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  • CB&I Lands $75M Contract to Help Modernize Infrastructure for Arnold Air Base Test Center
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    CB&I Lands $75M Contract to Help Modernize Infrastructure for Arnold Air Base Test Center

    CB&I has secured a multi-year, $75 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to restore, modernize and sustain plants and infrastructure at a military air base in Tullahoma, Tennessee. The company said Tuesday the project will work to support the research, development, test and evaluation operations of the Air Force Test Center located at Arnold AF Base. Chip Ray, president of CB&I’s […] More

  • Phacil Obtains CMMI Maturity Level 3 Appraisal for Service System Development
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    Phacil Obtains CMMI Maturity Level 3 Appraisal for Service System Development

    Phacil has received a Capability Maturity Model Integration level 3 rating from the CMMI Institute for the company’s efforts in services and service system development. Arlington, Virginia-based information technology company Phacil said Tuesday Abridge Technology conducted the appraisal based on Phacil’s program support, personnel management, software development and help desk support for the U.S. Forest Service’s Resource Ordering and Status System. Phacil added […] More

  • Kevin McDonald Joins Chemring’s Ordnance Subsidiary as Programs VP
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    Kevin McDonald Joins Chemring’s Ordnance Subsidiary as Programs VP

    Kevin McDonald, former vice president of operations at National Technical Systems, has been appointed vice president of programs at Chemring Group subsidiary Chemring Ordnance. Chemring said Tuesday McDonald previously served as senior general manager for General Dynamics‘ ordnance and tactical systems large caliber operations business with responsibility over a demilitarization center and two government-owned, contractor-operated facilities. His career at General Dynamics also includes roles as program manager of the 120mm […] More

  • JDog Launches New Branch of Government Jobs Franchise; Jerry Flanagan Comments
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    JDog Launches New Branch of Government Jobs Franchise; Jerry Flanagan Comments

    JDog Junk Removal & Hauling has launched a new branch of its franchise JDog Services to perform government-contracted jobs after the company received a Veteran-Owned Small Business designation from the Department of Veterans Affairs. JDog Services will provide waste management services for the government in various territories across the country, JDog said Tuesday. “Receiving government-contracted […] More

  • Hawaii Biotech Receives NIAID Grant for Chikungunya Virus Vaccine Development
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    Hawaii Biotech Receives NIAID Grant for Chikungunya Virus Vaccine Development

    Hawaii Biotech Inc. has been selected to develop a vaccine against chikungunya virus under a Small Business Innovation Research Phase I grant from the National Institutes of Health‘s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The biotechnology company said Tuesday it will collaborate with the Sabin Vaccine Institute and Baylor College of Medicine on the project. David Clements, director of […] More

  • DLT, FinalCode Form File Sharing Security Partnership; Jeremy Young Comments
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    DLT, FinalCode Form File Sharing Security Partnership; Jeremy Young Comments

    DLT Solutions and FinalCode have teamed up to provide file collaboration and sharing security platforms to public sector clients. FinalCode said Tuesday it will integrate its file security-based digital rights management platform with DLT’s portfolio of information security tools. Jeremy Young, vice president of cybersecurity for DLT, said the combination of products as a result […] More

  • HHS’ ONC Selects Winners of Blockchain Health IT & Research Challenge
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    HHS’ ONC Selects Winners of Blockchain Health IT & Research Challenge

    The Department of Health and Human Services‘ Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has unveiled the winners of the “Use of Blockchain in Health IT and Health-related Research Challenge.” HHS said Monday winning papers were selected based on criteria that included proposed systems and recommendations for market viability, capacity to inform and foster transformative change, creativity […] More

  • Aerospace Corp. Aims to Increase Position, Navigation & Timing Service Resiliency Via New Study
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    Aerospace Corp. Aims to Increase Position, Navigation & Timing Service Resiliency Via New Study

    The Aerospace Corp. has launched a study that aims to make position, navigation and timing services more resilient through the development of a user-device platform that will work to combine PNT signals from multiple sources. The nonprofit organization said Monday it will use an open-source method to develop a user-device system designed to collect PNT […] More

  • US Navy, Canada’s Defense Dept Ink Blackjack UAS Sale Agreement
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    US Navy, Canada’s Defense Dept Ink Blackjack UAS Sale Agreement

    The U.S. Navy has signed an agreement with Canada’s defense department to establish the first-ever foreign military sales transaction for the RQ-21A Blackjack unmanned air system. The Navy and Marine Corps Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft Systems Program Office plans to deliver one Blackjack UAS system to Canada’s army in 2017, the Navy said Monday. Marine Corps Col. Eldon Metzger, PMA-263 […] More

  • ORNL’s Trim & Drill Tool for Boeing Sets Guinness World Record for Largest 3D-Printed Item
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    ORNL’s Trim & Drill Tool for Boeing Sets Guinness World Record for Largest 3D-Printed Item

    A trim-and-drill tool created by researchers at the Energy Department‘s Oak Ridge National Laboratory for Boeing has set a new Guinness World Record as the largest solid three-dimensionally printed item. ORNL said Monday the laboratory worked over 30 hours to print the tool that is 17.5 feet long, 5.5 feet wide and 1.5 feet tall with a weight of approximately 1,650 pounds. Boeing will use the trim […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls to Design Navy’s Future LXR Amphibious Ship; Brian Cuccias Comments
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    Huntington Ingalls to Design Navy’s Future LXR Amphibious Ship; Brian Cuccias Comments

    Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Ingalls shipbuilding division has secured a potential $13.7 million contract to provide design services for the U.S. Navy‘s LX(R) amphibious warfare ship replacement effort. HII said Tuesday LX(R) will replace the military branch’s Harpers Ferry– and Whidbey Island-class dock landing ships and use the same hull design as the San Antonio-class amphibious transport docks. Brian Cuccias, Ingalls Shipbuilding president, said the […] More