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  • AT&T to Migrate Databases, Apps to Oracle Cloud
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    AT&T to Migrate Databases, Apps to Oracle Cloud

    AT&T has agreed with Oracle to migrate thousands of databases and related applications workloads to the latter’s cloud platforms. Oracle said Thursday the strategic agreement with AT&T covers its portfolio of cloud offerings that include platform-as-a-service, infrastructure-as-a-service, software-as-a-service and database-as-a-service. AT&T will also integrate its big data and machine learning capabilities with Oracle’s Field Service […] More

  • Northrop Secures Contract Funds for E-2D Aircraft Delivery to Japan
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    Northrop Secures Contract Funds for E-2D Aircraft Delivery to Japan

    Northrop Grumman‘s military aircraft systems business has received an $11.1 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to obtain long-lead time materials, components, parts and other services that will support the delivery of an E–2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft to Japan. The Defense Department said Thursday the Navy will obligate the full amount of the modification from foreign military sales funds […] More

  • Harris-Ligado Networks Partnership Aims to Demo Beyond Visual Line-of-Sight UAS Operations
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    Harris-Ligado Networks Partnership Aims to Demo Beyond Visual Line-of-Sight UAS Operations

    Harris and Ligado Networks have agreed to collaborate in efforts to develop, test and deploy beyond-visual-line-of-sight technologies for unmanned aircraft systems. Both companies aim to showcase joint technologies and expertise to support the integration of commercial drones into U.S. airspace, Ligado said Thursday. The North Dakota Centers of Excellence Commission awarded Harris a two-year grant earlier this year to create aviation-grade […] More

  • Charles River Analytics to Develop AI Software for Air Force
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    Charles River Analytics to Develop AI Software for Air Force

    Charles River Analytics has won a four-year, $8 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force develop artificial intelligence technology for domain experts to understand why decisions were made. The Air Force received 62 offers for the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract and obligated $1.3 million in fiscal 2016 research, development, test, and evaluation funds at the time of award, the […] More

  • Parsons Receives ACEC/MA Bronze Engineering Excellence Award for Bridge Replacement Project
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    Parsons Receives ACEC/MA Bronze Engineering Excellence Award for Bridge Replacement Project

    Parsons has won the Bronze Engineering Excellence Award from the American Council of Engineering Companies of Massachusetts for its work on a bridge replacement project on Martha’s Vineyard island. The company said Thursday it designed a drawbridge to replace the Lagoon Pond bridge, which was built in 1935, under a contract with the Massachusetts Department of Transportation. Parsons added […] More

  • ManTech’s George Pedersen Gets CIA Officers Memorial Foundation Award; Kevin Phillips Comments
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    ManTech’s George Pedersen Gets CIA Officers Memorial Foundation Award; Kevin Phillips Comments

    George Pedersen, co-founder, chairman and CEO of ManTech International, has received the CIA Officers Memorial Foundation’s Patriots award in recognition of his commitment to support the CIA’s mission and the country it serves. ManTech said Thursday that John McLaughlin and Jerry Komisar, respectively chairman and president of the CIA Officers Memorial Foundation, presented the award to Pedersen during a company […] More

  • GSA Adds Crunchy Data’s PostgreSQL Enterprise Support, Professional Services to Schedule 70
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    GSA Adds Crunchy Data’s PostgreSQL Enterprise Support, Professional Services to Schedule 70

    Crunchy Data has secured a position on the General Services Administration‘s Information Technology Schedule 70 contract vehicle to offer open-source database enterprise and engineering support and professional services to the federal government. The company said Wednesday that its five-year contract with the GSA includes the PostgreSQL Professional Services and the PostgreSQL Secure Enterprise Support that will provide  government customers access to the Crunchy Certified PostgreSQL  distribution […] More

  • NASA Seeks Info on Payload Delivery Support Sources for Lunar Surface Missions
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    NASA Seeks Info on Payload Delivery Support Sources for Lunar Surface Missions

    NASA has begun its search for potential contractors that can help the agency deliver experiments, instruments and other payloads to the moon. The agency said in a FedBizOpps notice published Monday it will use the responses to plan for potential launch and payload opportunities in an effort to meet lunar exploration and technology demonstration objectives as […] More

  • NASA Solicits Development Ideas for In-Space Material Fabrication Lab
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    NASA Solicits Development Ideas for In-Space Material Fabrication Lab

    NASA is looking for industry partners that can help the agency develop concepts for the development of an in-space laboratory to fabricate multiple materials for exploration missions. The agency said Thursday the FabLab solicitation, issued as part of the Next Space Technologies for Exploration broad agency announcement, will consist of three phases with the goal to build a multimaterial fabrication […] More

  • FedBid Awarded Commerce Dept Auction Service Extension
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    FedBid Awarded Commerce Dept Auction Service Extension

    FedBid has secured a potential five-year contract to provide reverse auction services and acquisition strategy support across the Commerce Department. The company said Wednesday the contract was issued through the U.S. Patent and Trade Office and can be used by buyers from all Commerce Department bureaus and offices. FedBid has facilitated more than $83.6 million in contract awards for the department […] More

  • F5 Networks to Move Seattle HQ to New Downtown Tower
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    F5 Networks to Move Seattle HQ to New Downtown Tower

    F5 Networks will relocate from a corporate building at Elliott Avenue West to a 516,000-square-foot office space in downtown Seattle in early 2019. The company said Wednesday the new leased space at 801 Fifth Avenue will be called F5 Tower and was selected after the firm evaluated the location against several criteria such as its proximity to […] More