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  • IBM Seeks to Address Community Health Challenges Through New Program
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    IBM Seeks to Address Community Health Challenges Through New Program

    IBM has introduced a program that aims to help communities address primary care concerns, shortage in medical personnel and other healthcare challenges through the adoption of analytics, artificial intelligence and other cognitive technology platforms. Ginni Rometty, IBM chairman, president and CEO, unveiled the IBM Health Corps program at the 13th Annual World Health Care Congress Tuesday […] More

  • CACI to Offer IT Modernization Support Through VA T4NG Contract; Ken Asbury Comments
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    CACI to Offer IT Modernization Support Through VA T4NG Contract; Ken Asbury Comments

    CACI International seeks to support the Department of Veterans Affairs‘ information technology modernization efforts under the 10-year, $22.3 billion Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology Next Generation multiple-award contract. The company said Wednesday the 10-year contract aims to support a VA-wide total IT modernization program and represents work as part of its health market portfolio. CACI added it will offer enterprise IT network support, […] More

  • Biff Lyons: Parsons Extends Missile Defense Tech Integration Support for MDA
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    Biff Lyons: Parsons Extends Missile Defense Tech Integration Support for MDA

    Parsons aims to help the Missile Defense Agency implement and transition all three elements of the Ballistic Missile Defense System into U.S. military organizations as part of a five-year, $60 million contract the company won in late March. “This contract is a natural extension of the work we have been performing for the MDA for decades,” Biff Lyons, executive vice president […] More

  • Russ Matijevich, Rob Rainhart Take VP Roles at HawkEye 360; John Serafini Comments
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    Russ Matijevich, Rob Rainhart Take VP Roles at HawkEye 360; John Serafini Comments

    Russ Matijevich and Rob Rainhart have joined small satellite developer HawkEye 360 as vice presidents of the company’s sales and engineering divisions, respectively. Matijevich, a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel, will be responsible for the company’s business and product development activities, HawkEye 360 said Wednesday. Rainhart will lead the company’s technical team to design and […] More

  • Noblis Among 2016 SECAF Small Business Partner of the Year Award Finalists
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    Noblis Among 2016 SECAF Small Business Partner of the Year Award Finalists

    Falls Church, Virginia-based nonprofit research organization Noblis has been named a finalist for the 2016 edition of the Small and Emerging Contractors Advisory Forum awards. SECAF has listed the nonprofit organization among the top finalists for its small business partner of the year award bestowed upon government contractors and industry players reliant on small businesses, Noblis said […] More

  • Research and Markets: Healthcare IoT Security Market to Reach 39.44% CAGR by 2022
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    Research and Markets: Healthcare IoT Security Market to Reach 39.44% CAGR by 2022

    Research and Markets has released a new report that forecasts a 39.44% compound annual growth rate for the global healthcare Internet of Things security market from 2016 through 2022. The “Global Healthcare IOT Security Market: Focus on Solutions, Services, and Geography – Estimation & Forecast, 2016-2022” estimates the market reached $4.74 billion in 2015 and will […] More

  • Cisco’s Peter Romness Pushes for More Comprehensive Authentication to Support Common Access Cards
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    Cisco’s Peter Romness Pushes for More Comprehensive Authentication to Support Common Access Cards

    Peter Romness, cybersecurity programs lead for Cisco Systems’ U.S. public sector group, believes a more comprehensive authentication mechanism is needed to fend off sophisticated threats, C4ISR & Networks reported Monday. Romness said authentication must cover more than just a person’s identity, John Edwards and Eve Keiser report. “We need to know who the user is, where […] More

  • Lockheed ‘Enhanced Laser Guided Training Round’ Delivery Reaches 150,000 Mark
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    Lockheed ‘Enhanced Laser Guided Training Round’ Delivery Reaches 150,000 Mark

    Lockheed Martin has sent out its 150,000th delivery of its live-fire laser-guided bomb training units for U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps and other international military customers. The Enhanced Laser Guided Training Round works to replicate the Paveway II laser-guided weapon systems and aid users to operate LGB capabilities while the tactical weapons inventory stays preserved, Lockheed said Monday. Joe […] More

  • ManTech Receives DoD Intell Operations Support Task Order Under GSA OASIS Vehicle
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    ManTech Receives DoD Intell Operations Support Task Order Under GSA OASIS Vehicle

    ManTech International has been awarded a potential five-year, $33 million task order by a U.S. Defense Department organization to provide systems engineering, technical assessment and subject matter support for intelligence operations. The company said Tuesday it received the firm-fixed-price task order through the General Services Administration’s One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services contract vehicle. DoD’s Battlefield Information Collection and Exploitation Systems program office coordinates with […] More

  • ULA, Bigelow Aerospace to Collaborate on Habitable Volume Devt; Robert Bigelow, Tory Bruno Comment
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    ULA, Bigelow Aerospace to Collaborate on Habitable Volume Devt; Robert Bigelow, Tory Bruno Comment

    United Launch Alliance and Bigelow Aerospace have formed a partnership to build and launch habitable volumes into low Earth orbit in an effort to support research efforts in space. Bigelow Aerospace plans to integrate the habitable volumes with the B330 expandable module and launch the module onboard the Boeing–Lockheed Martin joint venture ULA’s Atlas V […] More

  • USAF Performs Qualification Test on Raytheon’s GPS OCX Launch, Checkout System
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    USAF Performs Qualification Test on Raytheon’s GPS OCX Launch, Checkout System

    Raytheon and the U.S. Air Force have conducted an initial qualification test on a ground-based satellite launch-and-checkout platform the company has built as part of the GPS Next-Generation Operational Control System. The company said Tuesday the LCS system is designed to help the military service manage the launch and early-orbit checkout phases of GPS III satellites. The Air Force tested the platform in […] More

  • MorphoTrust Identity Verification Systems Get DHS SAFETY Act Certification
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    MorphoTrust Identity Verification Systems Get DHS SAFETY Act Certification

    MorphoTrust USA has achieved the Department of Homeland Security‘s SAFETY Act Certification on two of the company’s identity verification platforms: Universal Enrollment Services and Automated Biometric Identification System. The company said Tuesday the certification authorizes UES and ABIS as anti-terrorism systems for use by DHS component agencies. UES is deployed across 360 MorphoTrust IdentoGO centers under the Transportation Security Administration‘s […] More