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  • General Atomics Opens Flight Test & Training Center Hangar in North Dakota
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    General Atomics Opens Flight Test & Training Center Hangar in North Dakota

    General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday to mark the opening of a new unmanned aircraft system hangar at the Grand Sky business park in North Dakota. The company said Tuesday its Flight Test and Training Center hangar is built to house GA-ASI operational hardware such as MQ-1 Predator and MQ-9 Predator B remotely […] More

  • Navy Adopts Rubrik Cloud Data Management Tool to Streamline Backup Operations
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    Navy Adopts Rubrik Cloud Data Management Tool to Streamline Backup Operations

    The U.S. Navy has begun to implement Rubrik’s software-defined converged platform in an effort to automate backup operations and manage data across public and private cloud environments. The service branch’s Commander, Navy Installations Command reported a reduction in the total cost of ownership and achieved cost savings after it deployed Rubrik’s Cloud Data Management platform, […] More

  • SAIC to Incorporate Survivability Upgrades Into 3 Marine AAV Prototypes
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    SAIC to Incorporate Survivability Upgrades Into 3 Marine AAV Prototypes

    Science Applications International Corp. has received a potential $11.3 million contract modification to rebuild three command variant prototypes of an assault amphibious vehicle for the U.S. Marine Corps. The Defense Department said Tuesday the company will equip the prototypes with the AAV Survivability Upgrade design under the firm-fixed-price modification. SAIC has modernized 10 AAVs as part of a […] More

  • Saab Lands UK Tactical Engagement Simulation Service Extension
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    Saab Lands UK Tactical Engagement Simulation Service Extension

    Saab has received a three-year, $25.9 million contract extension from the U.K. ministry of defense to provide managed tactical engagement simulation services for the British army. The British army uses Saab’s Deployable TES platform to help Light Role Battle Groups perform overseas training exercises as part of their collective training efforts, the company said Monday. […] More

  • Northrop to Extend Forensic & Biometric Tech Support for UK Agency
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    Northrop to Extend Forensic & Biometric Tech Support for UK Agency

    Northrop Grumman has received a two-year contract extension to continue to help a U.K. government agency operate and maintain forensic and biometric platforms used by the country’s law enforcement entities. The company said Tuesday work under the extended contract started in April and covers support services for the IDENT1 identity management system and the Forensic and Biometric […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls Redelivers Modernized USS Ramage Destroyer to Navy
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    Huntington Ingalls Redelivers Modernized USS Ramage Destroyer to Navy

    Huntington Ingalls Industries has completed overhaul and modernization work on the U.S. Navy‘s USS Ramage guided missile destroyer, four days ahead of schedule. HII said Tuesday the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer re-entered the Navy fleet on Monday following an upgrade effort that began in November 2016 and included ship alterations, procurement of materials and repairs. The Navy awarded HII a […] More

  • Rajneesh Singh: Army, Aurora Flight Sciences Eye Unmanned Aviation Tech R&D Partnership
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    Rajneesh Singh: Army, Aurora Flight Sciences Eye Unmanned Aviation Tech R&D Partnership

    The U.S. Army wants to partner with Manassas, Virginia-based Aurora Flight Sciences to develop technologies that will work to increase the speed, endurance payload capacity of unmanned vertical lift platforms. Rajneesh Singh, acting division chief at the Army Research Laboratory’s vehicle technology directorate, said in a statement published Tuesday both parties seek to initiate the project through a cooperative research and […] More

  • Crunchy Data Unveils Open Source Security Compliance Automation Platform
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    Crunchy Data Unveils Open Source Security Compliance Automation Platform

    Crunchy Data has unveiled an open source project with the goal to help agencies automate compliance with the Defense Department‘s security standards dubbed Security Technical Implementation Guide. The company said Tuesday it developed the PostgreSQL STIG Automation project to support the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency‘s efforts to accelerate the authority-to-operate certification process for cloud platforms. The Defense Information Systems Agency […] More

  • QinetiQ NA Demos Underwater Acoustic Data Comms Tech
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    QinetiQ NA Demos Underwater Acoustic Data Comms Tech

    QinetiQ North America has demonstrated a full-duplex communications system built to receive and transmit undersea acoustic data. QinetiQ NA said Tuesday it collaborated with Optimal Systems Laboratory to develop the Dolphin underwater platform equipped with patented cancellation technology in an effort to help U.S. Navy and commercial clients address wireless communications challenges. Dolphin is designed to increase the performance of acoustic […] More

  • Harris to Offer Federal Agencies Network Services Under $50B GSA Contract Vehicle
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    Harris to Offer Federal Agencies Network Services Under $50B GSA Contract Vehicle

    Harris has won a position under the General Services Administration‘s potential 15-year, $50 billion Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract vehicle to offer network services to federal agencies. GSA selected Harris and nine other companies to compete for task orders to deliver information technology, telecommunications and infrastructure services through the EIS contract. Harris said Tuesday it plans to offer network […] More

  • Leidos to Provide Army C4, Info Mgmt Support
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    Leidos to Provide Army C4, Info Mgmt Support

    Leidos has secured a $16 million contract for command, control, communications, computers and information management services to the U.S. Army‘s Intelligence and Security Command. The Defense Department said Tuesday the company will also provide C4IM support for  Army G2 military intelligence staff based within and outside the contiguous U.S. The service branch received one bid for the firm-fixed-price […] More

  • DLT-Tableau Team to Integrate Business Intell, Analytics Platforms for Public Sector Clients
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    DLT-Tableau Team to Integrate Business Intell, Analytics Platforms for Public Sector Clients

    DLT Solutions and Tableau Software have forged a partnership to facilitate the delivery of Tableau’s business analytics software to federal agencies and other public sector clients. Tableau will integrate its software platform into DLT’s AnalyticsStack under the partnership to perform data analytics and business intelligence functions in the latter’s analytics layer in an effort to help users […] More