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Orbital ATK has completed a series of tests on a hypersonic engine combustor developed through a 3D printing process the company calls “powder bed fusion.” The company subjected the combustor to propulsion wind tunnel tests and extreme temperature flight tests for a period of 20 days at NASA’s Langley Research Center, Orbital ATK said Monday. “This […] More
The research subsidiary of Vencore has been awarded a $3.7 million contract to develop cryptographic obfuscation techniques for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Vencore Labs will work with the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Raytheon‘s BBN Technologies subsidiary to create program obfuscation methods designed to protect software from reverse engineering attacks under DARPA’s SafeWare program, Vencore said Friday. […] More
NCR has been selected to help build a commerce platform for the Defense Commissary Agency to drive customer experience across the agency’s global network of military commissaries. DeCA plans to begin deployment of the company’s Retail ONE omnichannel retailing hub at the agency later this year, NCR said Monday. Retail One will work to integrate the agency’s store and sales channel management and back office […] More
SOS International has introduced a new medical support division chartered to deliver medical services to the U.S. government and oil, gas and mining companies. The new SOSi division will launch advanced telemedicine services designed to help staff gain access to medical expertise. The company said Dec. 15 its operations and life-support services to the U.S. military based […] More
DynCorp International has secured a potential five-year, $59.4 million contract to continue to provide operation and maintenance support for the aviation program of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. The contract contains a base period of two years and three option years and covers support for 52 CAL Fire planes used to control wildfires […] More
Technical and Project Engineering has received a four-year, $28.7 million contract to provide live, virtual and simulation training platforms to the U.S. Marine Corps. TAPE will perform systems engineering, acquisition and financial management, modeling, test planning, logistics and instrumentation development under the contract, the company said Friday. “Supporting [Marine Corps Systems Command’s program manager training systems] […] More
CAE and a Canadian research agency have signed a licensing agreement for the Montreal-based company to market and distribute simulation technology designed for endoscopic and cranial brain surgery training programs. The National Research Council of Canada granted CAE exclusive global marketing rights to NeuroVR simulator and will collaborate with CAE’s healthcare business to create new training modules for neurosurgeons, […] More
Northrop Grumman has awarded CPI Aerostructures a potential $30 million contract to supply structural kits and related components for integration with the outer wing panels of Northrop-built E-2D Advanced Hawkeye planes. The contract also covers supply chain management, parts source selection and manufacturing engineering support services for Northrop, CPI Aerostructures said Thursday. Northrop will build four […] More
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity is soliciting ideas to apply neural information processing methods for the next-generation design of computers. IARPA specifically encouraged computer scientists and neuroscientists in a FedBizOpps notice published Jan. 6 to submit input on the potential role of spike-based neuronal models and sparse codes in computing technology. The agency also requested information about the human brain’s […] More
The U.S. Army and Charles Stark Draper Laboratory have collaborated to update and test an autonomous military platform designed to deliver supplies and equipment to U.S. troops who operate in remote or dangerous areas. Draper said Jan. 12 it helped the Army’s Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center demonstrate laboratory-built navigation software for the Joint Precision Airdrop System. The lab designed the software to employ […] More
NTT Communications has launched a new data center in Osaka, Japan as an addition to its Nexcenter data center service. The Osaka 5 Data Center located in Japan’s Kansai region consists of 11 floors and has systems designed to reduce the impact of earthquake and other natural disasters, such as seismic-isolation device and seismic damper, NTT Communications said Monday. […] More
Preston Dunlap, formerly a national security fellow in the National Security Analysis Department at Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory, has been appointed as national security analysis mission areas executive at APL. Dunlap was most recently responsible for APL’s initiatives and partnerships with the government to further the development of technology, exercises and operational planning, […] More
