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  • Gemalto to Help Colorado Agency Print, Secure State Driver's Licenses with Polycarbonate Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Gemalto to Help Colorado Agency Print, Secure State Driver’s Licenses with Polycarbonate Tech

    A Gemalto subsidiary has received a six-year contract to build a turnkey platform for the motor vehicles division of the Colorado Department of Revenue to produce state driver’s license and identification cards. Gemalto said Monday its unit Marquis ID Systems will also provide a central issuance and personalization system for the Colorado DMV to print polycarbonate-based IDs. The system will be […] More

  • Kroll Drafts 4 New Directors for Cybersecurity & Investigations Group; Tim Ryan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kroll Drafts 4 New Directors for Cybersecurity & Investigations Group; Tim Ryan Comments

    New York-based corporate investigations and risk consulting firm Kroll has named Devon Ackerman, Mari DeGrazia, Ron Dormido and Ray Manna as directors for its cybersecurity and investigations unit. Kroll said Monday the four were appointed as a part of the company’s push to meet demand in cyber investigations and advanced digital forensics services among clients. Tim Ryan, Kroll cybersecurity and […] More

  • Suzanne Wilson-Houck Appointed as INSA COO; Letitia Long Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Suzanne Wilson-Houck Appointed as INSA COO; Letitia Long Comments

    Suzanne Wilson-Houck, formerly vice president of business development at the Intelligence and National Security Alliance, has been appointed as the first chief operating officer of the public-private nonprofit organization. She will lead the alliance’s strategic direction, planning, marketing and business development initiatives in her new position, INSA said Friday. “Thanks to her leadership, business acumen, and commitment […] More

  • ViON Marketing SVP Elizabeth Anthony to Speak at IT Channel Conference for Women - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ViON Marketing SVP Elizabeth Anthony to Speak at IT Channel Conference for Women

    Elizabeth Anthony, ViON senior vice president of marketing, will deliver an address on the channel landscape at the Women of the Channel West 2016 event Tuesday in Napa, California. ViON said Monday Anthony will serve as co-host in a breakout session with CB Technologies CEO Kelly Ireland to discuss changes in the solution provider business model, the emergence […] More

  • Frederick Curry, Michael Shepard New Deloitte Anti-Money Laundering, Economic Sanctions Leaders - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Frederick Curry, Michael Shepard New Deloitte Anti-Money Laundering, Economic Sanctions Leaders

    Deloitte has appointed Frederick Curry III and Michael Shepard as leaders of the anti-money laundering and economic sanctions advisory practice and global AML, economic sanctions and financial crimes practice, respectively. Don Fancher, Deloitte global forensics leader, said in a release posted Monday, that senior AML professionals Curry and Shepard will work to help clients address growing risks posed […] More

  • Air Force Requests Info on Battlefield Air Operations Software Sources - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Requests Info on Battlefield Air Operations Software Sources

    The U.S. Air Force has begun its search for potential industry sources of a suite of machine-to-machine software programs that the service branch can use in battlefield air operations. The Air Force plans to incorporate data gathered through a request for information posted April 29 into the Air Force Special Operations Command’s Increment III Capabilities Development document set for […] More

  • Lockheed, MIT Form Autonomous Tech Research Partnership; Keoki Jackson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, MIT Form Autonomous Tech Research Partnership; Keoki Jackson Comments

    Lockheed Martin and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have agreed to jointly explore autonomous and robotic technologies under a partnership agreement the parties signed Friday. The company said Monday it will collaborate with the university’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics as well as Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory to engage the university’s faculty and students in human-machine teaming and navigation […] More

  • Leidos to Showcase Technologies at the GEOINT 2016 Symposium - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos to Showcase Technologies at the GEOINT 2016 Symposium

    Leidos will feature its automated geospatial intelligence technologies at the GEOINT 2016 Symposium this week at the Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center in Florida. The company will demonstrate a number of technologies designed to support GEOINT analysis, real-time small satellite and open source data integration and risk predictions, Leidos said Friday. This includes its Publicly Available Information […] More

  • BAE Systems: Cyber Attack Against Bangladesh Bank Linked to 2014 Sony Hack - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Systems: Cyber Attack Against Bangladesh Bank Linked to 2014 Sony Hack

    A report by BAE Systems has found that the cyber attack launched against the central bank of Bangladesh is associated with the data breach at Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2014, Reuters reported Friday. Jim Finkle and Sanjeev Miglani write BAE’s report says the malware used to steal $81 million from Bangladesh Bank’s account with the Federal Reserve Bank of New […] More

  • Navy to Launch AeroVironment UAS for Anti-Access, Aerial Denial Environments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy to Launch AeroVironment UAS for Anti-Access, Aerial Denial Environments

    The U.S. Navy has selected an AeroVironment-built unmanned aircraft system for deployment from submarines to operate in anti-access and aerial denial environments. AeroVironment built Blackwing for a joint capability technology demonstration sponsored by the Navy and U.S. Special Operations Command known as Advanced Weapons Enhanced by Submarine UAS against Mobile targets, AeroVironment said Monday. Kirk Flittie, vice president and general manager for AeroVironment’s […] More

  • Parsons Completes Solar Projects for California Eastern Municipal Water District - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Parsons Completes Solar Projects for California Eastern Municipal Water District

    Parsons has completed its solar projects for California’s eastern municipal water district in support of the latter’s sustainability and green energy initiative. Parsons worked to aid EMWD’s efforts to address rising energy costs through the construction of a solar photovoltaic renewable energy facility and five additional solar projects at EMWD’s regional water reclamation facilities, the company said […] More

  • BAE Systems Conducts 1,000th F-35 Vertical Landing - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Systems Conducts 1,000th F-35 Vertical Landing

    BAE Systems has completed the 1,000th vertical landing of a Lockheed Martin-built F-35B as part of an ongoing flight test program. BAE said Friday Peter Wilson – lead test pilot for the short takeoff and vertical landing variant of the F-35 — performed the landing at Naval Air Station Patuxent River six years after BAE pilot Graham Tomlinson conducted the first vertical landing. “Every day, […] More