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TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 29, 2016 — A teaming arrangement between Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and NLign Analytics has received the Defense Manufacturing Technology Achievement Award from the Defense Department for the companies’ technical support for the F-35 program, GovCon Executive reported Wednesday. The award recognizes the team’s efforts to cut Material Review Board labor hours on the …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 22, 2016 — CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) has secured a potential seven-year, $26.6 million contract from the U.S. Senate’s sergeant-at-arms office to deploy, sustain, manage and operate a unified communications-as-a-service platform at 450 senate offices across 50 states, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said Monday it will provide …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 22, 2016 — CAE (NYSE: CAE) has updated the GESI constructive simulation software for command and staff training at the Austrian Army’s Landesverteidigungsakademie education facility in Weitra, Austria, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The update is designed to allow the system to interoperate with various command and control systems and provide new exercise …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 16, 2016 — A team comprised of Boeing (NYSE: BA), Southwest Research Institute and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining has received a four-year, $6.7 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to assist in the development of a robotic technology, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. SwRI said Wednesday the Air …

Joseph Santucci, president and CEO of California-based software technology firm piXlogic, has said an artificial intelligence-based software platform could help government agencies search and analyze videos and pictures for use in investigations and security missions. Santucci wrote that such software tools work to “understand context in an image, distinguish faces and …

Booz Allen Hamilton‘s (NYSE: BAH) pending $250 million purchase of Laurel, Maryland-based cloud computing and digital services contractor Aquilent represents a selective entry into the GovCon acquisition landscape for a firm as it has made five purchases. McLean, Virginia-based Booz Allen largely sat out of last year’s large deal activity that reshaped the government technology services sector …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 6, 2016 — Engility (NYSE: EGL) will help the Department of Veterans Affairs operate, update and maintain VA’s budget tracking tool under a potential $16.8 million contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The contract includes four one-year options and optional tasks for software enhancement of the tool that works to …

Arlington Capital Partners has established a new company known as Polaris Alpha after the Washington-based private equity firm merged its portfolio company EOIR Technologies with cybersecurity firm Proteus Technologies and data analysis platforms provider Intelligent Software Solutions. Polaris Alpha will work to provide software and other technology platforms across ground, maritime, aerial, space, electromagnetic …

Ryan Kearny, an 18-year veteran of F5 Networks (Nasdaq: FFIV), has been named chief technology officer and executive vice president for product development at the Seattle-based application delivery firm. F5 said Wednesday Kearny will report directly to President and CEO John McAdam and oversee the company’s efforts to innovate and develop technology products. “Ryan’s experience, perspective, …

Rodin Lyasoff, a former project executive at Airbus Group‘s A3 advanced projects and partnerships outpost in Silicon Valley, has been promoted to lead A3 as chief executive. He succeeds Paul Eremenko, who was appointed as the aerospace and defense contractor’s  chief technology officer,  Airbus said Tuesday. Lyasoff has supported the development of …