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The Pentagon has imposed new standards on the traceability of electronic parts in all defense contracts in order to avoid fake components from getting into military systems, the Washington Business Journal reported Tuesday. Jill Aitoro writes the Defense Department’s final rule, published in the Federal Register, requires companies to adopt a counterfeit detection and avoidance […] More

Unisys has unveiled a new security appliance that the company designed to encrypt sensitive data and make enterprise networks inaccessible to unauthorized users, Network World reported Monday. David Strom writes that Unisys’ Stealth product works by cloaking communication endpoints to keep hackers out of the network. The company built the platform for use with 64- […] More

Ciber has been selected by the State of Nevada Gaming Control Board to modernize a records system used for storing data required in monitoring gaming organizations and to provide system migration services. Under the contract, Ciber will provide project management, develop system requirements, design documents and custom applications, implement user acceptance testing and manage data migration, the […] More

Jacobs Engineering Group has won a three-year contract to help Nesma & Partners manage construction work on five hospitals for the Saudi Arabian National Guard Hospital Program. Jacobs said Tuesday it will help manage design and construction of a 300-bed maternity hospital in Riyadh, a 346-bed children’s hospital and 176-bed neurological hospital in Jeddah and two 300-bed National Guard hospitals […] More

A subsidiary of Teledyne Technologies has won a potential $17.6 program to help carry out a technology transfer and flight hardware upgrade program for NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Teledyne Energy Systems will implement the Technology Maturation Program at JPL to turn skutterudite thermoelectric materials into flight-like components, the company said Tuesday. NASA and the company intend to develop a new Multi […] More