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Air Force Awards DRC Architecture Contract

Dynamics Research Corporation announced a task order award with an estimated value of $2 million by the Air Force Air Mobility Command (AMC). DRC will provide enterprise architecture development, maintenance and analysis. The award also calls for DRC to support enterprise system engineering, transportation, logistics and business support system domains. “We are pleased to continue [...]

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Executive Spotlight: John George, Vangent, SVP and CIO

John George is the senior vice president and chief information officer of Vangent. He joined the company in 2003 and since has been responsible for the company’s technology direction. He creates business-focused technology enabling solutions for Vangent’s clients and has expertise in enterprise architecture, eBusiness, Customer Relationship Management, strategy development, and systems and network integration. [...]

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Harris Gets $16M Order from DoD for Falcon III AN/PRC-117G Manpack Radios

Harris Corporation has received a $16 million order from the U.S. Department of Defense for additional Falcon III AN/PRC-117G  manpack radio systems supplying DoD forces with line-of-sight and beyond-line-of-sight tactical communications. The smaller and software designed AN/PRC-117G delivers situational awareness through voice, wideband data and mobile ad-hoc networking. It is the first JTRS Software Communications Architecture-certified and NSA [...]

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MITRE Operated R&D Center Renamed by Department of Defense

MITRE Corporation-operated Department of Defense Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence Federally Funded Research and Development Center has been renamed the National Security Engineering Center. MITRE’s role in operation remains unchanged. “The new name better reflects the broad spectrum of our work program for customers across the DoD and Intelligence Community and their mission partners,” said Raymond [...]

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SAIC Wins Contract for Biometrics

The Biometrics Identity Management Agency, part of the U.S. Department of Defense, has awarded SAIC a contract to continue its support with biometric services, the company announced this week. As part of the deal, SAIC will provide biometric enrollment and registration at entry ports in Iraq for the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility. The [...]

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URS to Support Naval Surface Warfare Center

The Naval Surface Warfare Center in Crane, Ind. has selected URS Corporation to provide technical and engineering support, the company announced today. The Navy award is worth up to $45 million and lasts for two years. URS will work on research, design, prototyping and lifecycle support for the Navy and Department of Defense’s Electronic Warfare [...]

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Harris’ CONNECT Software Wins WSJ Award

The Wall Street Journal has awarded its 2010 “Innovation Award” to CONNECT, an electronic health-record-sharing software developed by Harris Corporation. The aim of the software is to efficiently exchange patient information, reducing administration to improve patient care. The newspaper lauded CONNECT for being open source, easily adoptable by health care providers, and safely managing privacy [...]

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