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  • USAID Deploys Agiloft’s FedRAMP-Compliant Business Process Software Platform
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    USAID Deploys Agiloft’s FedRAMP-Compliant Business Process Software Platform

    The U.S. Agency for International Development has deployed Agiloft‘s Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program-compliant business process software platform to support the agency’s workflow. The Agiloft platform utilizes code-free technology and custom configuration settings to facilitate business process agility and provide a system that is adaptable to federal standards like FedRAMP, Agiloft said Tuesday. Agiloft partner EliteBco developed the custom platform based […] More

  • Comtech Receives 1-Year DoD Managed Network Services Extension
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    Comtech Receives 1-Year DoD Managed Network Services Extension

    Comtech Telecommunications has received a $2 million order from the Defense Department to continue network services through May 2017. Stanton Sloane, Comtech president and CEO, said Tuesday that the company will support DoD’s mission critical operations through its managed network services. Comtech is a communications products, systems and services provider that works with both international commercial and government markets. More

  • Ball Aerospace to Design NASA Landsat-9 Cryocooler
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    Ball Aerospace to Design NASA Landsat-9 Cryocooler

    Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has received a $18.2 million contract to design, test and deliver a cryocooler for NASA’s Landsat-9 spacecraft. Ball Aerospace will build two stages of cooling materials into the Thermal Infrared Sensor-2 instrument Cryocooler, NASA said Tuesday. The first cooling stage will be for a layer of thermal shielding and the […] More

  • Orbital ATK to Subject Updated Antares Rocket to Initial Engine Test; Kurt Eberly Comments
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    Orbital ATK to Subject Updated Antares Rocket to Initial Engine Test; Kurt Eberly Comments

    Orbital ATK moved an updated version of the Antares rocket to Virginia Space’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport launch pad Thursday in preparation for the rocket’s first hot-fire engine test, Universe Today reported Monday. Ken Kremer writes Kurt Eberly, deputy program manager for Antares at Orbital ATK, said in an interview that the initial 30-second engine test of the […] More

  • Raytheon SeaRAM Missile Defense System Undergoes Navy Tests
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    Raytheon SeaRAM Missile Defense System Undergoes Navy Tests

    Raytheon and the U.S. Navy have evaluated the company’s anti-ship missile defense system in a series of test shots that simulated advanced threat scenarios. During the tests, the SeaRAM system worked to detect two inbound supersonic missiles and launch the Rolling Airframe Missile Block 2 guided missiles to intercept the targets, Raytheon said Tuesday. The Navy conducted the […] More

  • Siemens to Provide Traffic Management Platform to Seattle DOT
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    Siemens to Provide Traffic Management Platform to Seattle DOT

    The Department of Transportation in Seattle, Washington, has selected Siemens to provide a platform that works to manage traffic and reduce congestion through integration with traffic control centers, parking guidance systems and other third-party platforms. Seattle DOT will install Siemens’ Concert software to generate intelligence data in order to detect and facilitate response to traffic-related incidents […] More

  • Elbit Systems Picks Leonardo-Finmeccanica Radar for US Naval Test Pilot School
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    Elbit Systems Picks Leonardo-Finmeccanica Radar for US Naval Test Pilot School

    Elbit Systems‘ U.S. subsidiary has selected Leonardo-Finmeccanica to provide a radar system to support training at the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School in Patuxent River, Maryland. The school will use the Vixen 500E active electronically scanned array radar for student training operations aboard a C-26 aircraft, Leonardo-Finmeccanica said Friday. The radar is set for delivery in mid-2016 and will […] More

  • Meggitt Training Systems Receives Second Delivery Order for Engagement Skills Trainer II System
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    Meggitt Training Systems Receives Second Delivery Order for Engagement Skills Trainer II System

    The U.S. Army‘s program executive Office for simulation and training has awarded Meggitt Training Systems a new $15 million second delivery order for the local and international installation of the company’s Engagement Skill Trainer II system. The company’s open architecture system is designed to integrate with third-party and Meggitt’s own module that works through a tablet-based coaching application to allow trainers […] More

  • Lockheed Picks Anark Software to Produce 3D Technical Data Packages for Orion Spacecraft; Richard Smith Comments
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    Lockheed Picks Anark Software to Produce 3D Technical Data Packages for Orion Spacecraft; Richard Smith Comments

    Lockheed Martin has selected an Anark-built software that works to generate technical data packages in three-dimensional PDF formats in support of the former’s work on NASA’s Orion spacecraft. Lockheed’s space systems business will use Anark Core Server to produce and publish 3D PDF documents of design and engineering data stored in PTC‘s Windchill software for product data […] More

  • Parsons Lands $1.7B Dubai Wastewater Tunnel, Sewer Construction Contract
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    Parsons Lands $1.7B Dubai Wastewater Tunnel, Sewer Construction Contract

    Parsons has been awarded a $1.7 billion contract to construct two deep wastewater tunnels and link sewers for the city of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. The company will perform feasibility studies, preliminary design, tender preparation, program management of the construction phases and supervision of the pumping station construction, Parsons said Tuesday. The tunnels will […] More

  • By Light Secures Potential 10-Year DISA Contract for O&M Support
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    By Light Secures Potential 10-Year DISA Contract for O&M Support

    Veteran-owned small business By Light Professional IT Services has landed a contract from the Defense Information Systems Agency potentially worth $15 million for indefeasible right-of-use dark fiber, equipment and operations and maintenance support over 10 years. The Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization will allocate funding from 2015 and 2016 procurement appropriation for the one-year, $10 million base […] More

  • Army Taps CSRA Subsidiary for Biomedical Research Contract
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    Army Taps CSRA Subsidiary for Biomedical Research Contract

    CSRA subsidiary SRA International has won a potential five-year, $34.6 million contract to support biomedical research programs of the U.S. Army. The Defense Department said Tuesday SRA will perform work under the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract through May 16, 2021. The Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity received two bids for the procurement initiative via the Internet, DoD said. DoD noted the service […] More