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Carahsoft Technology has received a potential five-year, $37.6 million blanket purchase agreement from the Defense Department to provide Qadium’s software and services to the U.S. Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command Systems Center Pacific and other DoD agencies. The BPA awarded through the Enterprise Software Initiative will run through May 16, 2023, and covers […] More

The Department of Homeland Security‘s science and technology directorate has announced plans to select commercially available sensors through the end of the year for potential use with unmanned aircraft systems. S&T said Friday it will give selected vendors one week each to demonstrate technology to as part of the Robotic Aircraft Sensor Program, the department said Friday. Representatives […] More

Jerry DeMuro, president and CEO of BAE Systems Inc., has said the Virginia-based contractor is trying to align its portfolio with the Defense Department‘s current priorities that are based on authorized budget, Defense One reported Thursday. “What we tell our people and what we try and focus on are the facts and not the rhetoric,” he told […] More

In-Q-Tel, the intelligence community’s venture capital arm, has named Focal Systems as the winner of a competition that featured artificial intelligence tools from 12 startup companies. Focal Systems developed and presented a retail automation technology to IC representatives, investors and corporate executives during the “AI Computing at the Edge” pitch event, IQT said Thursday. The winning tool […] More

A Valimail report noted that the government contracting industry has started to adopt cybersecurity requirements that federal agencies implement internally. The email authentication company said Thursday the report resulted from its evaluation of the industry-standard Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance system in the available primary domains from the largest 100 government suppliers for fiscal year 2017. […] More

Anne Rung, director of government sector at Amazon Business, has said adopting an e-commerce platform could help federal agencies manage spending transparency and compliance with acquisition policies, Federal News Radio reported Thursday. Rung told the station in an interview that the federal government should implement an approach that begins with the identification of clients’ requirements. […] More

Mark Cherry, vice president of Boeing’s Phantom Works unit, has said he reorganized the contractor’s technology arm to further realign it with other areas of the firm’s defense business, Inside Defense reported Thursday. He told the publication that the reorganization effort resulted in the integration of Phantom Works’ personnel in key areas of the defense business such […] More

Mitre placed 51st among 59 in the large organizations category of Computerworld’s 100 Best Places to Work in Information Technology list for 2018. The list describes large organizations as those with at least 5,000 U.S. employees. The company said Monday it has been named to the list nine times, the most recent being 2016. Joel […] More

Raytheon has integrated a navigation payload into the Federal Aviation Administration‘s Wide Area Augmentation System that works to support global positioning system functions. Geosynchronous Earth Orbiting 5‘s payload is designed to address GPS satellite signal ionospheric disturbances, timing issues and minor orbit adjustments, the company said Thursday. The technology is part of the Raytheon-managed GEO 5 system […] More