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A Huntington Ingalls Industries division has updated and tested a catapult system aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln as part of a ship modernization and maintenance initiative. The U.S. Navy and HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding crew launched steam-powered catapults on the aircraft carrier approximately 20 times during the system’s “no-load” test, the company said Wednesday. “The test reminds us that this is […] More

United Launch Alliance has selected Tyvak Nanosatellite Systems to serve as an auxiliary payload customer on ULA’s CubeSat rideshare program under a memorandum of understanding between the two companies. Tyvak will be able to provide commercial and U.S. government CubeSat customers, as well as science, technology, engineering and math CubeSat customers access to ULA’s Atlas V […] More

The U.S. Army plans to launch a third iteration of its Cyber Innovation Challenge to identify micro-cloud management technology that can support the military branch’s cyber threat defense missions. The competition will be open to commercial and academic organizations and calls for the development of software-based prototypes that will work to manage disparate cloud computing architectures for […] More

The U.S. Navy has demonstrated Raytheon-built computing applications onboard the lead ship in the branch’s Zumwalt class of destroyers. Raytheon said Wednesday the DDG 1000‘s total ship computing environment and engineering control systems functioned during a week-long trial at sea. The TSCE infrastructure comprises a combat management, ship and machinery control, embedded training, damage control and C4I […] More

The Energy Department has issued the first request for proposals on the office of technology transition’s Technology Commercialization Fund, which seeks to support the transfer of energy-related technologies to the commercial market. DOE said Friday the $20 million funding opportunity aims to facilitate the commercialization of technologies developed as part of federally funded research projects at the 17 […] More

Stan Soloway, formerly CEO of the Professional Services Council, has founded Celero Strategies LLC in an effort to help companies grow their federal market presence. Soloway said Monday “Celero will be focused on helping companies adapt to and succeed” in a market that he describes as “undergoing massive changes.” “We have also built a unique […] More

Jacobs Engineering Group has been awarded a contract of an undisclosed value to support the U.S. Marine Corps Special Operations Command’s tactical communications training program. The company said Tuesday it will help the command train Marine Raiders to operate modern data and radio communication systems. MARSOC also asked the company to provide technical strategies for […] More

The Canadian air force’s first class of CH-147F Chinook helicopter aircrews has completed its training with the Boeing-built helicopter using a CAE-developed training system. The Chinook aircrew comprises six first officers, two flight engineers and two loadmasters who graduated during a ceremony held at Garrison Petawawa in Ontario after a 24-week course, CAE said Monday. CAE […] More

Deltek has launched its 2016 surveys for government vendors and architecture and engineering firms with the goal to analyze potential operational, financial and program management issues these companies may face. The surveys run through Feb. 29 and Deltek will develop market data based on survey results in order to help firms gauge competition and conduct business planning, Deltek said […] More

The U.S. Navy has issued a solicitation for research and development programs that will work to support the mission of the combating terrorism technical support office. A broad agency announcement published Feb. 2 on FedBizOpps indicated that CTTSO is interested in R&D projects that deal with chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosives, advanced analytic capabilities […] More

Tim Conway, president of public sector at NTT Data, has highlighted several practices for information technology that he believes will help refresh the way government operates. Conway wrote in an opinion piece for Nextgov published Monday that chief information officers consider legacy modernization as among their upgrade priorities. He said technologies such as business analytics, […] More

A Lockheed Martin-built F-35A Lightning II aircraft landed Friday at Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland after it completed its first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, Defense News reported Saturday. Lara Seligman writes an Italian air force pilot flew the AL-1 fighter jet from an air base in Portugal to Maryland for seven hours […] More