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    Cryptocurrency Investor Digital Currency Group to Open New HQ in Connecticut

    Digital Currency Group, an investor in cryptocurrency and blockchain companies, is moving to a new headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut, from its current office in New York beginning in late 2022. The crypto investor’s relocation plan would potentially attract business investment in the state and result in the creation of hundreds of job opportunities within the […] More

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    General Dynamics Unit to Open New Facilities for Technology Shared Services

    General Dynamics’ information technology business unit is opening two new facilities in Texas and New Orleans in a push to expand its technology shared services offerings for government clients. The company said Wednesday the new office spaces will house its TSS teams that provide information technology support services to more than 135 government programs in […] More

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    Noblis Secures Patent for Multi-layer Simulation Technology; Chris Barnett Quoted

    Noblis has received a patent for a technology that works to develop highly scalable simulations of scenarios and infrastructures for data analysis and intelligence gathering support. The patented platform serves as the foundation of Noblis’ Metropolis of Things simulation engine that provides multi-layered models of city infrastructures to help developers gather actionable insights for decision […] More

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    General Atomics Completes System-Level Tests for MQ-9B SkyGuardian Drone Variant

    General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business has completed a series of system-level tests for the Protector RG Mk1 remotely piloted aircraft, which serves as a variant of the MQ-9B SkyGuardian RPA for the British air force. The defense company said Tuesday the future medium-altitude, long-endurance RPA underwent full-scale static strength, environmental and high-intensity radiated field testing, […] More

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    Mark Agerton Named Federal Sector SVP at Syft

    Mark Agerton, a more than 30-year veteran of the health care management industry, has joined Syft as senior vice president of federal sector, responsible for the segment’s sales and business development activities. In his new role, Agerton will manage the development and offering of platforms built to support inventory and supply chain management at military […] More

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    CAE Unveils Game-Based Image Generator for Virtual Training Systems; Dan Gelston Quoted

    CAE has introduced an image generation technology built to display immersive and realistic virtual environments for flight simulation training. Prodigy IG uses Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 3D creation tool and supports artificial intelligence for realistic scene content expansion, CAE said Monday. The new technology works to produce a synthetic representation of the world based on […] More

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    Health IT Industry Vet Tony Trenkle Joins Onyx Technology’s Advisory Board

    Tony Trenkle, former chief information officer for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, has joined the advisory board of Onyx Technology, a subsidiary of NewWave. Onyx Technology said Tuesday Trenkle brings more than two decades of experience in leading health information technology initiatives for commercial companies and federal government agencies, including the HITECH electronic […] More

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    CGI Establishes US IT Center Academy for Workforce Training

    CGI has launched a new initiative to broaden its workforce and upskill newly hired employees across its information technology centers in the U.S. Under the U.S. IT Center Academy program, CGI plans to initially recruit 1,000 new employees over the next 18 months and train them in key areas including cloud computing, data engineering and […] More

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    Lockheed Concludes Critical Design Review of Space Force’s Missile Defense Satellite System

    Lockheed Martin has compleyed a system-level critical design review for a new space-based missile warning satellite system it develops under a U.S. Space Force program. The Maryland-based aerospace company said Tuesday the Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared Geosynchronous Earth Orbit Block 0 program will include three satellites that will work to provide enhanced warning capabilities […] More

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    WidePoint Achieves FedRAMP Ready Status for Telecom Management Platform

    WidePoint‘s cloud-based telecommunications lifecycle management platform has obtained Ready status under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. The designation makes WidePoint a Ready vendor on the FedRAMP Marketplace for government agencies and moves its Intelligent Telecommunications Management System closer to achieving full authorization, the Fairfax, Virginia-headquartered company said Monday. ITMS is a customizable web […] More

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    Air Force Taps Blue Canyon to Develop, Test Micro-Satellite for Deep Space Missions

    Blue Canyon Technologies, a subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies, has secured a $14.6 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to develop and demonstrate a small satellite bus for operations beyond geosynchronous Earth orbit. The contractor will build a satellite capable of operating and maneuvering for up to three years in orbits beyond GEO under the […] More