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SRI International and a Polish research-and-development agency have formed a partnership with the goal to foster technological innovation and establish a community of scientists and researchers in Poland. The Menlo Park, California-based nonprofit said Wednesday it will collaborate with Poland’s National Centre for Research and Development to design and carry out a series of challenges and an advanced research projects initiative. Leszek Grabarczyk, NCBR deputy director, […] More

Applied Technology Associates has been awarded a potential five-year, $27 million contract to help the U.S. Navy research and develop electro-optical and infrared sensing technology. The Defense Department said Thursday the company will perform work in Albuquerque, New Mexico and is scheduled to finish by June 29, 2021. The Naval Research Laboratory obligated $2.3 million from the Navy’s fiscal […] More

ProSource360 Consulting Services has secured a prime contract of an undisclosed value to help the Defense Health Agency and the Air Force Medical Support Agency develop clinical and administrative management strategies and policies. The company said Friday it will provide analytical, conceptual, technical and project management services for the Air Force Pharmacy as well as monitor forecast requirements related […] More

Canadian Commercial Corp. has received a $7.8 million task order to design and install a flight safety software for the U.S. Air Force. The Defense Department said Thursday the company will also provide software training, support and maintenance under the service branch’s Global Procedure Designer program. The software will be developed to help the Air Force […] More

DataDirect Networks will launch its new European Advance Technology Research and Development Center in an effort to meet the demand for big data storage services in the French and European markets. The R&D Center in Paris will work to develop technologies in areas ranging from end-to-end big data lifecycle management and accelerating time to insight through analytics and […] More

A General Atomics subsidiary has received the Capability Maturity Model Integration Maturity level 5 rating for its aircraft systems business unit’s full-directed programs, systems and software development and production processes. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. received the highest attainable maturity level award, which acknowledges companies considered to be working at an optimized level, General Atomics said Thursday. “Absent an externally-levied […] More

The Commerce Department‘s National Institute of Standards and Technology has begun the fourth round of competitions for cooperative funding agreement opportunities for Manufacturing Extension Partnership centers across 11 states. NIST said Thursday it will provide a potential $60 million to fund organizations in Delaware, Hawaii, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Mississippi, New Mexico, Nevada, North Dakota, South Carolina and Wyoming to operate the MEP […] More

BAE Systems has completed a software update to the Emulated Deployable Cockpit Trainers for the British air force’s Typhoon fighter aircraft simulators. The company said Wednesday that updated EDCT system at Royal Air Force Coningsby and Lossiemouth bases will work to simulate missions for Typhoon pilots to familiarize themselves with geographical area, conditions and layout prior to deployment. “This update to the UK’s synthetic […] More

Boeing has opened an 8,100-square-foot laboratory in St. Charles, Missouri to facilitate the development and validation of software and hardware designed to support collaboration among unmanned ground, maritime and aerial vehicles. The company said Thursday the Collaborative Autonomous Systems Laboratory features a motion capture system that will work to help users operate multiple unmanned vehicles in a […] More

The Energy Department will support two technology development initiatives at Sandia National Laboratories for eventual transmission into the commercial market. Sandia Labs said Tuesday its Sandia Cooler and BA-BZT-BT capacitors projects will receive an equal amount of non-federal money with the other selected energy projects from TCF to match the federal investment. Lockheed Martin‘s Sandia Corp. subsidiary operates the laboratory […] More

The Canadian military plans to solicit ideas from industry on a satellite communications infrastructure dedicated to the Arctic region, Space News reported Thursday. Mike Gruss reports Col. Jeff Dooling, director of space requirements for the Canadian Department for National Defense, told the MilSatCom conference in Virginia that the Enhanced Satcom project is estimated to cost $1.8 billion […] More