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General Dynamics CEO Phebe Novakovic said major restructuring within her company has led to backlog and margin increases despite reporting modest earnings early in her tenure, Washington Business Journal reported Wednesday. Jill Aitoro writes Novakovic has been busy “right-sizing†the firm since she assumed the top post in January 2013, consolidating functions and reorganizing workflows and systems, as well […] More
Cubic Corp. has received a $4.1 million contract option to continue to supply the U.S. Army instrumental-multiple integrated laser engagement tactical vehicle systems for the branch’s training exercises. The Army exercised the third option of an I-MILES TVS indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract the company won in 2010, Cubic said Thursday. I-MILES TVS employs a wireless vehicle technology that […] More
NTT DATA will deliver and implement an SAP data analysis and reporting platform for the transportation agency of New South Wales, Australia, under a $1.13 million contract, CRN reported Thursday. Transport for NSW chose NTT DATA to deploy the SAP Business Warehouse software for the agency’s enterprise resource planning system project, according to the report by […] More
Lockheed Martin has completed the second flight test for its missile guidance system in a move that Frank St. John, the company’s tactical missiles chief, says aims to help the U.S. Army reduce technology development costs. The joint air-to-ground missile dual-mode guidance section worked to acquire its target using a precision strike laser and destroyed the […] More
Microsoft is using open-source innovation hosting portals CodePlex and GitHub to share some of the firm’s software codes with the public, Nextgov reported Wednesday. Nikhil Sonnad writes that Microsoft provides developers access to its TypeScript programming language through Github and publishes OSS projects on the company-operated CodePlex site. The software company wrote on its Github […] More
API Technologies Corporation today announced it has won a new, $2 million task order to produce its radar warning receiver indicator solution. The power and security solution provider will assume production to be used for integration into an Electronic Warfare Management System, said API. No additional information is available due to security concerns. More
Stephan Thoma, formerly global director for learning and development at Google, has joined European Leaders as head of the company’s talent development division. He will oversee an organization that works to help technology firms develop talent and leadership in his new role, European Leaders said Thursday. “I want to bring the approach to talent development […] More
Kevin King, director of corporate communications at Verizon Enterprise, lays down four measures that he believes will help enterprises boost cloud security infrastructure. King wrote Wednesday that companies must ensure their cloud vendor has invested in physical and security systems, role-based controls and cloud security standards. “Proper security for cloud applications should include ongoing application […] More
Parsons‘ creative services team in Pasadena, California, has received two awards at the 35th Annual Telly Awards for its 2013 holiday video and a mobile applications video. The company said Wednesday the holiday video won the bronze award for art direction and the mobile apps video won a bronze award for copywriting. “These awards are a direct result of the […] More
Level 3 Communications Inc., today announced that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has selected the company to deliver local area network managed services for the agency within the National Capital Region through the Washington Interagency Telecommunications System (WTIS) 3 contract. The global telecommunications carrier will provide end-to-end solutions–cable installation, network design, engineering, monitoring and […] More
Red Hat and Cisco have opened a new Center of Excellence in India that offers their combined open source and enterprise cloud technologies to clients, PCQuest reported Wednesday. Included in the center’s offerings are OpenShift by Red Hat, Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform and Red Hat CloudForms, Adeesh Sharma writes. According to the report, the new center is […] More
CAE Inc. has been awarded a $32.5 million contract to upgrade the aircrew training system of Canada’s armed forces, Airforce Technology reported Tuesday. The company will provide CC-130J Hercules training simulators and courseware for the Canadian Armed Forces’ tactical airlift fleet program at the Canadian Forces Base Trenton in Ontario, according to the report. “The […] More
