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  • James Sanchez Joins Cubic as NEK Services Special Operations Medical Director; Jeffrey Keers Comments
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    James Sanchez Joins Cubic as NEK Services Special Operations Medical Director; Jeffrey Keers Comments

    James Sanchez, formerly chief master sergeant of the U.S. Air Force, has joined Cubic Corp. as special operations medical director of the company’s NEK Services subsidiary. He will be responsible for Cubic’s initiatives to expand the NEK specialized medical training offerings, Cubic said Tuesday. “James’ strong leadership and extensive background in medical training will be a […] More

  • McKesson Appoints Dave Schulte Managing Director for Venture Capital Fund
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    McKesson Appoints Dave Schulte Managing Director for Venture Capital Fund

    Dave Schulte, formerly a vice president and managing director at Kaiser Permanente Ventures, has joined McKesson‘s venture capital arm McKesson Ventures as managing director, effective Sept. 8. McKesson said Monday Schulte will work with Tom Rodgers, the fund’s senior vice president and managing director, on the development and management of its portfolio. “Dave is a well-respected, active investor in […] More

  • GSA Designates doForms as IT Schedule 70 Contractor; John Darienzo Comments
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    GSA Designates doForms as IT Schedule 70 Contractor; John Darienzo Comments

    The General Services Administration has designated doForms Inc. as an IT Schedule 70 contractor. Government agencies will have access to doForms software and other information technology products through the vehicle, doForms said Tuesday. “This Schedule 70 contract will expand our ability to work with federal, state and local agencies,” said John Darienzo, CEO of doForms. More

  • InfoZen Kicks Off Agile Development Education Initiative; Jeff Highman Comments
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    InfoZen Kicks Off Agile Development Education Initiative; Jeff Highman Comments

    InfoZen has introduced a new educational program intended to help agile development professionals establish DevOps best practices. The InfoZen DevOps University will offer federal officials and employees DevOps workshops tailored for developing, testing and monitoring a live application, InfoZen said Tuesday. “Students will learn how to blend patterns and practices to establish cohesive processes,” said […] More

  • Ian Kalin: Commerce Department, PayPal Partner to Help Expand US Exports
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    Ian Kalin: Commerce Department, PayPal Partner to Help Expand US Exports

    The Commerce Department has partnered with PayPal to identify information for U.S. businesses to decide where to focus their export strategies. The goal is to help expand the nation’s exports, Ian Kalin, chief data officer at the Commerce Department, wrote in a blog published Monday. The team identified opportunities in targeting benchmarks to business owners based […] More

  • Northrop Tests C2 Platform on RQ-4 Global Hawk; Michael Leahy Comments
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    Northrop Tests C2 Platform on RQ-4 Global Hawk; Michael Leahy Comments

    Northrop Grumman has completed a series of flight tests for its command and control platform aboard an RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aerial system. The flight test was carried out to assess the Control Mission Management System’s capability to connect to the U.S. Air Force’s Common Mission Control Center via the UAS CU Initiative message standard and respond to […] More

  • Acumen Releases Customer Communication Mgmt Platform for Govt Sector; Jay Tansing Comments
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    Acumen Releases Customer Communication Mgmt Platform for Govt Sector; Jay Tansing Comments

    Acumen Solutions has launched a new platform designed to help government agencies manage customer correspondence in print, on mobile and online. The Correspondence Management-a Salesforce Fullforce Solution for Government works to automatically route citizen service requests to the applicable lines of business, Acumen said July 31. “Public sector organizations spend countless hours managing important correspondence […] More

  • MDA to Extend Support for ISS Robotic Servicing System
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    MDA to Extend Support for ISS Robotic Servicing System

    MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates has received a $25.7 million contract modification from the Canadian space agency to continue its support for the Mobile Servicing System aboard the International Space Station. MDA said Tuesday the modification extends its support through the end of October 2017. The Canada-built Mobile Servicing System is a robotics suite that consists the Canadarm2, Mobile Base System […] More

  • Lockheed to Provide Commercial Launch Services for EchoStar’s Comm Satellite
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    Lockheed to Provide Commercial Launch Services for EchoStar’s Comm Satellite

    Lockheed Martin‘s commercial launch services subsidiary will support the launch of EchoStar‘s Jupiter 2 or XIX communications satellite in late 2016 aboard United Launch Alliance‘s Atlas V rocket. EchoStar said Wednesday the SSL-built EchoStar XIX is a Ka-band satellite that works to provide satellite Internet service to North American customers of HughesNet. The satellite will launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force […] More

  • Lockheed Receives DHS Cyber Services Accreditation; Rich Mahler Comments
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    Lockheed Receives DHS Cyber Services Accreditation; Rich Mahler Comments

    Lockheed Martin has received an authorization from the Department of Homeland Security to provide cybersecurity services to federal government clients. The company will have access to DHS’ classified cybersecurity threat data under the Enhanced Cybersecurity Services information sharing program to help the department protect organizations from cyber attacks, Lockheed said Monday. “We’ll integrate the Department of Homeland […] More

  • Navy Orders General Dynamics Digital Radios for Ships, Subs
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    Navy Orders General Dynamics Digital Radios for Ships, Subs

    General Dynamics has received a potential $29 million contract to supply digital modular radios and related tools to the U.S. Navy for new surface ships and submarines. The contract production of 56 units of AN/USC-61(C) DMRs with the Mobile User Objective System waveform that is designed to help place voice calls with the Defense Department’s MUOS narrowband satellite communications platform, the company said […] More

  • DRS Technologies Awarded Naval Communication, Missile Launch Tech Contracts
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    DRS Technologies Awarded Naval Communication, Missile Launch Tech Contracts

    DRS Technologies has announced three contracts the company was awarded provide digital combat, network communication and missile launching systems to the U.S. Navy. One contract has $96 million ceiling value over five years and covers work to produce, integrate and deploy the Common Display System Technology Insertion-12 for surface vessels, DRS said Monday. The Navy also awarded the company […] More