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Woolpert Awarded $50M USACE Contract for Bathymetric & Lidar Data Collection
Woolpert has secured a $49.9 million contract to help a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers center meet coastal data and imagery requirements of other military and government organizations. The three-year, firm-fixed-price contract will involve technical assistance, geospatial operations and sensor maintenance as part of coastal mapping and charting missions of USACE’s Joint Airborne Lidar Bathymetry […] More
October 6, 2022, 11:48 am
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Navy OKs New Northrop Navigation System for Fleet Installation
The U.S. Navy has approved the installation of Northrop Grumman‘s Electronic Chart Display and Information System into the service branch’s ships and submarines, beginning with USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier. Navy ECDIS was deemed by the Navy’s Operational Test and Evaluation Force as “operationally suitable, operationally effective and cyber survivable” as […] More
October 6, 2022, 11:48 am
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Will Grannis: Google Offers Army Access to Collaboration Tools
Google will collaborate with Accenture‘s federal arm and Sada Systems to help the U.S. Army deploy a suite of cloud-based collaboration applications for as many as 250,000 soldiers. Will Grannis, CEO of Google’s public sector unit, wrote in a blog post published Wednesday the Army’s Workspace implementation project is one of the first collaborative efforts […] More
October 6, 2022, 6:26 am
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Pyramid Analytics Launches Government-Focused Business Unit
Business intelligence software developer Pyramid Analytics has launched a new division focused on providing U.S. government agencies with data analytics services. The new Pyramid Federal Business Practice will be led by Joe Fritsch, director of federal sales at the company and former federal account executive at a VMware segment, Pyramid said Tuesday. The business unit […] More
October 5, 2022, 5:11 am
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Boeing, Firefly Subsidiaries to Help USSF Conduct ‘Responsive Space’ Demo
Subsidiaries of Boeing and Firefly Aerospace have received separate task orders to provide systems and services for a U.S. Space Force mission with the goal of demonstrating rapid payload deployment to low Earth orbit. Millennium Space Systems will produce the spacecraft and sensor hardware and ground infrastructure while Firefly Space Transport Services will supply the […] More
October 4, 2022, 11:55 am
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Army Vet David Petraeus Joins Advisory Board of IT Security Company Semperis
David Petraeus, former CIA director and nearly four-decade U.S. Army veteran, has been appointed as a strategic adviser at Semperis, a company that develops enterprise identity protection and cyber resilience products for hybrid and multi-cloud environments. As a member of the Semperis advisory board, the retired Army general will provide guidance on enhancing identity threat […] More
September 30, 2022, 11:44 am
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Mitre Unveils Expansion Plans in Honolulu
Mitre is opening a new site in the Kaka‘ako Innovation District in Honolulu, Hawaii, in an effort to boost support for the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command and in line with its initiatives to expand its presence in the state’s capital. The Kaka’ako operations will provide the Department of Defense with information technology support services in areas […] More
September 29, 2022, 11:53 am
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IARPA Picks 6 Lead Contractors to Study Linguistic Fingerprinting
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has awarded contracts to six lead organizations for the study of artificial intelligence techniques that could advance linguistic fingerprinting technology. The awardees will participate in the Human Interpretable Attribution of Text Using Underlying Structure program, which aims to create AI technologies capable of multilingual authorship attribution and privacy preservation, […] More
September 28, 2022, 5:36 am
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Startups Demonstrate Undersea Systems to Navy
Seven startup companies presented novel undersea technology platforms at an event hosted by a U.S. Navy warfare center in Rhode Island. It was the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport’s first demo day under Northeast Tech Bridge, a program meant to increase the service branch’s access to local innovation ecosystems. The showcase featured AnyLog, Boston […] More
September 28, 2022, 2:44 am
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Dan Verwiel Named President, CEO of Ultra Intelligence & Communications
Dan Verwiel, formerly a vice president and general manager at Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), has been named president and CEO of Ultra Electronics‘ intelligence and communications segment. He will succeed current I&C President Mike Baptist, who has decided to step down after a three-decade career at Ultra, the defense technology provider said Thursday. Verwiel, who […] More
September 27, 2022, 4:15 am
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Unmanned Aircraft Maker Rapidflight to Expand Virginia Operations With New HQ
Rapidflight, an end-to-end designer and manufacturer of unmanned aircraft systems, will invest $5.5 million to build its operations in Manassas, Virginia. The company said Friday it will establish its headquarters as well as design and production facility in the city, taking up 25,000 square feet of space and creating 119 new jobs. Rapidflight Founder and […] More
September 26, 2022, 11:54 am
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Oak Ridge National Lab’s Green Building Simulation Tool Draws Industry Partners
Several companies have been using an Oak Ridge National Laboratory-developed modeling platform as part of their efforts to make facilities more energy efficient. The AutoBEM software suite has so far simulated energy use for 98 percent of U.S. buildings since its release last year, and has led to collaborative data sharing with private sector organizations […] More
September 23, 2022, 7:24 am