US Army Orders 12 Additional Airbus Lakota Helicopters A North America-based subsidiary of Airbus has been awarded a $65.8 million contract to produce 12 additional UH-72A Lakota helicopters for the U.S. Army. Airbus Group Inc. will configure the helicopters as initial entry rotary-wing trainers and begin to deliver the products to the Army in August 2017 under the new contract option, the company said Thursday…

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Vencore Selects StorExcel to Develop NASA Content Mgmt System Vencore has subcontracted systems integration services provider StorExcel to develop an integrated storage and content management tool based on Quantum Corp.’s storage platform for installation at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center…

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Los Alamos National Lab to Use D-Wave Computer for Quantum Annealing Research; Mark Anderson Comments D-Wave Systems will install a quantum computing platform at Los Alamos National Laboratory early next year to support the lab’s research collaboration efforts with universities and within the Energy Department…

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Universal Technology to Advise US Air Force Research Directorates The U.S. Air Force has awarded Universal Technology Corp. a $37.6 million contract to advise the military service on research and technology initiatives. Universal Technology will assist in the Air Force Research Laboratory space vehicles and directed energy directorates’ professional engineering and management work under the contract, the Defense Department said Thursday…

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OPM Gives DHS Hiring Authority for 1,000 Cyber Personnel The Office of Personnel Management granted Schedule A excepted service authority to the Department of Homeland Security in September to hire up to 1,000 new cybersecurity personnel. In a notice posted Tuesday on the Federal Register, OPM stated that the hiring authority is valid through the end of June 2016 or when the Border Patrol Agency Pay Reform Act regulations become effective…

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DOE: 3 Natl Labs Form Supercomputing Tech Development Alliance Three Energy Department-funded research centers have forged a partnership that aims to increase scientists’ access to supercomputer technology in efforts to address scientific, national security and environmental problems…

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Beth Cobert: OPM, DoD to Open Verification Center for Possible Federal Breach Victims The Office of Personnel Management and the Defense Department have partnered to establish a verification center where federal and contractor employees can check whether they are affected by the OPM data breaches, Federal News Radio reported Tuesday…

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Treasury Sec. Jack Lew: US, UK Coordinate to Bolster Financial Service Cybersecurity Several U.S. and British government and financial services industry representatives held a tabletop exercise Thursday as they seek to create a shared understanding of cybersecurity incident response, data sharing and public communication issues…

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