Posts from ExecutiveBiz for 06/10/2016

CGI to Assess DoD Healthcare Mgmt System Modernization Program; Pat Dougherty Comments

CGI has received a task order to test and evaluate the Defense Department’s healthcare management system modernization initiative in an effort to help streamline healthcare delivery. The company said Friday it will work to verify the Joint Interoperability Test Command’s requirement for operational and interoperability testing of the DoD’s electronic health records system…

DCS Promotes Former BD Lead Jim Benbow to CEO; COO Randy Washington Adds President Title

Jim Benbow, former chief business development officer at DCS Corp., has been promoted to the CEO post while Chief Operating Officer Randy Washington will add the title of president at the federal technical services contractor…

Orbital ATK Supports NASA Operation to Test SLS Booster Capacity at Extreme Temperatures

An Orbital ATK facility has started to host a NASA operation that will analyze a test version booster’s capacity to perform at extreme temperatures. NASA said Friday three large air-conditioning units began to continuously pump air at 25 degrees Fahrenheit through June 28 in an effort to hit reach the 40-degree cold temperature target for the Space Launch System booster…

Kratos to Help Update Pentagon’s Theater Medical Records System

The Defense Department‘s Joint Operational Medicine Information Systems organization has awarded Kratos Defense & Security Solutions a $23 million contract to provide integration services for a multiservice theater and shipboard medical records system…

Steve Jurczyk: NASA Aims to Send Payloads to Mars Through SpaceX’s Red Dragon

NASA plans to collaborate with SpaceX to use the company’s Red Dragon unmanned spacecraft concept to send payloads designed for technology demonstrations to Mars, Space News reported Thursday. Steve Jurczyk, associate administrator for NASA’s space technology mission directorate, said at the Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference that potential payloads could include resource utilization-based platforms that could potentially turn water on the Martian surface into potable water, oxygen, hydrogen or methane, Jeff Foust writes…

Air Force Maj. Gen. Lind Urrutia-Varhall Assigned to NGA as Operations Director

U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Linda Urrutia-Varhall — former assistant deputy chief of staff for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance in the Pentagon — has been assigned to a new role as director of operations for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency…

NASA to Launch Neutron Star Research Mission in February 2017

NASA‘s Kennedy Space Center in Florida has received the Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer technology the space agency aims to send to the International Space Station in February 2017 aboard a SpaceX cargo resupply spacecraft…

Drone USA to Buy West Coast Machine Parts Supplier Through Cash-and-Stock Deal

New York-based Drone USA has signed a letter of intent to buy an unidentified West Coast-based supplier of machine parts, spares and replacement tools to the defense and commercial sectors through a cash-and-stock transaction of an undisclosed sum…

Army Taps Eaton to Help Modernize Fort Gordon Electrical Power Systems

The Army Corps of Engineers has awarded Eaton a $20 million task order to provide engineering services and power distribution and control equipment for an electrical infrastructure modernization project at Fort Gordon in Georgia…

Biff Lyons: Parsons Seeks to Help Secure Critical Infrastructure as ICIT Fellows Program Member

Parsons has joined the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology’s fellows program that aims to grow the institute’s cybersecurity and infrastructure expertise. Biff Lyons, Parsons executive vice president and manager of the federal defense and security division; Josh Salmanson, senior business development director within the defense and security division; and Juan Espinosa, senior project manager, will represent the company to the institute, Parsons said Thursday…

Interset Secures In-Q-Tel Investment for User Behavior Analytics Platform

Intelligence community venture capital firm In-Q-Tel has made an investment in Interset to help the cybersecurity company further develop its user behavior analytics technology. Interset designed its platform to help organizations uncover insider threats and compromised accounts as well as minimize fall-positive security alerts, the company said Thursday…