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Jacobs Engineering Group has been selected to evaluate requirements for a U.K. defense ministry contract related to a land equipment project in the country. Jacobs said Wednesday it will support the service provision and transformation contract for the ministry’s strategic support supplier project that aims to make training and operations equipment available to the British navy, army […] More
Northrop Grumman will allot $500,000 to fund seven research projects to be conducted at the Northrop Grumman Institute of Nanophotonics and Nanomaterials at the University of Southern California for 2016. Northrop said Tuesday it worked with USC’s Viterbi School of Engineering to select the projects three months after the partnership inaugurated the institute. The funded research efforts focus on black phosphorus, nonlinear crystalline […] More
Northrop Grumman has helped deploy elements of a ground system that will work to provide satellite communications coverage for U.S. Air Force users in the North Polar region under a contract with the service branch. The company said Tuesday the Enhanced Polar System Control and Planning Segment is set to undergo system acceptance testing in 2017. Northrop delivered CAPS operations and test equipment hardware […] More
Huntington Ingalls Industries and General Dynamics‘ Electric Boat subsidiary have completed the pressure hull construction phase of a submarine development project for the U.S. Navy. HII said Tuesday the team has joined the hull sections of Indiana, the 16th Virginia-class submarine, to form a single watertight unit for the vessel scheduled for delivery to the Navy in the third quarter of 2017. “We […] More
Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ sixth National Security Cutter ship for the U.S. Coast Guard has completed the three-day builder’s sea trials held at the Gulf of Mexico. Munro underwent ship propulsion, electrical systems, anchor handling, small boat operations, damage control and combat systems tests as well as a four-hour, full-power propulsion run during the trial, HII said Tuesday. Derek Murphy, HII’s […] More
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity will hold a proposers’ day conference on Sept. 27 in Washington to brief interested organizations on a multilingual data collection system development program. IARPA said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Aug. 1 it will discuss the objectives of the agency’s Machine Translation for English Retrieval of Information in Any Language initiative and field questions […] More
The Department of Homeland Security currently explores startup-developed wearable technologies that work to support first responders through a business accelerator program of the DHS science and technology directorate. DHS said it seeks startup companies that can provide body-worn electronics, advanced sensors and gear-embedded voice and data communication technologies as part of the EMERGE 2016: Wearable Technology accelerator program. The department added the […] More
Hologic has received a one-year, $4.1 million contract from the Department of Health and Human Services to further develop a test that works to detect Zika virus in donated blood. The company’s Procleix Zika Virus Assay is designed to detect for up to seven days the presence of ribonucleic acid linked to the mosquito-borne virus […] More
Raytheon has secured a five-year, $9.1 million contract modification to provide engineering services for the U.S. Navy‘s multi-band satellite communications terminal. The Defense Department said Tuesday Raytheon’s space and airborne systems unit will perform work on the Navy Multiband Terminal program in Florida and Massachusetts through Aug. 8, 2021. The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command obligated $1.2 million […] More
Fortinet has entered into a cyber partnership agreement with South Korea’s internet and security agency to facilitate two-way exchange of threat intelligence data. The deal allows the both parties to jointly research and analyze web security incidents in South Korea as well as identify appropriate technology and methods to increase the country’s resilience to cyber attacks, Fortinet said Tuesday. “Public and private sector partnerships are critical to […] More
Anomali and In-Q-Tel have signed a technology development agreement to build cyber analytics offerings for the intelligence sector. IQT said Tuesday it also invested in Anomali through venture funding rounds to help further develop the latter’s Enterprise and ThreatStream threat intelligence platforms. George Hoyem, investment lead for enterprise IT at In-Q-Tel, said Anomali’s framework “offers the government a way to aggregate and rationalize […] More
ThreatConnect has partnered with SAP National Security Services to launch its threat intelligence platform based on SAP HANA analytic and in-memory database system. ThreatConnect CEO Adam Vincent said in a statement released Tuesday the company’s ThreatConnect platform that is built on SAP HANA aims to help security operations center staff perform analytics functions and increase computing […] More
