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  • Logos Technologies Launches Wide-Area Motion Imagery Sensor for Aerostats; John Marion Comments
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    Logos Technologies Launches Wide-Area Motion Imagery Sensor for Aerostats; John Marion Comments

    Logos Technologies has introduced a sensor designed for installation on aerostats to perform intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance functions. John Marion, president of Logos Technologies, said in a statement released Tuesday Kestrel KS-200 is an 80-pound wide-area motion imagery sensor that works to provide “a 360-degree view of an entire city-sized area, simultaneously tracking multiple objects of […] More

  • Lockheed Unveils Bioenergy Facility in New York
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    Lockheed Unveils Bioenergy Facility in New York

    Lockheed Martin has launched a new facility in Owego, New York, designed to convert waste into renewable energy. Lockheed said Tuesday its bioenergy plant implements a system that uses a Concord Blue-built technology platform that works to derive electricity from waste through the advanced gasification process. The advanced gasification process involves the collection and use of wood-waste, industrial […] More

  • CH2M-Hill International Team to Help Amtrak Manage Northeast Corridor Rail Improvement Project
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    CH2M-Hill International Team to Help Amtrak Manage Northeast Corridor Rail Improvement Project

    Intercity passenger rail operator Amtrak has selected a team comprised of CH2M and Hill International to support management of a project to renovate and expand the Northeast Corridor rail infrastructure. The CH2M-Hill International team will work with Amtrak to help increase the capacity of tracks, tunnels, bridges and stations between Newark in New Jersey and New York City’s Penn […] More

  • Lightower Fiber Networks Added to GSA IT Schedule 70; Rob Shanahan Comments
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    Lightower Fiber Networks Added to GSA IT Schedule 70; Rob Shanahan Comments

    Lightower Fiber Networks has been awarded a position on the Government Services Administration‘s Information Technology Schedule 70 contract vehicle to provide networking services to the federal government. Lightower said Monday it will work with customer agencies to develop network and disaster recovery services such as dark fiber, Ethernet, wavelengths and internet access under the contract with GSA. Rob Shanahan, CEO […] More

  • HHS Raises Cytori Contract Option Value to Support Thermal Burn Treatment Devt
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    HHS Raises Cytori Contract Option Value to Support Thermal Burn Treatment Devt

    The Department of Health and Human Services‘ Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority has amended a previously awarded contract option to Cytori Therapeutics to fund continued development and investigation of the company’s burn wound treatment. Cytori said Monday BARDA increased the option’s value by $2.5 million to approximately $16.6 million and supplemental funds from the amended contract will support activities necessary […] More

  • Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: Satcom-as-a-Service Model to Address DoD Resiliency Requirements
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    Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: Satcom-as-a-Service Model to Address DoD Resiliency Requirements

    Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, a senior vice president at Inmarsat, has pitched the idea of a satellite communications-as-a-service model as key to help the Defense Department achieve an integrated architecture for military satellite communications. Cowen-Hirsch wrote in an guest piece for MilSat Magazine that military officials face budget challenges due to spending limits as they work to recapitalize space […] More

  • Ken Peterman: ViaSat to Provide Wideband Anti-Jam Communications System to US Military
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    Ken Peterman: ViaSat to Provide Wideband Anti-Jam Communications System to US Military

    ViaSat has been awarded a $33.3 million cost-plus-incentive-fee contract to provide a wideband anti-jam communications system that will work to connect military forces in jammed operational environments. The Protected Tactical Service Field Demonstration program seeks an anti-jamming system to support tactical users on the Wideband Global Satellite Communications and commercial satcom networks, the company said Monday. The program seeks to help federal […] More

  • Dell’s Cameron Chehreh: Federal CIOs Should Adopt Incremental Strategies to Update Legacy Apps
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    Dell’s Cameron Chehreh: Federal CIOs Should Adopt Incremental Strategies to Update Legacy Apps

    Cameron Chehreh, federal chief technology officer at Dell, has said chief information officers at agencies should adopt incremental modernization strategies to update legacy applications. Chehreh told MeriTalk writer Mary Tobin in an interview posted Monday that legacy applications represent many of the challenges federal CIOs will face as agencies work to comply with the Office of Management and Budget‘s Data Center Optimization Initiative. […] More

  • ULA Reschedules DigitalGlobe WorldView-4 Satellite Launch to Sept. 26
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    ULA Reschedules DigitalGlobe WorldView-4 Satellite Launch to Sept. 26

    United Launch Alliance has updated the estimated launch date of a DigitalGlobe commercial imaging satellite due to the availability of Vandenberg Air Force Base’s western range. ULA said Sunday the Lockheed Martin-built WorldView-4 satellite will launch to space no earlier than Sept. 26. The satellite and the ULA Atlas V rocket that will carry it are currently housed in the mobile service tower at Vandenberg […] More

  • Immuron, Naval Medical Research Center Partner to Test Supplement Against Stomach-Ailing Bacteria
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    Immuron, Naval Medical Research Center Partner to Test Supplement Against Stomach-Ailing Bacteria

    Australia-based Immuron has entered a research and development collaboration agreement with the Naval Medical Research Center to test the bio-pharmaceutical company’s drug against gastrointestinal problems. The company said Aug. 30 it will test the Travelan dietary supplement against Campylobacter and Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli gram-negative bacteria to help develop therapeutics in an effort to protect military and civilian populations from diarrhea. Immuron and NMRC researchers […] More

  • State Dept OKs Sentinel AN/MPQ-64F1 Radar, Humvee Sale to Egypt
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    State Dept OKs Sentinel AN/MPQ-64F1 Radar, Humvee Sale to Egypt

    The State Department has approved Egypt’s request to purchase Sentinel AN/MPQ-64F1 radars, High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles Ml 152 and related support from the U.S. government under a potential $70 million foreign military sales agreement. ThalesRaytheonSystems, a joint venture of Thales Group and Raytheon, will serve as principal contractor for the sale that covers eight Sentinel radars, 16 HMMWV Ml 152 […] More

  • ERP International to Help Manage Defense Health Agency’s E-Commerce Program
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    ERP International to Help Manage Defense Health Agency’s E-Commerce Program

    Enterprise Resource Planned Systems International has won a $7.7 million task order from the Defense Health Agency to maintain and operate the electronic commerce program of DHA. The order contains one base year, four option years and an 11-day transition period that will run through Sept. 27, the Defense Department said Monday. ERP International will also support DHA’s efforts to procure, manage and […] More