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  • Vencore to Continue Work on Nuclear Detection Platform Under Air Force Follow-On Order
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    Vencore to Continue Work on Nuclear Detection Platform Under Air Force Follow-On Order

    Vencore has received a potential $6.4 million task order from the U.S. Air Force to continue to provide scientific and analytical support services for the service branch’s technical applications center. The company said Wednesday it will carry out work in Melbourne, Florida, under the follow-on order to support the development of AFTAC’s modular optimized operations […] More

  • DLT-DataRobot Team to Offer Big Data & Analytics Platform to Govt Customers
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    DLT-DataRobot Team to Offer Big Data & Analytics Platform to Govt Customers

    DLT Solutions and DataRobot have partnered to offer a big data, analytics and data science platform to government agencies. DLT said Monday its AnalyticsStack platform will work to help agencies architect, acquire and deploy enterprise analytics tools such as big data infrastructure, advanced analytics and data science systems. “To answer new questions of extremely large and complex […] More

  • Battelle-Funded Environmental Center Opens in Ohio
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    Battelle-Funded Environmental Center Opens in Ohio

    KIPP Columbus has unveiled a Battelle-sponsored environmental center in the academic institution’s Columbus, Ohio-based campus to offer afterschool and community education programs. The center is built through a $3 million grant the research and development company awarded in 2014, Battelle said Wednesday. KIPP is a network of free, open enrollment public schools that provides support to students in underserved communities. Battelle […] More

  • Deltek: US Law Enforcement Agencies Increased Big Data Spending in FY 2016
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    Deltek: US Law Enforcement Agencies Increased Big Data Spending in FY 2016

    A new Deltek report says U.S. law enforcement entities increased spending on big data platforms and services between fiscal years 2014 to 2016. Christine Fritsch, a Deltek research analyst, wrote in a blog post published Tuesday that the Justice Department grew its contract spending on big data technologies to $39 million in FY 2016, from $36 million in […] More

  • Navy, MDA Launch Raytheon SM-6 Missiles Using Lockheed’s Aegis Combat System
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    Navy, MDA Launch Raytheon SM-6 Missiles Using Lockheed’s Aegis Combat System

    The U.S. Navy and Missile Defense Agency have test-fired two Raytheon-made Standard Missile-6 Dual I missiles using the Lockheed Martin-built Aegis Combat System  installed on the guided missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones. Lockheed said Wednesday its Aegis platform helped the SM-6 missile detect, track and intercept a ballistic missile target in flight during the Flight Test Standard Missile–27 Event 2. […] More

  • Altamira Debuts Big Data Platform on Microsoft Azure Marketplace
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    Altamira Debuts Big Data Platform on Microsoft Azure Marketplace

    Altamira has started to offer its big data fusion, analysis and visualization platform on the Microsoft Azure marketplace as part of efforts to help customers transform information into actionable intelligence. Altamira said Tuesday the integration of its Lumify platform with Azure services seeks to accelerate deep learning and data analytics in real time. Lumify is designed to help users […] More

  • CACI Gets $51M Air Force Software Devt Support Task Order; Ken Asbury Comments
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    CACI Gets $51M Air Force Software Devt Support Task Order; Ken Asbury Comments

    CACI International has won a three-year, $51 million task order under the Network-Centric Solutions-2 contract vehicle to provide software development support for the U.S. Air Force‘s 90th Cyberspace Operations Squadron. The company said Wednesday it will also continue to help 90th COS manage software for the Air, Space, and Cyberspace Constructive Environment–Information Operations Simulation suite. CACI President and […] More

  • Iron Mountain Opens New Customer Engagement Facility in Pennsylvania
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    Iron Mountain Opens New Customer Engagement Facility in Pennsylvania

    Iron Mountain has opened a new $4.5 million, 11,600-square-foot customer welcome center called the Guardian Gateway in western Pennsylvania. The facility is located at the company’s underground campus in Boyers that houses storage, imaging, data center as well as data management and restoration operations, Iron Mountain announced Tuesday. “We have deep roots in Butler County and are happy to continue […] More

  • ViaSat to Provide Mobile Device Security Software to US Military
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    ViaSat to Provide Mobile Device Security Software to US Military

    ViaSat has received a contract of undisclosed value to supply a cybersecurity platform for U.S. military users to protect wearable computing devices against threats. The ViaSat Mobile Dynamic Defense software will work to secure iGov‘s Tactical Local Area Network Field Computing Device-Wearable platforms that are designed to provide dismounted soldiers with a suite of situational awareness and […] More

  • BlackSky to Help Air Force Researchers Develop Cloud-Based GEOINT Broker Platform
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    BlackSky to Help Air Force Researchers Develop Cloud-Based GEOINT Broker Platform

    Spaceflight Industries‘ BlackSky division has received a two-year, $16.4 million contract to build a cloud-based geospatial intelligence broker platform for the Air Force Research Laboratory. BlackSky will develop the platform to help government users collect and analyze GEOINT data from multiple data sources worldwide, Spaceflight said Tuesday. “Easy access and streamlined delivery of timely and relevant […] More

  • IARPA Selects Crossmatch-FlexEnable-ISORG Team as Fingerprint Capture Tech Challenge Finalist
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    IARPA Selects Crossmatch-FlexEnable-ISORG Team as Fingerprint Capture Tech Challenge Finalist

    A multinational industry team composed of Crossmatch, FlexEnable and ISORG has been chosen as a finalist of an Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity prize challenge that seeks biometric technology for fingerprint capture. Crossmatch said Tuesday the team has developed a proof-of-concept automated capture system under IARPA’s Nail-to-Nail Fingerprint Challenge to help the agency eliminate the need for human operators to […] More

  • Trellisware Secures USSOCOM Tactical Radio Contract via SBIR Program
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    Trellisware Secures USSOCOM Tactical Radio Contract via SBIR Program

    The U.S. Special Operations Command has awarded Trellisware Technologies a five-year, $40 million contract to supply Advanced Tactical Scalable Mobile Ad-hoc Network radios to USSOCOM’s Special Operations Forces Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics Center. USSOCOM granted the award following the third phase of a Small Business Innovation Research Program, the Defense Department said Tuesday. San Diego, California-based Trellisware will receive $54,759 […] More