Posts from ExecutiveBiz for 05/24/2016

FedData Buys Intelligent Decisions’ Intelligence Businesses

Federal Data Systems has purchased two Maryland-based counterintelligence and intelligence business units from public sector services contractor Intelligent Decisions for an undisclosed sum in an effort to expand threat insider and critical infrastructure support services for commercial and government organizations…

Anthony Robbins Joins AT&T as Global Defense Public Sector Solutions VP; Kay Kapoor Comments

Anthony Robbins, formerly federal business vice president at Brocade, has joined AT&T (NYSE: T) as vice president of public sector services for the global defense market within the company’s business solutions unit…

Microsoft Aims to Help Combat Terrorism Through Online Strategies, Partnerships

Microsoft has outlined the steps the company plans to take with the use of digital technology and the Internet in an effort to help counter terrorist activities online. The company said Friday it seeks to tackle terrorism-related content posted on its web services while it maintains the users’ rights to privacy, freedom of expression and the right to access information…

Army Research Lab, Drexel University Partner for Aircraft Material Fatigue Modeling, Detection R&D

The Army Research Laboratory has partnered with Drexel University in Pennsylvania to explore methods to detect structural fatigue and stress problems in military aerial vehicles. ARL and the university also seeks to identify approaches to model the severity of aircraft material damage precursors as part of their cooperative research and development agreement, the U…

Whitescope to Build Wireless Comms Gateway for IoT Devices Under DHS Contract

The Department of Homeland Security‘s science and technology directorate has awarded a $200,000 contract to Whitescope to provide a wireless communications gateway that will work to secure Internet of Things devices…

Lockheed Transports Asteroid Sampling Spacecraft to NASA for Launch Preparations

Lockheed Martin has shipped its asteroid sampling spacecraft to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for final processing prior to the spacecraft’s launch toward an asteroid believed to hold answers about the solar system’s origin…

Fairfax County to Adopt Airbus 911 Call Handling Platform; Bob Freinberg Comments

Fairfax County, Virginia will install an Airbus-built call handling platform into the jurisdiction’s future 911 system for use by more than 1.1 million residents. Airbus said Monday it will provide the company’s Vesta 9-1-1 call handling platform to Fairfax County in support of the latter’s contract to General Dynamics for work to help develop, deploy, maintain and support a “next-generation” 911 network…

Sevatec Appoints Anantha Bangalore CTO

Sevatec has named Anantha Bangalore, former chief technical officer at Blackstone Technology Group, as chief technology officer to oversee the development of technology offerings and partnerships. The Fairfax, Virginia-based technology services contractor said Tuesday Bangalore brings with him 20 years of experience in information technology, most recently at BTG where he led technical strategy and services delivery…

DARPA Taps DRS Technologies to Update Focal Plane Arrays on Infrared Sensors

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded a contract to DRS Technologies to update the company’s ultra-small pixel infrared focal plane arrays under DARPA’s Lambda Scale program…

Carnegie Mellon University to Research, Develop Surveillance Algorithms for Navy

Carnegie Mellon University has been awarded an $8.9 million contract to research and develop new algorithms for the U.S. Navy’s aerial and biometric surveillance efforts. The Defense Department said Monday the university will research tracking, surveillance and identification systems intended to address challenges in resolution, occlusion, pose and aging as part of the UROPA-TSI program…

F-35 Joint Program Office Issues RFI on Knowledge-Based IT Services

The Defense Department‘s F-35 joint program office seeks information on potential vendors that can provide knowledge-based information technology support to F-35 Lightning II joint strike fighter and related air system programs…