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Leidos has secured a potential one-year, $7.9 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to conduct research and develop a spectrum sharing platform for use between communications systems and radars. Reston, Va.-based Leidos will carry out research work under the second phase of DARPA’s Shared Spectrum Access for Radar and Communications initiative, the Defense […] More
Booz Allen Hamilton has received a $26.8 million U.S. Navy contract to provide research and development and engineering services for the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division’s communications-electronics systems. The Defense Department said Monday Booz Allen will also carry out logistics, analysis, integration, material procurements, training, fielding, test and evaluation, installation and maintenance workfor the service branch’s special […] More
Brian Houston, a vice president at Hitachi Data Systems‘ U.S. federal subsidiary, believes agencies need to apply analytics to virtualized environments in order to gain insights into their data situation, FCW reported Tuesday. “The biggest issue that everybody’s trying to get their hands around is, ‘What do we really have?’†Houston told FCW’s Zach Noble. He […] More
The U.S. Air Force plans to issue a contract for research and development work on a live, virtual and constructive mission training platform for warfighter readiness activities. The AF Research Laboratory wants to build and demonstrate an LVC training toolset that can operate with various computer networks and architectures, the military branch said in a […] More
A Time Warner Cable subsidiary has adopted a Dell network firewall appliance to deliver managed security services to the telecommunication firm’s customers in the education sector. Time Warner Cable Business Class collaborates with Secure Designs , a premium partner of Dell, to help U.S. school district clients protect their information technology assets, Dell said Tuesday. […] More
Huntington Ingalls Industries and General Dynamics have expressed interest in the U.S. Navy‘s program for icebreaker vessels after the administration proposed to accelerate the buying process, Reuters reported Tuesday. Andrea Shalal writes the proposal brought forward the acquisition to 2020 from 2022 due to increasing commerce and maritime traffic in the Arctic and to keep resources at […] More
Washington-based business incubator 1776 has launched a $12.5 million seed fund for pre-Series A startups in the fields of education, energy, health, smart cities and transportation. The company said Tuesday it is looking to invest in early-stage businesses that can potentially disrupt regulated industries. “Technology is permeating the global economy and unmooring it from its industrial era […] More
Northrop Grumman has experimented with an occulting technology the company built to help astronomers view and study celestial objects from Earth. The company demonstrated circular and petal-shaped designs of its starshade in conjunction with the McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope during engineering tests at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona, Northrop said Tuesday. It marks the first […] More
The Open Group‘s Open Trusted Technology Provider Standard has received approval as an ISO/IEC International Standard for the security and integrity of commercial off-the-shelf information and communications technology products and supply chains. The consortium said Tuesday the new ISO/IEC 20243:2015 standard works to help COTS ICT providers prevent the introduction of tampered or counterfeit product components at any stage […] More
Rick Wagner joined ManTech International in June to lead the Fairfax, Va.-based company’s advanced technical solutions business unit as senior vice president and general manager. The more-than two-decade GovCon veteran oversees an organization that collaborates with U.S. intelligence agencies on enterprise information technology initiatives and emerging tools such as cloud computing, analytics and big data. ExecutiveBiz […] More
Raytheon and the U.S. Navy have completed effective isotropic radiated power tests on the Next Generation Jammer prototypes over a six-week period in efforts to determine the electronic warfare system’s targeting range and capacity. The company said Tuesday the team conducted the prototype testing at the Benefield Anechoic Facility within Edwards Air Force Base. “Raytheon and the Navy developed a […] More
Cubic has been awarded a $12.6 million contract to refresh the revenue management system of San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. The company will update the transit’s ticket vending machines, add fare machines, fare gates and parking validator devices, Cubic said Tuesday. “We look forward to continuing our strong relationship with BART and supporting […] More
