Panasonic Group‘s energy business plans to invest $4 billion to establish a manufacturing facility in De Soto, Kansas, for rechargeable car batteries and expects to create 4,000 jobs through the potential project. The state government approved an application by the company to receive an Attracting Powerful Economic Expansion incentive to build the lithium-ion electric vehicle […] More

Microsoft and Panasonic have partnered in an effort to help law enforcement organizations automate the process of editing sensitive content out of video files used as criminal justice evidence. Panasonic said Friday its IDguard identity redaction technology runs on the Microsoft Azure Government cloud platform and seeks to reduce manual editing on censorship tasks by 90 percent.

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Panasonic has unveiled two laptop products that are designed and approved to work with the nationwide public-safety broadband network.

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Intelligent Decisions and Panasonic are partnering to deliver ruggedized tablets to U.S. Air Force bases worldwide, ID announced Tuesday. ID received an order to deliver the Toughbook H2 Handheld tablets through the Air Force’s e-Tools contract, awarded to ID in April. The USAF may now order the Toughbook 31 fully-rugged notebook and Toughbook 53 semi-rugged notebook. […] More

Intelligent Decisions Inc. has won an Air Force contract to supply Panasonic Toughbooks to the branch’s bases worldwide, the company announced Thursday. The Air Force will receive Toughbook 31 fully-rugged notebooks and Toughbook 53 semi-rugged notebooks. President and CEO Harry Martin said the Toughbooks meet strict and wide-ranging Air Force requirements and will help military technicians. […] More

SAP is helping Panasonic comply with worldwide product end-of-life regulations and retailer mandates with its SAP Recycling Administration application. SAP Recycling Administration helps Panasonic classify recyclable materials based on type, usage, destination, weight, brand and category. The software is integrated with  SAP ERP to support countries with differing and changing compliance requirements offering a central data repository address. “With SAP Recycling Administration, […] More

Neil Jacobs, former acting administrator at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has been named scientific adviser at satellite operator Spire Global. He will advise the company’s leadership team on matters pertaining to the commercialization of weather systems and expansion of satellite data products for the government sector, Spire said Friday. Jacobs concurrently served as […] More

Executive Mosaic is pleased to introduce Byron Bright, president for Government Solutions at KBR, as a recipient of the 2021 Wash100 Award, the most valued award in all of government contracting (GovCon), for his efforts to develop military technology solutions and capabilities as well as drive revenue and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) for KBR. 

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Information technology company iGov has landed a blanket purchase agreement from the General Services Administration to provide Panasonic-built rugged mobile devices and accessories to government customers.

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HackerOne has helped the Department of Defense launch the agency’s seventh bug bounty program, which aims to find security vulnerabilities in the public-facing websites and services of the U.S. Air Force. The company said Thursday it provided its hacker-powered security platform for DoD“™s latest Hack the Air Force event, which also marked the service“™s third […] More

Cubic“™s transportation systems business has partnered with City Innovate to present 80 challenges in a program that encourages public-private teaming to resolve various issues in local governments. Cubic said Tuesday 28 civic agencies will collaborate with startups to develop and assess products and services for the Startup in Residence program, which will run for two […] More

Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president of government strategy and policy for Inmarsat Government, has been reappointed to serve on the Mobile Satellite Users Association’s board of directors. MSUA works to promote exchange of ideas, information and news among providers and customers of mobility communications, navigation and safety platforms, the association said Thursday. Other individuals elected to the MSUA […] More