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Patrick McBride, a former co-founder and CEO of META Security Group, has been appointed to serve as vice president of marketing and communications at iSIGHT Partners. McBride will be responsible for working to grow the company’s standing in the global threat intelligence market and expand the sales pipeline, iSIGHT announced Monday. “The next generation of […] More
DynCorp International has been selected to receive the Diamond Award for Excellence from the Federal Aviation Administration for the second consecutive year. Diamond Awards are presented to companies of which 100 percent of all eligible maintenance technicians complete FAA aircraft systems training in systems and regulations over one year, DynCorp announced Monday. The company was […] More
Harris Corp. is celebrating National Engineers Week with various programs for its 6,000 engineers and scientists. From Feb. 17 to Feb. 20, Harris will conduct technology demonstrations, seminars and contests for its engineers, the company announced Monday. Harris has invited Guy A. Boy, Florida Institute of Technology professor and Human-Centered Design Institute director, and Gregory […] More
Raytheon Co. is celebrating National Engineers Week with a line-up of programs geared towards helping students enjoy science, technology, engineering and math. The programs for the week support the company’s MathMovesU education program for students and faculty members across the country, Raytheon announced Monday. Some of the programs include live events and hands-on engineering activities […] More
Boeing has selected Galaxy Technologies Corp. as a recipient of a 2013 Boeing Performance Excellence Award. Galaxy was chosen for the award by maintaining a “Gold” composite performance rating of 100 percent for quality and delivery between October 2012 to September 2013, Galaxy announced Monday. Boeing picked 582 companies out of more than 10,000 suppliers […] More
Thales has been awarded a contract to provide the French Navy‘s Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier with two latest-generation identification friend or foe systems. Under the contract awarded by the French Defence Procurement Agency, Thales will install its BlueGate IG Systems to provide the French carriers with effective Mode 5 and Mode S capabilities, Thales […] More
World Wide Technology Inc. has deployed its disaster recovery system that consolidates data and voice systems at the Kansas City International Airport’s aviation department. Under the partnership, WWT deployed its Vblock Systems Infrastructure Platform to provide KCI with consolidated and virtualized systems, WWT announced. The Vblock system was used to establish a disaster recovery offering […] More
Rep. Derek Kilmer and the Washington State Procurement Technical Assistance Center will host a workshop Feb. 24 to discuss federal government contracting practices with state businesses and organizations. Jerome Punderson, Naval Sea Systems Command director of contracts, will serve as the keynote speaker for the event in the Carwein Auditorium at the University of Washington-Tacoma’s Keystone Building, […] More
Accenture has been awarded a one-year contract to refresh and maintain a human resources system for the public education system of Spain’s Junta of Andalusia. The system is built to contain payroll generation, teacher vacancies and substitutions information and other e-services for 100,000 teachers and 4,000 schools in the region, Accenture announced Thursday. Under the contract, […] More
Max Crumit has been appointed to serve as the new strategic project development director in the transportation business at CH2M Hill. In his new role, Crumit will handle the development of new international strategic opportunities for the unit’s aviation, bridge, highway, ports and rail market transportation offerings, CH2M Hill announced Monday. Crumit was most recently the […] More
The European land systems unit of General Dynamics has delivered four mobile bridge systems to New Zealand’s army to help cross gaps such as streams and rivers, UPI reported Thursday. The bridge systems were a joint purchase with the U.K.’s defense ministry. The purchase is part of a bigger equipment upgrade project that includes combat Earth-moving […] More
NetApp has awarded a value added reseller partner of the year award to World Wide Technology in the U.S. public sector category. WWT was given the award at NetApp’s partner summit held Dec. 11 at the Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., WWT announced Thursday. WWT won the award for its work in the delivery of […] More
