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  • Alfresco Software Named to AWS Public Sector Partner Program; Austin Adams Comments
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    Alfresco Software Named to AWS Public Sector Partner Program; Austin Adams Comments

    Alfresco Software has been added to Amazon Web Services‘ new Public Sector Partner Program in a move to develop and advance the former’s government sector business with AWS. The San Mateo, California-based open source technology contractor said Tuesday it was selected as a partner for its efforts to bolster its open source offerings for federal, education and non-profit clients […] More

  • KeyW Chosen for AWS Public Sector Partner Program; Doug Worthington Comments
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    KeyW Chosen for AWS Public Sector Partner Program; Doug Worthington Comments

    KeyW will join Amazon Web Services‘ Public Sector Partner Program to support the former’s information collection, processing, evaluation and dissemination offerings for the intelligence, cyber and counterterrorism sectors. The companies have previously partnered to transfer a specialized system from an intelligence community customer to the commercial AWS cloud platform, KeyW said Tuesday. Doug Worthington, vice president […] More

  • Parsons Chosen for I-69 Bridge Environmental Review, Preliminary Design Contract
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    Parsons Chosen for I-69 Bridge Environmental Review, Preliminary Design Contract

    Parsons has secured a contract from the Indiana Department of Transportation and the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet to provide environmental review and preliminary design services for an Interstate 69 bridge construction project. The company said Tuesday it will assess the feasibility and environmental impact of various routes for the I‑69 Ohio River Crossing project that will link the Robert D. […] More

  • Inmarsat’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch Talks Govt-Industry Relationship, Inmarsat 6 Satellite Fleet
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    Inmarsat’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch Talks Govt-Industry Relationship, Inmarsat 6 Satellite Fleet

    Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president for government strategy and policy at Inmarsat, has said she believes the relationship between the government and commercial sector “will continue to mature” under President-elect Donald Trump’s administration. Cowen-Hirsch told Space News staff writer Caleb Henry in an interview published Tuesday that the company sees a “greater geographically dispersed demand” for commercial satellite […] More

  • Iridium to Hire Some Boeing Employees in Satellite Partnership Restructuring Effort
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    Iridium to Hire Some Boeing Employees in Satellite Partnership Restructuring Effort

    Iridium will move to absorb the majority of Boeing‘s team of workers who provide operations and maintenance support to Iridium satellites beginning Jan. 3, 2017 as part of an insourcing agreement signed between the two companies. Both companies restructured their current partnership as Iridium prepares to launch and transition into the NEXT satellite broadband service, the satellite communications firm said Wednesday. Iridium will pay a […] More

  • CACI Joins AWS Public Sector Partner Network
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    CACI Joins AWS Public Sector Partner Network

    Amazon Web Services has included CACI International in a partner network that recognizes companies that utilize AWS practices to support missions of government, education and nonprofit customers. CACI said Wednesday it has been added to the AWS Public Sector Partner Program  because of the company’s efforts to deliver cloud-based platforms and services to clients with the use of AWS technology. The Arlington, […] More

  • NASA, Orbital ATK Enter Partnership to Build Commercial Space Robotic Assembly Infrastructure
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    NASA, Orbital ATK Enter Partnership to Build Commercial Space Robotic Assembly Infrastructure

    NASA‘s Space Technology Mission Directorate has forged a public-private partnership with Orbital ATK to address the agency’s robotic and human exploration goals through the establishment of a commercial space infrastructure. Orbital ATK said Tuesday the Commercial Infrastructure for Robotic Assembly and Services project aims to update technologies for in-orbit manufacturing and assembly of space platforms. The company will […] More

  • Cambridge Awarded DoD C5ISR Support Task Order; Russell Thurston Comments
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    Cambridge Awarded DoD C5ISR Support Task Order; Russell Thurston Comments

    Cambridge International Systems has secured a $19.3 million task order from the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic to support the Defense Department‘s command, control, communications, computers, combat systems, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems. The contract covers equipment and services associated with full system lifecycle support such as research, development, test, evaluation, production and fielding of interoperable C5ISR, information […] More

  • Leidos Starts Unmanned Surface Vessel Operational Test Under DARPA Program
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    Leidos Starts Unmanned Surface Vessel Operational Test Under DARPA Program

    Leidos has begun operational testing of an autonomous demonstration vessel the company developed through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel program. The company said Tuesday it commenced at-sea tests on Sea Hunter‘s autonomy system, sensors, mission control hardware and software off the coast of San Diego in California as a follow-on to performance trials conducted […] More

  • ACT I Lands Task Order for Air Force Acquisition Mgmt Services; Michael Niggel Comments
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    ACT I Lands Task Order for Air Force Acquisition Mgmt Services; Michael Niggel Comments

    Advanced Concepts and Technologies International has secured a five-year, $3 million task order to provide acquisition management services to the cyberspace superiority division at the U.S. Air Force Space Command headquarters. Michael Niggel, ACT I CEO, said in October the company will continue to support the AFSPC’s cyber priorities and help increase the military branch’s ability to secure infrastructure data nodes […] More

  • Enlighten IT Consulting to Continue Big Data Platform Development for DoD
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    Enlighten IT Consulting to Continue Big Data Platform Development for DoD

    Enlighten IT Consulting has secured a $40 million task order from the U.S. federal government for continued work on a cloud-based architecture that offers storage and retrieval capacity at a rate of more than one trillion records per second. The company said Tuesday the Big Data Platform is designed to ingest and store data from various Defense Department sensors that will be […] More