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  • Noblis to Help Air Force Update Distributed Common Ground System; Vernon Ingram Quoted
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    Noblis to Help Air Force Update Distributed Common Ground System; Vernon Ingram Quoted

    Noblis will provide engineering technical services for a ground-based system that supports U.S. Air Force intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations under a three-year, $22M contract. The company said Thursday it will help integrate the Air Force Distributed Common Ground System Open Architecture into the DCGS enterprise network to support operations at the AF Life Cycle Management Center’s Command […] More

  • ViON’s Liz Anthony Gets Public Sector Marketing Award; Tom Frana Quoted
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    ViON’s Liz Anthony Gets Public Sector Marketing Award; Tom Frana Quoted

    Liz Anthony, senior vice president of marketing at ViON, has received the Government Marketing University’s 2018 Gainer for her leadership in the company’s marketing efforts across the public sector. ViON said Thursday the award recognizes its One Is All You Need campaign aimed to promote MarketPlace, a single access point for sourcing, evaluation, procurement and management of information […] More

  • Rubrik Unveils Cloud Data Mgmt Platform for Microsoft Azure
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    Rubrik Unveils Cloud Data Mgmt Platform for Microsoft Azure

    Rubrik has introduced a platform designed to help enterprise customers manage and secure data from on-premise information technology infrastructure to a Microsoft cloud environment. The Rubrik Accelerator for Microsoft Azure offering allows customers to automate processes to move cloud-based information such as backup, recovery and archival schedules, the data management company said Wednesday. Mike Tornincasa, executive vice president of worldwide sales […] More

  • General Dynamics Unit to Help Manage Navy, Marine Platforms
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    General Dynamics Unit to Help Manage Navy, Marine Platforms

    General Dynamics‘s information technology business has won a potential five-year, $64.6M contract for project management and engineering services to land, sea and air systems of the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps. Efforts under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract will aim to help both service branches gather, detect, evaluate, identify, exploit, neutralize and distribute technologies for […] More

  • DOE Allocates $98M for 40 Energy Tech Dev’t Projects
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    DOE Allocates $98M for 40 Energy Tech Dev’t Projects

    The Energy Department has announced 40 projects that will share up to $98M in total funds to build technology platforms that would update the U.S. energy system. DOE said Thursday the funding support is part of the OPEN 2018 program managed by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy. Companies, universities and nonprofit organizations proposed projects focused […] More

  • Arizona State University, AWS to Support Smart City Development
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    Arizona State University, AWS to Support Smart City Development

    Arizona State University and Amazon Web Services have partnered to address community limitations in the Phoenix area through the use of cloud technologies. The partnership will establish the ASU Smart City Cloud Innovation Center to support smart city designers, generate options for technology alternatives, boost economic development and facilitate distribution of government technologies across the […] More

  • Dan Jablonsky: DigitalGlobe-NRO Imagery Contract Extension Reflects Gov’t Customer Continuity
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    Dan Jablonsky: DigitalGlobe-NRO Imagery Contract Extension Reflects Gov’t Customer Continuity

    Dan Jablonsky, president of DigitalGlobe, has said the National Reconnaissance Office‘s move to extend a satellite imagery services contract with the company can serve as evidence that the government favors “continuity” amid an influx of entrants into the industry, SpaceNews reported Wednesday. DigitalGlobe, a Maxar Technologies business, received a potential $900M contract extension to provide commercial imagery to […] More

  • Deloitte Launches New Drone Application Assistance Service
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    Deloitte Launches New Drone Application Assistance Service

    Deloitte has launched a new service aimed at helping customers leverage drones for business applications and understand the risks involved when utilizing said technologies. The company said Wednesday its new Deloitte US Global Drone Solutions offering is made to assist clients in forming drone strategies for data collection and integration into business activities including analytics, […] More

  • DLT Named Red Hat Public Sector Partner for 2018; Brian Strosser Quoted
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    DLT Named Red Hat Public Sector Partner for 2018; Brian Strosser Quoted

    Red Hat has selected DLT Solutions as its Public Sector Partner of the Year in recognition of the Herndon, Va.-based tech firm’s contributions to the former’s business efforts. DLT said Tuesday it provides government agencies with resale access to open-source technologies such as Red Hat’s cloud, middleware and Linux software offerings. The company has provided services in support […] More

  • NASA, Autodesk Partner to Seek Rapid Space Lander Design-Build Process
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    NASA, Autodesk Partner to Seek Rapid Space Lander Design-Build Process

    Multinational software company Autodesk has launched a multiyear research project with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to explore new ways to design and build a spacecraft for long-duration space travel beyond Mars. The company said Tuesday it is utilizing generative design technology and its Fusion 360 cloud-based platform to help the agency build a new interplanetary […] More

  • Austin-Based Communications District Taps AT&T to Update 911 Service Infrastructure
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    Austin-Based Communications District Taps AT&T to Update 911 Service Infrastructure

    The Austin-based Capital Area Emergency Communications District, covering 10 Texas counties, is getting AT&T‘s help to update the district’s 911 communications. The company said Wednesday it will offer its ESInet service to provide CAECD with internet protocol-based call routing tools that would modernize the district’s decades-old 911 infrastructure. ESInet is built to help users manage […] More