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Symantec Completes Exit From Hong Kong JV

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Symantec Corp. has sold its stake in a Hong Kong-based joint venture to its former Chinese telecommunications partner for $530 million, the U.S. security company announced Friday. The companies established Huawei-Symantec Technologies Co. Ltd. in 2008, with Symantec owning 49 percent and Huawei owning 51 percent. Huawei now maintains sole proprietorship of all the venture’s [...]

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CGI Secures $3M HHS IT Contract

The Department of Health and Human Services has awarded CGI Federal a $2.9 million contract for unspecified information technology and telecommunications services, the Washington Post reported Monday.

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Qwest Govt Services to Provide IT, Telecomm to VA

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded CenturyLink‘s subsidiary Qwest Government Services a $2.1 million contract to provide information technology services, the Washington Post reported today. IT services will include telecommunications work. The Post did not release any more contract information.

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Telcordia to Present New Products at DISA Customer and Industry Forum 2011

Photo: Brent Greene, Telcordia

Telcordia is among one of many firms to attend and present telecommunications engineering and software improvement solutions at the DISA Customer and Industry Forum 2011. The forum takes place in Baltimore next week and will also feature industry experts and decision-makers from military services and combatant commands. The firm will present multiple demonstrations of three [...]

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Northrop Grumman Wins Communications Contract with RAF

The European subsidiary of Northrop Grumman, Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems, has won a contract with the U.K. Ministry of Defense (MoD) to provide its base in Afghanistan with communications technology. The transmitter and receiver equipment will be tested in the U.K. before being installed in air-traffic control systems at Camp Bastion Airfeld in Helmand [...]

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PODCAST: Federal CTO Aneesh Chopra on federal funding for technology projects

For anyone looking for federal funding for technology projects, US Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra has this advice: Apply, even if your idea doesn’t seamlessly fit into a federal program’s specifications. “Great ideas get funded regardless of rules,” said Chopra this past Friday, following a presentation at The City Club of Cleveland. He was speaking [...]

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Congressman Jim Langevin on Cybersecurity

In the wake of Obama’s release of Melissa Hathaway’s 60-day cyberspace policy review and his announcement that he will appoint a “Cyber Czar” to coordinate federal cybersecurity, we caught up with Rep. Jim Langevin (D-RI), co-chair of the House Cybersecurity Caucus. He detailed his vision for the future of the public/private partnership in Information Security [...]

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