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Booz Allen VP Andy Linn: One Platform Can Help Feds Boost Mobility, Security
Andy Linn, vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton, said the federal government needs a new platform that can automatically control devices and data access across agencies to improve security and build a mobile workforce.
Charles River Analytics, Metron, 3 Universities Collaborate to Develop UUV Software Adaptation Methods
Charles River Analytics collaborated with scientific consulting firm Metron and three universities to create approaches that will facilitate adaptation of unmanned underwater vehicle software to changes in the platform's internal and external environments.
Lockheed Builds LTE-Over-Satellite Connectivity Platform; Maria Demaree Quoted
Lockheed Martin has developed an LTE-over-satellite system to support connectivity in remote areas and in the event of natural disasters by connecting 4G devices directly to satellites in orbit.
ST Engineering Brings Bronco 3 to Ivalo for Vehicle Winter Testing; Tom Vecchiolla Comments
Singapore-based ST Engineering has begun testing a new variant of its Bronco all terrain tracked carrier at Ivalo Test World in northern Finland, EDR On-Line reported Thursday. The company brought Bronco 3 to Ivalo to assess the vehicle’s capability to operate in cold weather and heavy snow.
ÂAir Force Issues RFP for Air, Missile Defense Experimentation Center
The Air Force Materiel Command has released a request for proposals to establish an experimentation center for the Joint Integrated Air and Missile Defense system.
DDS Seeks Vendors to Build New Federal Background Investigation System
The U.S. Defense Digital Service is seeking vendors that could provide a new partially automated and cloud-based prototype system for security clearance processes.
AI.Reverie Gets In-Q-Tel Investment for Computer Vision Simulation Platform
In-Q-Tel, the intelligence community’s venture capital arm, has made a strategic investment in AI.Reverie to further develop the latter company’s computer vision simulation platform designed to meet government agencies’ operational requirements. AI.Reverie’s platform is designed to create photorealistic virtual worlds to mimic real-time locations and provide automatically annotated synthetic data and various scenarios and objects to facilitate training of algorithms and artificial intelligence tools, IQT said Tuesday.
ÂLockheed Begins Assembly Work on Orion EM-2 Spacecraft
Lockheed Martin has teamed up with NASA to begin construction work on the components of an Orion spacecraft that is expected to take off by 2022 to perform the crewed Exploration Mission-2, NASASpaceFlight reported Monday. Four astronauts aboard the Lockheed-built Orion will perform a lunar flyby as part of the EM-2 test flight.
ÂArmy OKs iDirectGov Products for Wideband Global Satcom System
The U.S. Army has certified iDirect Government's satellite routers and line cards to support military communications via the Wideband Global SATCOM constellation.