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  • Tyvak Nanosatellite Systems Awarded NASA CubeSat Development Contract
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    Tyvak Nanosatellite Systems Awarded NASA CubeSat Development Contract

    Tyvak Nanosatellite Systems has been awarded a contract to build a series of miniaturized satellites to support missions under NASA‘s Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator program. NASA said Wednesday its Small Spacecraft Technology Program will use CubeSats from the company with government-furnished technology payloads to conduct multiple flight demonstrations. Tyvak will develop a six-unit CubeSat equipped with solar arrays designed to supply at least […] More

  • DigitalGlobe Unveils Results of Satellite Imagery-Based Algorithm Competition; Tony Frazier Comments
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    DigitalGlobe Unveils Results of Satellite Imagery-Based Algorithm Competition; Tony Frazier Comments

    DigitalGlobe has announced that top five developers won $35,000 in total prizes as part of a challenge to develop machine learning algorithms through the use of high-resolution satellite imagery. DigitalGlobe said Tuesday the winning algorithms of the inaugural SpaceNet Challenge were selected out of 242 platforms submitted by 42 developers and will be released to […] More

  • IBM’s Keith Salzman Cites Govt Programs That Aim to Help Address Substance Abuse Disorders
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    IBM’s Keith Salzman Cites Govt Programs That Aim to Help Address Substance Abuse Disorders

    Keith Salzman, chief medical information officer at IBM‘s global business services unit, has said federal, state and local government agencies have partnered with companies and nonprofit organizations to launch efforts that seek to address drug and alcohol use as well as substance abuse disorders in communities. Salzman wrote in a blog post published Tuesday the U.S. Surgeon General’s report […] More

  • DoD OKs Sale of Raytheon SM-6 Missile Tech to International Customers
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    DoD OKs Sale of Raytheon SM-6 Missile Tech to International Customers

    The Defense Department has authorized the sale of Raytheon‘s Standard Missile-6  offering to international customers that seek to adopt the platform to support their shipbuilding programs. Raytheon said Tuesday SM-6 is designed to protect naval ships against ballistic and cruise missiles, fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles. Mike Campisi, SM-6 senior program director at Raytheon, said international navies seek […] More

  • Veris Group Concludes FedRAMP High-Impact Level Assessment of 3 New AWS GovCloud (US) Services
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    Veris Group Concludes FedRAMP High-Impact Level Assessment of 3 New AWS GovCloud (US) Services

    Veris Group, which now operates under cyber risk management services provider Coalfire, has completed the review of three additional service offerings within Amazon Web Services’ GovCloud (US) platform as a third-party independent assessment organization for AWS under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. Coalfire said Tuesday the Amazon CloudWatch Logs, AWS CloudTrail and Amazon Relational […] More

  • CertiPath Lands ID Credential, Access Mgmt Contract With GSA; Shawn Hughes Comments
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    CertiPath Lands ID Credential, Access Mgmt Contract With GSA; Shawn Hughes Comments

    The General Services Administration has awarded CertiPath a contract to provide identity credential and access management services to the federal government. CertiPath said Tuesday it will help GSA analyze, coordinate, define and recommend standards for civilian agencies to implement Federal Identity, Credential, and Access Management technology as well as develop functional requirements for physical and logical access control products. Work […] More

  • Harris to Supply Morocco F-16 Electronic Warfare Suite; Ed Zoiss Comments
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    Harris to Supply Morocco F-16 Electronic Warfare Suite; Ed Zoiss Comments

    Harris will produce a set of electronic warfare systems for Morocco’s F-16 fighter jets as part of a potential $91 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract the U.S. Air Force awarded in November 2016. The company said Tuesday it will equip the Moroccan air force’s F-16s with the AN/ALQ-211 Advanced Integrated Defensive Electronic Warfare Suite in an effort to help defend the aircraft […] More

  • CGI to Develop Cloud-Based Flood Forecasting System for England’s Environment Agency
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    CGI to Develop Cloud-Based Flood Forecasting System for England’s Environment Agency

    CGI has secured a three-year, $6.1 million contract to design and operate a cloud-based system for England’s environment agency to generate and disseminate flood forecasts. The company said Tuesday that EA’s Future Flood Forecasting System will be designed to run on Microsoft‘s Azure Cloud platform and employ rich data analysis and visualization technologies. CGI will base FFFS on the company’s Digital Insight Platform to support data analytics and […] More

  • GSA Adds GuidePoint Under Schedule 70 Cybersecurity Special Item Numbers
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    GSA Adds GuidePoint Under Schedule 70 Cybersecurity Special Item Numbers

    The General Services Administration has selected GuidePoint Security to offer cybersecurity services under four new special item numbers of GSA’s Information Technology Schedule 70 procurement vehicle. GuidePoint said Tuesday it submitted written documents and underwent oral technical interviews as part of the evaluation process to qualify for the “highly adaptive” cybersecurity service SINs. The Herndon, Virginia-based cybersecurity company will offer services to public sector agencies under penetration […] More

  • Textron Releases New Data Integration, Mgmt Platform
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    Textron Releases New Data Integration, Mgmt Platform

    Textron‘s systems advanced information solutions unit has updated a technology platform that works to integrate and manage data from multiple remote platforms such as sensors and information feeds. The company said Tuesday the iCommand 2.5 is designed to help users obtain a single pane view of previously disparate data and attach critical information to raw data necessary for mission planning activities. […] More

  • Raytheon Gets Navy Airborne Targeting System Order Modification
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    Raytheon Gets Navy Airborne Targeting System Order Modification

    Raytheon will provide seven multi-spectral targeting systems in D configuration to the U.S. Navy under a $19.2 million modification to a previously awarded job order. The Defense Department said Tuesday the MTS airborne sensor works to provide long-range surveillance, high altitude target acquisition, tracking, and range-finding capability to military users. The technology is designed to adapt to future updates and incorporates multiple fields […] More