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NASA looks to award Boeing a contract to transport astronauts to and from the International Space Station in the fall of 2017 and spring of 2018 aboard the Russian-built Soyuz space vehicle in an effort to maximize scientific research on the ISS. The agency said in a FedBizOpps notice published Tuesday it also considers an option […] More

RapidSOS and Motorola Solutions have partnered in an effort to increase the amount of data available to public safety agencies and first responders as well as provide information that can aid response times and emergency outcomes. Both companies aim to establish an end-to-end emergency data connectivity network that will work to collect third-party data from connected devices and flow through […] More

Deloitte has joined a coalition of specialists and companies with the goal to accelerate the development of smart cities in the U.S. The professional services firm said Tuesday it will serve as a lead partner in the Smart Cities Council and work with the organization’s advisers and members in efforts to guide cities through investments that could foster sustainable economic […] More

A Defense Science Board task force has published a report that describes ways to increase the capacity of U.S. undersea assets and manned platforms using unmanned systems. The report titled “Next-Generation Unmanned Undersea Systems” explores how unmanned systems could disrupt adversary strategies and perform operations that are on hold due to lack of assets, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory […] More

UltiSat has received a task order from the Defense Information Systems Agency to provide Ku-band bandwidth capacity to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency‘s deployable communications systems. The company said Friday it will offer Ku-band bandwidth and backhaul services in both continental and outside continental U.S. to support NDCS GEOINT operations around the world. The commercial satellite communications […] More