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in Contract Awards, NewsTetra Tech Lands Potential $68M EPA Superfund Cleanup Support IDIQ; Dan Batrack Quoted
Tetra Tech has received a potential seven-year, $68M contract to provide a range of program management and technical services for the Environmental Protection Agency’s Superfund emergency cleanup program.
BlueVoyant Names Debora Plunkett, Ariel Litvin to Board of Directors, Ronald Moultrie to Advisory Board
BlueVoyant has added cybersecurity leaders Debora Plunkett and Ariel Litvin to the board of directors and named Ronald Moultrie, former senior national security official, as vice chairman of its advisory board.
Red Hat’s Sam Richman on Need to Address Data Challenge in Joint All-Domain C2 Implementation
Sam Richman, a senior solution architect for the U.S. Air Force at Red Hat, wrote in a commentary published Tuesday on Defense Systems that a Joint All-Domain Command and Control infrastructure should be implemented in a way that addresses the challenge of collecting and integrating disparate data and delivering the right information to warfighters to help them make decisions.
DARPA, Air Force to Transition Two Hypersonic Weapons to Free-Flight Testing
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the U.S. Air Force will move two hypersonic weapon variants to initial free-flight tests this year after completing a series of captive carry tests as part of the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept program.
in Executive Moves, NewsLisa Porter, Former DoD R&E Deputy Undersecretary, Rejoins Riverside Research Board of Trustees
Dr. Lisa Porter, former deputy undersecretary for research and engineering at the Department of Defense, has returned to the Riverside Research board of trustees, the company reported on Monday. Porter has nearly 25 years of experience in the defense and technology industries and is currently the co-president and co-founder of LogiQ.
in Contract Awards, NewsSAIC Wins $79M Task Order to Support USAF Supply Chain; Michael LaRouche Quoted
Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) has been awarded a five-year, $79 million task order by the U.S. Air Force (USAF) to deliver mission engineering services to the 414th Supply Chain Management Squadron’s Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) LGM-30 Minuteman III missile system, the company reported on Tuesday. SAIC will provide end-to-end product support and sustainment solutions.
Forescout to Help Secure DoD Connected Devices; Michael DeCesare Quoted
ForeScout Technologies has secured a multimilion-dollar contract to provide a security platform for the Department of Defense to protect authorized devices that connect to the DoD information network. The company said Tuesday its technology was selected for DoD's enterprise cybersecurity program, dubbed Comply to Connect, to help department personnel identify and classify internet protocol-connected devices across offices, facilities and tactical missions.
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Northrop Gets $81M Navy Contract to Update Air-Launched Missile Tech
Northrop Grumman has secured a potential five-year, $80.9M contract from the U.S. Navy to incorporate new technology into a family of tactical weapon systems for defending against surface-to-air threats. The company will aim to increase the performance of the the Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Department of Defense said Monday.
Nevada Deploys Salesforce-Based App for Opioid Antagonist Inventory Mgmt
The Nevada Department of Health and Human Services has implemented a cloud application that is built on the Salesforce platform and designed to monitor the supply of naloxone, a medication for patients who have overdosed on opioids.
Cubic-Made Server Demos Compatibility With VMware Virtualization Tech; Mike Barthlow Quoted
Cubic has demonstrated its application server offering could work with a VMware-built virtual machine monitoring platform through a compatibility test. "Our dense compute in a small form factor coupled with VMware’s ESXi platform, allows our customers to leverage their investments in virtualization at the edge of the battlefield," said Mike Barthlow, senior vice president and general manager of rugged IoT solutions at Cubic's mission and performance solutions segment.