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  • Northrop-Made G/ATOR Radar System Achieves Marine Corps Initial Operational Capability
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    Northrop-Made G/ATOR Radar System Achieves Marine Corps Initial Operational Capability

    The U.S. Marine Corps has declared initial operational capability for the Northrop Grumman-built AN/TPS-80 ground/air task-oriented radar. Northrop said Wednesday the first two G/ATOR systems will be deployed to the Marine Air Control Squadrons 1 and 2. G/ATOR reached initial operational capability after Northrop delivered the first six radar systems to the Marine Corps as part of the low-rate […] More

  • Amazon Web Services Releases New Text-to-speech Service
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    Amazon Web Services Releases New Text-to-speech Service

    Amazon Web Services has released a new service designed to convert text into realistic voice audio applicable to multiple languages. The Amazon Polly service is available through the AWS GovCloud (US) Region, the company said Wednesday. The text-to-speech service makes use of deep learning technologies to help users construct speech-enabled applications. Amazon Polly’s API may be integrated with other applications to […] More

  • Potomac Officers Club Hosts Breakfast on Federal Digital Transformation
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    Potomac Officers Club Hosts Breakfast on Federal Digital Transformation

    On Tuesday, Feb. 28th, the Potomac Officers’ Club hosted the Digital Transformation in the Federal Government breakfast event, bringing together established speakers from government and industry to discuss the state of information technology modernization. The keynote speakers were: Matt Lira, special assistant to the president, White House Office of American Innovation; Dr. David Bray, executive […] More

  • Gus Hunt: Accenture’s Federal Arm to Open Cyber Support Center in San Antonio, TX
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    Gus Hunt: Accenture’s Federal Arm to Open Cyber Support Center in San Antonio, TX

    Gus Hunt, cybersecurity strategy lead at Accenture’s federal services business, has said the company plans to establish a security operations center in San Antonio, Texas, that would provide cybersecurity support to federal agencies that lack budget to hire cyber professionals, the San Antonio Express-News reported Monday. “It allows us to deliver managed, shared services to […] More

  • Boeing Lands $73M IDIQ to Help Extend Navy Super Hornet Service Life
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    Boeing Lands $73M IDIQ to Help Extend Navy Super Hornet Service Life

    Boeing has secured a $73.2 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Navy to perform modifications on four F/A-18E/F Super Hornets in an effort to extend the aircraft’s service life. The company will aim to extend the operational service life of the service branch’s F/A-18E/F fleet from 6,000 to 9,000 flight hours, the Defense Department said Wednesday. Seventy-five percent of the work will […] More

  • AeroVironment-MDA Team to Provide Small UAS for Canada’s Maritime Operations
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    AeroVironment-MDA Team to Provide Small UAS for Canada’s Maritime Operations

    The Canadian department of national defense has selected a team of AeroVironment and Maxar Technologies‘ MDA subsidiary to provide small unmanned aerial systems for deployment aboard the Canadian navy’s maritime coastal defense vessels. AeroVironment said Wednesday the military service will receive Puma II AE mini UAS equipped with 360-degree antenna and Mantis i45 sensor systems designed to support […] More

  • Report: Stratolaunch Aircraft Completes Land Control Test
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    Report: Stratolaunch Aircraft Completes Land Control Test

    Stratolaunch Systems has completed a ground-based control test of its aircraft designed to facilitate air launches of rockets in order to bring satellites into low-Earth orbit, ValueWalk reported Wednesday. Paul Allen, Microsoft co-founder who established Stratolaunch in 2011, said in a Twitter post that the Seattle, Washington-based company’s aircraft recorded 46 miles per hour in top […] More

  • Raytheon to Produce Multispectral Targeting Systems for USAF, France Under $87M Contract
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    Raytheon to Produce Multispectral Targeting Systems for USAF, France Under $87M Contract

    Raytheon has received a potential $87.1 million contract to supply updated high definition/target location accuracy turrets to the U.S. Air Force and France. The Defense Department said Wednesday the fixed-price-incentive contract covers the production of 44 AN/DAS-4 AN/DAS-4 Multi-Spectral Targeting System Model B turrets as well as one lot of initial spares, shop replaceable units, associated data. The […] More

  • Air Force Taps Lockheed for GPS On-Orbit Sustainment Services
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    Air Force Taps Lockheed for GPS On-Orbit Sustainment Services

    Lockheed Martin has received a potential $18.7 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to help sustain the military branch’s GPS satellites currently in orbit. Work covers on-orbit and anomaly resolution support, constellation performance analysis, space vehicle end-of-life test and training and SV subsystem analysis, the Defense Department said Wednesday. DoD noted the Space and Missile Systems […] More

  • ACT-IAC Forms Working Group to Support Government, Industry Transition to EIS Contract
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    ACT-IAC Forms Working Group to Support Government, Industry Transition to EIS Contract

    The American Council for Technology-Industry Advisory Council has formed a working group to help federal agencies and contractors transition to the General Services Administration‘s new governmentwide acquisition vehicle for telecommunications services. GSA awarded the potential 15-year, $50 billion Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract in August of last year as a replacement to Networx and at least 80 other federal telecommunications […] More

  • Radiant Solutions to Back NGA-DIUx Machine Learning Tech Challenge: Tony Frazier Comments
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    Radiant Solutions to Back NGA-DIUx Machine Learning Tech Challenge: Tony Frazier Comments

    Maxar Technologies’ Radiant Solutions business has received a contract from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to help expedite the development of machine learning algorithms designed to gather data from satellite images. Radiant Solutions said Tuesday it will provide NGA access to high-resolution satellite images of at least 1 million labeled objects to help the agency launch […] More