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Northrop Grumman‘s innovation systems sector has completed the expansion of a Mesa, Ariz., facility built to manufacture Bushmaster medium-caliber cannons for the military sector. The company said Wednesday it will hire up to 60 new employees to support manufacturing, program management and engineering efforts at the 36K-square-foot facility. The expansion project almost doubled the site’s production capacity. Lisa […] More

NASA has released a draft funding opportunity that seeks new planetary studies to support the space agency’s Discovery Program. The agency said Wednesday it plans to allocate $500M for up to five projects in fiscal year 2019. The Discovery Program offers flight opportunities to science investigations that could help expand the agency’s understanding of planetary […] More

George Korch, former commander at the U.S. Army‘s Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, has joined Battelle as lab director for the National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center. Battelle said Tuesday Korch succeeds Patrick Fitch, who will transition to a new role as associate lab director for chemical, earth and life sciences at the Triad National Security-managed Los […] More

The Joint Commission has given DLH a Gold Seal of Approval that certifies the quality and safety of the company’s clinical healthcare operations. The Atlanta, Ga.-based healthcare firm said Tuesday it was selected for its healthcare staffing services in support of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Consolidated Mail Outpatient Pharmacy program. DLH went through onsite reviews that […] More

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

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