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  • NASA Announces Winners of FY 2015 Small Business Industry Awards
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    NASA Announces Winners of FY 2015 Small Business Industry Awards

    NASA has named the winners of the Small Business Industry Awards for fiscal year 2015 at the spring 2016 NASA Industry Forum meeting held Tuesday. The space agency said Wednesday this year’s awards went to Dynetics, Arcata Associates, Teledyne Brown Engineering and the Hamilton Sundstrand Space Systems International and Mathematical Research Inc. partnership. NASA holds the SBIA program every fiscal year to recognize the […] More

  • Inmarsat Gets MSUA Gov’t Mobility Satcom Award for Global Xpress; Peter Hadinger Comments
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    Inmarsat Gets MSUA Gov’t Mobility Satcom Award for Global Xpress; Peter Hadinger Comments

    Inmarsat has received a Mobility Satellite Innovation Award from the Mobile Satellite Users Association in recognition of the company’s Global Xpress satellite communications constellation. Inmarsat accepted the 2016 Top Government Mobility Satcom Innovation award during MSUA’s inaugural awards ceremony at the four-day Satellite 2016 conference in Maryland, Inmarsat said Tuesday. Peter Hadinger, president of U.S. […] More

  • Bill Ross: General Dynamics Radios Aim to Secure Army’s Tactical Communications
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    Bill Ross: General Dynamics Radios Aim to Secure Army’s Tactical Communications

    General Dynamics will provide lightweight two-channel radio technology to the U.S. Army through the company’s position on a potential $12.7 billion contract that the military service awarded on Feb. 26. Bill Ross, a vice president at General Dynamics’ mission systems business, said Monday the company aims to help military personnel exchange and secure tactical communications with its an […] More

  • Accenture Federal Arm Plans 300 New Jobs at San Antonio Tech Center to House SAP HANA Hub
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    Accenture Federal Arm Plans 300 New Jobs at San Antonio Tech Center to House SAP HANA Hub

    Accenture‘s U.S. federal government subsidiary plans to hire up to 300 workers by the end of 2016 as the business works to expand its technology and innovation center in San Antonio, Texas. The San Antonio facility will also house an organization dedicated to SAP‘s HANA in-memory technology platform designed to help users apply analytics in functions such as logistics, […] More

  • JITC Evaluates Integrated Polycom-Genband Comms Tech Offering; Sean Berg Comments
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    JITC Evaluates Integrated Polycom-Genband Comms Tech Offering; Sean Berg Comments

    The Joint Interoperability Test Command has tested a unified communications system that comprises Polycom‘s suite of business media phones and a Genband application server. The companies now await a final certification from JITC to integrate their Local Session Controller technology into the Defense Department‘s communications network, Genband said Monday. “Public sector organizations are in need of a standards-based […] More

  • Raytheon Demos Standard Missile-6 Surface Target Engagement
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    Raytheon Demos Standard Missile-6 Surface Target Engagement

    Raytheon has conducted a flight test of Standard Missile-6 wherein the air defense missile engaged the decommissioned USS Reuben James, which served as a surface target for the test. The company said Monday the test aims to demonstrate the U.S. Navy‘s “distributed lethality” using ships placed in dispersed formation in an effort to enhance offensive strategy. During the flight […] More

  • iDirect Launches New Portfolio of Remotes & Defense Line Cards for Govt Customers
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    iDirect Launches New Portfolio of Remotes & Defense Line Cards for Govt Customers

    iDirect Government has unveiled its new portfolio of defense remotes and line cards that aims to deliver bandwidth efficiency and reduced footprint to government customers. The company said Monday the 9-Series remotes feature the Evolution 3.4 software and work to double the 8-Series’ capacity through extended frequency ranges. iDirect added the 950mp, 900 and 9350 remotes supports access to Wideband Global Satellites […] More

  • Autodesk to Offer Infrastructure Modeling Software Access via DoT’s ‘Smart City’ Competition
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    Autodesk to Offer Infrastructure Modeling Software Access via DoT’s ‘Smart City’ Competition

    The Transportation Department has partnered with Autodesk to offer Smart City Challenge finalists access to a building information modeling platform in an effort to help participating cities develop urban innovation plans, CityLab reported Monday. Eric Jaffe writes DOT has received ideas from more than 78 U.S. cities on how to address mobility and safety problems through technology and will announce five finalists at […] More

  • Intelsat General Secures Ku-Band Satellite Services Contract With Centcom
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    Intelsat General Secures Ku-Band Satellite Services Contract With Centcom

    U.S. Central Command has awarded an Intelsat subsidiary a contract to deliver Ku-band satellite services to support operations across Centcom’s areas of responsibility in North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia. Intelsat General will work to provide Centcom up to 288 megahertz of Ku-band connectivity via the subsidiary’s satellite communications technology, the company said Monday. Skot Butler, Intelsat General vice president of satellite networks and […] More

  • Rick Ambrose: Lockheed Eyes Reduced Costs Through 3D Printing, Shortened Satellite Devt Time
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    Rick Ambrose: Lockheed Eyes Reduced Costs Through 3D Printing, Shortened Satellite Devt Time

    Rick Ambrose, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin‘s space systems segment, has said the company has adopted 3D printing technology and works to accelerate satellite development time by 40 percent in an effort to reduce costs, Reuters reported Tuesday. Ambrose told Reuters reporter Andrea Shalal in an interview that he expects Lockheed to develop a capability that […] More

  • CSG to Help Idaho Develop RFP for Healthcare Analytics System; Andrea Danes Comments
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    CSG to Help Idaho Develop RFP for Healthcare Analytics System; Andrea Danes Comments

    CSG Government Solutions has secured a contract to help Idaho’s Department of Health and Welfare develop a request for proposal for the state’s Healthcare Analytics System. The department plans to deploy the Healthcare Analytics System in an effort to improve interconnectivity, analytics and information sharing between hospitals, healthcare insurance firms and private medical providers, CGS said […] More

  • Air Force Wants Industry Feedback on NORAD, Northcom IT Service Mgmt Draft RFP
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    Air Force Wants Industry Feedback on NORAD, Northcom IT Service Mgmt Draft RFP

    The U.S. Air Force has called on industry to submit comments on a draft request for proposals for information technology service management support to the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command. The future procurement is for services to manage, operate and maintain NORAD and Northcom’s classified and unclassified data, voice and video networks, the Air Force […] More