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is a staff writer at Executive Mosaic, where she writes for ExecutiveBiz about IT modernization, cybersecurity, space procurement and industry leaders’ perspectives on government technology trends.
Lockheed Martin has received a potential $11.6 million contract modification to continue to provide performance-based logistics support services for the U.S. Navy’s Consolidated Automated Support System. The company will perform contract work in Florida through March 2016, the Defense Department said Friday. The Navy’s CASS is a family of standard automatic testing tools that work […] More
A Raytheon subsidiary has received a potential four-year, $7.7 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to develop a software that works to extend the life cycle of mobile networked systems and manage resource-linked modifications in mobile applications. Raytheon BBN Technologies will work to combine program synthesis and analysis, resource specification and runtime methods to develop the […] More
Leidos and the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering’s Information Sciences Institute have partnered for two research projects that seek to advance high-performance computing and network analysis. Leidos said Monday it will fund both projects through a five-year, $500,000 grant under the Strategic University Alliances Program. The program seeks to support science, technology, engineering and math education […] More
Lockheed Martin has integrated Princeton Power Systems-built grid-tiered inverters with an energy storage system as part of an electric power grid project in Boothbay, Maine. Lockheed partnered with Convergent Energy + Power on the project to deploy a 3-megawatt-hour energy storage platform in an effort to address electric reliability issues that Boothbay-area households face during summer, Princeton […] More
The U.S. Navy placed its fifth Littoral Combat Ship into active service during a commissioning ceremony held in Milwaukee Saturday. Lockheed Martin designed and built the Freedom-class USS Milwaukee LCS with Gibbs & Cox and Fincantieri Marinette Marine, Lockheed said Saturday. “The entire Lockheed Martin-led LCS industry team is proud to deliver USS Milwaukee to the crew […] More
Harris Corp. has opened a $1.9 million facility that aims to provide a venue for science and engineering students at Florida Institute of Technology to design, build and test new technology platforms. The Harris Student Design Center is located within Florida Institute of Technology’s Melbourne campus, Harris said Friday. Bill Brown, chairman, president and CEO at […] More
Boston Fusion has awarded root9B a subcontract to provide consulting services for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s information innovation office in support of the $60 million Transparent Computing initiative. Root9B will work with Boston Fusion to conduct research and develop scenarios for advanced persistent threats and other cyber threat environments as part of the […] More
NASA has formed public-private partnerships with 19 companies for 22 research projects under two solicitations that seek to advance the development of new space platforms intended for human and robotic exploration missions. “These awards enable us to continue to foster partnerships with the commercial space sector that not only leverage capabilities to meet NASA’s strategic […] More
The Mach37 Cyber Accelerator has opened the application process for its 90-day mentorship program that seeks to help startups develop and market their information security platforms with a $50,000 investment. The business accelerator will select up to eight early-stage firms for the Spring 2016 Cohort program that is scheduled to launch on March 14, Mach37 […] More
The Department of Health and Human Services has teamed up with OptumLabs, a healthcare research center co-founded by Mayo Clinic and Optum, in an effort to utilize OptumLabs’ databases of de-identified patient data for healthcare research. OptumLabs will work with HHS’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to compare identified trends in the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey with […] More
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has received a Raytheon-built sonar system for integration with the Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel program. Raytheon said Wednesday it handed the Modular Scalable Sonar System to DARPA as part of a subcontract it won from Leidos. MS3 is an open architecture-based platform designed to perform torpedo warning, search-and-tracking and small-object […] More
The U.S. Army has announced that industry stakeholders should become a member of the Consortium for Command, Control, Communications and Computer Technologies in order to participate in the proposed Cyber Innovation Challenge. The announcement posted Nov. 10 on FedBizOpps is an update to an Oct. 27 notice about the planned contest, which seeks new software-based prototypes that […] More
