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  • HPE’s Judith Douglas Appointed Vice Chair of ACT-IAC Institute for Innovation Advisory Board
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    HPE’s Judith Douglas Appointed Vice Chair of ACT-IAC Institute for Innovation Advisory Board

    The American Council for Technology – Industry Advisory Council has appointed Judith Douglas, a client industry executive at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, as vice chair of the council’s Institute for Innovation Advisory Board. The institute seeks to utilize thought leadership in information technology to support government missions, as well as oversee projects designed to address issues through government and […] More

  • DHS Seeks Academic Institution to Lead New CoE for Homeland Security Quantitative Analysis
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    DHS Seeks Academic Institution to Lead New CoE for Homeland Security Quantitative Analysis

    The Department of Homeland Security plans to provide $40 million in funds to an institution that will lead a new center of excellence for homeland security quantitative analysis. DHS said Monday the funds will cover 10 years of CoE operations under a cooperative agreement with the lead institution. The department added it also seeks potential partners from academia, industry, federally funded research […] More

  • SimplyHome to Develop Voice Command Platform for Assistive Tech Under VA Grant
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    SimplyHome to Develop Voice Command Platform for Assistive Tech Under VA Grant

    SimplyHome has received a $200,000 grant from the Department of Veterans Affairs to develop a technology platform for voice commands to control assistive technology under the Specially Adapted Housing Assistive Technology program. The company said Tuesday the platform will work to enable physically disabled veterans and service members to use voice commands to trigger pre-customized actions on the technologies installed […] More

  • Falcon Group Taps Smiths Detection to Supply Egypt Airport Security Systems
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    Falcon Group Taps Smiths Detection to Supply Egypt Airport Security Systems

    Smiths Detection has secured $24.8 million in contracts from Egyptian security company Falcon Group to provide advanced detection systems for installation at  airports across Egypt. Smiths Detection said Wednesday it will provide HI-SCAN 6040aTiX, HI-SCAN 6040-2is HR, HI-SCAN 100100T-2is, HI-SCAN 145180-2is and IONSCAN 600 platforms for Egyptian airport security personnel to detect explosives at passenger checkpoints. The contract also covers the provision of CIP-300 and […] More

  • Hill Associates Secures DOJ Enterprise IT Support Contract Option
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    Hill Associates Secures DOJ Enterprise IT Support Contract Option

    The Justice Department has exercised the first option under a previously awarded five-year, $65 million task order to Hill Associates Corporation for information technology management and technical support services to DOJ’s Office of the Chief Information Officer. Hill Associates said Tuesday it will continue to help the department manage wide area network, voice modernization and network infrastructure projects. The company […] More

  • Force Protection Video to Supply Body Camera Kits to US Forest Service
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    Force Protection Video to Supply Body Camera Kits to US Forest Service

    Force Protection Video Equipment has secured an order from the U.S. Forest Service for LE50 high-definition body camera kits built on Ambarella chip sets. Force Protection Video said Tuesday LE50 is designed to provide 10 hours of 1080-pixel record time or 12 hours of 720p recording, as well as 50 hours of standby time with 32 gigabytes of internal storage. The camera kits […] More

  • Jacobs Chosen for UK Defense Land Project Requirements Evaluation Contract; Alan Seywright Comments
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    Jacobs Chosen for UK Defense Land Project Requirements Evaluation Contract; Alan Seywright Comments

    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 to Fund 7 Nanophotonics, Nanomaterials Research Projects at USC
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    Northrop to Fund 7 Nanophotonics, Nanomaterials Research Projects at USC

    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 Prepares AF Polar Region Satcom System for System Acceptance Test
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    Northrop Prepares AF Polar Region Satcom System for System Acceptance Test

    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, General Dynamics Achieve Pressure Hull Completion Milestone for Virginia-Class ‘Indiana’ Submarine
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    Huntington Ingalls, General Dynamics Achieve Pressure Hull Completion Milestone for Virginia-Class ‘Indiana’ Submarine

    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

  • HII-Built ‘Munro’ National Security Cutter Completes Builder’s Sea Trials
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    HII-Built ‘Munro’ National Security Cutter Completes Builder’s Sea Trials

    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

  • IARPA to Host Data Retrieval Tech Proposers Day
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    IARPA to Host Data Retrieval Tech Proposers Day

    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