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  • Keoki Jackson Outlines Lockheed’s Tech Investment Plans
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    Keoki Jackson Outlines Lockheed’s Tech Investment Plans

    Keoki Jackson, chief technology officer at Lockheed Martin, has outlined technology areas where Lockheed plans to invest over the next two to three decades during an Oct. 11 roundtable, C4ISRNET reported Thursday. Jackson said the technologies are classified into three categories, including the strategic technology thread areas that cover “anything Lockheed Martin will do… whether from undersea […] More

  • Resource Management Concepts to Support Naval Air Warfare Center’s Simulation Lab Operations
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    Resource Management Concepts to Support Naval Air Warfare Center’s Simulation Lab Operations

    Resource Management Concepts Inc. has won a potential $40 million contract from the U.S. Navy to support laboratory operations and maintenance efforts of the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division’s simulation unit. RMC will also provide information technology services to the AIR-5.4.3 simulation division under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Defense Department said Thursday. The company will perform work through November […] More

  • IAI-Hankuk JV to Offer UAVs in South Korea
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    IAI-Hankuk JV to Offer UAVs in South Korea

    Israel Aerospace Industries and South Korea-based composites manufacturing firm Hankuk Carbon have formed a joint venture with the goal to develop and produce unmanned aerial vehicles. Korea Aviation Technologies will specifically offer vertical takeoff-and-landing UAVs to the South Korean military and civilian sectors, IAI said Tuesday. KAT aims to build platforms with a maximum take-off weight of 600 […] More

  • CyrusOne Enters Partnership, Equity Deal With Chinese Data Center Operator
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    CyrusOne Enters Partnership, Equity Deal With Chinese Data Center Operator

    CyrusOne has formed a strategic partnership with GDS Holdings and agreed to acquire an 8 percent stake in the China-based data center operator for approximately $100 million. The agreement seeks to drive synergy between the two companies and allows both parties to exchange strategies in data center design and construction, operations, sales and marketing, and supply chain customer […] More

  • General Atomics, Huneed Agree to Explore Aerospace Tech Collaboration Opportunities
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    General Atomics, Huneed Agree to Explore Aerospace Tech Collaboration Opportunities

    A General Atomics subsidiary and South Korea-based airborne systems manufacturer  Huneed Technologies have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore potential opportunities for collaboration between the two companies. Both parties seek to identify common manufacturing, technology and strategic interests as General Atomics Aeronautics Systems Inc. considers Huneed as its possible in-country technology supplier, GA-ASI said Wednesday. “We are […] More

  • Army Plans L3 Upgrade Kit Buy for Mine Detection Systems
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    Army Plans L3 Upgrade Kit Buy for Mine Detection Systems

    The U.S. Army has announced it plans to buy up to 1,800 units of L3 Technologies-built upgrade kits to modernize the service branch’s mine detection platform. A justification and approval notice published Tuesday on FedBizOpps says the Army requires kits to address AN/PSS-14 maintainability, performance, reliability and sustainment requirements. The service branch aims to convert its current mine detection […] More

  • Box to Help FDA Implement Cloud Content Mgmt Platform
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    Box to Help FDA Implement Cloud Content Mgmt Platform

    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has selected Redwood City, California-based Box to provide a cloud content management platform for FDA’s information technology modernization project. Sonny Hashmi, managing director of Box’s global government business, wrote in a blog entry posted Thursday the company will help FDA digitize and automate processes that leverage content portal for agency personnel to collaborate and exchange […] More

  • Iron Mountain Secures USPTO Data Storage, Mgmt Contract; Michael Lewis Comments
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    Iron Mountain Secures USPTO Data Storage, Mgmt Contract; Michael Lewis Comments

    Iron Mountain has received a potential five-year, $6.7 million contract to store and manage approximately 4.6 million patent files for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The company said Thursday it will capture, pack and transfer all USPTO records from the agency’s current data repository to an Iron Mountain storage facility built to comply with National Archives […] More

  • Capt. Emily Grabowski: Raytheon Works to Meet USAF Small Diameter Bomb Delivery Schedule
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    Capt. Emily Grabowski: Raytheon Works to Meet USAF Small Diameter Bomb Delivery Schedule

    Capt. Emily Grabowski, a U.S. Air Force spokeswoman, has said the service branch believes Raytheon could supply enough Small Diameter Bomb II units for initial deployment on the F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft by 2019, Bloomberg reported Thursday. Grabowski told Bloomberg in an email the company “has worked diligently to address technical discoveries and is implementing the necessary factory infrastructure improvements […] More

  • SAIC Taps Kinetics to Support Marine AAV Production, Deployment Phase
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    SAIC Taps Kinetics to Support Marine AAV Production, Deployment Phase

    Kinetics Drive Solutions will serve as a subcontractor of Science Applications International Corp. on the production and deployment phase of the U.S. Marine Corps‘ Amphibious Assault Vehicle Survivability Upgrade program. SAIC received an initial low-rate initial production contract to deliver additional AAV SU platforms equipped with Kinetics-built MD500 marine drive power-take-off and InfiniDrive HMX3000 transmission […] More

  • Unisys Lands $60M Contract to Support Australia’s Immigration and Border Protection Unit
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    Unisys Lands $60M Contract to Support Australia’s Immigration and Border Protection Unit

    Unisys has secured a potential three-year, $60.4 million contract extension to provide managed end-user computing and infrastructure support services for staff members of Australia’s Department of Immigration and Border Protection around the world. The company said Wednesday that it will continue to offer first level service desk, immigration systems and infrastructure support for the DIBP’s […] More

  • MIL Corp Lands Second ISO Certification
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    MIL Corp Lands Second ISO Certification

    MIL Corp. has obtained a second certification from the International Organization for Standardization that recognizes quality management at the company’s command, control, communications and computer engineering business. The ISO 901:2015 certification came after International Quality Registars evaluated and validated quality management processes at MIL’s engineering integration facility,  MIL said Monday. The audit covered areas such as cyber, solution, software and […] More