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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s Tactical Technology Office plans to unveil information on its Gremlins program during a Proposers’ Day from Sept. 24 to 25. A notice posted Friday on FedBizOpps said registration is open through Sept. 18. According to DARPA, the Gremlins program aims to utilize small unmanned aircraft systems for coordinated support during distributed U.S. military […] More
Lockheed Martin and the Warsaw University of Technology in Poland have wrapped up their collaborative research of new methods to integrate manned and unmanned airborne technologies. The company said Friday it helped university researchers develop software during the Optimizing Unmanned System of Systems research project. The partnership sought to identify techniques to enable aircraft systems […] More
The launch of a new Lockheed Martin-built Mobile User Objective System satellite has been moved to Wednesday due to tropical storm Erika, SpaceFlight Insider reported Monday. Lockheed said Friday MUOS-4 will join the other three satellites in the U.S. Navy’s communications satellite network that works to provide video, data and voice capabilities for mobile uniformed personnel through an Internet protocol-based platform. […] More
The U.S. Navy has awarded General Dynamics’ information technology business a potential five-year, $39.8 million contract to provide technical and engineering support services for the Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock division’s acoustic research detachment. General Dynamics will perform work through August 2020 and the Navy obligate $2,775,000 at the time of award from fiscal 2015 research, test, […] More
A Research and Markets report predicts the global soldier modernization market will hit $12.8 billion by 2025 from $8.3 billion in 2015. The report analyzed drivers, spending pattern, modernization trends and growth stimulators for the soldier modernization market in a span of 10 years, Research and Markets said Tuesday. It set the compound annual growth rate at 4.38 percent, with technological […] More
Aerojet Rocketdyne has built and delivered its 100th throttling divert and attitude control system for the Raytheon Standard Missile-3 Block IB interceptor. Aerojet said Wednesday that TDACS is currently the only MIL-STD 1901A standards-compliant solid rocket propulsion system being used by the U.S. Navy. The company also manufactures first- and second-stage SM-3 Block IB booster […] More
Several state healthcare and human services professionals from CSG Government Solutions attended last week’s Medicaid Enterprise Systems Conference in Iowa to discuss issues concerning Medicaid systems and initiatives. The company said Tuesday the participants delivered presentations or spoke in panels about topics such as Medicaid enrollment systems, standards compliance, privacy and security measures, and the Medicaid Information Technology Architecture. Andrea Danes, director […] More
Ray O’Farrell, formerly general manager of VMware‘s software-defined data center division, will assume the combined role of chief technology officer and chief development officer. The company said Wednesday O’Farrell succeeds Ben Fathi and will be in charge of the CTO team and manage the research and development business units. “He brings extensive and invaluable experience in […] More
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Boston Engineering a $150,000 contract to help build an embedded motor control technology for unmanned aerial vehicles. Boston Engineering aims to demonstrate a motor controller that could reduce noise of drone systems as well as support propulsion and sensor functions in unmanned aircraft, the company said Friday. Mark Smithers, […] More
Engility Holdings has inked a memorandum of agreement with the International Council on Systems Engineering to encourage Engility’s engineering workforce to secure systems engineering professional certifications from INCOSE. Engility said Thursday individuals that intend to secure an INCOSE SEP certification need to undergo an evaluation process to test their proficiency in systems engineering. Tony Smeraglinolo, president […] More
The FlexTech Alliance consortium will create and manage the seventh Manufacturing Innovation Institute for Flexible Hybrid Electronics under a cooperative agreement with the Defense Department as part of the government’s National Network for Manufacturing Innovation. DoD said Friday the institute will bring together government, industry and academic professionals to help bolster U.S. manufacturing capabilities in flexible hybrid electronics. The Air […] More
IBM and French high performance computing agency GENCI have partnered to develop a new exascale computing system. The team will prepare scientific applications for systems designed to perform more than 100 petaflops of calculation under the 18-month collaboration, IBM said Friday. “We fully expect our collaborative efforts will produce innovations capable of moving the supercomputing […] More
