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Denmark’s Meteorological Institute has moved to run its climate and weather models on Cray’s supercomputers and storage system under a $6 million contract. Cray said Tuesday that DMI will install the Cray XC supercomputer and Sonexion 2000 storage system at the Icelandic Meteorological Office datacenter in Reykjavik, Iceland. The company is on schedule to deliver the […] More
Windstream has signed up for Hewlett-Packard’s team of managed service providers — the HP PartnerOne program — in a move to deliver cloud services to clients. Windstream will offer private cloud, backup as a service and replication as a service to small, medium and enterprise clients, Windstream said Tuesday. “Windstream’s IT as-a-Service provides our joint […] More
Brennan Hogan, program manager at LMI Research Institute, has said at a panel discussion hosted by the Brookings Institution that an incremental approach is one method for the U.S. Defense Department to innovate. LMI said Wednesday that during the forum, Hogan also provided her insight into how the defense sector should leverage three-dimensional printing technology. […] More
A new TechServe Alliance report has found that U.S. companies employed 193,300 new information technology workers and created 15,000 new engineering jobs since July 2014. Employment in the IT field grew by 0.3 percent to 4,959,500 workers in July 2015, the Virginia-based trade association said Wednesday. The U.S. engineering workforce rose by at least 0.1 percent […] More
General Atomics has flown its Reaper and Predator drones to conduct surveillance operations on behalf of the government since April, Defense One reported Wednesday. Patrick Tucker writes that the company is among other drone manufacturers the Defense Department has hired to fly surveillance missions. The report said DoD’s move could also indicate potential plans to use civilian contractors for […] More
Leidos will lead a health information technology consortium to build, integrate and deploy a commercial electronic medical records platform for the U.S. Defense Department under a potential $4.3 billion contract. “We are honored to have been selected as the best-value solution for the Defense Healthcare Management System Modernization contract,” Roger Krone, Leidos chairman and CEO, […] More
BAE Systems has received a $46 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to continue its support for the operations and maintenance of the Solid State Phased Radar System through 2018. The company said Wednesday the modification adds another year to its 2006 contract and brings the estimated total deal value to $550 million. “Providing missile defense […] More
Retired Army Lt. Gen. Robert Dail, a member of LMI Government Consulting‘s board of directors since 2009, has been inducted into the Defense Logistics Agency Hall of Fame in recognition of his role as former director of the combat logistics support agency. Dail oversaw organizational changes in DLA when the Defense Department implemented the enterprise […] More
A Raytheon|Websense-commissioned survey has found that only 31 percent of enterprise security executives have confidence in the security of their company’s data network infrastructure. Research Now polled 100 U.S. security officers in March and found that only 28 percent think their security metrics communications are effective, Raytheon|Websense said Wednesday. Less than 35 percent of respondents […] More
Lockheed Martin has ordered a set of air combat training systems for the F-35 fighter jet from Cubic under a new low rate initial production contract. Cubic will deliver additional 250 JSF P5 systems to Lockheed under the contract, Cubic said Wednesday. The company will perform engineering work for the training systems in San Diego and Fort Walton Beach, […] More
Microsoft has received additional federal certifications for its Azure Government cloud computing platform after evaluations of the product’s data security features for U.S. public sector organizations. Tom Keane, partner director for Microsoft Azure program management, wrote in a blog post published Tuesday the platform obtained a moderate provisional authority-to-operate status under the Federal Risk and Authorization […] More
Capstone Corp. has been awarded a task order to continue its analysis work on the U.S. Navy’s air and port operations mission requirements. The company will use operations research modeling, simulation and group decision conferencing techniques to carry out the task, Capstone said Monday. “Selection to continue supporting this task reflects the confidence and trust of […] More
