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The General Services Administration has tapped Spear and LexisNexis Risk Solutions to provide identity verification and fraud detection offerings to expand and secure public access to government websites. Under GSA’s Identity Proofing Initiative, the two companies will work to protect access to Login.gov, which is a website that allows civilians to communicate with various government […] More

Booz Allen Hamilton CEO Horacio Rozanski said during a recent earnings call the company has invested in artificial intelligence as the Defense Department and federal agencies tap into the technology, National Defense Magazine reported Tuesday. “We see this as the beginning of something. The market for [AI] is here and Booz Allen is well prepared to capture it,” Rozanski added. […] More

Brig. Gen. Thomas Todd, program executive officer for aviation, has said the U.S. Army started to accept deliveries of Boeing-built AH-64E Apache helicopters on Aug. 31 after the company kicked off an effort in June to address safety issues with the aircraft’s strap pack nut, Defense News reported Tuesday. The service temporarily stopped deliveries of Apaches […] More

A Valiant Integrated Services–ALCA joint venture has been awarded a potential eight-year, $61M contract to continue to support three of the U.S. Navy’s facilities located in Italy. The JV will deploy equipment and provide services necessary to address housing, facility support, transportation and environmental concerns at the Naval facilities in Sigonella, Niscemi and Augusta Bay, Valiant […] More

Amazon Web Services recently posted job openings for a data processing engineer and a product manager for space and satellite platforms, CNBC reported Wednesday. This Just In, a website that reports on AWS endeavors, discovered the cloud services provider’s listings that were removed for unknown reasons. The engineer would be tasked to develop and maintain satellite […] More

BAE Systems has broken ground on a Huntsville, Ala., facility for the development and production of aircraft survivability and precision munition systems, Rocket City Now reported Monday. The company first unveiled details of its $45.5M expansion project at Cummings Research Park in July. Paul Markwardt, vice president and general manager of BAE’s electronic systems business, said the […] More

Joanne Collins Smee, former director of technology transformation services at the General Services Administration, has been appointed as chief commercial officer and executive committee member at Xerox. As CCO, she will oversee sales and channel strategies and the delivery of products and service offerings through an order-to-cash process, Xerox said Monday. She previously managed technology and […] More

The U.S. Army has awarded SOS International a potential four-year, $5M contract to support security assistance efforts of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. SOSi said Monday it will provide technical, human resources and accounting services to the embassy’s security cooperation office. The contract supports U.S. security assistance programs focused on helping the Iraqi military to facilitate […] More

Maxar Technologies‘ DigitalGlobe business has added imagery from an MDA-built Earth observation satellite to a cloud-based technology platform built to help government analysts obtain geospatial intelligence data. SecureWatch users can start to access Radarsat-2 synthetic aperture radar data beginning on Oct. 1 via a subscription service, Maxar said Monday. The GEOINT platform will also feature both SAR and optical imagery, the company added. DigitalGlobe […] More

The National Institutes of Health looks to replace a motion capture technology that supports research efforts within the functional and applied biomechanics section at the NIH Clinical Center. A FedBizOpps notice posted Monday says FAB currently uses the platform Vicon Motion Systems built 10 years ago and designed to integrate with custom software and hardware such as force plates, treadmill […] More

Maj. Jacob Davis, chief B-52 requirements officer at Global Strike Command, has said the U.S. Air Force intends to issue in fiscal 2019 a solicitation to replace the engines of its Boeing-built B-52H Stratofortress aircraft in order to keep the fleet operational through 2050, National Defense reported Monday. He told the publication the service expects the […] More