Archive for August, 2009
Raytheon Announces Third-Generation of Cross-Domain Guard
By Shalini Dua at 31 August, 2009, 3:14 pm
Raytheon has announced the release of a new version of its High-Speed Guard cross-domain information-sharing solution aimed at government organizations. The firm promises that the latest version will be more economical, reducing hardware costs up to 75 percent and that it will be up to 625 percent faster, with peak performance increased to 5 gigabytes [...]
Read More >>$23.5 Million Task Order Awarded to American Systems
By Shalini Dua at 31 August, 2009, 2:29 pm
The Naval Facilities Engineering Command Specialty Center Acquisitions (NAVFAC SCAN) in Port Hueneme, CA, under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), has awarded Chantilly based, American Systems a task order worth approximately $23.5 million as part of an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity award already in place. The task order is firm-fixed price and calls for [...]
Read More >>Brad Antle Founds Salient Solutions LLC
By Raj Sethi at 31 August, 2009, 2:12 pm
Led by CEO Brad Antle, newly-formed Salient Solutions LLC is set to compete for acquisitions in the government services industry.
Antle previously served as the president and CEO of SI International for three years, until it was bought by Serco in 2008. He’s not the only former SI International executive to dive into this new venture, [...]
Teresa Taylor takes over as COO for Qwest
By Raj Sethi at 31 August, 2009, 2:09 pm
On Monday, Business markets group head Teresa A. Taylor was appointed to fill the recently-vacated chief operation officer position at Qwest Communications International, Inc.
The move was made necessary after former COO Thomas E. Richards, who served for the past 13 months, left his post to accept an offer to become the president and COO of [...]
IBM’s Latest Foray into Green Technology: Lithium-Air Batteries
By Jack Mann at 28 August, 2009, 2:37 pm
Big Blue has launched an ambitious battery project with the a goal of commercializing an experimental battery technology — lithium metal-air — in order to acheive over ten times the energy density of today’s best batteries. This week, IBM will host a gathering of some of the world’s top researchers in the field, including auto company researchers and [...]
Read More >>Robert Gates to Tour Lockheed Martin F-35 JSF Production Plant
By Jack Mann at 28 August, 2009, 2:25 pm
Defense Secretary Robert Gates will visit a Lockheed Martin Corp (LMT) manufacturing facility that builds the F-35 fighter aircraft, the Pentagon’s costliest arms purchase program, a move that highlights its strategic importance to the DoD.
Gates will speak to reporters at the Lockheed plant in Fort Worth, Texas, and then pay a visit to a Greenville, Texas L-3 [...]
Naval Air Systems Command Presents Commander’s National Award to Lockheed Martin
By Jack Mann at 27 August, 2009, 11:35 am
Lockheed Martin and other members of the Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissance Aircraft (MPRA) Acoustic Commonality Team have received a Commander’s National Award from the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR). The Commander’s National Award is presented in honor of technical, business and leadership excellence to NAVAIR’s teaming partners. Lockheed Martin’s award was in the research, development, test and evaluation [...]
Read More >>NJVC Raises $14K For Laptops for the Wounded at Company Golf Tournament
By Jack Mann at 27 August, 2009, 11:16 am
NJVC raised $14,000 for Laptops for the Wounded, a nonprofit organization that provides webcam-equipped laptops to wounded veterans in military hospitals, at the company`s seventh annual golf tournament. The funds will help wounded warriors recuperating at hospitals such as Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
The tournament was held on June 26 at the Pleasant Valley Golf Course in [...]
Altegrity Names Savannah-Chatham Chief of Police Michael Berkow President and COO of Altegrity Security Consulting
By Jack Mann at 26 August, 2009, 4:43 pm
Altegrity Inc has appointed the Chief of the Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department, Michael Berkow, President and COO of Altegrity Security Consulting ASC, a new business unit at Altegrity. ASC will provide services and products including training, information, and consulting to law enforcement agencies and government, in the United States and overseas. Berkow will report to William [...]
Read More >>Fortisphere Names Siki Giunta President and CEO
By Jack Mann at 25 August, 2009, 4:03 pm
Fortisphere has named Siki Giunta its President and CEO. Giunta will bring over 20 years of corporate guidance and enterprise IT management software experience to bear in order to accelerate Fortisphere’s growth and strategically guide its expansion in the rapidly expanding virtualization market.
Previously, Giunta served as president and CEO of Managed Objects, a business service management software provider acquired by Novell [...]
