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  • DARPA Wants Semantic Tech to Interpret Multimedia Data
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    DARPA Wants Semantic Tech to Interpret Multimedia Data

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency was scheduled Friday to meet with potential proposers on a program that seeks to aggregate and interpret data from multiple media sources with a “semantic engine.” DARPA said Thursday the Active Interpretation of Disparate Alternatives project aims to build a platform that will work to general multiple hypotheses on the meaning and implications of real-world events, situations and trends […] More

  • Boeing Wins EPA Award for Energy Efficiency Efforts
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    Boeing Wins EPA Award for Energy Efficiency Efforts

    The Environmental Protection Agency has selected Boeing to receive an award that recognizes the company’s energy conservation efforts. EPA will present the 2017 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year – Sustained Excellence Award to Boeing at a ceremony scheduled to be held April 26 in Washington, D.C., the company said Friday. The recognition will make Boeing an ENERGY STAR awardee for the seventh […] More

  • IT Vet Daniel Osborne Joins TechnoMile as Managing Director; Ashish Khot Comments
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    IT Vet Daniel Osborne Joins TechnoMile as Managing Director; Ashish Khot Comments

    Daniel Osborne, formerly managing director at IBM’s Bluewolf subsidiary and a 10-year information technology veteran in the Salesforce.com ecosystem, has been named managing director of Vienna, Virginia-based IT consulting firm TechnoMile. TechnoMile said Friday that Osborne will oversee the development of the company’s  portfolio of goods and services designed to help government and industry clients leverage […] More

  • Kay Kapoor: AT&T Eyes First Responder Service Delivery by Year’s End Under FirstNet Partnership
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    Kay Kapoor: AT&T Eyes First Responder Service Delivery by Year’s End Under FirstNet Partnership

    Kay Kapoor, president of AT&T’s global public sector solutions business, told Dallas Business Journal staff writer Shawn Shinneman in an interview published Thursday that the company plans to provide priority and pre-emption service to first responders by the end of 2017 under a 25-year public-private partnership with the First Responder Network Authority. The Commerce Department’s FirstNet awarded […] More

  • SteelCloud to Support DoD Windows 10 Deployment Through STIG Compliance Platform
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    SteelCloud to Support DoD Windows 10 Deployment Through STIG Compliance Platform

    SteelCloud has received a contract from a Defense Department component to provide a security compliance automation platform to support DoD’s deployment of the Windows 10 operating system. The company said Thursday its ConfigOS platform is designed to automate compliance with the Security Technical Implementation Guide as well as support Risk Management Framework accreditation. DoD needs to obtain RMF […] More

  • DRT Awarded $52M to Help Labor Dept Build Cloud-Based Workers’ Compensation System
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    DRT Awarded $52M to Help Labor Dept Build Cloud-Based Workers’ Compensation System

    DRT Strategies has won a seven-year, $52 million contract to build a cloud-based enterprise platform for a Labor Department office that administers disability compensation programs for certain employees and their dependents. The company said Thursday it aims to create a single platform for the department’s Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs to manage, distribute and review employee benefits. “We look forward to deploying our talented […] More

  • Navy OKs Revolution Lighting’s LED Tube Offering for Seafaring Vessels
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    Navy OKs Revolution Lighting’s LED Tube Offering for Seafaring Vessels

    Revolution Lighting Technologies‘ light-emitting diode tube offering has been certified by the U.S. Navy as compliant with the military standard and for use in the service branch’s fleet. The company said Thursday it received certification for its two-foot T8 LED tube after naval engineers tested and evaluated the product against Navy guidelines. T8’s light output works to increase visibility and safety […] More

  • Raytheon to Continue BMD Radar Gallium Nitride Tech Devt for MDA; Dave Gulla Comments
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    Raytheon to Continue BMD Radar Gallium Nitride Tech Devt for MDA; Dave Gulla Comments

    Raytheon has received a $10 million contract modification from the Missile Defense Agency to continue to develop hardware and software that will incorporate gallium nitride technology into a ballistic missile defense radar system. Raytheon said Thursday GaN technology will help boost the range, search and friend-or-foe determining capacity of the Army Navy/Transportable Radar Surveillance system, or AN/TPY-2. AN/TPY-2 is designed with a […] More

  • IARPA to Host Proposers Day on Geosynchronous Earth Orbit Imaging Program
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    IARPA to Host Proposers Day on Geosynchronous Earth Orbit Imaging Program

    The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity will hold a Proposers Day on May 11 in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area to discuss a program that seeks to develop ground-based imaging approaches for objects in the geosynchronous Earth orbit. IARPA said Wednesday in a FedBizOpps notice that the Amon-Hen program seeks a ground-based optical interferometer that will work […] More

  • CAE Authorized to Link KC-135 Simulators With Air Force Distributed Training Center Network
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    CAE Authorized to Link KC-135 Simulators With Air Force Distributed Training Center Network

    CAE‘s U.S. subsidiary has received authorization from the U.S. Air Force to connect company-built KC-135 Stratotanker simulators to the service branch’s Distributed Training Center Network. The Air Force said Thursday CAE USA can link the KC-135 aircrew training system with other mobility platforms designed to support virtual-constructive training across multiple  Air Force bases. “What we are moving to next, and what the […] More

  • Trade Groups, Companies Call for Congress to Pass OPEN Govt Data Legislation
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    Trade Groups, Companies Call for Congress to Pass OPEN Govt Data Legislation

    More than 80 industry groups and technology companies have called on House and Senate lawmakers to pass a bipartisan bill that aims to provide the public access to government data, MeriTalk reported Wednesday. Eleanor Lamb writes civil society groups and businesses urged Congress to act on the Open, Permanent, Electronic and Necessary Government Data Act […] More

  • VA Orders Additional ReWalk Robotics-Built Exoskeleton Systems
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    VA Orders Additional ReWalk Robotics-Built Exoskeleton Systems

    The Department of Veterans Affairs has ordered an additional 28 exoskeleton systems from ReWalk Robotics to support an ongoing clinical trial across VA centers. ReWalk Robotics said Thursday it delivered 20 Personal Exoskeleton Systems in the first quarter of 2017 and is scheduled to deliver eight more systems later this year. Larry Jasinski, CEO of ReWalk Robotics, said the VA […] More