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  • CAE Discloses UAE Training Center Development, Simulator Contracts; Gene Colabatistto Comments
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    CAE Discloses UAE Training Center Development, Simulator Contracts; Gene Colabatistto Comments

    The United Arab Emirates has awarded CAE a set of contracts with a combined $111 million base value deliver helicopter simulators and develop a naval training center for the country’s joint aviation command and navy. CAE will design and develop a naval training center with ship simulation-based training suites and maritime aircraft sensor stations designed to conduct individual, team, chip and collective mission training, […] More

  • BAE Receives Navy Contract for Customized EO/IR Maritime Defense System
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    BAE Receives Navy Contract for Customized EO/IR Maritime Defense System

    BAE Systems‘ U.S. subsidiary has received a $3.9 million contract from the Office of Naval Research and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory to develop a custom variant of its maritime defense system to support ONR’s Combined Electro-optic/infrared Surveillance and Response System program. BAE Systems Inc. said Wednesday it will provide a variant of its Lock-on Naval Electro-optic/infrared Sensor […] More

  • Salient CRGT’s Laurence Rose: Govt Tech Firms Should Provide ‘Humanistic Management’ in Virtual Work Environment
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    Salient CRGT’s Laurence Rose: Govt Tech Firms Should Provide ‘Humanistic Management’ in Virtual Work Environment

    Salient CRGT’s Laurence Rose has discussed in his book “The Human Side of Virtual Work” methods and ideas on how government technology firms can implement their teleworking programs and ensure customer satisfaction in a virtual work environment. Rose, senior vice president of contracts and procurement at Salient CRGT, said Wednesday that companies should provide “humanistic management” amid limited […] More

  • USDOT Adds AT&T as Smart City Challenge Partner; Anthony Foxx Comments
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    USDOT Adds AT&T as Smart City Challenge Partner; Anthony Foxx Comments

    The Transportation Department has added AT&T as a strategic partner in the Smart City Challenge, a competition that seeks to develop an integrated city centered around data, technology and creativity. AT&T will provide the winning city roughly $1 million worth of hardware, products and services such as connectivity, IoT security consulting and  big data analytics support for traffic […] More

  • RSA Study: 75% of Gov’t, Commercial Orgs Face ‘Significant’ Cyber Risk Exposure
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    RSA Study: 75% of Gov’t, Commercial Orgs Face ‘Significant’ Cyber Risk Exposure

    A study conducted by EMC‘s security division RSA has found 75 percent of 878 respondent organizations across more than 24 industries worldwide believe they face a “significant” risk of exposure to cyber threats. RSA said Tuesday its second annual Cybersecurity Poverty Index study offered participants from 81 countries an opportunity to self-assess the maturity of their cybersecurity programs against a framework developed by […] More

  • Battelle Updates Hospital Care Performance Analytics Tool; Warren Strauss Comments
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    Battelle Updates Hospital Care Performance Analytics Tool; Warren Strauss Comments

    Battelle has updated its analytics software that works to help hospital networks track and analyze clinical quality metrics from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Version 2.2. of the WayFinder QI Dashboard is designed for administrators to assess within-hospital readmissions and monitor their facilities’ performance on the Center for Disease Control‘s National Healthcare Safety Network, Battelle said […] More

  • Denmark Takes in 3 Sikorsky Seahawk Multimission Helicopters
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    Denmark Takes in 3 Sikorsky Seahawk Multimission Helicopters

    The U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin have handed over an initial set of three Sikorsky-built MH-60R Seahawk helicopters to Denmark under a foreign military sales agreement. Lockheed said Wednesday Denmark’s unified armed forces will deploy the MH-60Rs to support maritime surveillance, anti surface warfare, force protection and utility transport, search-and-rescue, patrol and support operations across the country’s borders. Denmark ordered nine Seahawks under an FMS deal with the […] More

  • Raytheon’s GPS OCX System Passes Air Force Qualification Test, Design Review
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    Raytheon’s GPS OCX System Passes Air Force Qualification Test, Design Review

    Raytheon has passed a qualification test and design review for the Global Positioning System Next Generation Operational Control System the company is developing for the U.S. Air Force contract. The company said Thursday the GPS OCX Monitor Station Receiver Element met the requirements of an electromagnetic interference test with a 100 percent passing rate as well as a design review which approves transition […] More

  • NASA Taps Oblong Industries to Provide Proprietary Immersive Collaboration Platform
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    NASA Taps Oblong Industries to Provide Proprietary Immersive Collaboration Platform

    Los Angeles-based spatial operating environment developer Oblong Industries has landed a contract to supply its proprietary immersive collaboration offering across NASA‘s aeronautics division. Oblong Industries said Wednesday its Mezzanine platform works to connect collaborators in the same room or across multiple locations and give participants data and information from multiple sources to aid the decision-making process. “Our convictions are […] More

  • Parsons to Support Life Cycle Mgmt of MDA Facilities; Mary Ann Hopkins Comments
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    Parsons to Support Life Cycle Mgmt of MDA Facilities; Mary Ann Hopkins Comments

    Parsons has been awarded a contract to provide advisory and assistance services to the facilities, military construction, and environmental management directorate of the Missile Defense Agency. Parsons said Wednesday it will also support the agency’s European Phased Adaptive Approach site activation efforts in Romania, initial design work on the Long Range Discrimination Radar system and construction award activities in Poland. “Parsons recognizes the critical […] More

  • Rockwell Collins to Supply Parts, Equipment for Navy Electronic Warfare System
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    Rockwell Collins to Supply Parts, Equipment for Navy Electronic Warfare System

    Rockwell Collins has received a $24.9 million cost-plus-fixed-fee indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Navy to provide various equipment for the AN/ALQ-231 Intrepid Tiger Electronic Attack System. Rockwell Collins will deliver roughly 194 Quint Networking Technology radios and 379 hardware parts and perform 36,482 hours of incidental equipment modification services for the precision pods, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The […] More

  • Navy Taps Toyon Research Corp. to Provide Electronic Warfare Hardware, Engineering Services
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    Navy Taps Toyon Research Corp. to Provide Electronic Warfare Hardware, Engineering Services

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Toyon Research Corp. a potential five-year, $22.8 million contract to provide to produce AN/ALQ-231 Intrepid  Tiger II pod system hardware. Toyon will also provide AN/ALQ-231 incidental engineering and modification services for electronic warfare and attack communications jamming airborne and ground-based systems and laboratories, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division obligated […] More