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  • Kratos-Robonic Team Delivers Pneumatic Launchers to US Army
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    Kratos-Robonic Team Delivers Pneumatic Launchers to US Army

    A team composed of Safran Electronics & Defense‘s Robonic subsidiary and Kratos Defense & Security Solutions have delivered two pneumatic launchers to the targets management office of the U.S. Army’s program executive office for simulation, training and instrumentation. Safran said Wednesday the military branch will use Kontio to deploy Firejet aerial targets from Kratos subsidiary Composite Engineering Inc. The Kontio system supports the […] More

  • Maximus’ Tom Naughton: Agencies Should Adopt AI-Based Tools to Facilitate Citizen Engagement
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    Maximus’ Tom Naughton: Agencies Should Adopt AI-Based Tools to Facilitate Citizen Engagement

    Tom Naughton, president of citizen services at Maximus’ federal business, has said government agencies should work to build up citizen engagement through the implementation of new customer service platforms that leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning. Naughton wrote in a Washington Technology commentary published Friday that agencies should provide citizens with self-service tools and customer […] More

  • AECOM Secures Army FMS Contract for Architecture, Engineering Support Services
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    AECOM Secures Army FMS Contract for Architecture, Engineering Support Services

    AECOM has received a five-year, $9 million foreign military sales contract from the U.S. Army to provide a range of professional architecture and engineering support services. The Defense Department said Friday AECOM’s technical services business unit will furnish required labor, materials, supplies and equipment in support of Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. […] More

  • NASA Begins to Review 12 Proposals for Future Unmanned Solar System Exploration
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    NASA Begins to Review 12 Proposals for Future Unmanned Solar System Exploration

    NASA has received and begun to review 12 proposals for a future unmanned solar system mission that could be launched in the mid-2020s. The space agency said Friday the proposals submitted under the New Frontiers program will undergo scientific and technical review in the next seven months. NASA plans to choose one or more concepts for Phase A study then […] More

  • IBM Researchers Assess Ebola Virus Transmission With Big Data Analytics
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    IBM Researchers Assess Ebola Virus Transmission With Big Data Analytics

    IBM researchers have used big data analytics to evaluate the impact of infected animal carriers in the spread of the Ebola virus among humans. The company said Friday it partnered with researchers at Montclair State University to release a publication that contains an open-source computational model designed to help study the spread of Ebola from animals to people. Ebola […] More

  • VMware, Oracle Forge Mobile Business Application Management Partnership
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    VMware, Oracle Forge Mobile Business Application Management Partnership

    VMware and Oracle have agreed to streamline management and ensure security of Oracle’s portfolio of mobile business applications. Enterprise organizations with business apps built on the Oracle Mobile Cloud Service offering can leverage VMware’s AirWatch and Workspace ONE mobility management platforms under the partnership, Oracle said Thursday. VMware AirWatch works to help users manage and protect […] More

  • Air Force Picks Ball Aerospace to Design, Develop Software Testbed Architecture
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    Air Force Picks Ball Aerospace to Design, Develop Software Testbed Architecture

    Ball Aerospace & Technologies has won a potential $13.3 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to design, develop and deliver a testbed for Hallmark software and hardware platforms. The Defense Department said Friday that Ball Aerospace’s systems engineering solutions unit will build a testbed architecture that the military branch can apply to space command-and-control tasks, implement […] More

  • NASA Issues Awards to 2 Teams Under 3D-Printed Space Habitat Challenge
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    NASA Issues Awards to 2 Teams Under 3D-Printed Space Habitat Challenge

    NASA has awarded a total of $100,000 to the two top scorers under the printing stage of the space agency’s 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge. Teams from Foster + Partners and the University of Alaska received $85,930 and $14,070, respectively, for gaining the highest points among seven participants of the level 1 compression test competition, NASA said Thursday. The 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge aims […] More

  • Navy Taps Red River to Provide IT, Engineering Support for Air Force C2 Facility
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    Navy Taps Red River to Provide IT, Engineering Support for Air Force C2 Facility

    Red River Computer has received a potential $34.2 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide information technology and engineering support services for a new command-and-control center of the U.S. Air Force. The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific received two proposals for the fixed-price contract that has a base period of 15 months […] More

  • IT Vet Robert Youngjohns Joins Blueprint’s Board of Directors
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    IT Vet Robert Youngjohns Joins Blueprint’s Board of Directors

    Robert Youngjohns, a senior adviser at management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, has joined Blueprint‘s board of directors. The Toronto, Canada-based software company said Thursday that Youngjohns brings experience in various leadership roles from his time leading the information technology industry. “Robert is a true pioneer and trailblazer in the world of software and I am very […] More

  • Tom Wheeler, Former Chairman of FCC, Joins RapidSOS Advisory Board
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    Tom Wheeler, Former Chairman of FCC, Joins RapidSOS Advisory Board

    Tom Wheeler, former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), is joining the RapidSOS Advisory Board.  Wheeler joins two other former FCC chairmen on the Advisory Board, which includes executives with extensive expertise across telecommunications, technology, and public safety sectors. “RapidSOS’ Emergency Platform connects users to emergency services faster and with more data – transforming the […] More

  • First Italian-Built F-35B ‘Rolls Out’ in Cameri, Italy
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    First Italian-Built F-35B ‘Rolls Out’ in Cameri, Italy

    The first Short Take-Off/Vertical Landing version of the F-35, or F-35B, was rolled out Friday in Cameri, Italy at the Final Assembly & Check-Out (FACO) facility. The jet is expected to take its first flight in late August and will be delivered to the Italian Ministry of Defense in November.  The next Italian F-35B aircraft […] More