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  • HII Subsidiary Awarded Navy Logistics Support Contract
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    HII Subsidiary Awarded Navy Logistics Support Contract

    A subsidiary of Huntington Ingalls Industries will provide integrated logistics support to the U.S. Navy under a potential five-year, $36.7 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. Huntington Ingalls said Thursday AMSEC will support the Navy’s work to develop, maintain and manage hull, mechanical and electrical technical data. The contract also covers electronic publishing support, systems engineering, supply support, training and curriculum development work. AMSEC will perform work in California, Hawaii, Pennsylvania, […] More

  • Boeing-Lockheed JV Carries Out 100th Launch
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    Boeing-Lockheed JV Carries Out 100th Launch

    A United Launch Alliance-built rocket launched early Friday morning to mark the 100th mission carried out by the joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin, NASASpaceflight.com reported Friday. An Atlas V rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida to carry the Morelos-3 communications satellite into space, William Graham writes. The Atlas V contains an RL10 engine-powered Centaur upper stage, […] More

  • SAP, NTT Group Form Enterprise Cloud Partnership; Kevin Ichhpurani Comments
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    SAP, NTT Group Form Enterprise Cloud Partnership; Kevin Ichhpurani Comments

    SAP and NTT Group have extended their alliance to provide enterprise cloud services to customers. The partnership is intended to offer the joint NTT and Dimension Data cloud platform and NTT‘s information technology infrastructure services to customers in South Africa and the Asia-Pacific region, NTT said Thursday. “NTT Group provides SAP with a critical component of enterprise-grade cloud services […] More

  • Cubic Lands Air Force Combat Training Tool Contract; Bill Toti Comments
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    Cubic Lands Air Force Combat Training Tool Contract; Bill Toti Comments

    Cubic‘s global defense segment has been awarded a contract to build a live, virtual and constructive tool for the Air Force Research Laboratory’s 711th Human Performance Wing. Cubic said Thursday it will perform contract work on the LVC system intended for airborne combat training under the Secure LVC Advanced Training Environment Advanced Technology Demonstration program. AFRL’s […] More

  • Allegheny Opens Tysons Metro Center Headquarters; Arria Hines Comments
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    Allegheny Opens Tysons Metro Center Headquarters; Arria Hines Comments

    Allegheny Science & Technology has opened a Tysons Metro Center headquarters in an effort to respond to the growing customer needs in Washington. Allegheny leased the facility to serve as its National Capitol Regional base, where the company’s corporate business development, proposal and recruiting operations will be located, Allegheny said Wednesday. “It’s an exciting time for […] More

  • Gulu Gambhir: Leidos, Virginia Tech to Research Big Data Usage for Healthcare Field
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    Gulu Gambhir: Leidos, Virginia Tech to Research Big Data Usage for Healthcare Field

    Leidos has entered into a partnership with Virginia Tech for research on the use of big data from electronic health records to improve patient care and drive down healthcare costs. The company said Thursday the team will utilize technical data from healthcare providers to develop methods that address the sector’s challenges in terms of cost and the […] More

  • Raytheon Wraps Up Weather Data System Deployment; Dave Wajsgras Comments
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    Raytheon Wraps Up Weather Data System Deployment; Dave Wajsgras Comments

    Raytheon has completed the deployment of a weather data tool at over 140 offices of the U.S. National Weather Service across the country and several territories. The Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System II has visualization and data analysis tools that work to help forecasters predict the weather, Raytheon said Thursday. “The development and rollout of AWIPS […] More

  • Microsoft Expands ExpressRoute Service to Azure Gov’t Cloud Users
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    Microsoft Expands ExpressRoute Service to Azure Gov’t Cloud Users

    Microsoft has made its Azure ExpressRoute cloud integration service available to users of the software company’s Azure Government cloud platform. Yousef Khalidi, Azure networking engineer at Microsoft, wrote in a Microsoft blog post published Tuesday that Microsoft’s Azure ExpressRoute service is designed to establish private connectivity between on-premises data centers and Azure cloud computing platform without the […] More

  • Onvia: Data to Help Sales Strategy in State, Local & Education GovCon Market
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    Onvia: Data to Help Sales Strategy in State, Local & Education GovCon Market

    A new Onvia report focuses on the importance of procurement data to help vendors in the $1.5 trillion state, local and education government contracting market maximize their capability to capture sales. The company said the “Sizing Up the $1.5 Trillion State & Local Contracting Market” white paper explores how a data-driven sales strategy works to support efforts to […] More

  • DOE to Fund General Atomics’ Medical Isotope Project; Kathy Murray Comments
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    DOE to Fund General Atomics’ Medical Isotope Project; Kathy Murray Comments

    General Atomics will receive $9.7 million in funds from the Energy Department’s National Nuclear Security Administration under a cooperative agreement to produce commercial supplies of molybdenum-99 medical isotopes in the U.S. Mo-99 serves as the parent isotope of the radioisotope technetium-99m used in nuclear-based diagnostic imaging procedures, General Atomics said Wednesday. The company will collaborate with […] More

  • Inmarsat’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: DoD Eyes Industry Partnerships for Transition to ‘Satcom as a Service’
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    Inmarsat’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: DoD Eyes Industry Partnerships for Transition to ‘Satcom as a Service’

    Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, a senior vice president at Inmarsat, has observed the U.S. Defense Department seeking out opportunities to partner with satellite companies to increase DoD’s military communications capacity. Cowen-Hirsch wrote in a blog post published Wednesday on the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association website that she believes industry can help troops access on-demand satellite […] More

  • Capgemini, Fortinet Form Cybersecurity Alliance; Ken Xie Comments
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    Capgemini, Fortinet Form Cybersecurity Alliance; Ken Xie Comments

    Capgemini and Fortinet have forged a cybersecurity partnership in an effort to help customers bolster the resilience of their cyber infrastructure. Capgemini and Fortinet will combine their cybersecurity products and services such as web application security, software-defined datacenter security and security operation centers, the companies said Thursday. “Our partnership with Capgemini is a strategic one, […] More