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  • DARPA to Seek Industry Participants for Neuroplasticity Learning Research Program
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    DARPA to Seek Industry Participants for Neuroplasticity Learning Research Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency plans to enlist scientific professionals to help explore how peripheral nerves of the human body may facilitate cognitive learning. DARPA said Wednesday its Targeted Neuroplasticity Training project aims to develop a technology platform that can help accelerate extensive trainings across the Defense Department. “Recent research has shown that stimulation of certain peripheral nerves, easily and […] More

  • ECS Federal Wins Spot on $50B Alliant IT Contract; George Wilson Comments
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    ECS Federal Wins Spot on $50B Alliant IT Contract; George Wilson Comments

    ECS Federal has won a spot in the large business category of the $50 billion General Services Administration Alliant governmentwide acquisition contract for information technology services. The company will offer its IT services to the Defense Department and other federal users under the contract, ECS Federal said Wednesday. “A portfolio of flexible, governmentwide and agency-specific full […] More

  • Raytheon Develops New Software for Weapons Integration on Legacy Aircraft
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    Raytheon Develops New Software for Weapons Integration on Legacy Aircraft

    Raytheon has unveiled a software system that works to convert legacy weapons interfaces to universal armament interface message sets and link MIL-STD-1760 and the Miniature Munition Store Interface. Envoy, previously called the Interface Bridge, was developed in an effort to create a time- and cost-efficient integration system for new weapons onto legacy aircraft, Raytheon said Wednesday. Raytheon added […] More

  • Iron Mountain to Buy Power from NJR Wind Farm; Mark Kidd Comments
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    Iron Mountain to Buy Power from NJR Wind Farm; Mark Kidd Comments

    Iron Mountain has agreed to procure energy from a new wind farm in Ringer Hill, Pennsylvania, to help address current electricity requirements of the information technology firm’s facilities in the mid-Atlantic region. Iron Mountain said Tuesday it aims to save up to $500,000 annually through a 15-year wind power purchase agreement the company signed with New Jersey […] More

  • Cyphort-Ponemon Study: 34% of Senior Execs Unaware of Their Firms’ Cybersecurity Challenges
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    Cyphort-Ponemon Study: 34% of Senior Execs Unaware of Their Firms’ Cybersecurity Challenges

    A Cyphort-commissioned survey indicates about 34 percent of C-level corporate executives lack awareness about cyber threats to their companies’ information technology systems. Ponemon Institute polled 597 IT leaders across the U.S. private sector for Cyphort’s “State of Malware Detection & Prevention” report and found that 39 percent of respondents said their firms do not have intelligence data they can use to convince […] More

  • DARPA to Hold Proposers, Information Days on Tech Dev’t Program for Dismounted Squads
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    DARPA to Hold Proposers, Information Days on Tech Dev’t Program for Dismounted Squads

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will conduct Information Days from March 29 to 30 and a Proposers Day on April 22 to discuss the Squad X Core Technologies program with potential contractors. DARPA said Tuesday the SXCT initiative seeks to develop portable, integrated platforms designed to provide situational awareness functions for dismounted troops. The systems will also work to […] More

  • QTS to Support Y2Fox Gov’t Business Expansion With VMware Cloud Platform
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    QTS to Support Y2Fox Gov’t Business Expansion With VMware Cloud Platform

    Y2Fox Data Solutions has selected QTS Realty Trust to provide a FedRAMP-compliant cloud platform that works to help meet the requirements of government customers and expand Y2Fox’s business in the public sector. QTS said Wednesday it will support the deployment of Y2Fox’ production environment on the FedRAMP-compliant VMware vCloud Government Service built on the VMware vSphere platform. “The […] More

  • Cisco’s Data Center Mgmt Platforms Available on Avnet’s GSA Schedule
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    Cisco’s Data Center Mgmt Platforms Available on Avnet’s GSA Schedule

    Avnet Government Solutions has added Cisco‘s portfolio of computing, storage and networking technologies for data centers to its General Services Administration schedule contract. Avnet said Wednesday the company and its partner resellers can now offer agencies Cisco platforms designed to manage information technology applications, virtual machines and cloud-based systems. Cisco and Avnet have partnered on multiple data center offerings over the […] More

  • Lockheed-Raytheon JV Receives Defense Sec’s Performance-Based Logistics Award for Javelin Missile
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    Lockheed-Raytheon JV Receives Defense Sec’s Performance-Based Logistics Award for Javelin Missile

    A joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Raytheon has won a system-level support award from the Office of the Defense Secretary in recognition of the JV’s work on the Javelin missile program. The Javelin Joint Venture accepted the performance-based logistics award with the U.S. Army’s close combat weapon systems project office that served as its partner on the weapon […] More

  • Lockheed and Air Force Named Aviation Week Laureate Awardee for Auto ACAS
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    Lockheed and Air Force Named Aviation Week Laureate Awardee for Auto ACAS

    Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Air Force-built Automated Air Collision Avoidance System has won Aviation Week’s Laureate Award. The team composed of the office of the Under Secretary of Defense Personnel and Readiness, Air Force Research Laboratory, NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center, Air Force Test Center and Lockheed Martin Skunk Works developed Auto ACAS in an effort to […] More

  • Robert Scott Joins Grant Thornton as National Advisory Services Leader
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    Robert Scott Joins Grant Thornton as National Advisory Services Leader

    Robert Scott has been appointed as national advisory services leader of Grant Thornton where he will oversee the business line’s operations. Grant Thornton said Monday Scott joins the company from Toronto-based boutique advisory firm Ember Advisory which he founded and brings with him 25 years of experience in advisory and technology. “We are pleased to have Rob join the Senior […] More

  • DHS Federal Protective Service Signs X-Ray Inspection Tech Deal With Smiths Detection
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    DHS Federal Protective Service Signs X-Ray Inspection Tech Deal With Smiths Detection

    Smiths Detection has signed a five-year, $65 million deal with the Department of Homeland Security‘s Federal Protective Service to provide x-ray inspection systems in government buildings across the U.S. FPS will use the x-ray systems to detect potential threats at more than 9,000 government facilities under its responsibility, the company said Wednesday. SDI aims to complete deliveries and installations of the x-ray systems by 2021 and […] More