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  • SAP NS2 Develops Machine Learning Tool for Counterterrorism Missions; Mark Testoni Comments
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    SAP NS2 Develops Machine Learning Tool for Counterterrorism Missions; Mark Testoni Comments

    SAP National Security Services has developed a tool that uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to help counter terrorist activities online, Fast Company reported Thursday. Steven Melendez writes SAP NS2 currently works with government agencies to monitor terrorism-related activities in social media and with cybersecurity firm ThreatConnect to identify threats in computer networks in real […] More

  • Cobham-Kapsch Team Fields TETRA Comms Network at Rio de Janeiro Metro Railway Line
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    Cobham-Kapsch Team Fields TETRA Comms Network at Rio de Janeiro Metro Railway Line

    Cobham and telecommunications infrastructure provider Kapsch have installed a terrestrial trunked radio network on a new Metro railway line in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in an effort to provide communications services to emergency services and rail transport staff in support of the 2016 Olympics. The TETRA network installed at Rio de Janeiro’s Metro Line 4 route […] More

  • DISA Clears Airbus’ Encryption Device for DoD Voice Networks
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    DISA Clears Airbus’ Encryption Device for DoD Voice Networks

    An Airbus Group voice encryption technology has been added to the Defense Information Systems Agency‘s list of approved products for deployment on Defense Department-run networks. Airbus said Thursday its ECTOCRYP Black device with R1.2.3 software offers voice communications security options not previously seen in legacy Secure Communications Interoperability Protocol systems. The platform is built with a common commercial-off-the-shelf hardware architecture that operators can program to accommodate new features […] More

  • SRI International Launches Agriculture Tech Firm Abundant Robotics; Dan Steere Comments
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    SRI International Launches Agriculture Tech Firm Abundant Robotics; Dan Steere Comments

    SRI International has spun off and unveiled an agriculture firm that aims to automate fruit harvesting operations through robotics. Abundant Robotics will leverage SRI’s agricultural robotics research efforts in order to commercialize systems intended for orchard agriculture automation, SRI International said Wednesday. “The first automated apple harvesting system that doesn’t bruise or damage the produce will […] More

  • Exelon to Acquire Entergy’s NY-Based Nuclear Power Plant Under $110M Deal
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    Exelon to Acquire Entergy’s NY-Based Nuclear Power Plant Under $110M Deal

    Exelon Generation has entered a $110 million agreement with Entergy Corporation to acquire the latter’s James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant in Scriba, New York. Exelon said Monday the deal is expected to close in 2017 once it receives approval from state and federal agencies such as the Justice Department, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the […] More

  • BAE Awarded Logistics Support Contract for Army SIGINT Payload System
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    BAE Awarded Logistics Support Contract for Army SIGINT Payload System

    BAE Systems has secured a potential seven-year, $38.2 million contract to provide logistics support for the U.S. Army‘s tactical signal intelligence payload system. The Defense Department said Thursday work will occur through Aug. 10, 2023 and performance location will be determined with each individual task order. The Army Contracting Command received one offer for the contract through an online solicitation, DoD […] More

  • Jacobs to Help Novartis Pharma Expand Biotech Center in France; Robert Norfleet Comments
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    Jacobs to Help Novartis Pharma Expand Biotech Center in France; Robert Norfleet Comments

    Jacobs Engineering Group has been selected to provide engineering, procurement and construction management services for Novartis Pharma‘s estimated $100 million  biotechnology center expansion project in France. Novartis Pharma aims to increase its biotechnology center’s production capacity by 70 percent and build a second line of purification to manufacture multiple drugs at the same time, Jacobs said Thursday. The project is […] More

  • Todd Porter Joins Geospatial Corp. as President of New Energy Services Division
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    Todd Porter Joins Geospatial Corp. as President of New Energy Services Division

    Todd Porter, former vice president for business development at G2 Partners, has joined Geospatial Corporation as president of the company’s newly established energy services division in Houston, Texas. The company said Monday Porter has worked in the energy industry for more than three decades and has held executive leadership, business development and project management roles. “Todd will be a huge asset […] More

  • Phacil Named to CRN 2016 Fast Growth 150 List; Mehdi Cherqaoui Comments
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    Phacil Named to CRN 2016 Fast Growth 150 List; Mehdi Cherqaoui Comments

    Phacil has been named to CRN’s 2016 Fast Growth 150 list of technology integrators, service providers and information technology consultants in North America. CRN, a brand of The Channel Company, created the list based on gross revenue gains between 2013 and 2015 and the companies listed account for total combined revenue of more than $25 […] More

  • Academy Medical to Offer Rennova Health Services to Federal Government Market
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    Academy Medical to Offer Rennova Health Services to Federal Government Market

    Rennova Health has entered into an agreement with service-disabled veteran-owned small business Academy Medical to offer the former’s laboratory services to U.S. federal government clients such as the Department of Veterans Affairs. The agreement establishes Rennova’s Riviera Beach Laboratory as an exclusive federal government business channel partner to Academy Medical, Rennova said Thursday. The diagnostics software company added that […] More

  • Navy Tests & Deploys AeroVironment UAS With Recovery System Aboard Guided Missile Destroyer
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    Navy Tests & Deploys AeroVironment UAS With Recovery System Aboard Guided Missile Destroyer

    The U.S. Navy has tested and deployed an AeroVironment-developed small unmanned aircraft with a precision recovery system the service branch envisions for use on a wide variety of vessels for rapid response reconnaissance operations. AeroVironment said Thursday the RQ-20B Puma AE system was tested aboard a Flight I guided missile destroyer along with its precision recovery system that can be managed and […] More

  • Liberty University Offers On-Campus Drone Pilot Training
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    Liberty University Offers On-Campus Drone Pilot Training

    Liberty University’s School of Aeronautics now offers an on-campus training program for pilots of fixed-wing and multi-rotor small unmanned aircraft systems. The Federal Aviation Administration‘s regulations on the commercial use of drones work to allow the training program’s students to fly small UAS weighing less than 55 pounds on campus, the university said Tuesday. The […] More