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  • Harris Delivers Comms, Connectivity Services to Support NASA Juno Mission on Jupiter
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    Harris Delivers Comms, Connectivity Services to Support NASA Juno Mission on Jupiter

    Harris has provided communications and monitoring connectivity to support the NASA mission to insert the Lockheed Martin-built Juno spacecraft into an elliptical polar orbit around Jupiter. Harris said Tuesday a team of more than 100 employees supported operations, maintenance and engineering work for the space agency and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Deep Space Network. “Harris and the DSN have been […] More

  • NASA Awards Distinguished Public Service Medal to Johns Hopkins APL Scientist Tom Krimigis
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    NASA Awards Distinguished Public Service Medal to Johns Hopkins APL Scientist Tom Krimigis

    NASA has awarded Tom Krimigis, a Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory veteran scientist, the space agency’s highest service honor in a ceremony held at NASA Ames Research Center in California. The NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal recognizes Krimigis’ work to support space exploration programs, John Hopkins APL said Friday. “We are incredibly proud of Tom and this […] More

  • OGSystems Hires Former NGA Source Operations Director John Goolgasian
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    OGSystems Hires Former NGA Source Operations Director John Goolgasian

    John Goolgasian, former National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency source operations and management director, has joined OGSystems as the company aims to further its geospatial analytics offerings. Goolgasian, who was also director of the Foundation GEOINT Group in Source, will serve as an associate partner at OGSystems, the company said Tuesday. “John has had a stellar career with the government and has […] More

  • Mark Fox Named Customer Affairs VP for Huntington Ingalls’ Newport News Shipbuilding Division
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    Mark Fox Named Customer Affairs VP for Huntington Ingalls’ Newport News Shipbuilding Division

    Mark Fox, a retired U.S. Navy vice admiral, has joined Huntington Ingalls Industries as corporate vice president of customer affairs at HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding division. He will succeed Evan “Marty” Chanik, also a retired Navy vice admiral who is scheduled to retire in October, in the role and will directly report to Mitch Waldman, […] More

  • Aerospace Corp Appoints Retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Edward Bolton as SVP
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    Aerospace Corp Appoints Retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Edward Bolton as SVP

    Aerospace Corporation has appointed Edward Bolton, a retired U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. and previous senior vice president of Aerospace Special Studies. to succeed Rand Fisher as systems planning, engineering and quality senior vice president. Bolton has been with the Air Force for 37 years and held a number of positions within the department, including deputy assistant secretary for […] More

  • WISeKey Aims to Help Secure Connected Devices Through Microsoft’s City Transformation Initiative
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    WISeKey Aims to Help Secure Connected Devices Through Microsoft’s City Transformation Initiative

    WISeKey has joined a Microsoft-led global initiative that aims to help connect government agencies, businesses and citizens with urban services through the use of technology. WISeKey said Monday it will provide an integrated object identity management and cybersecurity tool for cities to securely connect to the Azure cloud computing technology and other Microsoft-made platforms under the CityNext initiative. “Government employees and city infrastructure from traffic lights and […] More

  • Samsung-Intelligent Decisions Alliance to Supply Tablet Computers to Air Force; Joe Armstrong Comments
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    Samsung-Intelligent Decisions Alliance to Supply Tablet Computers to Air Force; Joe Armstrong Comments

    A team of Samsung Electronics and Intelligent Decisions has been awarded a contract to supply tablet computers to the U.S. Air Force’s bases worldwide after the handheld passed the military service’s hardware and software tests for flight line use. Air Force technicians will use the Galaxy Tab S2 device to access digital technical orders, manuals and parts databases to perform aircraft […] More

  • ViaSat to Provide Hardware, Software for Joint UHF SATCOM Network Integrated Control System
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    ViaSat to Provide Hardware, Software for Joint UHF SATCOM Network Integrated Control System

    The U.S. Navy has awarded ViaSat a potential 10-year, $48 million contract to supply hardware and software for the Joint Ultra-High Frequency Military Satellite Communications Network Integrated Control System. ViaSat provide engineering, technical services and ancillary hardware and software technologies to the UHF SATCOM’s channel controllers and user terminals under the contract, the Defense Department said Thursday. The contract contains a […] More

  • IARPA to Host Proposers Day For Individual Evaluation Sensor Tool Program
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    IARPA to Host Proposers Day For Individual Evaluation Sensor Tool Program

    The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity plans to hold a Proposers Day on Aug. in Washington to discuss a program to develop multimodal sensors IARPA wants to help assess individuals across a range of factors. IARPA said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday the event aims to answer questions on the Multimodal Objective Sensing to Assess Individuals with Context program that seeks to […] More

  • Lockheed-Built Juno Spacecraft Reaches Orbit Around Jupiter; Guy Beutelschies Comments
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    Lockheed-Built Juno Spacecraft Reaches Orbit Around Jupiter; Guy Beutelschies Comments

    NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Lockheed Martin‘s mission support area have worked together to operate and place the company-built Juno spacecraft into a large elliptical polar orbit around Jupiter. Lockheed said Monday the probe reached Jupiter Monday evening after a 1.76-billion-mile journey in the last five years. A team of engineers from the company and the agency sent final commands to […] More

  • InfoReliance Receives AWS Govt Competency Certification in 8 Customer Markets
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    InfoReliance Receives AWS Govt Competency Certification in 8 Customer Markets

    InfoReliance has received Amazon Web Services‘ AWS Government Competency certification in eight customer markets for compliance with AWS standards in workload and application deployment on the Amazon cloud platform. Fairfax, Virginia-based InfoReliance said Friday it utilizes best practices and lessons from various industries to support accelerated AWS adoption for customers. InfoReliance is an AWS audited managed service partner, advanced consulting partner and […] More

  • SRI International, Polish Agency Partner for Problem-Based Research Project
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    SRI International, Polish Agency Partner for Problem-Based Research Project

    SRI International and a Polish research-and-development agency have formed a partnership with the goal to foster technological innovation and establish a community of scientists and researchers in Poland. The Menlo Park, California-based nonprofit said Wednesday it will collaborate with Poland’s National Centre for Research and Development to design and carry out a series of challenges and an advanced research projects initiative. Leszek Grabarczyk, NCBR deputy director, […] More