Jane Edwards

AgustaWestland has selected CAE to provide aviation training equipment for the U.K. naval forces under the U.K. defense ministry’s Merlin Life Sustainment Program. The subcontract calls for CAE to design and assemble a rear-crew trainer, flight navigation procedures trainer and two fixed-based flight training devices for the AW101 Merlin helicopter crew of the Royal Navy, CAE said Wednesday. […] More

Dynetics is set to launch at the two-day 7th Annual Southeastern Cyber Security Summit a set of tools designed to help companies understand and manage cyber risks to their computing environments. Under the Cyber RiskScope product line, the SelfAssure online platform works to provide assessments and recommendations to small- and medium-sized enterprises on how to […] More

NASA has selected eight research projects that aim to address challenges to commercial supersonic travel such as sonic booms and emissions from supersonic aircraft. The research initiatives will involve academic institutions and companies and will get funding worth more than $2.3 million under the agency’s Commercial Supersonic Technology Project, the space agency said Wednesday. Kenneth Plotkin […] More

MacAulay-Brown will provide logistics assistance for the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command as part of the Expedited Professional and Engineering Support Services blanket purchase agreement. The task order calls for the company to provide information technology support, training tools, manpower, computer resources and operational support for AMCOM, MacB said Monday. Fred Norman, senior vice president and general […] More

908 Devices will develop handheld chemical detection tools for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency under a potential $11.5 million contract. The company said Tuesday it will work to create a compact chemical analyzer by combining its High-Pressure Mass Spectrometry platform with gas chromatography. The firm will also collaborate with other companies, laboratories and the University of North […] More

Iron Mountain has unveiled an information technology platform that seeks to help healthcare organizations in Canada to store, manage and secure patients’ records. The company said Monday it will offer adopters of the Canadian Health Information Management Solution with services that aim to facilitate conversion of paper to electronic records. Iron Mountain will also provide […] More

The Department of Homeland Security has unveiled a new set of contract extensions to Computer Sciences Corp. and HP Enterprise Services for data center services as DHS transitions to an enterprise computing services framework. Both extensions fall under agency’s Enterprise Acquisition Gateway for Leading Edge Solutions contract vehicle. DHS will award the task order for data center 1 to CSC […] More

Engineers at NASA and Boeing have used Boeing’s ecoDemonstrator 757 aircraft to test five types of non-stick coatings designed to reduce fuel consumption by keeping insect residue from sticking to the plane’s right wing. NASA said Monday researchers working on the agency’s Environmentally Responsible Aviation initiative selected Shreveport Regional Airport in Louisiana for the two-week […] More