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Guggenheim Securities has found that foreign military sales of U.S.-built platforms and weapon systems amounted to $29 billion after six months of the government’s 2016 fiscal year, Defense News reported Friday. Aaron Mehta writes the investment banking and capital markets company said in its report obtained by Defense News that Lockheed Martin is the largest beneficiary of FMS deals for the first half of fiscal […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has asked industry for proposals to help DARPA in its push to move forward scientific simulations of physical systems in an effort to carry out complex designs. DARPA said Friday the Accelerated Computation for Efficient Scientific Simulation program’s goal is to develop a new processor with updated simulation capacity for design, prediction, and discovery for use in partial […] More

The General Services Administration has kicked off its search for a contractor to assist in the management of the domain name registry and registrar service for federal agencies, state and local governments and native sovereign nations. GSA seeks companies to aid in domain registration, perform website hosting, accept and store authorization letters, set  up point […] More

NASA’s Planetary Data System has unveiled Mercury’s initial global digital elevation model produced through the use of at least 100,000 images and data collected by the space agency’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging spacecraft. Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory said Friday the global DEM details the planet’s lowest and highest elevation and other topographic features. […] More

IBM and South Korea-based information technology firm SK Holdings C&C will collaborate on efforts to add Korean to the IBM-built Watson cognitive computing platform’s list of seven conversational languages. IBM said Sunday the partnership aims to provide application program interfaces and services designed to help South Korean application developers develop their own software apps in their native […] More

Masimo has won a five-year, $35.6 million contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to provide pulse oximeters to the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps and federal civilian agencies. The DLA Troop Support received 85 offers for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract through a competitive acquisition process, the Defense Department said Friday Work will take place in Irvine, California through May 5, 2021, […] More

Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman have received separate contracts to conduct readiness feasibility studies for the development of an 11th and succeeding GPS III space vehicles for the U.S. Air Force. Each GPS III SV11+ Phase 1 Production Readiness Feasibility Assessment contract has a 26-month base value of $5 million and two six-month options worth up to $1 million combined, […] More

NASA has awarded REI Systems a five-year contract for data management and system development support services via a small business program indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity REI said Thursday NASA’s Agency-Wide Technical and Advisory Support Services contract also covers modernization, analysis and program operations work along with communication and outreach support, security and system administration, data analytics, public website support and help […] More

The Energy Department has issued a request for proposals to establish a new public-private partnership institute with $70 million in funding to develop technologies meant to save energy for manufacturing processes used in U.S. industries. The Modular Chemical Process Intensification Institute will be the fourth DOE-led institute within the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation as […] More