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    Lockheed, UAE Space Agency, Mubadala Unveil Aerospace Workforce Training Program; Nabil Azar Comments

    Lockheed Martin, the United Arab Emirates’ space agency and investment firm Mubadala have introduced a new development program with the goal to train future aerospace industry leaders in UAE. Generation Space: The Space Fundamentals Training Program will provide training in space foundations to early career professionals across the UAE aerospace industry over the next four months, Lockheed said Wednesday. […] More

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    Triple-i to Sponsor Advanced Technology Academic Research Center’s Federal DevOps Summit

    Information Innovators Inc. will sponsor a one-day symposium by the Advanced Technology Academic Research Center that will discuss the potential impact of DevOps and Agile methodology on the federal government. The ATARC Federal DevOps Summit will feature Pramod Malhotra, Triple-i’s software engineering and technical solutions director, as host for the second session of the Mitre-ATARC Collaboration Symposium segment, Triple-i said Monday. The event will […] More

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    LMI Employees Receive DHS ‘Building Partnerships Award’ With National Urban Security Tech Lab Teammates

    The Department of Homeland Security has awarded a government-industry team that includes Kris Dooley, Abby Hooper and Steve Vargas of LMI the Building Partnerships Award. The LMI acquisition and financial management professionals are part of a group that worked with the National Urban Security Technology Laboratory within the DHS science and technology directorate’s office of national laboratories, the company said Tuesday. […] More

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    NASA Seeks Academic Concepts for Spacecraft Assembly Methods in Space

    NASA wants ideas from teams of undergraduate and graduate students in fields related to human space exploration as part of the agency’s 2017 Breakthrough, Innovative and Game-changing Idea challenge. The agency said the competition seeks concepts on how to assemble spacecraft as they are in space and in particular tugs that use solar electric propulsion to transfer payloads from low-earth orbit to […] More

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    Former Salesforce Exec Adam Bosworth to Take Senior Role at AWS

    Adam Bosworth, formerly an executive vice president at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), is set to take a senior position at Amazon Web Services (Nasdaq: AMZN), Fortune reported Wednesday. Barb Darrow writes Bosworth most recently took charge of Salesforce’s software development projects such as an Internet of Things initiative called Thunder. Bosworth previously served as a vice […] More

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    Cynthia Niekamp, Daniel Heinrich Added to Ball Corp. Board of Directors

    Cynthia Niekamp, a former PPG Industries senior vice president, and Daniel Heinrich, former The Clorox Company executive vice president and chief financial officer, have joined Ball Corporation‘s board of directors. “They share our values, and the breadth of their industry, operational and financial experience is the perfect complement to our current board makeup as we continue […] More

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    NCI to Offer Big Data & Analytics Services Under 1st Task Order for $2.5B CMS Contract

    A subsidiary of NCI has received the first task order worth $76.8 million from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to apply big data and analytics to help detect and prevent fraud, waste and abuse among Medicare and Medicaid claims within the Midwestern jurisdiction. The company said July 28 the covered jurisdiction includes Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio and Wisconsin. […] More

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    Northrop, Embry-Riddle Offer 1st Airworthiness Engineering Graduate Study Program

    Northrop Grumman and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University have collaborated to offer the first airworthiness engineering graduate study program scheduled to launch in January 2017. Graduates of the program will gain a Certificate of Study in Airworthiness Engineering, Northrop said Wednesday. The specialized technical curriculum is designed to answer the needs of the company’s government, military, civil and commercial aeronautics […] More

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    Paul Stewart Joins ZMicro as Programs Director; Jason Wade Comments

    Paul Stewart, an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance industry veteran and former senior executive at ForceX, has joined computing systems firm ZMicro as director of programs. He will oversee the lifecycle management of ZMicro’s programs with the Defense Department, ZMicro said Thursday. “Paul brings a tremendous depth of expertise in ISR and DoD program management,” said Jason Wade, president of […] More

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    HPE Names Software-Defined & Cloud Group Lead, Storage Business Chief in Series of Exec Moves

    Hewlett Packard Enterprise has made a set of leadership changes in its hybrid information technology and storage businesses. Ric Lewis, senior vice president and general manager of converged data center infrastructure at HPE, will lead the firm’s software-defined and cloud group, HPE said Monday. These appointments come after HPE announced plans in May to merge its […] More

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    Avi Pfeffer Appointed as Charles River Analytics Chief Scientist; Karen Harper Comments

    Avi Pfeffer, formerly a principal scientist at Charles River Analytics, has been named chief scientist of the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based defense and intelligent systems developer. He brings 20 years of probabilistic modeling and programming technology research and development experience to his new role, Charles River Analytics said Thursday. Karen Harper, president of Charles River Analytics, said Pfeffer will lead […] More

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    Lockheed-Led C2BMC Team Gets MDA Tech Achievement Award for Missile Defense System Software Algorithms

    A Lockheed Martin-led command, control, battle management and communications team has received the 2016 Ronald Reagan Missile Defense award from the Missile Defense Agency in recognition of its efforts to develop software algorithms in support of the Ballistic Missile Defense System. Vice Adm. James Syring, MDA director, handed the technology achievement award to Lockheed’s C2BMC team […] More