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Praescient Analytics has been certified to join a Virginia Department of Veterans Services-run program that aims to help companies recruit and retain military veterans. The Virginia Values Veterans initiative offers tools, incentives and training for Virginia companies to keep a certain number of former service members for at least one year, according to a Wednesday […] More

Aerojet Rocketdyne has demonstrated a second stage rocket motor in simulated environments for the U.S. Air Force’s Nuclear Weapons Center. The Large Class 92-inch-diameter solid rocket motor was tested at the Arnold Engineering and Development Complex at Arnold Air Force Base in Tennessee, Aerojet Rocketdyne said Wednesday. Tyler Evans, Aerojet Rocketdyne vice president of Rocket […] More

ICF International has released projections for natural gas, natural gas liquids and oil production across the U.S. and Canada through 2035. The first-quarter 2014 Detailed Production Report forecasts slowed gas production rates across the Haynesville Shale, the Greater Green River Basin, the Barnett Shale and the Fayetteville Shale due to a decrease in gas drilling activity, ICF said Thursday. […] More

MITRE Corp. and the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore have agreed to form an air traffic management research and development center in the country, Channel News Asia reported Thursday. The MITRE Asia Pacific in Singapore will work to conduct air traffic management analyses worth $100 million in the next decade, according to the report. Lillian […] More

Researchers from NASA and Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory have created a geologic map of Ganymede, one of Jupiter’s ice-encrusted moons that were discovered by Galileo Galilei. The scientific team was led by Wes Patterson of APL and Geoffrey Collins of Wheaton College in Massachusetts and used images sent from NASA’s Galileo and Voyager spacecraft […] More

Rich Martin, chief information officer at LGS Innovations, believes that comprehensive testing and validation are necessary to prevent technical issues when deploying massive federal IT infrastructures. “For crucial systems, many potential issues can be mitigated through testing,” Martin said in a question-and-answer session published on LGS’ website. “You need a lot of eyeballs reviewing test results […] More

General Dynamics has won a $22 million contract to design offshore patrol cutters for the U.S. Coast Guard, Bloomberg Businessweek reported Wednesday. Kathleen Miller and Jonathan Salant write that General Dynamics’ shipbuilding business is one of the three companies selected to compete for the branch’s potential $12 billion shipbuilding program. “It is also a significant […] More

QinetiQ North America has been awarded two task orders worth $15 million combined from the General Services Administration for information technology and software development services. The agency’s Public Buildings Service issued the orders through GSA’s Information Technology and Development Services blanket purchase agreement, QNA said Tuesday. For the Enterprise Data Repository Management task order, the […] More

General Electric has been chosen to provide power generation equipment to a plant that supplies electricity to households and businesses in the city of Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is re-powering the Scattergood generating station in El Segundo, Calif. and picked GE’s combustion turbines and distributed control system to replace […] More

Stephen Senterfit, a Booz Allen Hamilton vice president, has been appointed to lead the company’s new Houston-based commercial energy practice office. The Houston office will serve as the firm’s new commercial energy center and the company plans to open jobs there in 2014 and succeeding years, Booz Allen said Monday. Reggie Van Lee, a Booz […] More

Battelle has awarded a 15-month $22.2 million contract to Camber Corp. for help to test and install linear sensor systems for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Camber will work with Battelle to procure the four GLASSWAVE systems for the Corps’ Engineering Research Development Center – Topographic Engineering Center, Camber said Tuesday. John […] More