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  • Larry Price: NASA, Navy, Lockheed Conduct Orion Spacecraft Retrieval Simulations
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    Larry Price: NASA, Navy, Lockheed Conduct Orion Spacecraft Retrieval Simulations

    Lockheed Martin, NASA and the U.S. Navy have finished a second round of simulated ocean recoveries for the Orion spacecraft, which is scheduled for its first unmanned test flight in December. The team practiced different methods and tried new hardware for retrieving the spacecraft after it descends to the Pacific Ocean later this year, NASA […] More

  • General Dynamics Subsidiary Licenses Security Software to Raellic Systems
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    General Dynamics Subsidiary Licenses Security Software to Raellic Systems

    General Dynamics‘ C4 systems business unit and technology startup Raellic Systems have entered into a licensing agreement covering a software product designed to protect computers against malicious threats. Raellic licensed the General Dynamics C4 Systems-made Pitbull trusted operating system and intends to pair the product with a Raellic communications security platform, Raellic said Wednesday. Pitbull […] More

  • Northrop Finishes Work to Manufacture NATO Ground Surveillance UAV’s Fuselage
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    Northrop Finishes Work to Manufacture NATO Ground Surveillance UAV’s Fuselage

    Northrop Grumman has completed its work to manufacture the fuselage for NATO’s Alliance Ground Surveillance unmanned aerial vehicle and is sending the fuselage to a plant in Palmdale, California for the final stages of production. In a notice posted July 28, NATO said the overall AGS Core system will have both ground and air segments. For the air segment, Northrop will provide […] More

  • Jeffrey Geiger: General Dynamics-Built Navy Submarine Undergoes Sea Trials
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    Jeffrey Geiger: General Dynamics-Built Navy Submarine Undergoes Sea Trials

    The U.S. Navy has completed alpha sea trials of a nuclear-powered attack submarine General Dynamics Electric Boat designed and built for the service. Navy and Electric Boat personnel tested North Dakota‘s ability to operate on and below the surface and evaluated its propulsion system’s mission capability, General Dynamics said Wednesday. “It was an outstanding effort […] More

  • MarketsandMarkets: Health Cloud Tech Market to See 20.5% CAGR Through 2017
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    MarketsandMarkets: Health Cloud Tech Market to See 20.5% CAGR Through 2017

    A MarketsandMarkets report on the healthcare cloud computing market forecasts the industry will enjoy a compound annual growth rate of 20.5 percent in the years leading up to 2017. Revenue for health-focused cloud offerings worldwide is projected to grow from $1.8 billion in 2011 to $5.4 billion in 2017, MarketsandMarkets said Tuesday. The report indicates […] More

  • John McGee Joins FireEye as Worldwide Sales SVP; David DeWalt Comments
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    John McGee Joins FireEye as Worldwide Sales SVP; David DeWalt Comments

    John McGee, formerly executive vice president for worldwide field operations at Informatica, has joined FireEye as senior vice president of worldwide sales. David DeWalt, chairman and CEO of FireEye, said Tuesday that McGee will focus on helping the company bolster its delivery of tools and services to protect customers from cyber attacks. McGee has previously served as president of Thunderhead and held sales leadership positions at […] More

  • ManTech Updates Endpoint Anti-Malware Platform; Raj Dodhiawala Comments
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    ManTech Updates Endpoint Anti-Malware Platform; Raj Dodhiawala Comments

    ManTech’s cyber services business unit has updated its endpoint malware protection platform in an effort to help clients detect and remedy compromised systems. ManTech Cyber Solutions International unveiled the second version of Active Defense platform, powered by its digital DNA technology, for users to identify in-memory zero-days, rootkits and targeted attacks, ManTech said Wednesday. “Active […] More

  • Marillyn Hewson: Lockheed Eyes 20% Mark for Int’l Sales
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    Marillyn Hewson: Lockheed Eyes 20% Mark for Int’l Sales

    Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson has described her company’s investments in emerging products and technologies that aim to help clients address affordability requirements in an interview with Defense News published Sunday. She also outlined Lockheed’s push to expand its business worldwide in the Q&A with Defense News Editor Vago Muradian. “We are driving to grow our international business. It is now 18 percent of our […] More

  • NCI Lands Army IT Support Contract Extension
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    NCI Lands Army IT Support Contract Extension

    NCI Inc. has won a $5.2 million task order to provide quality control and engineering services for a range of U.S. Army information technology systems globally. The company will also continue to support IT projects of the Army’s  Information Systems Engineering Command at military installations in the U.S., Europe and the Pacific, NCI said Tuesday. […] More

  • Scott Fuselier: General Dynamics Fidelis-CrowdStrike Team to Offer Clients Threat Intell
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    Scott Fuselier: General Dynamics Fidelis-CrowdStrike Team to Offer Clients Threat Intell

    General Dynamics Fidelis Cybersecurity Solutions will collaborate with CrowdStrike to offer Fidelis XPS customers access to threat intelligence that support measures to remediate, prevent, detect and attribute cyber attacks. CrowdStrike Intelligence Exchange will automatically send customers information on threat actors, such as behavioral patterns and common targets, for application onto historical and current network traffic, General Dynamics said Tuesday. “We […] More

  • Ball Aerospace, DigitalGlobe, Exelis, Lockheed Prep WorldView-3 Satellite for Launch
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    Ball Aerospace, DigitalGlobe, Exelis, Lockheed Prep WorldView-3 Satellite for Launch

    A commercial launch services team of Ball Aerospace & Technologies, DigitalGlobe, Exelis and Lockheed Martin has completed payload fairing assembly work on the WorldView-3 remote sensing satellite ahead of its scheduled launch next week. Ball said Tuesday the DigitalGlobe Earth observation satellite will launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base via the Atlas V launch vehicle to provide high-resolution satellite imagery and geospatial data for […] More

  • Chris Green: BAE Helps Clients Counter Money Laundering with Updated Offering
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    Chris Green: BAE Helps Clients Counter Money Laundering with Updated Offering

    BAE Systems’ applied intelligence division has updated its anti-money laundering suite in an effort to help customers comply with evolving regulations. The NetReveal anti-money laundering suite of products features modules to detect, prevent, probe and disclose money-laundering incidents, BAE Systems said Tuesday. Chris Green, managing director of financial crime at BAE Systems Applied Intelligence, said […] More