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  • Ensco-PositiveID Team Selected for Phase 2 of DHS’ Biothreat Detection Tech Program
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    Ensco-PositiveID Team Selected for Phase 2 of DHS’ Biothreat Detection Tech Program

    Ensco and PositiveID will collaborate to produce a biothreat detection system for the Department of Homeland Security under the second phase of DHS’ SenseNet Program. PositiveID said Monday it will provide the company’s Firefly Dx automated threat detector while Ensco will perform system integration and decision support services under the program. The Interior Department awarded the Phase II contract to the team on behalf of DHS. William […] More

  • ManTech to Help Analyze Navy Aircraft Systems
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    ManTech to Help Analyze Navy Aircraft Systems

    ManTech International has been awarded an $8 million contract to provide engineering and technical support services for all U.S. Navy aircraft platforms and associated systems. The company will conduct reliability, maintainability, testability, quality assurance, diagnostic and system safety analyses throughout the life cycle of naval aircraft systems, the Defense Department said Monday. Work will occur through May […] More

  • Mike White Named Johns Hopkins APL Air & Missile Defense Sector Head
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    Mike White Named Johns Hopkins APL Air & Missile Defense Sector Head

    Mike White, mission area executive for air and missile defense at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory since 2005, has been appointed to lead the APL’s air and missile defense sector. The 35-year APL veteran will succeed Conrad Grant, who has led the sector for 11 years before he was named as the lab’s chief engineer earlier this year, […] More

  • First Command Appoints Retired Navy, Marine Corps Officers to Military Advisory Board
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    First Command Appoints Retired Navy, Marine Corps Officers to Military Advisory Board

    Retired military officers Alford McMichael and Charles Clarke have joined First Command Financial Services as members of the company’s military advisory board. McMichael and Clarke will provide independent advice on military trends and the financial needs and products and services that affect military families as part of First Command’s 10-member board, the company said Monday. They will also […] More

  • ISC Govt Advisory Council Adds 8 New Members; Dan Waddell Comments
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    ISC Govt Advisory Council Adds 8 New Members; Dan Waddell Comments

    ISC has added eight government and industry professionals to the nonprofit organization’s U.S. Government Advisory Council. Members of the council advise the ISC executive management team on cybersecurity-related government policies and programs as well as professional certification matters, ISC said Tuesday. The USGAC also sponsors community outreach initiatives such as the ISC Government Information Security Leadership Awards, the U.S. Government […] More

  • Air Force Research Lab, Eccrine Systems Partner to Develop Non-Invasive Sweat Sensing Tech
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    Air Force Research Lab, Eccrine Systems Partner to Develop Non-Invasive Sweat Sensing Tech

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded Eccrine Systems a $3.96 million contract to help the military service branch’s research organization develop a non-invasive sensor technology that will work to monitor human sweat for specific molecular biomarkers. Eccrine said Wednesday it will collaborate with the University of Cincinnati on the project as well as use the Air Force Research Laboratory’s testing tools at […] More

  • Day & Zimmermann Nabs Potential 10-Year $950M Contract to Supply Temporary Help for Tennessee Valley Authority
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    Day & Zimmermann Nabs Potential 10-Year $950M Contract to Supply Temporary Help for Tennessee Valley Authority

    Pennsylvania-based engineering and construction company Day and Zimmermann has secured a potential 10-year, $950 million contract to supply workers and temporary personnel in case of outages at the Tennessee Valley Authority‘s nuclear power plants, Times Free Press reported Friday. Dave Flessner writes the contract workers will serve to help TVA address increased workloads at the nuclear plants during refueling and […] More

  • Florida-Israel Business Accelerator Partners with SOCOM to Develop Technology, Systems
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    Florida-Israel Business Accelerator Partners with SOCOM to Develop Technology, Systems

    The Florida-Israel Business Accelerator has entered into a partnership with the U.S. Special Operations Command to develop new technologies in support of Socom’s science and technology directorate at the Special Operations Forces Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Center. The company said Sunday it will provide Socom with medical, biometrics, mobility, cyber-security, remote sensor power and energy technologies, materials, components, material […] More

  • SES GS Secures Contract to Provide O3b Satcom Services to DoD End User
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    SES GS Secures Contract to Provide O3b Satcom Services to DoD End User

    The government services subsidiary of SES has landed a contract to provide O3b Networks‘ satellite communications technology to a Defense Department customer. The O3b satcom service uses a satellite beam that operates within 200 milliseconds per roundtrip and consists of a 155 Mbps link, gateway access, terrestrial backhaul, a 2.4m AvL terminal and installation, operations and maintenance services, SES said Monday. The company added the U.S. […] More

  • Cubic Awarded Navy, Marine Corps Aviation Training Support Task Order
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    Cubic Awarded Navy, Marine Corps Aviation Training Support Task Order

    Cubic Corp. has received an estimated five-year, $80 million task order from the Naval Air Warfare Center to support aviation training functions across the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps a.e The company said Monday it will deliver F/A-18 and EA-18G aviation training device and simulator operations and maintenance support at Naval Air Station Oceana, Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, NAS […] More

  • ULA Eyes Reusable 2nd Stage for Future Rocket to Support Orbital Activities
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    ULA Eyes Reusable 2nd Stage for Future Rocket to Support Orbital Activities

    United Launch Alliance is developing a reusable rocket stage that would stay in low Earth orbit and support activities in space, Quartz reported Saturday. Tim Fernholz writes ULA CEO Tory Bruno said a fleet of the company’s future Advanced Cryogenic Evolved Stage will work to support large-scale LEO activities as the company envisions a future in which humans […] More

  • Invisio to Provide Tech for Army Program on Tactical Comms & Hearing Protection System
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    Invisio to Provide Tech for Army Program on Tactical Comms & Hearing Protection System

    Invisio has secured an additional estimated $1.2 million order from the U.S. Army to provide technology in support of the Tactical Communication and Protective System modernization program. The company said Thursday it will deliver the TCAPS technology within 2016. TCAPS is a hearing protection and communication modernization program the Army oversees with the program executive office for soldiers. Invisio […] More