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Greg Wenzel: Booz Allen Works with US Navy on Integration, Interoperability Areas

Greg Wenzel, an executive vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton, has said the company is working with the U.S. Navy to implement the serviceâ€™s interconnectednessÂ goals, the Daily Transcript reported Wednesday. Wenzel noted that there are Navy officers whoÂ sayÂ they need to operate in a networked system “rather than as individual ships, doing their own thing,”Â Tony Lovitt […] More

by Jay Clemens March 17, 2015, 1:16 pm
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Agilex’s Roger Baker: Incremental, Agile Methods Key to Gov’t IT Systems Development

Roger Baker, chief strategy officer at Agilex, wrote in a blog post published Monday that he learned during his service in federal government that an incremental and agile development methodology could improve the success rate for information technology programs. Baker said theÂ Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act offers an opportunity for federal chief information officers […] More

by Mary-Louise Hoffman March 17, 2015, 10:46 am
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Gulu Gambhir: Employees Key for Leidos’ Culture of Innovation

Gulu Gambhir, chief technology officer at Leidos, has noted the company’s efforts to encourage its workforce to put technology ideas forward. “Supporting employees with resources like money and time, repeatable innovation-related processes, and a culture tolerant of risk-taking and ‘successful’ failure encourages innovation,” Gambhir said in an interview published Thursday on the Fairfax County Chamber […] More

by Mary-Louise Hoffman March 13, 2015, 9:41 am
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Carahsoft to Offer Paxataâ€™s Data Preparation Platform in Gov’t Sector; Michael Shrader Comments

Carahsoft Technology Corp.Â will offerÂ Paxataâ€™s adaptive data preparation application and platform to government customers. Paxata built the platform to automate and govern data integration and enrichment process functions, Paxata said Thursday. Michael Shrader, vice president of intelligence and innovative solutions at Carahsoft, said Paxata sought to fillÂ a technology gap between aÂ data management system provided by Cloudera […] More

by Jay Clemens March 13, 2015, 8:54 am
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Bill Toti on Cubic’s Defense Business Reorg and Int’l Sales Prospects

Bill Toti shifted into a new role at Cubic earlier this year as president of the San Diego-based contractor’s global defense segment, which formed through a consolidation initiative. Cubic combined its defense systems business with the mission support services unit, which Toti previously led as president since he joined the company in July 2014. In […] More

by Ross Wilkers March 11, 2015, 12:55 pm
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Raytheon’s Indianapolis Hub Expansion Seeks to Add 250 Jobs; Dave Wajsgras Comments

Raytheon expects to add as many as 250 positions through an expansion of the company’s systems modernization and sustainment facility in Indianapolis. The company said Monday it currently employs approximately 1,000 workers at the site to upgrade, engineer, install and maintain computer or weapon systems for military customers. “The workÂ RaytheonÂ doesÂ in IndianapolisÂ supports some of the most […] More

by Mary-Louise Hoffman March 10, 2015, 10:26 am
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Susan Keys on Avaya’s Unified Collaboration Portfolio for Gov’t and Networking Tech Market Demand

Susan Keys started the current chapter of her GovCon and information technology career last year when she took a vice president role atÂ Avaya‘s federal business organization — Avaya Government Solutions. Her career includes stops at commercial and GovCon firms such as Cisco, Lockheed Martin, Oracle and more recently Riverbed Technology. Keys recently caught up with […] More

by Ross Wilkers March 6, 2015, 4:15 pm
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Huntington Ingalls to Help Navy Plan Kennedy Carrier Construction; Mike Petters Comments

Huntington Ingalls Industries has been awarded a $23 million contract to help the U.S. Navy develop a construction plan for the USS John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier, the Daily Press reported Thursday. Hugh Lessig writes the goal is for HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding division to apply cost and efficiency measures the shipbuilder used during the […] More

by Mary-Louise Hoffman March 6, 2015, 10:17 am
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Ken Asbury: CACI to Help Army Evaluate Night-Vision Tech for Asymmetric Warfare

CACI InternationalÂ will continue its support for U.S. Army sensor and imaging systems modeling and simulation work following the award of a 12-month, $43 million task order contract under the Strategic Services Sourcing vehicle. The company will provide engineering support to the service’sÂ Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate to help in the evaluationÂ of sensor technologies and […] More

by Anna Forrester March 5, 2015, 10:43 am
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Tony Frazier: DigitalGlobe Eyes Continued Mission Support as High-Res Satellite Images Go Global

Military and intelligence organizations are poised toÂ leverageÂ higher-resolution satellite images toÂ drive innovation following the full implementation of the Commerce Department‘s new rule on the images’ global availability, C4ISR & Networks reported Tuesday. Adam Stone writes that as ofÂ last month, higher-resolutionÂ images can be sold globally to support various missions, including those of the NationalÂ Geospatial-Intelligence AgencyÂ in the U.S. […] More

by Anna Forrester March 4, 2015, 10:10 am
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Bruce Tanner: Lockheed Eyes Int’l Sales Target of 25%

Lockheed MartinÂ wants its international sales to reach 25 percent of the company’s total revenue over the next few years in a move to mitigate the impact of shrinking defense spending, the Washington Post reported Friday. Bruce Tanner, Lockheedâ€™s chief financial officer, told Post reporterÂ Amrita Jayakumar that a majority of thatÂ revenueÂ is tiedÂ to contracts the U.S. government […] More

by Jay Clemens February 23, 2015, 12:03 pm
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HP’s Stacy Cleveland: DoD Eyes Match Between Security Requirements, Commercial Cloud

The Defense Department is working to develop additionalÂ security standards and practices forÂ the commercial cloud that are tailored to protect sensitive and classified information, C4ISR & Networks reported Friday. John Edwards writes that the agencyÂ is looking to adapt commercial cloud security to fit DoD requirements for hosting its data. Stacy Cleveland, vice president of global practices […] More

by Anna Forrester February 23, 2015, 9:29 am