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  • Kay Sears Named Lockheed Space Systems VP for Strategy & Business Devt; Rick Ambrose Comments
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    Kay Sears Named Lockheed Space Systems VP for Strategy & Business Devt; Rick Ambrose Comments

    Kay Sears, former president of Intelsat General and a 28-year satellite communications industry veteran, has been named vice president of strategy and business development at Lockheed Martin‘s space systems segment. Her appointment takes effect April 4 and she will oversee the organization’s strategic planning, expansion initiatives, advanced technology development and work with commercial and government customers in her […] More

  • Booz Allen, Operation Homefront Name 1st Military Child Innovation Award Winner
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    Booz Allen, Operation Homefront Name 1st Military Child Innovation Award Winner

    Booz Allen Hamilton and nonprofit organization Operation Homefront have named a 17-year-old girl from North Carolina as the first recipient of the Innovation Award for Military Children. The award seeks to recognize children of uniformed personnel for their efforts to address local and global challenges through innovative projects, Booz Allen said Monday. Elizabeth O’Brien from Aberdeen, […] More

  • Kelly Goggin, Mark Redford Take New Roles at Constellation West; Lisa Wolford Comments
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    Kelly Goggin, Mark Redford Take New Roles at Constellation West; Lisa Wolford Comments

    Constellation West has promoted Kelly Goggin, a former legislative liaison of U.S. Cyber Command, and Mark Redford, a former U.S. Air Force officer, to new roles within the company. The company said Thursday  Goggin, previously a director of business development, will support strategic BD and execute programs for existing contracts with the federal sector and other markets in her new senior BD director […] More

  • GovCon Industry Execs Included in Virginia Business’ 50 Most Influential List
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    GovCon Industry Execs Included in Virginia Business’ 50 Most Influential List

    The trade publication Virginia Business has released the 50 Most Influential Virginians list that includes some prominent executives in the government contracting industry. The list included some of the Northern Virginia Technology Council‘s board members including SAIC President and CEO Tony Moraco, NVTC said Tuesday. NVTC added that representatives of the organization’s board member companies recognized in the […] More

  • Report: Fortinet, Intel Move to Help Combat Online Crime
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    Report: Fortinet, Intel Move to Help Combat Online Crime

    Fortinet has established a Network Security Academy in a push to help address a shortage of cybersecurity professionals, San Jose Mercury News reported Tuesday. Pete Carey writes the academy seeks to collaborate with several universities worldwide to train students to thwart sophisticated threats. “We’re going help those students be armed with the necessary skill set, whether they are getting […] More

  • Ball Aerospace Selects Vanguard to Produce Landsat 9 Instrument Structures
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    Ball Aerospace Selects Vanguard to Produce Landsat 9 Instrument Structures

    Ball Aerospace & Technologies has selected satellite component manufacturer Vanguard Space Technologies to produce structures for the NASA Landsat 9 project to collect baseline data for a map of Earth’s land cover. Vanguard will make baseplate structural assemblies and mounting struts for the OLI-2 Instrument that consists of construction, attach points and metallic fits to mount the telescope and other […] More

  • BAE, Nexter Systems JV Delivers New Cannon System to UK Defense Ministry
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    BAE, Nexter Systems JV Delivers New Cannon System to UK Defense Ministry

    CTA International, a joint venture between BAE Systems and Nexter Systems, has delivered a new cannon system to the U.K. defense ministry’s Ajax and Warrior vehicle platforms. CTAI handed over the first delivery of 515 40-millimeter cannons that fire cased telescoped ammunition, BAE Systems said Monday. The ammunition is contained in a straight tube and is designed […] More

  • Seagate, Los Alamos Lab Enter Supercomputer Data Archiving Tech R&D Agreement
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    Seagate, Los Alamos Lab Enter Supercomputer Data Archiving Tech R&D Agreement

    Seagate Technology and Los Alamos National Laboratory have entered a cooperative research-and-development agreement to study a new storage tier both entities believe could help supercomputers at the lab house data at reduced energy usage rates. Seagate said Monday it will collaborate with LANL to create a power-managed disk and software system and design the technology to archive large volumes […] More

  • CSSI to Maintain FAA Database, Application Tools; Cynthia Castillo Comments
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    CSSI to Maintain FAA Database, Application Tools; Cynthia Castillo Comments

    CSSI has received a five-year, $15.8 million task order to help develop and maintain databases and application management tools for the Federal Aviation Administration. The company will work to update the agency’s Simplified Program Information Reporting and Evaluation system used to oversee and manage nearly 200 acquisition programs, CSSI said March 14. “We’re looking forward to […] More

  • Johns Hopkins APL Team Develops Datacasting Tech for First Responders; John Contestabile Comments
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    Johns Hopkins APL Team Develops Datacasting Tech for First Responders; John Contestabile Comments

    Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory has developed a new technology for first responders to gather information during crisis with the use of public television station frequencies. APL said Monday it created the datacasting tool for the Department of Homeland Security‘s first responder group with the goal to transmit video and other data across a wide area. “Datacasting […] More

  • Saab Unveils AESA Radar Offering for Maritime Security Sector; Gene Bojarski Comments
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    Saab Unveils AESA Radar Offering for Maritime Security Sector; Gene Bojarski Comments

    Saab has rolled out a three-dimensional naval radar technology the company designed to help maritime users perform air and surface surveillance operations. The Sea Giraffe 1X active electronically scanned array radar is built to integrate with small patrol ships and requires a small number of line-replaceable units and little power to operate, Saab said Tuesday. “Traditionally, smaller patrol […] More

  • NIH to Add Small Biz Spots on $20B IT GWAC Program
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    NIH to Add Small Biz Spots on $20B IT GWAC Program

    The National Institutes of Health plans to add more vendors to a potential $20 billion small business set-aside contract vehicle that covers information technology support services for NIH and other federal agencies. NIH said March 14 in a FedBizOpps notice it will accept proposals from companies who aim to win positions on the agency’s Chief Information Officer-Solutions and Partners […] More