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Pivot3 and Tracewell Systems have combined their respective offerings to develop a hyper-converged service intended to help fulfill the computing requirements of defense customers. Tracewell intends for the partnership to help clients virtualize applications and maximize storage using Pivot3’s HCI software, Pivot3 said Tuesday. “The high storage efficiency of Pivot3 HCI, combined with low compute […] More
Raytheon has been awarded a potential $98 million contract to supply the U.S. Navy with airborne low frequency sonar systems. The contract contains an option for the company to produce additional AN/AQS-22 systems for U.S. inventory and the foreign military sales program, Raytheon said Wednesday. ALFS serves as the undersea warfare sensor for the Navy’s MH-60R […] More
The Army Contracting Command has issued a solicitation for proposals from industry for key components of its new Modular Handgun System as a replacement for its M9 pistol, the Army Times reported Tuesday. Kyle Jahner writes the production and supply contract for the new handgun system could be worth at least $580 million. The service […] More
Leidos has secured a potential one-year, $7.9 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to conduct research and develop a spectrum sharing platform for use between communications systems and radars. Reston, Va.-based Leidos will carry out research work under the second phase of DARPA’s Shared Spectrum Access for Radar and Communications initiative, the Defense […] More
Booz Allen Hamilton has received a $26.8 million U.S. Navy contract to provide research and development and engineering services for the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division’s communications-electronics systems. The Defense Department said Monday Booz Allen will also carry out logistics, analysis, integration, material procurements, training, fielding, test and evaluation, installation and maintenance workfor the service branch’s special […] More
Brian Houston, a vice president at Hitachi Data Systems‘ U.S. federal subsidiary, believes agencies need to apply analytics to virtualized environments in order to gain insights into their data situation, FCW reported Tuesday. “The biggest issue that everybody’s trying to get their hands around is, ‘What do we really have?’†Houston told FCW’s Zach Noble. He […] More
The U.S. Air Force plans to issue a contract for research and development work on a live, virtual and constructive mission training platform for warfighter readiness activities. The AF Research Laboratory wants to build and demonstrate an LVC training toolset that can operate with various computer networks and architectures, the military branch said in a […] More
A Time Warner Cable subsidiary has adopted a Dell network firewall appliance to deliver managed security services to the telecommunication firm’s customers in the education sector. Time Warner Cable Business Class collaborates with Secure Designs , a premium partner of Dell, to help U.S. school district clients protect their information technology assets, Dell said Tuesday. […] More
Huntington Ingalls Industries and General Dynamics have expressed interest in the U.S. Navy‘s program for icebreaker vessels after the administration proposed to accelerate the buying process, Reuters reported Tuesday. Andrea Shalal writes the proposal brought forward the acquisition to 2020 from 2022 due to increasing commerce and maritime traffic in the Arctic and to keep resources at […] More
Washington-based business incubator 1776 has launched a $12.5 million seed fund for pre-Series A startups in the fields of education, energy, health, smart cities and transportation. The company said Tuesday it is looking to invest in early-stage businesses that can potentially disrupt regulated industries. “Technology is permeating the global economy and unmooring it from its industrial era […] More
Northrop Grumman has experimented with an occulting technology the company built to help astronomers view and study celestial objects from Earth. The company demonstrated circular and petal-shaped designs of its starshade in conjunction with the McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope during engineering tests at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona, Northrop said Tuesday. It marks the first […] More
The Open Group‘s Open Trusted Technology Provider Standard has received approval as an ISO/IEC International Standard for the security and integrity of commercial off-the-shelf information and communications technology products and supply chains. The consortium said Tuesday the new ISO/IEC 20243:2015 standard works to help COTS ICT providers prevent the introduction of tampered or counterfeit product components at any stage […] More
