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  • Cisco, Luxembourg Form Digital Innovation Partnership
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    Cisco, Luxembourg Form Digital Innovation Partnership

    Cisco and Luxembourg’s government have entered into a three-year memorandum of understanding to implement efforts to accelerate the digitization of systems in the country. Cisco said Tuesday the public-private partnership aligns with the Digital Luxembourg program and seeks to tackle four pillars that include cybersecurity, education, financial technology and internet of things. “Luxembourg aims at attracting […] More

  • Reports: Boeing to Mull Participation in Canada’s Fighter Jet Replacement Competition
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    Reports: Boeing to Mull Participation in Canada’s Fighter Jet Replacement Competition

    Boeing has not yet decided whether to propose its F/A-18E/F Super Hornet aircraft for a potential $14.5 billion contract to replace Canada’s fleet of CF-18 fighter planes, Flightglobal reported Tuesday. The Chicago-based aerospace company said in a statement it will assess its participation in Canada’s Future Fighter Capability Project once the Canadian government provides the […] More

  • Space Dynamics Lab to Develop Test, Flight Units for NASA’s Ocean Color Measurement Instrument
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    Space Dynamics Lab to Develop Test, Flight Units for NASA’s Ocean Color Measurement Instrument

    Space Dynamics Laboratory has been awarded a potential 26-month, $8.1 million contract to produce engineering test and flight units for an optical spectometer being developed at NASA‘s Goddard Space Flight Center. NASA said Saturday that SDL will design, develop, fabricate, assemble, test and deliver the test and flight articles of the Ocean Color Instrument Short Wave Infra-Red Aft Optics Box. […] More

  • Atec to Repair Air Force Engine Test Stands Under $80M Contract
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    Atec to Repair Air Force Engine Test Stands Under $80M Contract

    Atec has received a potential four-year, $80.3 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force repair engine test stands. The company will fix platforms the service branch uses to conduct intermediate maintenance test and evaluation of aircraft units, the Defense Department said Tuesday. Contract work will occur in the U.S. and various locations overseas through Jan. 21, […] More

  • Air Force Renews Telos’ System Security Review Licenses
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    Air Force Renews Telos’ System Security Review Licenses

    Telos will continue to carry out system security assessments to support the Defense Department’s cybersecurity authorization process after the U.S. Air Force renewed the company’s licenses. The renewal of the firm’s General Agent of the Security Control Assessor and Special ASCA certifications by the Air Force Space Command’s SCA would allow Telos to test networks, […] More

  • General Dynamics Lands CDC Contact Center Support Order
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    General Dynamics Lands CDC Contact Center Support Order

      A business unit of General Dynamics has received a potential five-year, $31 million task order to provide contact center support for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. General Dynamics Information Technology will help CDC establish a multichannel, multilingual contact center as well as integrate and assess technology platforms for the facility, the company said Thursday. […] More

  • L3 Begins Texas Pilot Training Center Expansion Project; Christopher Kubasik Comments
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    L3 Begins Texas Pilot Training Center Expansion Project; Christopher Kubasik Comments

    L3 Technologies has broken ground on a 40,000-square-foot expansion at a multipurpose pilot training center in Arlington, Texas, operated by the company’s link training and simulation business unit. The company said Tuesday the existing facility offers instructional and simulation tools to both military and commercial customers. L3 will expand the training center to include six full-flight simulators, classrooms, […] More

  • Draper Lab to Provide Test Support for Space & Missile Systems Center’s GPS Directorate
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    Draper Lab to Provide Test Support for Space & Missile Systems Center’s GPS Directorate

    Charles Stark Draper Laboratory has received an $11.1 million contract to support modernized receiver test assets of global positioning systems directorate at the U.S. Air Force‘s Space and Missile Systems Center. Draper Lab will also provide support services for the SMC GPS directorate’s test and verification branch under the sole-source contract, the Defense Department said Tuesday. The nonprofit research […] More

  • Comtech to Supply, Test Space-Based Components for NASA Program
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    Comtech to Supply, Test Space-Based Components for NASA Program

    A Comtech Telecommunications business group will support a NASA program through a potential $11 million letter contract from a U.S. aerospace company. Comtech said Tuesday its command and control technologies unit will supply and test space-based electrical, electronic and electromechanical components to the agency contractor. “This is the second large order we’ve received from this customer this fiscal […] More

  • Koniag Subsidiary to Support DoD Enterprise Cloud Migration Initiative
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    Koniag Subsidiary to Support DoD Enterprise Cloud Migration Initiative

    The Defense Department has selected a Koniag subsidiary to help DoD’s Executive Steering Group and Defense Digital Service manage an enterprise cloud initiative. Eagle Harbor Solutions will assist CESG in efforts to implement a strategy to accelerate the department’s adoption of cloud-based architectures and services, the company said Jan. 16. EHS, which operates under Koniag’s government services sector, will also […] More

  • Jason Cowie to Lead HyTrust Global Channels in VP Role
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    Jason Cowie to Lead HyTrust Global Channels in VP Role

    Jason Cowie, formerly global partner and channel sales manager at Zerto, has been appointed vice president of global channels at HyTrust. Cowie will oversee the Mountain View, California-based information technology firm’s effort to establish a global network of partners to provide a platform designed to protect critical workloads in both public and private cloud environments, […] More

  • Leidos Added to Bloomberg’s 2018 Gender Equality Index, Roger Krone Comments
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    Leidos Added to Bloomberg’s 2018 Gender Equality Index, Roger Krone Comments

    Leidos has been included in Bloomberg‘s 2018 Gender-Equality Index, which recognizes companies’ efforts to promote gender equality. The inaugural index evaluated companies’ statistics, employee policies, community engagement and gender-conscious offerings, Leidos said Wednesday. The 2018 GEI lists firms that scored at or above the global threshold set by Bloomberg to reflect transparency or the implementation of […] More