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    BAE Holds Prime Spot on DHS EAGLE II Contract

    BAE Systems is one of 15 companies that hold a prime position on a potential seven year, $22 billion contract covering information technology services for the Department of Homeland Security. The company is competing to provide systems, software and related IT support to DHS under the Enterprise Acquisition Gateway for Leading Edge Solutions II vehicle, BAE announced […] More

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    ITT to Sponsor China Engineering Development Program

    ITT Corp. will sponsor an event in China aimed at building up engineering talent in the country’s manufacturing and engineering industry. The company is partnering with the Science and Technology Daily and TusPark Co. Ltd. for the engineering talent development program and innovation competition, ITT said Thursday. Jing Yang, league secretary of Science and Technology Daily, said […] More

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    Benson Schliesser Named Brocade Distinguished Engineer

    Benson Schliesser has been appointed a distinguished engineer within the chief technology officer’s office at Brocade Communications, The VAR Guy reported Thursday. Chris Talbot writes that Schliesser joins the company from Juniper Networks, where he served as a distinguished engineer and director of the CTO office’s platform systems division. Schliesser has also served as the chairman […] More

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    General Dynamics Information Technology Wins 2013 Secretary of Defense Logistics Award; Bernie Guerry Comments

    The information technology business unit of General Dynamics has been chosen by the Office of the Secretary of Defense to receive the performance-based logistics award for 2013. General Dynamics Information Technology won the award for its work on the U.S. Marine Corps. combat operating center program, the company announced Thursday. The company and the Marine Corps Systems […] More

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    Elbit Systems Wins $15M to Upgrade Israel’s Hercules Aircraft

    Elbit Systems has won a two-year $15 million contract for additional capbilities for the C-130H Hercules transport aircraft used by the Israeli Air Force. The award is a follow-on to a contract from the Israel Ministry of Defense awarded in 2012, Elbit Systems announced Wednesday. The upgrade intends to help the Israeli Air Force meet […] More

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    Thales, Allianz Partner for Insurance Policy Against Cyberattacks

    Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty SE announced that it has partnered with Thales to offer companies a comprehensive insurance policy related to cyberattacks. The Allianz Cyber Data Protect will cover the cost incurred from responding to a cyberattack, rebuilding the damaged information systems and losses from the service interruption, Thales announced Wednesday.  Under the partnership, Thales […] More

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    Red Hat Names Autonomic Partners Small/Medium SI Partner of the Year

    Red Hat named Autonomic Resources as its partner of the year award in the small/medium system integrator category during the Red Hat North America Partner Conference in Scottsdale, Ariz. Autonomic won the award for its SI public sector capabilities, highlighting its platform-as-a-service ARCWRX, solution, the company announced Wednesday. The ARCWRX was based on Red Hat’s […] More

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    Raytheon Launches STEM Scholarship Program; Kevin Peppe Comments

    Raytheon Co. has launched a $125,000 scholarship program aimed to help students pursuing a four-year degree related to science, technology, engineering and math or any related field. The Raytheon- Zumwalt Scholarship, established through the Anchor Scholarship Foundation, is also meant to honor Adm. Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr., a former chief of Naval Operations, Raytheon announced […] More

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    BAE Cyber Business Detica To Be Renamed Applied Intelligence

    BAE Systems will rename its cybersecurity business unit Detica as the defense and aerospace company looks to expand its footing in markets beyond the public sector, Bloomberg reported Thursday. Robert Wall writes that Detica will become BAE Systems Applied Intelligence at the end of the month. BAE will offer network security management services to government […] More

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    Airbus To Open New Headquarters in France; Tom Enders Comments

    Airbus Group has started construction of a new office campus in five hectares of land next to the Blagnac Airport in Toulouse, France. The new campus will house the company’s headquarters, a building for support and shared services, a security control room, a canteen, fitness center, concierge and welfare services, the company announced Tuesday. The […] More

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    Unisys Completes Beta Testing for New Computing Platform

    Unisys Corp. has completed the beta testing of its new enterprise computing platform with Aspasiel s.r.l., a Terni, Italy-based information technology solutions and infrastructure services company. During the testing, Unisys was able to migrate Aspasiel’s SAP ERP applications to the lower-cost Forward! by Unisys platform from IBM Power 770 mainframe in just a few days, […] More

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    IBM Ranks First in U.S. Patents for the 21st Straight Time; Bernie Meyerson Comments

    IBM said that in 2013, its inventors have received 6,809 patents, the 21st consecutive year that the company ranked first in the annual list of patent leaders in the country. Some of the company’s patents for 2013 include inventions for the Watson supercomputer, neuromorphic and synaptronic spiking neural network and an automated validation and execution […] More