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  • ISC Invites Speakers to Annual Cybersecurity Training Event; Dan Waddell Comments
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    ISC Invites Speakers to Annual Cybersecurity Training Event; Dan Waddell Comments

    ISC has called on speakers from government, academia and industry to address the company’s annual cybersecurity training event in May at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington. The 4th ISC CyberSecureGov will focus on prevention, detection and resilience and speakers will address various issues such as cloud security, threats, critical infrastructure protection, automation, incident […] More

  • Parsons Manager David Warner Joins Seattle’s Minority Business Advisory Panel
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    Parsons Manager David Warner Joins Seattle’s Minority Business Advisory Panel

    David Warner, manager of western sector road and highway projects at Parsons, has been appointed to serve on the city of Seattle’s advisory committee on women- and minority-owned business enterprises. He will support the city government’s efforts to promote equity in municipal contracting activities, Parsons said Wednesday. “Diversity is one of Parsons’ core values, and we continue to […] More

  • AFEI Presents Enterprise Information Awards; Booz Allen’s Greg Wenzel Comments
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    AFEI Presents Enterprise Information Awards; Booz Allen’s Greg Wenzel Comments

    The Association for Enterprise Information has given the 2015 Excellence in Enterprise Information Awards to the National Nuclear Security Administration, Institute for Defense Analyses and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. The awards are for NNSA’s G2 Enterprise Information Management System, IDA’s Automated Information Triage for Rapid Decision Making project with the Defense Department and NGA’s Agency […] More

  • Parsons to Present at 2016 Digital Bond S4 Conference; Mary Ann Hopkins Comments
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    Parsons to Present at 2016 Digital Bond S4 Conference; Mary Ann Hopkins Comments

    Parsons will deliver a presentation titled “Moving Engineering Firms to Cyberspace” at the Digital Bond-hosted S4 security conference as one of the sponsors of the three-day event. The 2016 S4 conference will be held from Jan. 12 to 14 in Miami Beach, Florida, and will tackle security issues related to industrial control systems and supervisory control […] More

  • Deloitte Forecasts 3% Growth for Global A&D Sector’s 2016 Revenue
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    Deloitte Forecasts 3% Growth for Global A&D Sector’s 2016 Revenue

    A Deloitte report predicts global revenues of the aerospace and defense market will climb 3 percent this year after the industry experienced a 0.5 percent revenue decline during 2015. The professional services firm said Tuesday an increase in military budgets and a resurgence of security threats worldwide are among the forces that will drive A&D sales in the […] More

  • Air Force Taps Aerojet Rocketdyne to Work on 3-D Printed Rocket Engine Qualification Standards
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    Air Force Taps Aerojet Rocketdyne to Work on 3-D Printed Rocket Engine Qualification Standards

    Aerojet Rocketdyne will work with the U.S. Air Force develop standards for the qualification of 3-D printed rocket engine components under a $6 million contract awarded as part of the Booster Propulsion Technology Maturation broad agency announcement. The company said Tuesday it will work to leverage its experience with additive manufacturing processes and technologies to support the service branch’s […] More

  • Syn-Tech Lands Potential $92M Navy Fuel Mgmt System Support Contract
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    Syn-Tech Lands Potential $92M Navy Fuel Mgmt System Support Contract

    Syn-Tech Systems will provide support services for the FuelMaster fuel management systems under a potential six-year, $91.9 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Navy. The Defense Department said Tuesday Syn-Tech will provide technical, installation and sustainment services for automated FuelMaster fuel service stations, fuel dispensing systems and other equipment at 507 international sites. The contract has a base period of one year […] More

  • Kratos Subsidiary Awarded Additional Stratcom Geolocation, RF Interference Detection Support Work; Greg Caicedo Comments
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    Kratos Subsidiary Awarded Additional Stratcom Geolocation, RF Interference Detection Support Work; Greg Caicedo Comments

    A subsidiary of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions will offer radiofrequency satellite monitoring and interference detection services to one of the components of the U.S. Strategic Command under the expanded contract. SAT Corp. will also provide geolocation and mitigation support for the Joint Functional Component Command for Space, Kratos said Tuesday. Greg Caicedo, a vice president and general […] More

  • UTC Completes 1st Sonar Dome Window Delivery to Navy
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    UTC Completes 1st Sonar Dome Window Delivery to Navy

    A business unit of United Technologies Corp. has handed to the U.S. Navy the first sonar dome window for integration with the service branch’s cruisers, destroyers and other vessels under a five-year contract. The UTC Aerospace Systems-built rubber-based sonar dome window works to protect the naval ship’s sonar transducer array and help the vessel detect […] More

  • Fluor JV Wins Phoenix Loop 202 Freeway Design-Build Project
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    Fluor JV Wins Phoenix Loop 202 Freeway Design-Build Project

    A Fluor joint venture has been awarded a contract from the Arizona Department of Transportation to design and construct an approximately 22-mile highway around the Phoenix metropolitan area. Connect 202 Partners will begin construction of the Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway in summer and is scheduled to complete work in late 2019 or early 2020, Fluor said Tuesday. The freeway will have one high-occupancy vehicle lane […] More

  • ArmorSource Completes 1st Article Tests on US Army Combat Helmets; Yoav Kapah Comments
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    ArmorSource Completes 1st Article Tests on US Army Combat Helmets; Yoav Kapah Comments

    ArmorSource is scheduled to deliver combat helmets to the U.S. Army this spring after it concluded the first article testing on the protective equipment. The Lightweight Advanced Combat Helmet AS-505 is designed to protect the human body from back-face deformation and fragmentation and projectile threats, ArmorSource said Tuesday. ArmorSource CEO Yoav Kapah said the 3-pound helmet […] More

  • DOE, Battelle Partner for Deep Borehole Drilling Research Project
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    DOE, Battelle Partner for Deep Borehole Drilling Research Project

    A Battelle-led consortium has been chosen by the U.S. Energy Department to help study the feasibility of creating deep-borehole repositories in crystalline rock formations. The consortium will drill a more than 16,000-foot hole through a rock formation located near Rugby, North Dakota, in an effort to examine the potential use of boreholes for high-level radioactive waste disposal or geothermal energy development, the […] More