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  • Mercury Systems Lands Follow-on Order for ISR Digital Signal Processing Subsystems
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    Mercury Systems Lands Follow-on Order for ISR Digital Signal Processing Subsystems

    Mercury Systems has received a $2.8 million follow-on order from a defense contractor to produce digital processing subsystems for an unmanned airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance program. The company booked the order in the fourth quarter of its 2016 fiscal year and is scheduled to deliver the subsystems in the company’s fiscal 2017 third quarter, Mercury Systems said Tuesday. Didier Thibaud, an executive vice president […] More

  • Raytheon to Hire 140-Plus Employees in Florida Under $1B DHS Cyber Contract
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    Raytheon to Hire 140-Plus Employees in Florida Under $1B DHS Cyber Contract

    Raytheon plans to recruit more than 140 employees in Pensacola, Florida, under a $1 billion cyber system support contract with the Department of Homeland Security, The Pulse reported Friday. Raytheon will conduct an open house in Pensacola to look for cybersecurity professionals, information technicians and systems engineers in support of the contract, Drew Buchanan writes. […] More

  • CACI to Support Centcom Counter Narco-Terrorism Efforts in Afghanistan; Ken Asbury Comments
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    CACI to Support Centcom Counter Narco-Terrorism Efforts in Afghanistan; Ken Asbury Comments

    CACI International has secured a multi-million task order contract under the U.S. Army‘s Rapid Response 3rd Generation contract vehicle for continued counter narco-terrorism support for Central Command forces in Afghanistan and other combatant commands. CACI said Monday it will seek to help protect U.S. soldiers, as well as establish and support CNT networks and infrastructure in areas including program management, advisement, […] More

  • Forbes: Roger Krone Kicks Off Town Hall Meetings Ahead of Leidos-Lockheed IS&GS Merger
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    Forbes: Roger Krone Kicks Off Town Hall Meetings Ahead of Leidos-Lockheed IS&GS Merger

    Roger Krone, chairman and CEO of Leidos, has begun to conduct town hall” meetings to brief approximately 16,000 employees of Lockheed Martin’s information systems and global solutions business about IS&GS’ impending merger with Leidos, Forbes reported Friday. Loren Thompson writes such efforts by Krone, an inductee into Executive Mosaic‘s Wash100 for 2016, aim to explain his company’s strategy behind […] More

  • Dan Allen: Serco to Update Ballistic Missile Early Warning Radar Tech at U.S. Air Base in Greenland
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    Dan Allen: Serco to Update Ballistic Missile Early Warning Radar Tech at U.S. Air Base in Greenland

    Serco‘s North American subsidiary has won a potential five-year, $38 million contract to modernize the high-altitude electromagnetic pulse protection of Ballistic Missile Early Warnings Systems at Thule Air Base in Greenland. Serco Inc. will apply a design-build-install-test approach to update the radar system’s HEMP protection for the U.S. Air Force Space Command, the company said Friday. Dan Allen, Serco  Inc. chairman and CEO, said the contract supports the […] More

  • Georgia Tech, ONR Develop AI Software for Robots; Marc Steinberg Comments
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    Georgia Tech, ONR Develop AI Software for Robots; Marc Steinberg Comments

    Researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology and the Office of Naval Research have developed an artificial intelligence software program the team designed to serve as a “human user manual” for robots. The U.S. Navy said Thursday Quixote will be used to teach robots how to read stories, learn acceptable behavior and ways to conduct itself in […] More

  • FDA OKs Emergency Use of Hologic’s Zika Virus Diagnostic Tool
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    FDA OKs Emergency Use of Hologic’s Zika Virus Diagnostic Tool

    Massachusetts-based medical technology developer Hologic has received emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration for a device the company developed to help clinicians detect Zika virus infections. Hologic said Friday its Aptima molecular diagnostic assay is designed for qualitative detection of ribonucleic acid from the mosquito-borne virus in human blood samples. The assay is based on the company’s Panther system that works to […] More

  • Evoqua to Help Navy Install Wastewater Treatment System at Jacksonville NAS
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    Evoqua to Help Navy Install Wastewater Treatment System at Jacksonville NAS

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Evoqua Water Technologies a five-year contract to provide wastewater treatment services to a naval air station located in Jacksonville, Florida. Evoqua will provide its Wastewater Ion Exchange technology for the service branch to  clean inorganic and metal compounds in industrial wastewater at Jacksonville Naval Air Station, the company said Friday. The company also aims to help the Navy comply with […] More

  • Calibre Enters Partnership With Triple-i for Veterans Affairs IT Services IDIQ
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    Calibre Enters Partnership With Triple-i for Veterans Affairs IT Services IDIQ

    Calibre has partnered with Information Innovators Inc. to offer a range of information technology and project management services under the Department of Veteran Affairs‘ Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology Next Generation contract vehicle. Alexandria, Virginia-based Calibre said Friday it will work to support Triple-i’s position as a prime contractor for the VA’s T4NG vehicle that covers work in areas […] More

  • OGSystems Unveils ‘Immersive Engineering’ Service at GEOINT Symposium
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    OGSystems Unveils ‘Immersive Engineering’ Service at GEOINT Symposium

    OGSystems conducted a mind mapping data collection exercise with a focus on the evolution of geospatial intelligence to unveil its new Immersive Engineering service at the May 2016 GEOINT Symposium in Orlando, Florida. Immersive Engineering works to integrate integrate commercial sector techniques with the attributes of Lean Startup, Visioneering, Scaled Agile Framework enterprise (SAFe) and human-centered design approaches, OGSystems said Friday. Omar […] More

  • Moov Registers as Official Govt Contractor, to Offer Agencies Patented Wearable Fitness Device
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    Moov Registers as Official Govt Contractor, to Offer Agencies Patented Wearable Fitness Device

    Mountain View, California-based consumer electronics company Moov has registered to become an official government contractor and will offer the company’s patented wearable fitness device in the public sector. The company said Friday its Moov device is built to coach users in running, cycling, swimming and cardio boxing exercises plus a 7-minute body weight circuit workout. “Having worked with the [Army Reserves], professional […] More

  • OPM Seeks Small Biz Partner to Support Federal Disability Recruitment Initiative
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    OPM Seeks Small Biz Partner to Support Federal Disability Recruitment Initiative

    The Office of Personnel Management seeks a small business that can help federal agencies  to recruit people with disabilities for government job opportunities. In a FedBizOpps solicitation posted Wednesday, OPM said it plans to award a potential three-year blanket purchase agreement for support services to the agency’s Disability Recruitment Initiative. The selected contractor will use government’s Schedule A Hiring Authority to find eligible disabled individuals for […] More