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  • Matt Desch: SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket’s Stage 1 Booster Arrives in California for Iridium Satellite Launch
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    Matt Desch: SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket’s Stage 1 Booster Arrives in California for Iridium Satellite Launch

    Iridium CEO Matt Desch announced in a Twitter post Monday the arrival of the stage 1 booster for SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket in California for the launch of Iridium satellites as part of the company’s NEXT constellation, Ars Technica reported Monday. Eric Berger writes the rocket’s first stage booster was spotted Sunday in Arizona en route to Vandenberg […] More

  • Fors Marsh Group to Continue Market Research Support for Defense HR Activity
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    Fors Marsh Group to Continue Market Research Support for Defense HR Activity

    Fors Marsh Group has been awarded a $10 million contract modification by the Defense Human Resources Activity to continue the company’s support services for DHRA’s military recruitment research efforts. The modification exercises the second option on a previously awarded contract that covers market studies, evaluations and surveys in support of the Joint Advertising and Market Research initiative, the Defense Department said Tuesday. […] More

  • Johns Hopkins APL’s CubeSat for Earth Radiation Imbalance Study Launches Aboard Atlas V Rocket
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    Johns Hopkins APL’s CubeSat for Earth Radiation Imbalance Study Launches Aboard Atlas V Rocket

    Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has developed a CubeSat designed to collect the Earth’s radiation imbalance measurements for use in climate change predictions. Johns Hopkins APL’s Radiometer Assessment using Vertically Aligned Nanotubes CubeSat is one of the seven small-satellite payloads that took off on Nov. 11 aboard the United Launch Alliance-made Atlas V rocket, APL […] More

  • BAE to Develop Nanoelectronic Circuit Analysis Tool for Air Force
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    BAE to Develop Nanoelectronic Circuit Analysis Tool for Air Force

    BAE Systems‘ information and electronic systems integrated technology solutions business has won a three-year, $9.1 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force create an analysis tool to image minimum size circuit features on a silicon integrated circuit chip. The Defense Department said Tuesday the company will develop the tool as part of the Rapid Analysis of Various Emerging NanoElectrons […] More

  • Cubic to Update Maryland Transit Administration’s Automatic Fare Collection System
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    Cubic to Update Maryland Transit Administration’s Automatic Fare Collection System

    Cubic‘s transportation systems business has received a $4.8 million contract modification from the Maryland Transit Administration to update the agency’s automatic fare collection system and set the foundation for new system features. The company said Tuesday the updated system will work to help MTA accept mobile payments and implement a new customer web portal and integration path with third-party transport services. “The new […] More

  • Helius to Extend Chronic Balance Deficit Treatment Test, Development Work
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    Helius to Extend Chronic Balance Deficit Treatment Test, Development Work

    A Helius Medical Technologies division will continue to test and develop its chronic balance deficit treatment under the extended sole-source contract from the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command. NeuroHabilitation Corp. will conduct clinical trials across additional study sites through the end of this year in an effort to validate the safety and reliability of the Portable […] More

  • Diligent Consulting Receives Navy IT Support IDIQ
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    Diligent Consulting Receives Navy IT Support IDIQ

    Diligent Consulting has received an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide information technology support to the U.S. Navy and other agencies. Diligent Consulting said Tuesday it will compete on task orders under the SeaPort-e IDIQ contract alongside partner CACI International in support of the Navy’s engineering, financial management, information technology, information assurance, cybersecurity and program management areas. Diligent will […] More

  • LMI Wins $58M Contract to Support Army ERP Service Implementation
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    LMI Wins $58M Contract to Support Army ERP Service Implementation

    LMI has won a three-year, $58.5 million contract to help the U.S. Army implement enterprise resource planning services for the military branch’s global combat support system. LMI will support logistics modernization, general funds enterprise business system, enterprise systems integration, component programs and stakeholder organizations under the contract, the Defense Department said Tuesday. The company will perform work in multiple locations […] More

  • SAP Unveils Citizen Engagement Platform for Govt Organizations
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    SAP Unveils Citizen Engagement Platform for Govt Organizations

    SAP has partnered with UXC Oxygen to develop a citizen engagement platform designed to help government customers deliver citizen services. The citizen engagement offering builds on SAP’s efforts to provide industry-specific accelerators through SAP Hybris’ commerce platform, the company said Tuesday. “The digital economy has impacted the way consumers engage with brands, and the same applies for interacting with government agencies,” said Matthias Goehler, SAP […] More

  • National Advanced Mobility Consortium Elects New Board Members & Director of Operations
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    National Advanced Mobility Consortium Elects New Board Members & Director of Operations

    The National Advanced Mobility Consortium has elected three new members to the nonprofit organization’s board of directors. NAMC said Tuesday Christopher Rohe will serve as president of the board of directors, while Michael Ladika and Gerald Lane have been appointed respectively as vice president and treasurer of the manned and unmanned ground vehicle-focused consortium. Rohe serves as senior […] More

  • Klas Telecom Govt Adds Lawrence Brock to Board of Directors
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    Klas Telecom Govt Adds Lawrence Brock to Board of Directors

    Klas Telecom Government has appointed Lawrence Brock, a retired U.S. Army major general and former commanding general of the 311th Signal Command, to the board of directors for the company’s U.S. government and defense business. Dave Huisenga, Klas Telecom Government president and CEO, said Tuesday Brock will help the company formulate its strategy to deliver new communications equipment to warfighters and operators. […] More

  • Grace Hopper, Newt Minow Among Latest Medal of Freedom Recipients
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    Grace Hopper, Newt Minow Among Latest Medal of Freedom Recipients

    Grace Hopper, former U.S. Navy admiral and a computer pioneer, and Newt Minow, former Federal Communications Commission chairman, have been awarded the final Medals of Freedom for President Barack Obama’s term in office. Hopper previously held roles with the U.S. Naval Reserve, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Sperry, Association of Computer Programmers […] More