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  • DigitalGlobe, NTT Data Partner to Add Elevation Data for Imagery Product Users
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    DigitalGlobe, NTT Data Partner to Add Elevation Data for Imagery Product Users

    DigitalGlobe and NTT Data have partnered to include elevation data availability in both companies’ products as part of efforts to grow in the imagery information market. DigitalGlobe will offer NTT Data’s 5-meter digital elevation model called AW3D Standard to help broaden the latter’s global sales network, NTT Data said Tuesday. James Rogers, vice president of product marketing and management at DigitalGlobe, said […] More

  • GSA Seeks Info on Entity Identification, Validation Support Sources
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    GSA Seeks Info on Entity Identification, Validation Support Sources

    The General Services Administration has begun its search for potential industry sources of entity identification and validation support services. Dun & Bradstreet currently provides such services under a contract that is set to expire in 2018, GSA said Monday. The Federal Acquisition Regulation and 2CFR policies also have been updated to eliminate references to D&B and its proprietary Data Universal […] More

  • NASA Taps Ball Aerospace for Suomi NPP Satellite Engineering Support Contract
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    NASA Taps Ball Aerospace for Suomi NPP Satellite Engineering Support Contract

    Ball Aerospace & Technologies has received a potential five-year, $9.5 million contract from NASA to continue to provide sustaining engineering support services for the Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership Sustainability satellite. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite quantity contract has a minimum task ordering value of $50,000 and covers engineering services to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s office of […] More

  • Seagate, Fornetix Integrate Hard Drive, Data Encryption Offerings
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    Seagate, Fornetix Integrate Hard Drive, Data Encryption Offerings

    Seagate Technology has integrated its hard disk and solid state drive products with Fornetix‘s encryption key management software and service offerings in an effort to help federal customers secure data against cyber threats. The integrated offering combines Seagate-built drives that comply with Federal Information Processing Standard Publication 140-2 and the Key Orchestration platform Fornetix designed to help users manage the digital keys […] More

  • DHS S&T Opens Tech Testing Opportunity for GPS Equipment Manufacturers
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    DHS S&T Opens Tech Testing Opportunity for GPS Equipment Manufacturers

    The Department of Homeland Security‘s science and technology directorate has issued a request for information participation for global positioning system equipment manufacturers to offer an opportunity for product testing against jamming and spoofing threats. DHS said Monday it will host a GPS Testing for Critical Infrastructure event April 17-April 21 at the Muscatatuck Urban Training Center in […] More

  • Apprio to Offer Agencies Health IT Services Under GSA Schedule 70
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    Apprio to Offer Agencies Health IT Services Under GSA Schedule 70

     Apprio will offer health information technology services to federal customers through the General Services Administration‘s IT Schedule 70 contract vehicle. The company said Monday its service offerings under the contract’s health IT special item number will cover electronic health records, software engineering, program management, claims administrations, big data and interoperability. Apprio has provided engineering, program management and technology support to federal customers such as the […] More

  • NASA Picks Honeywell, UMPQUA Proposals for Deep Space Oxygen Recovery Tech Devt
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    NASA Picks Honeywell, UMPQUA Proposals for Deep Space Oxygen Recovery Tech Devt

    NASA has selected proposals from Honeywell and UMPQUA Research to develop technology platforms designed to increase oxygen recovery from exhaled carbon dioxide to at least 75 percent and reduce oxygen resupply for future long-duration spaceflight missions. The companies will each receive up to $2 million in funds to develop their technologies over a two-year performance […] More

  • Geoscience Australia Partners With Lockheed, Inmarsat, GMV to Demo 2nd-Gen Satellite-based Navigation Testbed
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    Geoscience Australia Partners With Lockheed, Inmarsat, GMV to Demo 2nd-Gen Satellite-based Navigation Testbed

    Australia’s geoscience research agency has teamed up with Lockheed Martin, Inmarsat and GMV to demonstrate how signals from multiple constellations of Global Navigation Satellite Systems can help build up positioning, navigation and timing for various applications. Geoscience Australia and the three companies will demonstrate over a two-year period a new Satellite-Based Augmentation System testbed for applications […] More

  • Vencore’s Zalenda Cyrille Receives Leadership Award for STEM Efforts; Mac Curtis Comments
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    Vencore’s Zalenda Cyrille Receives Leadership Award for STEM Efforts; Mac Curtis Comments

    Zalenda Cyrille, a program director at Vencore, has been given the Modern Day Technology Leaders Award for her efforts to foster interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics careers. Vencore said Monday the recognition was given at the 2017 Black Engineer of the Year Award conference held Friday in Washington, D.C. The award commends the recipient’s commitment to […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Lands NASA Glenn Award for Work on Ion Rocket Propulsion System
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Lands NASA Glenn Award for Work on Ion Rocket Propulsion System

    NASA‘s Glenn Research Center has named Aerojet Rocketdyne the “Large Business Prime Contractor of the Year” for the company’s development of the gridded ion thruster system for the Next Evolutionary Xenon Thruster-Commercial propulsion technology. The aerospace and defense firm said Monday its work on the system is part of an $18 million contract from 2015 for the completion of NEXT-C and […] More

  • Orbital ATK to Integrate Multiple Instruments for Space Test Program Mission; Chris Long Comments
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    Orbital ATK to Integrate Multiple Instruments for Space Test Program Mission; Chris Long Comments

    Orbital ATK has secured a contract from the U.S. Air Force‘s Space and Missiles Systems Center to provide integration, test and support services for the primary payload of the Space Test Program – 3 mission. The company said Monday it will fit the STPSat-6 payload onto a modified satellite bus and support launch and on-orbit check-out operations to prepare for the STP-3 mission that […] More

  • Grant Thornton Unveils New Office in Arlington County, VA; Mike McGuire Comments
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    Grant Thornton Unveils New Office in Arlington County, VA; Mike McGuire Comments

    Grant Thornton has opened a new office in Arlington County, Virginia, that works to consolidate staff from across the Washington metropolitan area and facilitate increased collaboration and engagement. The company said Thursday the office can accommodate up to 1,500 people and includes a multipurpose space, modern conference and team rooms as well as audiovisual and collaborative […] More