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  • Tiffany Goddard: Citizen Engagement Key to Cities’ Public Works, Safety Goals
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    Tiffany Goddard: Citizen Engagement Key to Cities’ Public Works, Safety Goals

    Tiffany Goddard, a citizen engagement specialist at Carahsoft, has outlined how government organizations and citizens can work together to aid in public safety functions. Goddard wrote in a blog post published Friday that both public works and public safety organizations believe they need to change how they interact with citizens and information sharing. She cited Accela as one such company […] More

  • Research and Markets Forecasts Key Cloud Security Vendors Through 2020
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    Research and Markets Forecasts Key Cloud Security Vendors Through 2020

    Research and Markets has launched a market report entitled Global Cloud Security Market 2016-2020 which lists five key vendors in cloud security and predicts a compound annual growth rate of 20.91 percent during the covered period. The company announced Friday the contents of the new report and named Cisco, IBM, McAfee, Symantec and Trend Micro as the five top cloud security vendors. […] More

  • AECOM Appoints Rebecca Nolan EVP for Americas Region Buildings & Places Business
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    AECOM Appoints Rebecca Nolan EVP for Americas Region Buildings & Places Business

    Rebecca Nolan has joined AECOM as executive vice president for the engineering and construction company’s buildings and places business in the Americas region. The company said Friday Nolan will head a Chicago-based AECOM team of more than 2,000 architects, planners, engineers and interior designers, among others, under the position. Fred Werner, AECOM group president for design and consulting […] More

  • Report: Boeing Vet Richard Baniak to Join University of Missouri-St. Louis as CFO
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    Report: Boeing Vet Richard Baniak to Join University of Missouri-St. Louis as CFO

    Richard Baniak, chief financial officer of the air and space unit at Boeing‘s Phantom Works business, has been named vice chancellor for administration and CFO at the University of Missouri at St. Louis, the St. Louis Business Journal reported Friday. His appointment takes effect May 1 and he will succeed the retiring James Krueger, according to the report by Diana Barr. […] More

  • Inmarsat Highlights Global Xpress for Satellite 2016; Rupert Pearce Comments
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    Inmarsat Highlights Global Xpress for Satellite 2016; Rupert Pearce Comments

    Inmarsat CEO Rupert Pearce leads four other panel members from the company who will each participate in a separate talks throughout the four-day Satellite 2016 conference and exhibition this week in Maryland. The company will highlight latest tech and services such as the Global Xpress worldwide constellation that was completed in December designed to provide global […] More

  • World Wide Technology Wins Cisco Partner Award; Jim Kavanaugh Comments
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    World Wide Technology Wins Cisco Partner Award; Jim Kavanaugh Comments

    World Wide Technology has received a Cisco Partner Summit Global Award in recognition of the former company’s business practices and role it plays in the technology services industry. The company received the 2016 Solution Innovation Partner of the Year award at Cisco’s annual partner conference in California, WWT said Friday. “We are honored to receive these awards and continue to deepen […] More

  • Research and Markets: Global Small Drones Market to Reach $10B by 2020
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    Research and Markets: Global Small Drones Market to Reach $10B by 2020

    A new Research and Markets report has predicted the global small drones market to hit $10.04 billion in value by 2020 as demand for commercial application increases. Research and Markets said Wednesday defense and commercial sector operations and tasks that use small drones increase over the past 10 years following the advancements in payloads technology. […] More

  • Harris CapRock Unveils Cybersecurity System for Offshore, Oil & Gas IT
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    Harris CapRock Unveils Cybersecurity System for Offshore, Oil & Gas IT

    Harris CapRock Communications has introduced a cybersecurity system designed for oil and gas information technology infrastructures as well as maritime and cruise customers. “Security breaches and emerging threats to corporate networks are impacting the oil and gas market with greater cost and frequency as offshore operations rely more heavily on always-on communications networks,” said Harris CapRock […] More

  • Cobham Teams Up With 4 Firms to Seek Shenzhen Airlines Boeing 737-800 Certifications for Broadband Terminal
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    Cobham Teams Up With 4 Firms to Seek Shenzhen Airlines Boeing 737-800 Certifications for Broadband Terminal

    Cobham’s satellite communications business has teamed up with four companies to draft the Federal Aviation Administration supplemental type certificate to facilitate the use of the Aviator 300 SwiftBroadband system onboard Shenzhen Airlines’ Boeing 737-800 fleet The Cobham-built Aviator 300 terminal has an intermediate gain antenna and works to support broadband connectivity with data transmission of up to 332 […] More

  • Liquidity Services Wins DLA Bid for US Military Scrap Assets
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    Liquidity Services Wins DLA Bid for US Military Scrap Assets

    Liquidity Services has placed the winning bid in a U.S. Defense Logistics Agency auction event held Wednesday in search of a contractor to manage, purchase and sell scrap assets for the Defense Department. The DLA scrap contract contains a base period of three-years and two one-year options to extend work, Liquidity Services said Thursday. Scrap assets include property that has […] More

  • Decisive Analytics, Progeny Land ISR Data Processing Tech Contracts With Navy
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    Decisive Analytics, Progeny Land ISR Data Processing Tech Contracts With Navy

    Progeny Systems and Decisive Analytics have received separate contracts from the Office of Naval Research to help build tools for synchronization of the U.S. Navy‘s intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Thursday. John Keller writes ONR awarded $2.3 million to Decisive Analytics and $2.1 million to Progeny under the Exchange of Actionable Information at the […] More