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  • SpaceX Dragon Completes 9th Cargo Delivery Mission to Space Station
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    SpaceX Dragon Completes 9th Cargo Delivery Mission to Space Station

    SpaceX‘s Dragon capsule has returned from its ninth cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station, bringing back more than 3,000 pounds of experiment samples and other cargo home for NASA scientists. NASA said Saturday the unmanned spacecraft landed Friday in the Pacific Ocean at 11:47 a.m. Eastern Time and SpaceX personnel will ship the retrieved module to Los Angeles for the cargo […] More

  • NASA Receives Lockheed-Built Heat Shield for Orion EM-1 Spacecraft
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    NASA Receives Lockheed-Built Heat Shield for Orion EM-1 Spacecraft

    Lockheed Martin has delivered a heat shield for the Orion Exploration Mission-1 crew module to NASA‘s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA said Saturday the heat shield was transported to KSC’s shuttle landing facility  Thursday from the company’s manufacturing facility in Denver via a Super Guppy aircraft. The agency offloaded and moved the technology to the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building Saturday. The […] More

  • The Intercept: BAE Subsidiary Inks Deal to Provide UAE Internet Surveillance Tech
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    The Intercept: BAE Subsidiary Inks Deal to Provide UAE Internet Surveillance Tech

    A Denmark-based BAE Systems subsidiary entered into an agreement with the United Arab Emirates to provide an internet surveillance product for deep packet inspection, The Intercept reported Friday. Jenna McLaughlin writes Danish publication Dagbladet Information obtained documents from the Danish Business Authority that shows BAE Systems Applied Intelligence A/S‘ contract with UAE dates as far back as December 2014. The contract provides information on a […] More

  • CAMRIS International to Help Naval Medical Research Unit Study Emerging Infectious Diseases
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    CAMRIS International to Help Naval Medical Research Unit Study Emerging Infectious Diseases

    CAMRIS International has won a $32.7 million contract to perform field and laboratory research support for the Naval Medical Research Unit 3 in the area of emerging infectious diseases. The Defense Department said Friday the company will also provide management support between the U.S. government and potentially foreign personnel based in Egypt and other countries under […] More

  • Quantum Spatial Wins Photogrammetric Surveying and Mapping Contract From Army
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    Quantum Spatial Wins Photogrammetric Surveying and Mapping Contract From Army

    Quantum Spatial has landed a five-year, $12.5 million contract to help the U.S. Army  design and engineer photogrammetric surveying and mapping systems. The Defense Department said Friday the Army Corps of Engineers received 25 bids for the contract via the internet and will determine funds and work location based on each order. The company will perform work […] More

  • DLA Orders Elbit Systems-Built Grip Assembly Controllers
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    DLA Orders Elbit Systems-Built Grip Assembly Controllers

    Elbit Systems of America has secured a $7.3 million firm-fixed price contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to supply grip assembly controllers to the U.S. Army. The Defense Department said Friday DLA’s land and maritime unit will obligate fiscal 2016 Army working capital funds for work to be performed in Texas through Sept. 30, 2018. DoD noted the […] More

  • DoD Names 15 Employer Support Freedom Award Recipients
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    DoD Names 15 Employer Support Freedom Award Recipients

    The Defense Department presented 15 public and private organizations with the 2016 Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Awards during a ceremony held Friday at the Pentagon. DoD said Friday the awardees were chosen from the 2,424 nominations made by U.S. Guard and Reserve employees and recognized for their programs that aid military families during deployment. “These […] More

  • HHS to Back Chembio Diagnostic Systems’ Zika Virus Test Development; Richard Hatchett Comments
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    HHS to Back Chembio Diagnostic Systems’ Zika Virus Test Development; Richard Hatchett Comments

    The Department of Health and Human Services has awarded Chembio Diagnostic Systems $5.9 million in initial contract funds to develop a lateral-flow serological test to identify antibodies produced by the human immune system in response to Zika virus. HHS’ Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority will provide the funds to support the test’s continued development, manufacturing preparations and […] More

  • CGI Supports California Franchise Tax Board’s IT Modernization Project
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    CGI Supports California Franchise Tax Board’s IT Modernization Project

    CGI has led the implementation of a California Franchise Tax Board information technology modernization project that has achieved $2.6 billion in revenue over five years. The IT and business process services company said Thursday the Enterprise Data to Revenue project aims to update FTB’s customer service, revenue generation and organizational transparency. Dave Delgado, a senior vice president at CGI, said the company provided a system that […] More

  • QTS Attains PCI DSS v3.1 Certification for Colocation Services at Dallas-Fort Worth Data Center
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    QTS Attains PCI DSS v3.1 Certification for Colocation Services at Dallas-Fort Worth Data Center

    QTS has attained the Payment Card Industry’s Data Security Standard version 3.1 information security certification and attestation of compliance for the company’s colocation services at its data center in Dallas, Texas. The company said Monday the certification makes the Dallas-Fort Worth data center its fourth PCI DSS v3.1 compliant center. QTS added it implemented a network architecture designed to address more than […] More

  • 3 Companies Utilize VMware Virtual SAN Hyperconverged Service for Workload Migration, Virtualization
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    3 Companies Utilize VMware Virtual SAN Hyperconverged Service for Workload Migration, Virtualization

    VMware has said Amway, iGov Technologies and SugarCreek will deploy the VMware Virtual SAN hyperconverged service to run business-critical applications and virtual desktop infrastructure. The technology works to support shared storage for virtualized production environments that can scale out to several server providers, VMware said Tuesday. Michigan-based Amway transitioned 300 application servers, databases and other workloads to Virtual SAN. Systems integrator and value-added reseller […] More

  • Sevatec Opens New Office in Virginia in Push to Support DHS Component Agencies
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    Sevatec Opens New Office in Virginia in Push to Support DHS Component Agencies

    Sevatec has opened a new office in Crystal City in Arlington County, Virginia, in an effort to deliver information technology services to Department of Homeland Security operational and support components. The new office’s project delivery teams support the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Joint Engineering Teams-Sustainment contract and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement‘s Student Exchange and Visitor Program contract for optional practical training […] More