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The NATO Communications and Information Agency launched the 2016 Innovation Challenge in April for small businesses and academia from all 28 NATO member nations. Participants were required to submit proposals in the areas of cyber defense, Internet of Things, military application of blockchains and cognitive computing or machine learning by May 10, NCI Agency said April 25. The challenge […] More

A Gemalto subsidiary has received a six-year contract to build a turnkey platform for the motor vehicles division of the Colorado Department of Revenue to produce state driver’s license and identification cards. Gemalto said Monday its unit Marquis ID Systems will also provide a central issuance and personalization system for the Colorado DMV to print polycarbonate-based IDs. The system will be […] More

New York-based corporate investigations and risk consulting firm Kroll has named Devon Ackerman, Mari DeGrazia, Ron Dormido and Ray Manna as directors for its cybersecurity and investigations unit. Kroll said Monday the four were appointed as a part of the company’s push to meet demand in cyber investigations and advanced digital forensics services among clients. Tim Ryan, Kroll cybersecurity and […] More

BAE Systems has completed the 1,000th vertical landing of a Lockheed Martin-built F-35B as part of an ongoing flight test program. BAE said Friday Peter Wilson – lead test pilot for the short takeoff and vertical landing variant of the F-35 — performed the landing at Naval Air Station Patuxent River six years after BAE pilot Graham Tomlinson conducted the first vertical landing. “Every day, […] More

Mike Petters, president and CEO of Huntington Ingalls Industries, has said HII has secured approximately 20 percent of shipbuilding work on the U.S. Navy’s entire Ohio-class replacement program with General Dynamics as prime contractor. He told Defense News reporter Christoper Cavas in an interview published Sunday that ORP prompts HII to align its design plans as well as […] More

The Energy Department has opted to extend its contract with Battelle for an additional five years to to operate the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and will not hold a competition for a contract to help run PNNL, Tri-City Herald reported Friday. Annette Cary writes that the current contract will expire in September 2017 and DOE looks to continue the five-decade […] More

Eight technology proposals from organizations in the academia, private and public sector have been selected for the second phase of NASA’s aerospace research and development program with up to $500,000 in funds for each submission. Proposers will develop for two years the concepts funded under the first phase of NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts program and […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries has delivered the USS John P. Murtha amphibious transport dock to the U.S. Navy. HII said Friday Richard Schenk, vice president for program management, signed the official DD 250 document to transfer the custody of the amphibious transport dock to the service branch. Schenk said the company aims to deliver two more ships to complete the class, which […] More