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  • CompTIA Updates Cloud Certification Program
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    CompTIA Updates Cloud Certification Program

    Information technology association CompTIA has launched a new version of its cloud certification program in a move to emphasize the skills necessary for information technology professionals to deploy cloud services within an organization. CompTIA Cloud+ certification expands the coverage of the exam to include advanced cloud skills used in broader IT systems and operations, the association said […] More

  • Lockheed Releases Satellite Specs to Advance Collaboration Via ‘Open Space’ Project; Rick Ambrose Comments
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    Lockheed Releases Satellite Specs to Advance Collaboration Via ‘Open Space’ Project; Rick Ambrose Comments

    Lockheed Martin has launched a new program that seeks to encourage researchers, startups and companies to propose new technologies designed to address space-related challenges. The company said Thursday it published technical specifications about payload accommodation data for its LM 2100 satellite, LM 400 satellite and two LM 50 nanosatellite variants through the Open Space initiative to […] More

  • Kratos Demos Updated Aerial Drone System Through Flight Test Missions
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    Kratos Demos Updated Aerial Drone System Through Flight Test Missions

    Kratos Defense and Security Solutions has demonstrated new updates and enhancements to its aerial drone system during a series of flight test missions. The tests aimed to evaluate the updated drone’s capacity to support customers and their missions worldwide, Kratos said Thursday. Kratos President and CEO Eric DeMarco said the company aims to showcase its portfolio of jet-powered unmanned […] More

  • Lockheed Taps BAE to Update UAE F-16 Head-Up Displays
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    Lockheed Taps BAE to Update UAE F-16 Head-Up Displays

    BAE Systems has secured a contract from Lockheed Martin to modernize head-up displays of the United Arab Emirates’ F-16 fighter aircraft fleet. The British defense contractor said Thursday it will replace the fleet’s analog HUDs with digital displays using its Digital Light Engine technology. Lockheed received a potential $1.6 billion order from UAE in November 2017 to upgrade the […] More

  • Lockheed to Help Build, Integrate ExxonMobil’s Automation Control System
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    Lockheed to Help Build, Integrate ExxonMobil’s Automation Control System

    Lockheed Martin has received multiple contracts from ExxonMobil to design, build and integrate an automation control system to support the international oil and gas company’s plant operations. Both companies have worked to develop a proof-of-concept system as part of a joint initiative that began two years ago, Lockheed said Tuesday. Under the PoC phase, Lockheed also produced a base design and […] More

  • Northrop to Support Saudi Arabia Warfighter Threat Simulation Under $75M IDIQ
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    Northrop to Support Saudi Arabia Warfighter Threat Simulation Under $75M IDIQ

    Northrop Grumman has landed a potential $75 million  indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to help Saudi Arabia’s warfighters simulate threats with a company-built Joint Threat Emitter system. JTE is designed to generate a battlespace environment that facilitates training of military personnel to identify and address enemy missile and artillery threats, Northrop said Thursday. The company developed the system to be reprogrammable […] More

  • Corps Solutions to Support Marine Range Control Facilities
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    Corps Solutions to Support Marine Range Control Facilities

    Corps Solutions has received a $44.4 million contract from to provide support services to U.S. Marine Corps range control facilities. The Defense Department said Thursday that USMC will obligate $6.8 million in fiscal 2018 operations and maintenance funds for the first delivery order under the  indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The company will conduct base work at locations in Arizona, Virginia, California, Georgia, Hawaii, […] More

  • CSRA to Provide Google, AWS Cloud Services to Federal University Under BPA
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    CSRA to Provide Google, AWS Cloud Services to Federal University Under BPA

    CSRA has received a potential five-year, $8.5 million blanket purchase agreement to provide cloud computing services to the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences. The company said Thursday it will provide USU access to Google‘s cloud offering, G Suite and Amazon Web Services’ cloud platform through the BPA that has a base term and four option years. Larry […] More

  • Air Force Orders Boeing Ordnance Penetrators
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    Air Force Orders Boeing Ordnance Penetrators

    Boeing has received a potential $20.9 million contract to supply the U.S. Air Force with GBU-57 massive ordnance penetrators designed to target concrete bunkers and tunnels. The service branch will obligate the full contract amount from its fiscal 2016 production funds at the time of award and the company will perform work through July 31, 2020, […] More

  • Sprint to Offer Converged Wireless Comms Portfolio to Federal & Public Sector
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    Sprint to Offer Converged Wireless Comms Portfolio to Federal & Public Sector

    Sprint will provide the federal and public sector with a portfolio of converged wireless, internet of things, security and wireline platforms through its communications network. Chris Felix, a 27-year telecommunications industry veteran, has been appointed vice president of government solutions at Sprint, to oversee the delivery of converged wireless platforms to federal government clients, the […] More

  • Chenega-Iron Mountain Team to Help Manage Prisons Bureau Records; Michael Lewis Comments
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    Chenega-Iron Mountain Team to Help Manage Prisons Bureau Records; Michael Lewis Comments

    A team of Iron Mountain and Chenega Corp.‘s applied solutions subsidiary has received a five-year contract for offsite records management storage and services to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Both companies will help BOP manage, transport, digitize, shred and provide special project services for records containing personal, medical and parole information on inmates, Iron Mountain said Thursday. The contract […] More

  • Maxar Businesses Address Tech Application, Commercial Mindset at SmallSat Symposium
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    Maxar Businesses Address Tech Application, Commercial Mindset at SmallSat Symposium

    Maxar Technologies and its four businesses have participated at the four-day SmallSat Symposium that kicked off Monday in Mountain View, California, to present their new satellite platforms and discuss how they use new tools to build technology platforms designed to address space challenges. Dario Zamarian, group president of Maxar’s SSL business, discussed how the business […] More