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  • MRIGlobal Receives $63M Contract for National Toxicology Program
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    MRIGlobal Receives $63M Contract for National Toxicology Program

    MRIGlobal announced last week it has received a new $63 million, 10-year contract from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to provide analytical chemistry for the National Toxicology Program. MRIGlobal will provide chemical procurement, handling and analytical services in toxicology studies through the National Toxicology Program, examining chemicals found in consumer products and the characteristics […] More

  • Northrop Celebrates 25th Year of B-2 Bomber; Tom Vice Comments
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    Northrop Celebrates 25th Year of B-2 Bomber; Tom Vice Comments

    Northrop Grumman has celebrated the 25th year of its B-2 stealth bomber aircraft for the U.S. Air Force in a re-enactment of its first takeoff at the Air Force’s Plant 42 in Palmdale, California. The company said Thursday Plant 42 is where all B-2 aircraft were built and sent for programmed depot maintenance. According to Tom Vice, Northrop’s corporate vice […] More

  • Marty Beard Joins BlackBerry as COO; John Chen Comments
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    Marty Beard Joins BlackBerry as COO; John Chen Comments

    Marty Beard, formerly chairman and CEO of LiveOps Inc., has joined BlackBerry Ltd. as chief operating officer. Beard will oversee BlackBerry’s marketing, BlackBerry 10 application development efforts, customer care and quality operations, BlackBerry said Monday. He will also be responsible for establishing best practices and processes. “Marty brings extensive experience in operations, marketing and serving […] More

  • Salient’s Cindy Walker to Present Big Data Insights at IASA Event
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    Salient’s Cindy Walker to Present Big Data Insights at IASA Event

    Cindy Walker, vice president of Salient Federal Solutions’ data analytics center of excellence, is set to speak at an Insurance Accounting & Systems Association Inc. event on methods to extract value from big data. Walker will present the user side and elements of big data analytics, visualization tools and various approaches to gaining insights into […] More

  • Global Knowledge Trains IBM Business Partners on SoftLayer Tech; Ed Bottini Comments
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    Global Knowledge Trains IBM Business Partners on SoftLayer Tech; Ed Bottini Comments

    Global Knowledge has delivered learning services to help IBM’s business partners acquire skills around SoftLayer cloud services. Global Knowledge will provide training services on the fundamentals of SoftLayer technology through a two-day course of lectures and hands-on sessions, Global Knowledge said Thursday. “Through this program, our partners are gaining the skills they need to build […] More

  • New Research Sees 10% CAGR for U.S. Healthcare IT Market
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    New Research Sees 10% CAGR for U.S. Healthcare IT Market

    New RNCOS research has earmarked a compound annual growth rate of 10% for healthcare information technology in the U.S. from 2014 to 2018, thanks to greater collaboration among industry players, updated systems and tighter compliance rules. Increasing mergers and acquisitions activity also plays a role in the upbeat forecast as competing companies close ranks over […] More

  • NASA to Build New Addition at Kennedy Space Center
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    NASA to Build New Addition at Kennedy Space Center

    NASA has awarded a two-year contract to Hensel Phelps Construction Co., to begin construction on a new multi-story headquarters at the Kennedy Space Center in Orlando, Fla. The $64.8 million contract will allow for demolition of the Kennedy Industrial Area, saving Kennedy an estimated $400 million in the next 40 years through a 50 percent […] More

  • Unisys Partners with IBM, Deloitte to Centralize Pennsylvania’s Data Centers
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    Unisys Partners with IBM, Deloitte to Centralize Pennsylvania’s Data Centers

    Unisys will collaborate with IBM and Deloitte Consulting to consolidate seven data centers of Pennsylvania into a hybrid cloud platform under a seven-year, $681 million contract, eWeek reported Thursday. Jeffrey Burt writes Pennsylvania’s state agencies will have access to support services hosted in Unisys’ data centers for their infrastructures, storage, security and database services. Unisys […] More

  • David Harrold: BAE Systems Hopes US Army Would Buy Its Missile-Guiding Tools in 2015
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    David Harrold: BAE Systems Hopes US Army Would Buy Its Missile-Guiding Tools in 2015

    BAE Systems Inc. is upbeat the U.S. Army will ink an agreement to procure missile guidance systems worth $30,000 from the company in 2015, DoD Buzz reported Friday. Brendan McGarry writes the Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System kit works to transmit semi-active laser guidance and control to a 2.75-inch Hydra rocket. David Harrold, director of […] More

  • Teal Group Forecasts Continued Growth in Global UAV Market; Philip Finnegan Comments
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    Teal Group Forecasts Continued Growth in Global UAV Market; Philip Finnegan Comments

    Teal Group‘s 2014 market study on unmanned aerial vehicles indicates a projected $77 billion in global UAV spending over the next 10 years, with spending in the civil market rising alongside the military market’s continued dominance. Teal Group Director of Corporate Analysis Philip Finnegan and Senior Analysts Steve Zaloga and David Rockwell co-authored the report titled “World Unmanned […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls to Design Navy’s Amphibious Assault Ship; Brian Cuccias Comments
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    Huntington Ingalls to Design Navy’s Amphibious Assault Ship; Brian Cuccias Comments

    Huntington Ingalls Industries has won a $23.5 million contract to develop an amphibious assault ship for the U.S. Navy in compliance with the service’s cost-saving plan. Ingalls Shipbuilding division’s engineers and planners will work to design and construct the Navy’s amphibious assault ship LHA 8, Huntington Ingalls said Thursday. Brian Cuccias, Ingalls Shipbuilding president, said […] More

  • Thomas Bussing: Raytheon’s Mobile Range System Demos Tri-Band Technologies
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    Thomas Bussing: Raytheon’s Mobile Range System Demos Tri-Band Technologies

    Raytheon Co. has demonstrated its Mobile Range system’s tri-band telemetry antenna to test the technology’s reception and tracking capabilities. The system worked to track an AIM-9 missile onboard an F-18 Hornet aircraft through L-, S- and C-Band telemetry signals during a demonstration at Naval Base Ventura County in California, Raytheon said Thursday. ”Mobile Range’s test […] More