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AAR to Supply NATO Storage & Shipping Containers
AAR has secured a potential five-year,Â $12.6 million contract to provideÂ storage and shipping containers, shelters, air cargo pallets and accessories toÂ NATO. The company said Monday the indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract serves as a toolÂ forÂ NATO countries and allies to procureÂ AAR’s rapid deployment products. Jeffery Jackson, vice president of sales and marketing at AAR’s mobility systems business, said […] More
by Ramona Adams January 24, 2017, 4:32 am
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Huntington Ingalls Division Lifts 776-Ton Unit of Kennedy Carrier Under Construction
Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Newport News Shipbuilding division has carried a 776-ton unit into Dry Dock 12 as part of construction work onÂ the second Gerald R.Â Ford-class aircraft carrierÂ for the U.S. Navy. The company said Monday the superlift for the John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier follows a build strategy implemented on the development of a previous Ford-class […] More
by Scott Nicholas January 24, 2017, 3:05 am
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Dave Wajsgras: Raytheon, (ISC)2-Backed Charitable Trust Seek to Incite Women to Pursue Cyber Careers Via Scholarships
Raytheon has partnered with the Center for Cyber Safety and Education to award new scholarships to six women in an effort to encourage them to pursue degrees and careers in cybersecurity. The Center for Cyber Safety and Education will oversee the companyâ€™s Womenâ€™s Cybersecurity ScholarshipÂ program that will select three female college students and three mid-career […] More
by Neel Mehta January 24, 2017, 12:00 am
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Law Enforcement Vet Michael McDonald to Lead Intellicheck Mobilisa’s Push to Drive ‘Law ID’ Adoption
Michael McDonald, formerly director of information technology for the Delaware state police, has joinedÂ Intellicheck MobilisaÂ to help drive the adoption of a threat identification, identification authentication and contact status system at federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies. The company said TuesdayÂ McDonald will serve as business development manager for law enforcement solutions and lead Intellicheck […] More
by Elizabeth de la Cruz January 24, 2017, 12:00 am
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DARPA Taps Flex Logix to Deliver Embedded Field-Programmable Gate Array Tech for Integrated Circuit Design
Flex Logix has inked an agreement with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop theÂ EFLXÂ embeddedÂ field-programmable gate array technology for use by agencies and companies to design integrated circuits for the U.S. government. The company said Monday it will offer EFLX arrays in the TSMC 16FFC process node to help users reconfigureÂ register-transfer levels during theÂ digital […] More
by Scott Nicholas January 23, 2017, 11:19 am
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Unisysâ€™ PV Puvvada: ‘Proactive’ Risk Assessment of Federal IT Projects to Advance Under New Administration
PV Puvvada, president of Unisysâ€™ federal systems business, has said he predicts federal employees and contractors to â€œproactivelyâ€ evaluate risks in information technology projects under President Donald Trumpâ€™s administration through implementation of DevOps and agile development processes. Puvvada wrote in an FCW article published Friday that such a move is part of the administrationâ€™s objective […] More
by Jane Edwards January 23, 2017, 11:10 am
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SafeNet Assured Technologies Unveils Cryptographic Key Mgmt Tool for Govt Customers
SafeNet Assured Technologies has launchedÂ a technology platformÂ intended to help U.S. government customers manage cryptographic keys inÂ physical, virtual or public cloud environments. TheÂ data security companyÂ said MondayÂ itsÂ KeySecure for GovernmentÂ platform works to consolidateÂ cryptographic keys from multiple third-party encryption platforms. “Encrypted data is only as secure as the system managing the cryptographic keys generated by the encryption process,” said […] More
by Ramona Adams January 23, 2017, 10:32 am
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Navy Taps BAE Unit for Potential $68M USS Roosevelt Modernization Contract
BAE Systems‘ Southeast Shipyard Mayport business in Jacksonville, Florida, has won a potential $68.5 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide facilities and human resources forÂ the modernization, repair andÂ maintenance of the USS Roosevelt guided missile destroyer. The Defense Department said ThursdayÂ the Navy obligated $51.4 million in fiscal 2017 operations and maintenance funds at the […] More
by Dominique Stump January 23, 2017, 9:45 am
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IARPA Seeks Methods to Collect Low-Resource Speech, Text Content
TheÂ Intelligence Advanced Research Projects ActivityÂ has asked industry to propose methodsÂ to find speech and text content in low-resource languages relevant to domain-contextualized English queries. IARPA said Thursday in a FedBizOpps notice theÂ Machine Translation for English Retrieval of Information in Any LanguageÂ program seeks anÂ end-to-end system that can support monolingual triage of multilingual datasets. The agencyÂ added it wants […] More
by Scott Nicholas January 23, 2017, 9:40 am
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Root9B to Support Chiron on Cyber Operational Training for DoD Under $50M Contract
Root9BÂ has partnered with Chiron Technology Services to deliver cyber operational trainingÂ to the Defense Department under the team’s potential five-year, $50 million contract. Root9B will provide cyber operations, incident response, threat emulation and network defense trainingÂ that will work to prepare cybersecurity teams to defend against evolving cyber threats, the Colorado Springs, Colorado-based firm said Thursday. The […] More
by Dominique Stump January 23, 2017, 8:45 am
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BAE Develops Atmospheric Lens Platform for Battlefield Surveillance
Researchers at BAE Systems have developed a laser-based atmospheric lens platform designed to help military commanders perform long-range surveillance operations on adversaries. The Laser Developed Atmospheric Lens system works to create lens-like structures through the use of high-power pulsed lasers and manipulation of the Earthâ€™s atmosphere through ionization or reversal reheating process, BAE said Jan. […] More
by Jane Edwards January 23, 2017, 6:48 am
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L3 Business Unit to Supply Army Hydromechanical Transmission Systems, Ancillary Hardware
A business unit ofÂ L3 TechnologiesÂ has been awardedÂ a $33.1 million contract modification to supplyÂ 96 hydro-mechanically propelled transmission systems to the U.S. Army. L3’s combat propulsion systems business will also provideÂ 800-horsepower transmissions, associated ancillary hardware and operational reliability support under the modification, the Defense Department said Thursday Work will occurÂ in Muskegon, Michigan, through Oct. 18, 2018. The […] More
by Dominique Stump January 23, 2017, 5:17 am