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  • CenturyLink Signs Up for DOE’s Better Buildings Initiative; David Meredith Comments
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    CenturyLink Signs Up for DOE’s Better Buildings Initiative; David Meredith Comments

    CenturyLink has joined an Energy Department-run program meant to encourage organizations to reduce energy consumption through technology investments and sharing of best practices. The company said Wednesday it aims to cut non-information technology energy use at the company’s U.S.-based data centers by up to 25 percent through 2023 as a program partner under the DOE’s Better Buildings Challenge. “This initiative aligns with CenturyLink’s ongoing efforts to continually improve […] More

  • Swedish Defense Material Administration Picks Saab for Anti-Submarine Warfare Training
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    Swedish Defense Material Administration Picks Saab for Anti-Submarine Warfare Training

    Sweden’s defense material administration has placed an order to Saab for anti-submarine warfare training and the AUV62-AT autonomous underwater vehicle to support the Swedish armed forces’ underwater operations. Saab will provide the AUV62-AT with ASW training configuration and additional support and maintenance to the client from 2016 to 2019, the company said Wednesday. Anne-Marie Vosu, Saab’s underwater systems […] More

  • Level 3 Receives 3-Year Extension to GSA Networx Enterprise Contract
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    Level 3 Receives 3-Year Extension to GSA Networx Enterprise Contract

    Level 3 Communications will continue to provide internet, virtual private network and cloud services to federal agencies as part of a three-year extension to its Networx Enterprise contract with the General Services Administration. GSA extended the company’s Networx Enterprise contract, which is scheduled to expire in May 2017, through May 2020 in order to provide […] More

  • ASRC Federal Subsidiary Lands NASA Workforce Training Support Contract
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    ASRC Federal Subsidiary Lands NASA Workforce Training Support Contract

    NASA has awarded a five-year, $21 million contract to an ASRC Federal subsidiary for support services to the space agency’s leadership training initiatives. ASRC Federal Data Solutions will work to help NASA develop curriculum and knowledge sharing services for the agency’s efforts to develop and train its technical workforce, ASRC Federal said Tuesday. The Academy of Program/Project and Engineering […] More

  • Lockheed Extends Avcorp’s Composite F-35 Panels Fabrication Contract
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    Lockheed Extends Avcorp’s Composite F-35 Panels Fabrication Contract

    Avcorp Industries has received a contract from Lockheed Martin to continue to manufacture composite wing skin, nacelle and body access panels for the F-35 program. The contract will extend Avcorp’s work on composite F-35 panels at a company facility in Gardenia, California, through 2020, Avcorp said Tuesday. Lockheed awarded Avcorp a firm order in mid-April to provide paint preparation and installation services […] More

  • DLA Picks CACI for Defense Agencies Initiative Configuration, Compliance Mgmt Support Contract
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    DLA Picks CACI for Defense Agencies Initiative Configuration, Compliance Mgmt Support Contract

    The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded CACI International a potential 39-month, $36 million contract to provide compliance and configuration management support to federal civilian agencies in support of the Defense Agencies Initiative. The contract has an initial base period worth $11 million and includes two one-year options with an additional three-month transition-out option period, the Defense Department said Tuesday. […] More

  • Orbital ATK Tests Antares Rocket’s Updated First Stage Propulsion System
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    Orbital ATK Tests Antares Rocket’s Updated First Stage Propulsion System

    Orbital ATK has performed a hot-fire test on the updated first stage propulsion system of the Antares rocket with RD-181 main engines at Virginia Space’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport. NASA said Wednesday the test sought to assess the performance of the integrated first stage — including new engines, modified Stage 1 core, avionics, thrust vector control and pad fueling systems — in an operational environment. The Antares engineering […] More

  • Sikorsky Completes Phase 1, Begins Phase 2 of DARPA Aircraft Automation Program
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    Sikorsky Completes Phase 1, Begins Phase 2 of DARPA Aircraft Automation Program

    Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary has completed Phase 1 of a previously awarded $8 million Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency contract under the agency’s Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System program. Lockheed said Tuesday Sikorsky has demonstrated its ALIAS system through a 30-mile autonomous flight with the use of a tablet device to operate a Sikorsky S-76 commercial helicopter. The designated Sikorsky […] More

  • NASA Sets Johnson Center Mission Systems Operations Draft RFP Timeline
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    NASA Sets Johnson Center Mission Systems Operations Draft RFP Timeline

    NASA has detailed its plans to seek industry feedback for a future contract to support mission systems operations at the space agency’s Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston. The center is looking for sources to provide services for mission control center systems, training systems, space vehicle mockup facility and flight operations directorate mission systems environments, according to a presolicitation notice issued […] More

  • Cubic Subsidiary Unveils 2 Mobile Virtualization Servers; Mike Barthlow Comments
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    Cubic Subsidiary Unveils 2 Mobile Virtualization Servers; Mike Barthlow Comments

    A Cubic Corp. subsidiary has rolled out two virtualization servers designed to operate in space-constrained, rugged or tactical environments. DTECH Labs‘ new Mobile Modular Micro-Secure Enclave servers M3-SE-VSVR-P and M3-SE-VSAN-P are built to support hyper-converged infrastructure and multiple small-form-factor virtual machines, Cubic said Wednesday. Mike Barthlow, vice president of secure networking at Cubic’s global defense segment, said DTECH developed the mobile servers to help organizations address mission requirements. M3-SE-VSVR-P […] More

  • Sikorsky Receives $85M FMS Contract Modification From Army for Black Hawk Retrofitting
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    Sikorsky Receives $85M FMS Contract Modification From Army for Black Hawk Retrofitting

    Sikorsky Aircraft, a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin, has received an $85 million modification to a foreign military sale contract from the U.S. Army to restore Mexico’s UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters to full operations. Sikorsky will conduct the retrofitting of the helicopters in West Palm Beach, Florida, with a planned end date of April 2019, the Defense Department said Tuesday. The Army […] More

  • Ephesoft Gets In-Q-Tel Investment to Offer Doc Analytics Platform to Intelligence Community
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    Ephesoft Gets In-Q-Tel Investment to Offer Doc Analytics Platform to Intelligence Community

    Ephesoft and In-Q-Tel have formed a strategic alliance to offer a document analysis platform to the U.S. intelligence community. IQT invested in Ephesoft for the deployment of Ephesoft Universe, which is designed to help organizations utilize unstructured data using the open source Apache Spark data loading technology and Hadoop to cluster multiple PCs, Ephesoft said Tuesday. George Hoyem, an investments partner at […] More