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Boeing has provided a $10 million donation to support programs and services of the Military Service Initiative of the George W. Bush Institute. The company said Wednesday it donated the money as part of a multiyear, $30 million investment geared toward veteran recovery and rehabilitation and military transition services. “Through our support of the Military Service Initiative, […] More
Donald Williams, formerly vice president and head of engineering at software company Prysm, has been named executive VP of worldwide engineering at Polycom. Polycom said Monday Williams will lead the firm’s efforts to develop audio, video and content sharing platforms, as well as manage engineering team members in North America, China and India. “Don brings considerable experience […] More
Matthew Nathan, a retired U.S. Navy vice admiral, has joined Humanetics‘ medical advisory board and he will provide guidance to the company’s efforts to develop medical countermeasures to protect warfighters. He supervised 64,000 military personnel as the 37th Navy surgeon general and chief of the service branch’s Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Humanetics said Thursday. “[Nathan] possesses […] More
Rolls-Royce has received a supplier of the year award from a Lockheed Martin-led industry team contracted to build Freedom-variant Littoral Combat Ships for the U.S. Navy. Lockheed said Wednesday that Rolls-Royce was given recognition during the 30th annual Surface Navy Association National Symposium held Tuesday. Rolls-Royce produces the MT30 gas turbines and Mk1 waterjets for the Freedom-variant LCS’ combined diesel and […] More
Turkey has launched a bidding process for a project to link information systems of the country’s future F-35 aircraft to an information network of the Turkish air force, C4ISRNET reported Tuesday. The report said Turkey’s undersecretariat for defense industries will accept proposals for the F-35/Air Force Information System Integration Project through Feb. 28. The country intends to buy 116 units of […] More
TWD & Associates looks to create and deploy a customer relationship management tool that can help the Department of Homeland Security‘s Office of Partnership and Engagement upgrade stakeholder communications and collaboration capacities. The company said Tuesday it will integrate agile Scrum methodologies and cloud capacities on the new CRM platform to help boost the effectiveness […] More
CAE‘s U.S subsidiary has received a contract to produce engine training systems for the U.S. Army‘s fleet of Abrams M1A2 main battle tanks. CAE USA will build two Abrams tank driver stations equipped with live-engine maintenance trainers under the contract from the Army’s Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation, the company said Tuesday. The […] More
The Defense Department has granted GlobalMed an authorization to deploy a company-built virtual health platform on DoD networks. GlobalMed said Tuesday it received authority to operate for its video-based telehealth offering designed to connect providers and patients. The ATO certification also allows the company to provide virtual healthcare applications, software and hardware for integration into the Military Health System. DoD approved the company’s […] More
AT&T has begun to develop a structure monitoring platform that is designed to help organizations remotely inspect structures such as roads and railways. The company said Tuesday it is currently testing the AT&T Smart Cities Structure Monitoring system, which will support the evaluation of structural and environmental factors affecting infrastructure in near real time. The offering includes LTE-powered sensors designed […] More
HDT Global has received a contract to further develop a robotic system under the second phase of the U.S. Army‘s Squad Multipurpose Equipment Transport program. The company said Tuesday its Wheeled Offload Logistics Follower is designed to transport up to 1,000 pounds of cargo at a distance of 100 miles without resupply as well as perform silent drive […] More
A mobile application created by Vencore‘s research arm has been included on the National Security Agency‘s list of approved commercial products designed to manage and secure classified data. Vencore Labs‘ SecureIO app is designed to help agencies install Android apps on mobile devices that are configured for use under NSA’s Commercial Solutions for Classified program, the company said Tuesday. […] More
Andreas Bernhard, CH-53K chief engineer at Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky business, has said Sikorsky has adopted software tools such as LCA and CATIA V5 and other digital technologies to produce a paperless design of the CH-53K helicopter, Rotor & Wing International reported Monday. “It’s all model based; there are no more drawings,†he said at the SciTech […] More
