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    Northrop Grumman Conducts Cyber-Focused Activities; Diane Miller Comments

    Northrop Grumman held several activities in the summer that aimed to promote cybersecurity careers among high school and college students. The company conducted cyber camps from June through August in Colorado and Virginia, and on-the-job training for high school and college interns in partnership with local universities and high schools, Northrop said Tuesday. Northrop also launched the […] More

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    Mitre to Support Auburn University’s Drone Pilot Training Program

    Auburn University has partnered with Mitre to carry out a training program for unmanned aerial system operators, Tech Alabama reported Tuesday. Travis Leder writes Mitre will help the university’s UAS flight school to familiarize itself with drone-related regulations established by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration. Additionally, Mitre and the University of Virginia have collaborated to build […] More

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    The Open Group’s O-TTPS Gets ISO/IEC Int’l Standard Status; Andras Szakal Comments

    The Open Group‘s Open Trusted Technology Provider Standard has received approval as an ISO/IEC International Standard for the security and integrity of commercial off-the-shelf information and communications technology products and supply chains. The consortium said Tuesday the new ISO/IEC 20243:2015 standard works to help COTS ICT providers prevent the introduction of tampered or counterfeit product components at any stage […] More

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    Jim Noe Appointed to SVP Role at Constellis

    Jim Noe, formerly president of Eon LLC, has joined Constellis Group as senior vice president of training and mission support. Noe was most recently responsible for the acquisition and integration of three companies into a single operating division at Eon, Constellis said Monday. Constellis Group is the parent company of ACADEMI, Edinburgh International, Olive Group, Strategic Social […] More

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    Raytheon, NAVSEA Officials Tour LCR Embedded Systems’ Pennsylvania HQ

    Raytheon and Naval Sea Systems Command executives visited LCR Embedded Systems’ Norristown, Pennsylvania-based headquarters on Aug. 11 to check on LCR’s engineering, electronics design and manufacturing operations. LCR said Monday it collaborated with Raytheon to develop the hardware component of the AN/SPY-1 radar for the Navy’s Aegis Combat System installed on surface ships. Nissen Isakov, president […] More

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    Jacobs Supervises New Jersey Turnpike Road Guide Sign Construction; Randy Pierce Comments

    Jacobs Engineering Group has been awarded a $26 million contract to oversee the engineering and construction of New Jersey Turnpike’s roadwide guide sign. The company has already begun to replace roadway sign panels, install new sign structures, relocate existing cantilever sign structures, build the foundations for new and relocated structures and install roadway safety features, […] More

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    CSG Government Solutions Participates in 2015 Medicaid Enterprise Systems Conference

    Several state healthcare and human services professionals from CSG Government Solutions attended last week’s Medicaid Enterprise Systems Conference in Iowa to discuss issues concerning Medicaid systems and initiatives. The company said Tuesday the participants delivered presentations or spoke in panels about topics such as Medicaid enrollment systems, standards compliance, privacy and security measures, and the Medicaid Information Technology Architecture. Andrea Danes, director […] More

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    Ray O’Farrell Named VMware CTO, Chief Development Officer

    Ray O’Farrell, formerly general manager of VMware‘s software-defined data center division, will assume the combined role of chief technology officer and chief development officer. The company said Wednesday O’Farrell succeeds Ben Fathi and will be in charge of the CTO team and manage the research and development business units. “He brings extensive and invaluable experience in […] More

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    Day & Zimmermann Exec Robert Brooks Joins NSC Board of Delegates

    The National Safety Council has appointed Robert Brooks, senior director of environmental health and safety at Day & Zimmermann, to serve on the nonprofit organization’s board of delegates. “I look forward to collaborating with the other delegates and the board of directors to serve the NSC’s mission to save lives by preventing injuries and deaths […] More

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    Relmond Van Daniker Named to National Association of State Auditors, Comptrollers and Treasurers Hall of Fame; Hank Steininger Comments

    Relmond Van Daniker, managing director of state and local government practice at H.J. Steininger PLLC, has been named to the National Association of State Auditors, Comptrollers and Treasurers Hall of Fame. NASACT will induct Van Daniker at its 100th Anniversary State Night Gala, H.J. Steininger said Wednesday. “Dr. Van Daniker is long known in the […] More

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    Timothy Romenesko Named Vice Chairman at AAR

    Timothy J. Romenesko, chief operating officer of the expeditionary services segment at AAR, has been named vice chairman at the Illinois-based defense and aerospace company. AAR said Wednesday David P. Storch, chairman and CEO of AAR, will take over as president while Romenesko will continue to serve as COO of the business segment and strategic […] More

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    Unisys Receives GCN Award for Philadelphia CRM Project; Mark Forman Comments

    Unisys has won a Government Computer News Award for the company’s work on Philadelphia’s customer relationship management project. Unisys was the systems integrator for the Philly311 project that is designed to provide citizen access to the city’s services via telephone, Internet, mobile application and social media, Unisys said Wednesday. “Unisys congratulates the City of Philadelphia […] More