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  • Military Health System to Adopt McKesson Clinical Decision Support Tool
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    Military Health System to Adopt McKesson Clinical Decision Support Tool

    McKesson has been selected to deploy its evidence-based clinical decision support tool at military hospitals and clinics worldwide for the Military Health System. The Military Health System selected McKesson’s InterQual system to complement its military treatment facilities’ clinical judgment tool, McKesson said Thursday. The InterQual incorporates peer reviews from clinical experts across the U.S. McKesson […] More

  • Mary Davie: GSA Works With DISA, CSPs to Prepare Future Cloud IDIQ Vehicle
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    Mary Davie: GSA Works With DISA, CSPs to Prepare Future Cloud IDIQ Vehicle

    Mary Davie of the General Services Administration‘s Federal Acquisition Service has said both government and industry partners have helped in FAS’ preparations for a future cloud computing contract. She wrote in a blog entry posted Friday that GSA has worked with the Defense Information Systems Agency and cloud vendors to generate feedback that would help shape a new cloud services vehicle […] More

  • Army Seeks LTE Wireless Tech Sources for WIN-T Increment 1
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    Army Seeks LTE Wireless Tech Sources for WIN-T Increment 1

    The U.S. Army has issued a request for information on the availability of a cellular transmission system that the military branch can integrate with its Warfighter Information Network-Tactical infrastructure. In a notice posted Jan. 14 on FedBizOpps, the Army said it is looking for potential sources of 4G LTE technology for WIN-T Increment 1 wireless data transport operations. The […] More

  • Germany Shortlists Boeing Chinook, Sikorsky King Stallion for Helicopter Purchase
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    Germany Shortlists Boeing Chinook, Sikorsky King Stallion for Helicopter Purchase

    Germany has narrowed its choices for the country’s next helicopters to the Boeing Chinook and Sikorsky King Stallion with the selection lined up to succeed the latter company’s Sea Stallion, Defense News reported Sunday. Lars Hoffman writes Germany’s air force plans to make a selection by the end of 2016, according to the report. The country’s defense ministry released a military aviation strategy […] More

  • Rolls-Royce to Build $43M Aerospace Disc Manufacturing Plant
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    Rolls-Royce to Build $43M Aerospace Disc Manufacturing Plant

    Rolls-Royce will allocate more than $42.7 million in funds to build a new facility in Tyne and Wear, England that will produce fan and turbine discs for its in-service aerospace engines. The proposed manufacturing plant is part of the company’s modernization initiative for its disc manufacturing business, Rolls-Royce said Friday. The defense contractor expects the […] More

  • Report: Turner Construction, Santa Clara County Finalize $466M Valley Medical Center Expansion Project
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    Report: Turner Construction, Santa Clara County Finalize $466M Valley Medical Center Expansion Project

    Turner Construction and Santa Clara County in California have agreed to proceed with the Valley Medical Center expansion project under a new contract valued at approximately $466.5 million, Silicon Valley Business Journal reported Friday. Nathan Donato-Weinstein writes the new “change order” has been reached following the county’s decision to drop a case it filed in September 2015 […] More

  • L-3 Division Gets Emulation Software Upgrade Contract for Romanian Nuclear Power Plant
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    L-3 Division Gets Emulation Software Upgrade Contract for Romanian Nuclear Power Plant

    L-3 Communications’ MAPPS division has received a contract from Romanian state-owned utilities firm Societatea Nationala Nuclearelectrica to update the emulation platform of the digital control computer simulator at SNN’s Cernavoda nuclear power plant. The DCC emulation platform is based on the L-3 MAPPS-built Orchid Control System and works to support the functions of DCCs, including system switchover, […] More

  • General Dynamics Hands 2nd TOTE ‘Green’ Containership
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    General Dynamics Hands 2nd TOTE ‘Green’ Containership

    TOTE Maritime has received a second liquefied natural gas-powered vessel from General Dynamics to support the operator’s cargo transportation operations. General Dynamics said Friday its NASSCO subsidiary delivered the Perla Del Caribe containership under a two-vessel contract that TOTE awarded to NASSCO in December 2012. TOTE accepted its first LNG-fueled cargo ship Isla Bella in October last year and uses the vessel […] More

  • General Atomics to Develop Air Force Drone Software Line
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    General Atomics to Develop Air Force Drone Software Line

    General Atomics has received a $34 million order to develop and deploy a new software line for the Air Force Special Operations Command’s MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems will field the MQ-9 medium-altitude long-endurance tactical lead-off hitter software line under the basic ordering agreement with the U.S. Air Force, the Defense Department […] More

  • Sotera Lands DARPA Counter-Insurgency Research Contract
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    Sotera Lands DARPA Counter-Insurgency Research Contract

    Sotera has received an $11.4 million contract to support the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s research and development counter-insurgency operations program. The company will perform work in Virginia and Texas through Jan. 20, 2019, the Defense Department said Thursday. The Research Triangle Park, North Carolina-based Army Contracting Command received one bid for the contract via […] More

  • Visiongain: Military Unmanned Maritime Vehicles Market to See Increased Demand Through 2026
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    Visiongain: Military Unmanned Maritime Vehicles Market to See Increased Demand Through 2026

    Visiongain’s new report predicts that the military unmanned maritime vehicles market will be worth $810.9 million by the end of 2016. The company said the growth is due to the increased technological development and crossover between commercial and military needs. “Globally, militaries are turning to UMVs to augment their manned capabilities,” said Sophie Hammond, Visiongain’s […] More