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Unisys today announced it has been positioned in the “Leaders” quadrant in the Gartner Inc. 2011 North American Quadrant report on Help Desk Outsourcing Services. To be recognized as a leader, Gartner will consider a company’s performance, its vision of market direction, and whether it actively builds competencies to sustain …

SenSage announced it has joined the Cisco Developer Network as a registered developer within the network security technology category. SenSage has also completed interoperability testing with the Security Management Secure Borderless Networks system. The Cisco Developer Network partners Cisco with third-party developers of hardware and software and will deliver tested …

Altegrity Inc. will hold its fourth annual Best In Class Competition. The competition invites its 11,000 employees, from all four of Altegrity’s companies, to participate and submit new, innovative and sustainable business ideas that will lead to efficiency and growth for the company. BICC’s theme this year is “Imagine. Create. …

Lockheed Martin, URS Corporation and InDyne have agreed to jointly pursue the Launch and Test Range System Integrated Support Contract. The contract is scheduled to be awarded in 2012. LISC will provide the U.S. Air Force with a single prime contractor,  responsible and accountable for complete and integrated LISC operations …

SRA announced its multiaward contract with the Defense Department. The blanket purchase agreement was awarded by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Defense, Research and Engineering and the contract is worth $100 million over five years. The firm will provide subject matter expertise in engineering, DoD acquisition and …

Lockheed Martin announced the opening of a new Mission Support Center in the greater Jackson, Miss., area slated to open in September. The center will create 350 new jobs with recruiting starting in May. This is all part of Lockheed’s Gulf Coast technology hub and increasing its awareness in the …

BAE Systems will present three different programs to the Army Aviation team at the Army Aviation Association of America’s Annual Professional Forum and Exhibition in Nashville, Tenn. Each program will be showcased in press briefings. The first program presented will be the Boldstroke proposal for the U.S. Army’s CIRCM program. …

Intelligent Decisions has announced its partnership with Grid-Tools. ID will provide sales, support and professional services for the Grid-Tools suite of software. Specifically, the firm will provide resources for government products and services that secure personal data during database testing and development process. President and CEO of ID Harry Martin …

Blue Ridge Networks has announced the availability of the two new products for secure remote access and endpoint protection with control. EdgeGuard and AppGuard, part of the company’s BorderGuard enterprise solutions entity, will work to eliminate network vulnerabilities and smartcard exploitations, as well as prevent malware from penetrating the network. …

A new device from Harris Corporation merges content video gathering with phone capabilities and a content location-based service. The company introduced a new iPhone application called Newfish, which comes with a full motion video asset management engine and allows users to capture video and post images or data to the …

Autodesk (NASDAQ:ADSK) selected IMAGINiT Technologies as its North American Reseller of the Quarter for the fourth quarter of Autodesk’s 2011 fiscal year. According to the firm, “IMAGINiT was selected from more than 200 North American resellers for its significant growth and exceeding targets across industry-specific markets that include architecture, engineering, …

GTEC (NASDAQ: GTEC) CEO John Hillen spoke with ExecutiveBiz today shortly after the firm announced it had reached an agreement to sell to Ares Management in an all-cash deal valued at $315 million. The deal, expected to close in the second quarter, will see GTEC shed its publicly-traded status and …

Black Box (NASDAQ:BBOX) opened a new office in South Korea, to be known as “Black Box Network Services Korea Limited” – or just “Black Box Korea.” The office is located at Gangnam Station Centre in Gangnam, a rapidly growing business district in Seoul. “This operation will focus on the commercial …

ATK’s (NYSE: ATK) Reusable Solid Rocket Motors propelled the Space Shuttle Discovery into orbit for the spacecraft’s last mission. Discovery’s crew embarked on an 11-day mission to the International Space Station yesterday. “As we near the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program, we reflect on the dedicated workforce that has …

One of government contracting’s big stories of 2010 was the brisk pace of M&A that altered the industry’s landscape.  Since October, ManTech has kept that trend alive, booking three separate acquisitions worth more than $135 million. But for ManTech, the key to the firm’s M&A action isn’t that it’s buying …