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Steve White, director of security and compliance at CenturyLink, has explained how the company safeguards customer data in collaboration with Vormetric. White wrote in a blog post published Wednesday that CenturyLink adopts a shared responsibility model for customer data. “In CenturyLink’s shared responsibility model, we provide not only account security, network security and physical security, […] More

BAE Systems has partnered with Alsalam Aircraft to establish a maintenance, repair and overhaul services center for Eurofighter Typhoon jets operated by Saudi Arabia’s military, Airforce Technology reported Wednesday. “The work we have completed as a partnership has been critical in working towards our Typhoon in-Kingdom industrialization objectives,” Andy Carr, managing director and CEO of […] More

General Dynamics has changed its Canadian subsidiary’s name to General Dynamics Mission Systems–Canada in an effort to emphasize the unit’s technology and service offerings for the country’s military. David Ibbetson, general manager of General Dynamics Mission Systems – Canada, said Tuesday the initiative reflects “our commitment to delivering these capabilities to the soldiers, sailors, airmen, cyber analysts, law […] More

A new Research and Markets report says an increase in demand for wireless and cloud technologies will help drive the healthcare cloud computing market to $12.65 billion in total value by 2020. The report sets the market’s compound annual growth rate at 20.1 percent from 2014 through 2020, Research and Markets said Wednesday. Research and Markets says North America become […] More

ProLog has been awarded a potential five-year, $79.5 million contract to provide logistics services for the U.S. Navy‘s depot-level aircraft maintenance program. The Defense Department said Monday that ProLog will perform majority of the work at the military branch’s Fleet Readiness Center in Jacksonville, Florida, and the rest at other naval aviation depots in the […] More

The Energy Department has issued a solicitation for industry partners to help facilitate the market readiness and commercialization of Sandia National Laboratories’ active authentication technologies. DOE said in a special notice posted June 26 on FedBizOpps that Sandia has worked to develop a Quasi-Physically Unclonable Digital ID that uses data scrambling to authenticate devices and counter digital […] More

This is part two of our chat with Kevin Kelly, LGS Innovations‘ CEO. Click here for part one. ExecutiveBiz: How would you describe the current state of the GovCon M&A market? What do LGS and other companies look for in potential targets? Kevin Kelly: It is very active. In the course of the last twelve months, LGS has looked […] More

A Chemring Group subsidiary has secured two contracts worth a combined $26 million to manufacture special material decoys for the U.S. military to guard aircraft from infrared guided missile threats. The Army awarded Chemring unit Alloy Surfaces a three-year contract for the production of M211, MJU50A/B and MJU-51A/B IR countermeasures for both the Army and […] More

Kevin Desouza, a nonresident senior fellow with the Center for Technology Innovation, has said new technologies are changing the way local governments perform their duties. Desouza wrote in a blog post for Brookings Institution published June 2 that driverless cards, digital currencies, artificial intelligence and unmanned aerial vehicles are some of the technologies that lead […] More