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  • Leidos Obtains Microsoft Gold Competency for Cloud Platform; Steve Hull Quoted
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    Leidos Obtains Microsoft Gold Competency for Cloud Platform; Steve Hull Quoted

    Leidos has achieved a gold competency certification from Microsoft that authorizes the former to deploy the latter’s portfolio of cloud offerings. The Cloud Platform certification allows the use of Microsoft’s products to support customers’ efforts to modernize cloud infrastructure, integrate data analytics technology and transition applications and data to the cloud, Leidos said Tuesday. Before […] More

  • Lockheed Encapsulates Air Force’s First GPS III Satellite
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    Lockheed Encapsulates Air Force’s First GPS III Satellite

    Lockheed Martin has finished encapsulation of the first GPS III satellite the company has built for the U.S. Air Force as part of pre-launch preparations at a facility in Titusville, Fla. GPS III Space Vehicle 01 is scheduled to lift off Dec. 18 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, Lockheed said Tuesday. The satellite, […] More

  • Cohesity Reports 200% Increase in Number of Public Sector Customers; Steve Grewal Quoted
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    Cohesity Reports 200% Increase in Number of Public Sector Customers; Steve Grewal Quoted

    Hyperconverged secondary storage vendor Cohesity saw the number of its public sector clients increase by nearly 200 percent during its fiscal third and fourth quarters. Cohesity said Monday it added 24 new federal customers in Q4 alone and the company attributes the growth of its government customer base to agencies’ data center consolidation initiatives. “IT modernization initiatives are […] More

  • SAIC to Guide IronArch in Business Pursuits via DoD Mentor-Protege Program
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    SAIC to Guide IronArch in Business Pursuits via DoD Mentor-Protege Program

    Science Applications International Corp. and IronArch Technology have entered into an agreement that allows the service-disabled, veteran-owned company to receive business guidance and counsel through the Department of Defense‘s protege-mentor program. SAIC will help IronArch pursue new business opportunities, establish a corporate infrastructure and implement cloud and cybersecurity technologies, the companies said in a joint statement released Monday. […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Secures DARPA Propulsion Tech Development Contract
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Secures DARPA Propulsion Tech Development Contract

    Aerojet Rocketdyne has received a potential two-year, $13.4M contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop propulsion systems for a ground-launched tactical weapon platform. The contract was awarded in support of DARPA’s Operational Fires program that aims to build new mobile missile technologies, the company said Tuesday. The OpFires initiative seeks to meet the […] More

  • CTC CEO Ed Sheehan Named to NDIA Board
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    CTC CEO Ed Sheehan Named to NDIA Board

    Ed Sheehan, president and CEO of Concurrent Technologies Corp., has joined the board of directors of the National Defense Industrial Association. CTC said Tuesday Sheehan is one of the 16 newly elected board members at NDIA. Richard McConn, board chairman of NDIA, said Sheehan’s experience in manufacturing and professional services sectors will help the association carry […] More

  • MDA, Navy Demo Lockheed’s Updated Aegis Combat System in On-Land Missile Defense Test
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    MDA, Navy Demo Lockheed’s Updated Aegis Combat System in On-Land Missile Defense Test

    The Missile Defense Agency and the U.S. Navy have conducted an on-land test to demonstrate the capability of Lockheed Martin’s latest Aegis Combat System to detect and counter an intermediate-range ballistic missile threat. Aegis Baseline 9.B2.0 or BMD 5.1 intercepted an IRBM target using ground-based remote sensor data derived from the Command and Control, Battle Management and Communications system during […] More

  • In-Q-Tel Invests in Immersive Wisdom’s Collaboration Tech
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    In-Q-Tel Invests in Immersive Wisdom’s Collaboration Tech

    Intelligence community venture capital firm In-Q-Tel has invested in and partnered with Immersive Wisdom to further develop the latter company’s virtual and intelligence platform for government applications. Immersive Wisdom designed its software to help users access information in real time and view live 3D maps through a shared virtual workspace, IQT said Tuesday. The technology employs virtual, mixed and […] More

  • AECOM Opens Augusta Office; Earl Johnson Quoted
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    AECOM Opens Augusta Office; Earl Johnson Quoted

    AECOM held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday for its new office that is situated close to the Georgia Cyber Center, Augusta Chronicle reported Tuesday. Earl Johnson, a senior vice president at AECOM, oversees the new facility where employees will work to pursue new business opportunities with Army Cyber Command and Cyber Center of Excellence at Fort Gordon. Johnson […] More

  • NASA, General Dynamics Test Updated Space Network Ground Systems; Manny Mora Quoted
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    NASA, General Dynamics Test Updated Space Network Ground Systems; Manny Mora Quoted

    A General Dynamics business unit and NASA have completed a laboratory assessment of new ground infrastructure systems designed to help the agency manage a constellation of tracking and data relay satellites. General Dynamics Mission Systems supported the final system acceptance test at a facility in Scottsdale, Ariz., as part of the Space Network Ground Segment Sustainment project, the company […] More

  • Nlyte to Help Automate DOE IT Monitoring Process; Andrew Ryan Quoted
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    Nlyte to Help Automate DOE IT Monitoring Process; Andrew Ryan Quoted

    Nlyte Software has secured a contract to help the Department of Energy and its national laboratories implement software designed to automatically monitor information technology systems and devices. The company said Tuesday it will provide the Data Center Infrastructure Management platform to the department under an enterprise agreement. DCIM employs artificial intelligence and machine learning approaches intended […] More

  • Iron Mountain-QualX-TDEC Team to Help Army War College Digitize Military Records
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    Iron Mountain-QualX-TDEC Team to Help Army War College Digitize Military Records

    A team composed of Iron Mountain, QualX and TDEC will provide records digitization and preservation services to the U.S. Army War College’s Heritage and Education Center under a potential five-year, $30M contract. The three companies will help USAHEC process, move and store a collection of the military branch’s artifacts, manuscripts, photographs and audio-visual items in a […] More