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The University of Maryland in Baltimore County has landed the top spot during the 2017 National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition sponsored by Raytheon. Teams from top 10 colleges and universities participated in the three-day NCCDC championship that kicked off April 13 in San Antonio, Texas, Raytheon said Saturday. “This is the fourth year we have been […] More
Matthew Schmitz, formerly a vice president at Huntsville, Alabama-based engineering and program management services provider Intrepid, has been named VP of the technical services business at Dynetics. Dynetics said April 10 Schmitz will oversee the unit’s business development strategy and enterprise growth initiatives in his new position. Schmitz has almost 20 years of business development and operations management experience at multiple […] More
Cubic has been selected by Victory Media as a silver-level Military Friendly Employer award recipient for 2017 in the more than $1 billion revenue category. The company received the designation for its efforts to create job opportunities as well as hiring and retention programs for transitioning service members and their spouses who seek civilian employment, Cubic said Thursday. Victory Media […] More
Engility plans to leverage its high performance computing experience in the company’s pursuit of NASA‘s Advanced Computing Services contract. The company said Thursday its HPC team includes computational and supercomputing scientists who have previously helped the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration design and procure research and development HPC systems. NASA plans to issue a request for proposals on the Advanced Computing Services program that […] More
Space Systems Loral has finalized an agreement with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop technologies that would help service and maintain spacecraft in geostationary orbit. SSL said Wednesday its team of engineers and technicians will perform work at a company facility in Palo Alto, California. DARPA and SSL unveiled a draft version of their public-private partnership agreement for the Robotic Servicing […] More
The Department of Veterans Affairs has posted a request for information on cloud-based commercial platforms in a move to identify a potential alternative for VA’s electronic health record system. VA said Wednesday in a FedBizOpps notice the department is interested in a software-as-a-service model to manage the Veterans Information Systems and Technology Architecture platforms that are not fully modernized. The RFI focuses […] More
CH2M has secured task order funds from the U.S. Navy to support repair efforts at the Marine Corps Logistics Base in Albany and at the Philadelphia Navy Yard under a previously awarded global contingency contract. The Defense Department said Wednesday CH2M will repair and demolish buildings at the Marine Corps Logistics Base in the aftermath of a natural disaster as well […] More
Orbital ATK is scheduled Tuesday to begin the company’s seventh cargo resupply mission that will transport scientific research, supplies and hardware to the International Space Station for NASA. A company-built Cygnus spacecraft, nicknamed S.S. John Glenn, will launch atop United Launch Alliance‘s Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida to deliver more than 7,600 pounds of cargo to […] More
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has begun to seek proposals for platforms designed to enhance image processing methods that are used with aerial synthetic aperture radar. NGA said Wednesday the solicitation falls under the fifth topic of a three-year broad agency announcement for the agency’s Boosting Innovative GEOINT program. The agency aims to build up image processes through the […] More
RMS‘ North American subsidiary has introduced a property management system on a Project Hosts-built cloud platform that is certified under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. RMS – The Hospitality Cloud is now available to Defense Department and federal civilian clients via Project Hosts’ Federal Private Cloud, RMS said Wednesday. The system works to help customers manage real estate properties, reservations, dining […] More
NGD Systems has secured a Small Business Innovation Research Phase II grant from the National Science Foundation to develop and commercialize technology that will work to integrate data processing capacity into storage devices. The company said Wednesday it aims to eliminate the need to move data to main memory before processing with an in-situ processing technology. “We are now engaged with […] More
A United Technologies Corp. subsidiary has concluded the initial test flight of its multi-spectral imaging sensor aboard the Northrop Grumman-built RQ-4B Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle. Kevin Raftery, vice president of ISR and space systems at UTC Aerospace Systems, said in a statement published Wednesday the first flight test sought to demonstrate the capability of the UTC […] More
