Frank B. Strickland is a senior fellow with the IBM Center for the Business of Government and a partner with IBM’s global business services. According to his company biography, Strickland is a career intelligence officer with 24 years experience in the CIA‘s senior intelligence service and the U.S. Marine Corps. During this time, Frank led a […] More

Fortune magazine included Noblis on the small and medium workplaces section of its 2012 Great Place to Work list, the nonprofit organization announced Thursday. This is the fourth year in a row and the seventh time this decade Noblis has been selected for the list, according to the company. For 2012, Noblis was listed 14th […] More

Lockheed Martin has won an $11 million contract from the Defense Department to develop, integrate and test an autonomous system for driving tactical vehicles, the company announced Wednesday. The Autonomous Mobility Applique System integrates sensors and control systems onto U.S. Army and Marine Corps tactical vehicles, while a sensing-and-control function alerts users to safety threats. “Driving […] More

ManTech International has won a $79 million task order to provide the U.S. Army network and communications engineering and installation for C4I systems (command, control, communications, computers). The company said work under the potential one-and-a-half year option will also include records and property management, security and maintenance support. “C4I interoperability is an important linchpin in […] More

Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Army will start airborne testing of a radar that detects slow moving objects through trees, the company announced Wednesday. During the test, the Army and the company will test the Tactical Reconnaissance and Counter-Concealment-Enabled Radar with Lockheed’s ground/dismounted-moving target indication system. Testing will occur on board a Blackhawk helicopter or […] More

IBM and the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center are partnering to explore how an IBM supercomputer can assist doctors and if it can possibly find a cure for cancer, Information Week reports.  IBM chief medical scientist Martin Kohn and Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center CIO Pat Skarulis announced the partnership will use IBM’s Watson supercomputer and the center’s Darwin, […] More

Northrop Grumman has delivered an updated Global Hawk drone equipped with the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node to the Air Force, the company announced Tuesday. According to the company, the BACN is designed to bridge and extends voice communications and information sharing from several sources using a suite of computers and radio systems. “By pairing BACN […] More

Jeffrey Peters currently serves as director of federal programs for ESRI, Inc., and for the past 10 years has been a member of the Esri“™s advisory board of directors, playing a key role in strategic planning and corporate leadership. In both roles, Peters is responsible for the vision and strategy for geospatial technologies and solutions […] More

Unisys holds a position on a potential $2.5 billion General Services Administration blanket purchase agreement to provide cloud computing email services to government agencies. The company said it will compete for task orders to provide agencies at all levels of government cloud-based services for email, collaboration, office automation and electronic records management. PV Puvvada, group vice president for civilian agencies […] More

Cisco Systems has named Iron Bow Technologies a master channel partner for managed services, less than a year after Iron Bow received the advanced channel partner designation in the same category. Iron Bow said this designation recognizes its investment in its premium network operations center, which utilizes processes, practices and tools from the Information Technology Infrastructure Library. The company uses those tools […] More

Siemens PLM Software is making its Teamcenter software available on the cloud through an infrastructure-as-a-service model, where customers choose their preferred technology platform and provider. According to a Siemens release, Teamcenter can now be integrated with cloud services like Microsoft Windows Azure, IBM SmartCloud Enterprise and Amazon Web Services. “In today“™s ever changing global landscape, […] More

Lockheed Martin has announced it is offering its  multi-mission combatant to Navies across the globe.  The design is based on Lockheed’s littoral combat ship of which the U.S. Navy has two in its fleet, two more in production and two others under contract. According to the company statement, the multi-mission combat is an agile and modular vessel that can go […] More