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  • Raytheon Lands $53M Air Force Contract to Manufacture 3D Long-Range Radars
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    Raytheon Lands $53M Air Force Contract to Manufacture 3D Long-Range Radars

    Raytheon has received a potential three-year, $52.7 million contract to design, develop and manufacture a long-range radar platform for the U.S. Air Force. The company will develop three units of the Three-Dimensional Expeditionary Long-Range Radar system under the fixed-price-incentive-firm contract, the Defense Department said Thursday. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center received two bids for the […] More

  • VA Plans New Enterprise Data Mgmt Task Under T4NG IDIQ Vehicle
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    VA Plans New Enterprise Data Mgmt Task Under T4NG IDIQ Vehicle

    The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to add a task order under its Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology Next Generation contract vehicle for enterprise data management support services. VA said Thursday in a FedBizOpps notice the task will cover technical staff expertise related to data governance and messaging as well as transactional and analytical data processing. The department awarded 21 companies positions on the […] More

  • Okta Receives ‘Moderate’ FedRAMP Certification for Identity, Access Mgmt Platforms
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    Okta Receives ‘Moderate’ FedRAMP Certification for Identity, Access Mgmt Platforms

    Okta has obtained “moderate” Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program  certification to provide government customers access to the company’s identity and access management offerings via the Amazon Web Services Cloud. The Justice Department granted an authorization to operate after the company demonstrated its compliance with 300 controls that include business continuity, incident response and vulnerability management applications, Okta said Thursday. “The cloud continues to be […] More

  • iGov Tests Wearable Field Computing Tech at DoD Facility in Nevada
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    iGov Tests Wearable Field Computing Tech at DoD Facility in Nevada

    Reston, Virginia-based information technology firm iGov has conducted an operational utility assessment on its field computing device-wearable system during a digitally-aided close air support test at a Defense Department test range in Nevada. The company said Thursday the FCD-W platform was used to transmit CAS 9-lines, Air on Station reports and other digital information to aircraft as part of the […] More

  • Leonardo to Develop Next-Gen Missile Decoy With UK Air Force Rapid Capability Office
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    Leonardo to Develop Next-Gen Missile Decoy With UK Air Force Rapid Capability Office

    Leonardo has agreed to collaborate with the U.K. air force’s rapid capability office to accelerate the delivery of radio frequency countermeasure systems and other technology platforms to warfighters. Leonardo and the Royal Air Force aim to develop a third-generation expandable active decoy platform and bring it to operational use through the RCO, the company said in […] More

  • Leidos VP Nevin Carr Joins AUVSI Board; Roger Krone Comments
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    Leidos VP Nevin Carr Joins AUVSI Board; Roger Krone Comments

    Nevin Carr, a vice president and U.S. Navy strategic account executive at Leidos, has been named to the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International’s board of directors. AUVSI is a nonprofit organization consists of 7,500 members from over 60 countries and works to promote the development of unmanned platforms and robotics systems, Leidos said Thursday. “Nevin’s proven […] More

  • Charley Diaz Named Customer Affairs Director for HII Small Surface Combatant, Coast Guard Programs
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    Charley Diaz Named Customer Affairs Director for HII Small Surface Combatant, Coast Guard Programs

    Charley Diaz, former CEO of maritime consulting firm Diaz and chief of staff at the U.S. Coast Guard Pacific Area, has joined Huntington Ingalls Industries as corporate director of customer affairs for the company’s small surface combatants and U.S. Coast Guard programs. The more than 30-year Coast Guard veteran previously supervised an interdisciplinary staff in charge of the service […] More

  • SAIC to Integrate C4ISR Tech for Army Tactical Vehicles Under $61M Task Order
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    SAIC to Integrate C4ISR Tech for Army Tactical Vehicles Under $61M Task Order

    Science Applications International Corp. has received an 18-month, $61 million task order from the U.S. Navy‘s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic to perform engineering upgrade and integration work on two types of military vehicle. SAIC said Thursday it will integrate command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance applications and hardware kits for the U.S. Army‘s High-Mobility […] More

  • CSRA Holds Event to Help Startup Firms Introduce Tech Platforms in Federal Market
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    CSRA Holds Event to Help Startup Firms Introduce Tech Platforms in Federal Market

    CSRA hosted an event Wednesday to help eight startup companies showcase a range of emerging technology platforms to potential federal government clients, MeriTalk reported Wednesday. The report said CSRA selected the startups out of 120 firms to demonstrate their platforms at the Emerging Technologies Day. Companies that joined the event include Capriza, Be Informed, CloudAware, Druva, Denodo, ID.me, […] More

  • 28 Year Low: Fewest Workers Receive Unemployment Since 1988
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    28 Year Low: Fewest Workers Receive Unemployment Since 1988

    Fewer workers received unemployment benefits at the end of April than at any other time in the last 28 years, the Department of Labor reported Thursday, and when the last four weeks are taken into account, total unemployment benefit claims are at their lowest rate since 1974. . There were only 236,000 new jobless claims, better than […] More

  • General Atomics Test-Fires Blitzer Railgun Projectiles; Nick Bucci Comments
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    General Atomics Test-Fires Blitzer Railgun Projectiles; Nick Bucci Comments

    General Atomics‘ electromagnetic systems business has used a three-megajoule railgun system to fire three guidance electronics unit-equipped hypersonic projectiles during a test series at the U.S. Army‘s Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. The company said Wednesday that the Blitzer railgun fired the projectiles at launch accelerations at a speed more than 30,000 times faster than gravity. The GEU […] More

  • ARN: IBM to Provide Mainframe Storage Infrastructure for Australia’s Human Services Dept
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    ARN: IBM to Provide Mainframe Storage Infrastructure for Australia’s Human Services Dept

    IBM has secured a $10.1 million contract from Australia’s human services department to provide mainframe storage infrastructure, ARN reported Thursday. A spokesperson for the department told ARN that IBM will deliver new mainframe disk storage arrays to replace aging ones under the contract. “The scope includes supply of hardware and operating systems, installation and secure disposal […] More