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Wayne Lucernoni, president of Harris information technology services, has indicated that the business unit is working to establish its presence in the market beyond the company’s telecommunications brand, the Washington Business Journal reported Monday. Jill Aitoro writes that Lucernoni pointed to current campaigns in the healthcare and intelligence sectors and efforts to streamline bidding for future projects. Lucernoni said Harris’ IT services unit aims to focus on […] More

This year marks the first increase in overall federal contract spending since 2010, Deltek‘s Kevin Plexico wrote in a Washington Post piece published Sunday. Plexico, vice president of information solutions at Deltek, estimates the departments of State and Commerce, Small Business Administration and Securities and Exchange Commission increased their spend on contracts by more than 20 percent […] More

Kristie Steel, a senior financial management subject matter expert at Binary Group, has recommended best practices for contractors to increase satisfaction among their government clients. An outcome-based approach to project delivery could help vendors accelerate time to value as well as avoid potential cost issues, Steel wrote in a blog post published Wednesday. She says […] More

A new MarketsandMarkets report predicts that the global industrial security systems market will achieve an 8.69-percent compound annual growth rate to reach a market value of $38 billion by 2020. The firm said Thursday that the report includes an analysis of the market based on system type, end user, service, component and geography as well as market drivers, restraints, […] More

EMC wants to build a data center and an office complex in Cork, Ireland, as part of an expansion effort, Data Center Knowledge reported Tuesday. Jason Verge writes EMC lodged an application with the Cork County Council last week to establish a new office campus next to the company’s Ovens research and development center. The […] More

Northrop Grumman has completed the first flight test for a U.S. Navy Fire Scout system off the Virginia coast. The MQ-8C system flew from the USS Jason Dunham guided-missile destroyer as it was controlled from the ship’s ground control station, the company said Tuesday. “We are on track to validate all of the critical performance parameters […] More

The U.S. Army has deployed a Raytheon-built blimp system over Maryland’s airspace as part of operational tests for the aerostat. The JLENS balloon carried thousands of feet above rural Maryland radar systems that are designed to detect cruise-missiles and drones, Raytheon said Saturday. “JLENS can detect potential threats at extremely long ranges, giving North American […] More