USPTO Issues RFI for IT App Modernization Initiative
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is conducting market research to determine a possible approach to update information technology applications essential for the agency mission.
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Report: Lockheed Looks to Increase F-35 Missile Capacity With New Weapons Rack
Lockheed Martin aims to increase the F-35 fighter jet’s air-to-air firepower with a newly-built weapons rack designed to increase payload capacity to six missiles, Popular Mechanics reported Friday.Â
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DARPA Seeks Automated System to Expedite Military Software Certification
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is looking for new tools to automate the process of evaluating software platforms for military use.
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GSA to Host Industry Day for Joint Airborne ISR Data Transport Infrastructure Project
The General Services Administration will host an industry day on May 29 to discuss a possible contracting vehicle for the engineering, integration and sustainment of data transport infrastructure systems for the Department of Defense and U.S. Special Operations Command.
Red Hat’s John Osborne on Three Ways Agencies Can Adopt to Facilitate Hybrid Cloud Migration
John Osborne, chief OpenShift architect for public sector at Red Hat, wrote in a Nextgov article published Friday that there are three approaches government agencies can implement to speed up and facilitate their migration to hybrid cloud and one is through the development of a “single repository of truth.†“This repository will store not only application code and dependencies, but anything that is needed to build an environment from version control,†Osborne noted.
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SpaceX Launches Uncrewed Spacecraft for 17th ISS Resupply Mission
SpaceX launched its uncrewed Dragon capsule Saturday aboard a Falcon 9 rocket for the company's 17th cargo delivery mission to the International Space Station, CBS News reported Saturday.
HII Newport News Uses Digital Tech to Create Blueprints of Warships; Chris Miner Quoted
Engineers at Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News Shipbuilding business have started using laser scanners and other digital technologies to develop blueprints of aircraft carriers, submarines and other vessels to speed up ship design, construction and maintenance work, Defense One reported Sunday. Chris Miner, vice president of in-service carriers at Newport News Shipbuilding, said digital data will help the company achieve business transformation.
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Samsung, MIT, VA Host Three-Day Healthcare IT Hackathon
Samsung Electronics America, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology jointly hosted a three-day hackathon that challenged participants to create healthcare information technology applications.
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VA Seeks Info on Contract Transition Support for IT Services
The Department of Veterans Affairs is seeking market information on transition support for enterprise infrastructure services. The future contractor would help VA's office of information and technology transition voice data, co-located hosting services, Washington interagency telecommunications systems and regional local service agreement contracts into a single vehicle, VA said Thursday in a FedBizOpps notice.
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