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  • Jacobs Designated Cisco Gold Partner; Darren Kraabel Comments
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    Jacobs Designated Cisco Gold Partner; Darren Kraabel Comments

    Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. announced Wednesday, it has achieved a gold certification as a partner of Cisco in providing telecommunication technology services to customers. “Cisco Gold status is a significant achievement for Jacobs, one that complements and enhances our value-added reseller and technology lifecycle management services,” said Darren Kraabel Jacobs Vice President. He also went on […] More

  • Serco-Led Alliance Introduces Business Mgmt Apprenticeship Program in UK
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    Serco-Led Alliance Introduces Business Mgmt Apprenticeship Program in UK

    Serco has partnered with 40 British universities and employers to create a degree-level apprenticeship program that offers business management training to U.K.-based workers. The company said Thursday that the British Department of Business, Innovation and Skills has approved the Chartered Manager Degree Apprenticeship with the goal of increasing the number of professional managers across the […] More

  • Glen Ackermann Appointed VP for Business Devt at Dynamic Aviation
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    Glen Ackermann Appointed VP for Business Devt at Dynamic Aviation

    Glen Ackermann, formerly senior director of business development at DynCorp International, has joined Dynamic Aviation as vice president of business development. “His leadership will be instrumental in successfully guiding the business development team and influencing the direction of the organization,” Michael Stoltzfus, president and CEO of Dynamic Aviation, said in a statement Thursday. Ackermann is a […] More

  • CA Technologies, RMIT University Receive Risk Research Grant from Australian Research Council; Steve Versteeg Comments
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    CA Technologies, RMIT University Receive Risk Research Grant from Australian Research Council; Steve Versteeg Comments

    CA Technologies and RMIT University have received a grant from the Australian Research Council to conduct a research on risk continuous authentication. The grantees began to carry out the research project in May with focus on risk adaptation and continuous verification, CA Tech said Tuesday. “This grant is about furthering our expertise through informed research and […] More

  • Jacobs Lands Turnaround Services Contract With Suncor Energy
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    Jacobs Lands Turnaround Services Contract With Suncor Energy

    Jacobs Engineering Group has won a five-year contract to provide piping, mechanical and other turnaround support services for Suncor Energy Services’ facilities in Canada. Jacobs said Tuesday it will carry out turnaround work at the energy company’s sites in Wood Buffalo, Alberta, during scheduled outages. Jacobs tapped at least 800 contractors and employees to complete […] More

  • OSI Systems Division Secures Follow-On Contract for Baggage Inspection Tools
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    OSI Systems Division Secures Follow-On Contract for Baggage Inspection Tools

    OSI Systems‘ security division has been awarded a $15 million contract to provide inspection systems for a government in Middle East for use in border and port security operations. Rapiscan Systems will supply its Eagle vehicle and cargo inspection tools and systems intended for parcel and baggage inspection under the follow-on order, OSI Systems said Tuesday. […] More

  • US Army Seeks Cyber Lab Technical Tools
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    US Army Seeks Cyber Lab Technical Tools

    The U.S. Army is looking for technical tools from industry as part of efforts to develop a Fort Gordon, Georgia-based cyber laboratory, FCW reported Tuesday. Sean Lyngaas writes the Army’s cyber battle lab is meant to accommodate experimentation with a new warfare domain. The lab is scheduled to begin operation in October, according to the […] More

  • Oracle Unveils New Retail Science, Analytics Cloud Offerings; Jill Puleri Comments
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    Oracle Unveils New Retail Science, Analytics Cloud Offerings; Jill Puleri Comments

    Oracle has introduced new cloud-based retail science and retail analytics services in an effort to help retailers extract insights from data. Retail organizations will be able to allocate product sale in multiple stores and oversee the way products are displayed, marketed and priced, Oracle said Wednesday. “Oracle retail science cloud services and retail insights cloud […] More

  • Lockheed Martin Demos C4ISR, EW Using Open Systems; John Clark Comments
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    Lockheed Martin Demos C4ISR, EW Using Open Systems; John Clark Comments

    Lockheed Martin has completed a demonstration flight with the goal of testing the company’s open mission systems payloads for the U.S. Air Force. The company integrated multiple radios and waveforms into a U-2 Dragon Lady to facilitate communications relay between an F-22, F-18s and a long-range antiship missile surrogate platform, Lockheed Martin said Wednesday. “This […] More

  • Skyport Systems Launches SkySecure Partner Program; Carahsoft’s Michael Shrader Comments
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    Skyport Systems Launches SkySecure Partner Program; Carahsoft’s Michael Shrader Comments

    Skyport Systems has launched its partner program to support managed security service providers, technology resellers and system integrators by providing access to education and training materials and marketing resources. The company said Tuesday the SkySecure Partner Program also offers the Skyport Flight Plan evaluation program, sales and technical tools, and demand generation activities as well as utilizes partner […] More

  • Johns Hopkins University Receives NSF Grant to Train Students on Cybersecurity
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    Johns Hopkins University Receives NSF Grant to Train Students on Cybersecurity

    The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded Johns Hopkins University a five-year, $2.2 million grant to educate graduate students about methods to identify and guard information technology systems against cyber threats. JHU’s Information Security Institute will use the money for cybersecurity training of up to four students every year through the university’s master of science […] More

  • Boeing Tests Ka-band Inmarsat-5 F2 Satcom Service; Jim Mitchell Comments
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    Boeing Tests Ka-band Inmarsat-5 F2 Satcom Service; Jim Mitchell Comments

    Boeing is close to wrapping up the initial tests of a Ka-band offering intended to provide satellite communications to agencies under the Defense Department through Inmarsat’s Global Xpress satellite network. The tests sought to assess the capability of the Inmarsat-5 F2 satcom service to facilitate video and data transmission on military helicopters and mobile terminals, Boeing said Tuesday. The […] More