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  • VA Picks Decision Lens Software for Program Alignment Work
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    VA Picks Decision Lens Software for Program Alignment Work

    The Department of Veterans Affairs will deploy resource and program management and planning software from Decision Lens as part of an agency-wide initiative to realign its priorities. The cloud-based analytics tool is designed to aid enterprise decision-makers on budget allocations, changes to the information technology portfolio and workforce planning, Decision Lens said Thursday. It also identified research and development and source […] More

  • Ball Aerospace Delivers Camera, Antenna Systems for Orion Spacecraft; Jim Oschmann Comments
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    Ball Aerospace Delivers Camera, Antenna Systems for Orion Spacecraft; Jim Oschmann Comments

    Ball Aerospace & Technologies has supplied four phased array antennas and three cameras for the Lockheed Martin-built Orion spacecraft. Orion’s antenna system is comprised of more than 5,000 components and designed to transmit data and voice communications from the capsule’s liftoff until its splashdown, Ball Aerospace said Friday. The company based its Orion flight test […] More

  • Microsoft Obtains FedRAMP Authorization to Deploy Office 365 at HHS
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    Microsoft Obtains FedRAMP Authorization to Deploy Office 365 at HHS

    Microsoft has received a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program authorization to provide Office 365 products and services that are tailored for government agencies to the Department of Health and Human Services. The company said Thursday that the authority to operate certifies Microsoft to provide HHS cloud-based email and enterprise collaboration services such as Exchange Online and SharePoint Online. Microsoft obtained […] More

  • SAP Plans $150M Investment in Australian Digital Service Facilities
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    SAP Plans $150M Investment in Australian Digital Service Facilities

    SAP‘s Australian business plans to invest $150 million over a five-year period in the future SAP Institute of Digital Government and a new data center in Canberra, Inside SAP reported Monday. Freya Purnell reports that the data center will offer SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud services to support citizen services and cloud-first policies at Australian federal government agencies. The SAP Institute of […] More

  • Chris Crane: Federal Regulators Green-Light Exelon, Pepco Merger
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    Chris Crane: Federal Regulators Green-Light Exelon, Pepco Merger

    The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has cleared Exelon‘s proposed acquisition of power distribution company Pepco Holdings. “FERC’s approval is another step forward toward completing this transaction,” Chris Crane, president and CEO of Exelon, said Friday. The companies aim to merge their electric and natural gas utility operations in a bid to expand their footprint in […] More

  • Stephen Ball: Lockheed Opens UK Testing Lab for F-35 Mission Systems
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    Stephen Ball: Lockheed Opens UK Testing Lab for F-35 Mission Systems

    Lockheed Martin has opened a new facility in Bedfordshire, U.K., to host testing of mission software platforms for the F-35 aircraft. The Virtual Analysis Laboratory is located at the company’s site in Ampthill and designed with simulation cockpits for pilots and engineers to assess F-35 mission systems, Lockheed said Friday. “Establishing the F-35 VAL in the […] More

  • Northrop Places Mesh Reflector on NASA Soil Moisture Research Satellite; Geoff Marks Cinnebts
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    Northrop Places Mesh Reflector on NASA Soil Moisture Research Satellite; Geoff Marks Cinnebts

    Northrop Grumman has installed its AstroMesh Reflector on NASA‘s Soil Moisture Active Passive satellite ahead of SMAP’s launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in January. The company said Friday it designed the mesh reflector to aid SMAP in its mission to measure soil moisture, collect freeze and thaw data and support weather and climate prediction and drought monitoring. Geoff Marks, chief technologist at Northrop’s Astro […] More

  • Air Force Wants Info on Aerial Directional Data Links, Networks
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    Air Force Wants Info on Aerial Directional Data Links, Networks

    The U.S. Air Force has asked industry to submit information on a directional tactical data links and networks that are designed to work at higher frequencies. A Nov. 18 request for information calls for details on industry offerings and research and development efforts on tactical data links and interoperable networking systems. The service also seeks industry input on waveform agility to create capacity, latency, jam resistance […] More

  • Navy Seeks Info on Explosives Trace Detection Tech
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    Navy Seeks Info on Explosives Trace Detection Tech

    A Naval Surface Warfare Center division has requested information on potential sources of equipment intended to detect trace amounts of explosives. NSWC’s explosive ordnance disposal technology unit seeks to leverage industry’s existing platforms that can identify triacetone triperoxide, urea nitrate, potassium chlorate and ammonium nitrate mixtures, the Department of the Navy said Nov. 13 in […] More

  • IBM, Fluor, USC to Offer Personalized IT Learning at Applied Innovation Center
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    IBM, Fluor, USC to Offer Personalized IT Learning at Applied Innovation Center

    IBM, Fluor and the University of South Carolina have unveiled a new Center for Applied Innovation as part of their public-private partnership and efforts to deliver personalized learning on analytics and higher education application services. IBM said Friday the team aims to help students acquire further information technology skills and knowledge, particularly in the field of applied computing, and to […] More

  • Three Wire Systems Buys Hardware Hosting Cage in San Diego
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    Three Wire Systems Buys Hardware Hosting Cage in San Diego

    Three Wire Systems has acquired a so-called “AIS Cage” or hardware hosting site at the San Diego-based AIS Data Center from DefenseWeb Technologies as Three Wire aims to support applications in an accredited IT environment. The company said Thursday the acquisition is part of its efforts to expand its application development and delivery services. It will work with its […] More