Government Technology

A tool developed by Three Wire Systems LLC to connect veterans with career coaches was has been nominated for an innovation competition run by the Northern Virginia Technology Council. Three Wire’s VetAdvisor platform will compete in the social category of the competition’s preliminary stage, the company announced Monday. The Washington Post’s Capital Business weekly business […] More

A storage platform developed by EMC contains data activity tracking features developed by STEALTHbits Technologies. STEALTHbits designs its products to serve as a source for unstructured data governance and reporting for EMC and RSA customers, STEALTHbits announced Tuesday. The data activity tracking feature is built to security professionals gauge controls of data security systems. “Our biggest customers […] More

Catapult Consultants LLC will demonstrate healthcare information technology products developed by Blue Ridge Networks under a marketing agreement signed by both companies. The HIMSS Conference is scheduled to take place Monday through Thursday in Orlando, Fla. and feature Blue Ridge’s mobile and zero-day malware tools, the company announced Friday. “For over a decade, Catapult Consultants has helped some of […] More

Aerojet Rocketdyne’s propulsion system, consisting of booster and upper-stage engines and spacecraft attitude control thrusters, has helped launch a military navigation satellite to space from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. its RS-68 booster engine, RL10B-2 upper-stage engine and 12 monopropellant hydrazine thrusters have propelled Boeing’s GPS IIF-5 satellite from United Launch Alliance’s […] More

Lockheed Martin is observing National Engineers Week by hosting programs to promote education and careers in the science, technology, engineering and math fields to students in the country. The company has signed a $6 million agreement with Project Lead the Way to expand STEM in various urban school districts, Lockheed announced Tuesday. “With an employee […] More

World Wide Technology Inc. has deployed its disaster recovery system that consolidates data and voice systems at the Kansas City International Airport’s aviation department. Under the partnership, WWT deployed its Vblock Systems Infrastructure Platform to provide KCI with consolidated and virtualized systems, WWT announced. The Vblock system was used to establish a disaster recovery offering […] More

Accenture has been awarded a one-year contract to refresh and maintain a human resources system for the public education system of Spain’s Junta of Andalusia. The system is built to contain payroll generation, teacher vacancies and substitutions information and other e-services for 100,000 teachers and 4,000 schools in the region, Accenture announced Thursday. Under the contract, […] More

Merlin International holds a prime position on a potential seven-year, $22 billion contract to help the Department of Homeland Security acquire information technology commodities from original equipment manufacturers. The $3 billion DHS FirstSource II contract has a five-year base period with two one-year option periods, Merlin announced Monday. FirstSource II is intended to connect DHS […] More

Inmarsat has designated the ESL Group as a value added reseller of the Global Xpress Ka-band mobile broadband satellite network to the government market in Europe. The agreement is intended to build on the companies’ nearly two-decade long partnership and a period where ESL was an Inmarsat Platinum Service Provider, Inmarsat announced Monday. ESL works […] More

The University of Utah in Salt Lake City used an Oracle-built project management system to help run two construction projects, according to a Friday report from Automated Trader. Melissa Centurio Lopes writes that the university used the Primavera Unifier to manage the large-scale projects and help deliver them before the scheduled deadlines. Paul Bender, Oracle director of […] More

Tripwire Chief Technology Cfficer Dwayne Melancon and Brian Honan, BH Consulting owner and CEO, are scheduled to discuss strategies for disrupting active cyber attacks at the RSA Conference. Melancon and Honan will host the 20-minute session on Feb. 27 at 3 p.m. Eastern time, Tripwire announced Saturday. “Cyberattacks are a fact of life and every CISO […] More

API Technologies Corp. has obtained a validation for a cryptographic module from the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The NIST issued the Federal Information Processing Standard Publication 140-2 to certify the API’s common cryptographic module as complying with information security regulations, API said Friday. Henry Gold, a general manager at API, said the module is […] More