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  • New Coalition of Retired Service Officials to Advocate for Changes to Gun Ownership Background Check Laws
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    New Coalition of Retired Service Officials to Advocate for Changes to Gun Ownership Background Check Laws

    Former Rep. Gabrielle “Gabby” Giffords and retired U.S. Navy Capt. Mark Kelly have formed a coalition of retired military officers that aims to urge political leaders to help prevent gun violence by addressing loopholes in laws and regulations on gun ownership-related background checks. Giffords and Kelly, also a retired NASA astronaut, named the members of the […] More

  • Reuters: Lockheed Considers Moving F-35 Work From Canada
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    Reuters: Lockheed Considers Moving F-35 Work From Canada

    Jack Crisler, Lockheed Martin vice president of business development for the F-35 program, said the company might move production work on the fighter jets away from Canadian companies amid uncertainty in Canada’s plans to buy F-35s, Reuters reported Friday. Andrea Shalal writes Crisler told Reuters the company might shift future F-35 work to other partner countries that placed firm […] More

  • General Dynamics Taps Permali to Supply Protective Materials for UK’s Future Ground Combat Vehicles
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    General Dynamics Taps Permali to Supply Protective Materials for UK’s Future Ground Combat Vehicles

    General Dynamics’ European Land Systems subsidiary has awarded a seven-year, $21.5 million contract to Permali Gloucester to provide armored materials needed for the production of the British army’s fighting vehicles, Business Mole reported Thursday. Beth Haven writes GDELS will incorporate the materials into 589 AJAX reconnaissance vehicles for the British army. Permali has invested approximately $428,000 in equipment the company […] More

  • MAG Aerospace, Logos Technologies Test Airborne Wide-Area Motion Imagery Sensor
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    MAG Aerospace, Logos Technologies Test Airborne Wide-Area Motion Imagery Sensor

    Logos Technologies and MAG Aerospace have conducted an airborne test on the RedKite wide-area motion imagery sensor in Carthage, North Carolina, to check the sensor’s video streaming functions. The sensor was aboard a Cessna 206 turboprop aircraft during the test and was able to send a live-streaming video to ground personnel’s Android tablets, Logos said Thursday. RedKite is […] More

  • Discover Technologies Gets Army Networthiness Certification for Mobility Platform
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    Discover Technologies Gets Army Networthiness Certification for Mobility Platform

    Discover Technologies has obtained a Certificate of Networthiness from the U.S. Army‘s Network Enterprise Technology Command for the company’s technology that works to help SharePoint users transmit data in low-bandwidth areas. Discover Access for SharePoint is designed to comply with Section 508 standards and WCAG 2.0 AA accessibility standards and seeks to accelerate the time it takes to load data from 2.6 minutes […] More

  • CGI to Assess DoD Healthcare Mgmt System Modernization Program; Pat Dougherty Comments
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    CGI to Assess DoD Healthcare Mgmt System Modernization Program; Pat Dougherty Comments

    CGI has received a task order to test and evaluate the Defense Department’s healthcare management system modernization initiative in an effort to help streamline healthcare delivery. The company said Friday it will work to verify the Joint Interoperability Test Command’s requirement for operational and interoperability testing of the DoD’s electronic health records system. The order contains one base year and two […] More

  • CorasCloud-HumanTouch Team Rolls Out Project Mgmt Tool at DISA
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    CorasCloud-HumanTouch Team Rolls Out Project Mgmt Tool at DISA

    CorasCloud has teamed up with HumanTouch to deploy a project and portfolio management platform to 1,100 users across the Defense Information Systems Agency within a three-month period. The CorasCloud-built CORASManage PPM platform is designed to help users manage performance, schedule and cost of programs and projects, CorasCloud said Wednesday. The platform, also known as the Management […] More

  • Orbital ATK Supports NASA Operation to Test SLS Booster Capacity at Extreme Temperatures
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    Orbital ATK Supports NASA Operation to Test SLS Booster Capacity at Extreme Temperatures

    An Orbital ATK facility has started to host a NASA operation that will analyze a test version booster’s capacity to perform at extreme temperatures. NASA said Friday three large air-conditioning units began to continuously pump air at 25 degrees Fahrenheit through June 28 in an effort to hit reach the 40-degree cold temperature target for the Space Launch System […] More

  • AT&T’s Chris Smith: Managed Services From Industry Can Help Agencies Handle Cyber Issues
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    AT&T’s Chris Smith: Managed Services From Industry Can Help Agencies Handle Cyber Issues

    Chris Smith, global public sector solutions vice president of technology for AT&T‘s global public sector business, has said federal agencies with limited information technology budgets should team up with industry partners to address cybersecurity issues, Channelnomics reported Wednesday. Scharon Harding writes the government allocated $80.4 billion on IT spending last year with cybersecurity concerns as a prime focus for many agencies. Smith […] More

  • Kratos to Help Update Pentagon’s Theater Medical Records System
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    Kratos to Help Update Pentagon’s Theater Medical Records System

    The Defense Department‘s Joint Operational Medicine Information Systems organization has awarded Kratos Defense & Security Solutions a $23 million contract to provide integration services for a multiservice theater and shipboard medical records system. Kratos will collaborate with Planned Systems International to modernize and maintain the Theater Medical Information Program-Joint infrastructure, Kratos said Friday. The two companies will also update information technology […] More

  • Steve Jurczyk: NASA Aims to Send Payloads to Mars Through SpaceX’s Red Dragon
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    Steve Jurczyk: NASA Aims to Send Payloads to Mars Through SpaceX’s Red Dragon

    NASA plans to collaborate with SpaceX to use the company’s Red Dragon unmanned spacecraft concept to send payloads designed for technology demonstrations to Mars, Space News reported Thursday. Steve Jurczyk, associate administrator for NASA’s space technology mission directorate, said at the Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference that potential payloads could include resource utilization-based platforms that could potentially turn water […] More

  • Army Taps Eaton to Help Modernize Fort Gordon Electrical Power Systems
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    Army Taps Eaton to Help Modernize Fort Gordon Electrical Power Systems

    The Army Corps of Engineers has awarded Eaton a $20 million task order to provide engineering services and power distribution and control equipment for an electrical infrastructure modernization project at Fort Gordon in Georgia. The power management company said Thursday it received the order through the U.S. Army‘s Utility and Monitoring Control Systems-IV contract vehicle. Eaton is one of the 13 companies that won positions on […] More