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  • CAE to Build Multinational Simulation Facility for Gulf Cooperation Council Member
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    CAE to Build Multinational Simulation Facility for Gulf Cooperation Council Member

    A member state of the Gulf Cooperation Council has selected CAE to establish a simulation center for joint command and staff training efforts. CAE said Wednesday it will equip the Joint Multinational Simulation Center with the company’s GlobalSim technology. The center is intended to prepare commanders, officers and operators from different military services and staff colleges for tactical and strategic missions. […] More

  • Atos to Help Virginia IT Agency Implement Cybersecurity Platform Under $120M Contract
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    Atos to Help Virginia IT Agency Implement Cybersecurity Platform Under $120M Contract

    Atos‘s North American arm has signed a multiyear, $120 million agreement to provide cybersecurity services to the Virginia Information Technology Agency. The company said Thursday it will provide a technology platform intended to help VITA detect threats, manage vulnerabilities, secure information and endpoints and manage security events. VITA will receive the services through Atos’ Prescriptive Security model […] More

  • Janus Clears ISIS-Kept Explosives at Iraqi Schools
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    Janus Clears ISIS-Kept Explosives at Iraqi Schools

    Janus Global Operations, under a U.S. State Department effort, has cleared two schools in the Iraqi city of Mosul of explosives stored by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. The Lenoir, Tenn.-based company said Thursday its deployed teams removed more than 700 tons of rubble from the Al Muthana Boys School and Al-Mansour Boys […] More

  • Lockheed Installs IR Sensors on Small Quadrotor UAS
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    Lockheed Installs IR Sensors on Small Quadrotor UAS

    Lockheed Martin has updated its small quadrotor unmanned aerial system with sensors designed to process still imagery and streaming video in real time. Indago 3 includes the Noctis system composed of dual forward looking infrared cameras and a digital zoom for both narrow and wide fields of view, Lockheed said Wednesday. Rich Bonnett, Indago program manager at Lockheed’s Procerus Technologies […] More

  • Summit Technical Solutions Wins DoD IT Services Contract
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    Summit Technical Solutions Wins DoD IT Services Contract

    The U.S. Army has awarded Summit Technical Solutions a potential $45 million contract to provide non-commercial integrated information technology services to Defense Department agencies. DoD said Wednesday the Army Contracting Command received 14 bids for the contract through an online solicitation process. The company will perform work through Jan. 15, 2024, and the service branch […] More

  • Charles River Analytics to Develop Space Data Analysis Tool Under DARPA Program
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    Charles River Analytics to Develop Space Data Analysis Tool Under DARPA Program

    Charles River Analytics has received a $1.3 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop a tool for U.S. military commanders to understand and address potential space threats. The company said Tuesday it designed PICASSA to help users collect, analyze and interpret space situational awareness data as part of DARPA’s Hallmark program. PICASSA works to integrate SSA data […] More

  • Virtustream Launches SaaS Option for Risk Mgmt Software
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    Virtustream Launches SaaS Option for Risk Mgmt Software

    Dell Technologies’ Virtustream business has added a software-as-a-service option to a platform that works to provide compliance monitoring and risk management support to government agencies and commercial users. The addition of the SaaS option to Virtustream Viewtrust seeks to provide clients with insights into their compliance and risk posture in both cloud and physical environments, Virtustream said Tuesday. Virtustream […] More

  • Iron Mountain Launches Data Protection, Recovery Platform
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    Iron Mountain Launches Data Protection, Recovery Platform

    Iron Mountain has unveiled a data management platform that works to protect and recover critical information in the event of a cyber attack. The company said Wednesday its Iron Cloud Critical Protection and Recovery offering works to help organizations mitigate damage related to business disruption caused by cyber incidents through isolation of critical digital information […] More

  • GE to Help Develop Certification Framework for 3D-Printed Navy Vehicle Parts
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    GE to Help Develop Certification Framework for 3D-Printed Navy Vehicle Parts

    General Electric‘s technology development unit has received a four-year, $9 million contract from the U.S. Navy to develop a framework to validate and certify 3D-printed spare parts for military ships, aircraft and other platforms. The company said Wednesday GE Global Research will collaborate with GE Aviation, GE Additive, Honeywell, Pennsylvania State University, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Navy […] More

  • Report: Pentagon OKs Sale of General Atomics-Built UAVs to India
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    Report: Pentagon OKs Sale of General Atomics-Built UAVs to India

    The Defense Department has decided to sell General Atomics-built Predator-B armed  unmanned aerial vehicles to the Indian military,  Hindustan Times reported Tuesday. U.S. and Indian diplomatic officials told the publication that DoD conveyed its decision through government channels. The report said Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo could bring up the proposed […] More

  • Air Force Taps FIU to Launch Antenna Research Center
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    Air Force Taps FIU to Launch Antenna Research Center

    The U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research has granted a $4.8 million award to Florida International University for the launching of a new research center dedicated to developing origami or foldable antennas. Stavros Georgakopoulos, associate professor at the university’s department of electrical and computer engineering, will serve as the leader of the Center for Physically Reconfigurable and Deployable […] More

  • SIPRI Report: Global Military Expenditure Reached $1.7T in 2017
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    SIPRI Report: Global Military Expenditure Reached $1.7T in 2017

    A new Stockholm International Peace Research Institute report says military spending worldwide hit a total of $1.7 trillion in 2017, reflecting a 1.1 percent increase from 2016. SIPRI said Wednesday U.S. military spending remained steady for two years in a row at $610 billion and the country remained the world’s largest defense spender followed by China […] More