research and Engineering Network under a potential 10-year, $750 million contract awarded to CenturyLinkÂ in 2012 by the Defense Information Systems Agency. LGSâ€™ task is to develop high-performance network for five supercomputing locations with speeds of 40 gigabits per second for DREN, […] More

by Jay Clemens June 8, 2015, 11:40 am
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Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: DoD Should Eye ‘SATCOM as a Service’ Model

Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, a senior vice president atÂ Inmarsat, has called on the U.S. government to reform how it acquiresÂ satellite communications technologies and move toward what she called a “SATCOM as a Service” setup. Cowen-Hirsch, SVP of government strategy and policy for Inmarsat’s U.S. government segment, wroteÂ in a SpaceNewsÂ op-ed published June 3Â that such a model would see […] More

by Jane Edwards June 8, 2015, 11:08 am
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Lynn DeCourcey of NJVC on GovCon Tech Recruiting Efforts, Industry’s Role in DoD Cyber Initiatives

Lynn DeCourcey oversees the cybersecurityÂ line of businessÂ at NJVC in her role of vice president and general manager. In this role, she led a team at NJVC that developed a cyber dashboard for users to view information on potential threats on a single console and the tool was selected inÂ 2011 for the (ISC)Â² Government Information Security […] More

by Ross Wilkers June 5, 2015, 12:48 pm
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Steve Weiss on CACI’s C4ISR Push Through Six3 & LTC Buys, His Corporate Ombudsman Role

Steve WeissÂ brings a 30-yearÂ background inÂ senior-level leadershipÂ and acquisition management experience to his role as executive vice president of government business operations at CACI International. Weiss also participates in CACI’s mergers and acquisitions programÂ thatÂ former CEO Jack London started inÂ 1992 and has since seen the company make 55 purchases,Â such as its buy of Six3 Systems in late 2013 […] More

by Ross Wilkers June 4, 2015, 12:50 pm
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Oracle-SRA Team Updates Coast Guard’s HR, Payroll Mgmt Systems; Mark Johnson Comments

Oracle and SRA International have collaborated to help the U.S. Coast Guard implement a single enterprise-wide infrastructure for managing human resource and payroll functions. The Direct Access system is built to run Oracle’s PeopleSoft Global Payroll software and consolidates multiple applications used by the Coast Guard, the Public Health Service and the National Oceanic and […] More

by Mary-Louise Hoffman June 3, 2015, 11:13 am
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Vernon Bailey on SAP NS2’s Partner Ecosystem Emphasis, Cloud Services Push

Vernon Bailey joined SAP NS2Â — the German conglomerate’s U.S. national security subsidiary — upon SAP‘s acquisition of Sybase in 2010 and now serves as theÂ subsidiary’sÂ vice president of sales. The 27-year information technology veteran oversees marketing and sales functions for SAP NS2’s database and technologies business and also is responsible for customer experience initiatives. In this […] More

by Ross Wilkers June 2, 2015, 12:52 pm
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Stephanie Hill: Further Exposure to STEM Education Needed Among Youth

Stephanie Hill, vice president and general manager of the information systems and global solutions-civilÂ business at Lockheed Martin, has said industry should help motivate young people to have an interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics education, Kingsport Times-News reported Monday. Hill told attendees of theÂ Tennessee Valley Corridor Summit that at least 8Â million STEM-related jobs would […] More

by Jane Edwards June 2, 2015, 12:04 pm
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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