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PEOPLE
QinetiQ North America has named Gary Slack president and chief operating officer, marking the second high-profile promotion that the company has made in two months.
In the middle of February, the company
named JD Crouch CEO
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AIR FORCE
EMC Corp. has won a four-year, $22 million task order contract to provide support and development services to the U.S. Air Force.
These services will support instrumentation loading, integration, analysis and display, enterprise test data management system, Odyssey, and supplies to Air Force test customers.
Work will take place in Irvine, Calif., and is expected to be completed April 2, 2017.
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NIH
Five contractors have won a five-year, $184 multiple-award contract to provide information technology support services to the National Institutes of Health's National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute .
The winners are:
- Science Applications International Corp.
- Booz Allen Hamilton
- Paragon
- Sapient
- SRA International
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CDC
SRA International has won a three-year, $18 million contract to provide IT support services to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Office of Infectious Diseases.
Under the contract, SRA will support the management and integration of the office’s Laboratory Information Management System, the company said in a release.
Work under the contract will cover all phases of the system's software development lifecycle, SRA said.
The Laboratory Information Management System is a configurable system for tracking clinical specimens, ordering tests, and reviewing and releasing results.
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UAVs
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions’ Unmanned Systems Solutions division has won $11.5 million contract for specialty products to support unmanned aerial system and other programs.
The company could not name its customer or be more specific about the products being sold.
The division produces unmanned aerial systems and drones, electronics, avionics, ground control and support products and equipment.
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ARMY
Lockheed Martin has won a five-year, $146 million task order contract to design an advanced simulation-based training system for the U.S. Army.
The system will ensure Army, joint and coalition leaders are prepared to act in an evolving operational environment.
The Joint Land Component Constructive Training Capability system will support training exercises that replicate operational scenarios.
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If you’ve spent four years as the CIO of a government agency with a $3.5 billion IT budget, and during that time, you've built a reputation for making some groundbreaking decisions about how you manage that budget, then you’d have plenty of choices among the biggest contractors in the market for your next job
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NAVY
NAVMAR Applied Sciences has won a $17 million order for engineering, integration, and other services for the ongoing development of sensors and systems in support of the Special Operations Command’s naval aviation missions.
Under the cost-plus-fixed-fee order, the company will provide engineering, integration, system maintenance/repair services and training, according to a Defense Department announcement.
Work will be performed in Johnstown, Pa., and is expected to be completed by March 2015.
Roughly $7.1 million in funds will be obligated at the time of the award, and $4.4 million will expire at the end of fiscal 2013.
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PEOPLE
Lockheed Martin has named three new members to its Lockheed Martin Australia board of directors as part of the company’s international growth strategy.
One of the appointments is Sondra Barbour, the new executive vice president of Lockheed Martin Information Systems & Global Solutions. She took over the post after Linda Gooden stepped down on April 1. Gooden retires on May 1.
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OPINION
The crabby budget negotiations, or lack of negotiation, make it seem as if everything in Washington is at an impasse. But some earnest back and forth among stakeholders in, and the authors of, the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act, or FITARA, have resulted in a new draft with significant changes.
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