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  • TAPE Awarded $29M Marine Corps Training Support Contract; Louisa Long Jaffe Comments
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    TAPE Awarded $29M Marine Corps Training Support Contract; Louisa Long Jaffe Comments

    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 Enters Into Neurosurgery Simulation Tech Licensing Deal; Robert Amyot Comments
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    CAE Enters Into Neurosurgery Simulation Tech Licensing Deal; Robert Amyot Comments

    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

  • CPI Aerostructures to Supply Northrop Hawkeye Wing Components, Extends Kaman Metal Supply Contract
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    CPI Aerostructures to Supply Northrop Hawkeye Wing Components, Extends Kaman Metal Supply Contract

    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

  • IARPA Posts RFI on Neural Computing Principles
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    IARPA Posts RFI on Neural Computing Principles

    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

  • Draper Lab Helps Update Army’s Guided Airdrop Cargo Delivery System
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    Draper Lab Helps Update Army’s Guided Airdrop Cargo Delivery System

    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 Rolls Out 5th Data Center in Japan
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    NTT Communications Rolls Out 5th Data Center in Japan

    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 Appointed as Johns Hopkins APL Mission Area Executive; Mark Lewellyn Comments
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    Preston Dunlap Appointed as Johns Hopkins APL Mission Area Executive; Mark Lewellyn Comments

    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

  • HPE’s Marilyn Crouther: Public IT Sector Should Adapt to Business Transformation
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    HPE’s Marilyn Crouther: Public IT Sector Should Adapt to Business Transformation

    Marilyn Crouther, senior vice president and general manager of Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s U.S. public sector business, has said the public information technology sector should learn how to adapt to transformation in order to be more agile and respond to industry demands. Crouther wrote in a blog post published Thursday on the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics […] More

  • Cubic to Demo Firearms Training Systems at SHOT Show; Brooks Davis Comments
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    Cubic to Demo Firearms Training Systems at SHOT Show; Brooks Davis Comments

    Cubic Corp.’s global defense unit will join a National Shooting Sports Foundation-hosted trade show in Las Vegas to exhibit several firearms training platforms. The company will demonstrate its PRISim Suite of firearms simulators, QuickRange pre-fabricated shooting range, Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System, Cubic NEK’s live training platforms and Live-Fire Range Design at next week’s SHOT Show, Cubic said Thursday. Brooks […] More

  • DRS Delivers 1st Hybrid Electric Drive System to Korean Navy; Roger Sexauer Comments
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    DRS Delivers 1st Hybrid Electric Drive System to Korean Navy; Roger Sexauer Comments

    DRS Technologies has transported the first Hybrid Electric Drive system to the South Korean navy for installation in the military branch’s future frigate. The navy will incorporate the HED system into the FFX Batch II frigate to reduce noise in the propulsion plant operation, DRS said Tuesday. Roger Sexauer, president of the DRS maritime and combat support […] More

  • Carahsoft Adds Sonim Technologies’ Mobile Platforms to 2 Govt Contracts
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    Carahsoft Adds Sonim Technologies’ Mobile Platforms to 2 Govt Contracts

    Carahsoft Technology has agreed to offer Sonim Technologies’ mobile devices and related accessories to U.S. public sector customers through Carahsoft’s two government contracts. Sonim’s mobile devices such as the XP7 smartphone will be available to government agencies through Carahsoft’s National Cooperative Purchasing Alliance and Cooperative Purchasing Network contracts, Sonim said Thursday. “Sonim is excited to be included among Carahsoft’s […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Tests Hybrid Power Generation Tech for US Military
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Tests Hybrid Power Generation Tech for US Military

    Aerojet Rocketdyne has conducted field tests on a power generation system designed to help U.S. deployed troops to produce electricity out of surplus materials. The company said Thursday its Rocket Shop defense advanced programs unit developed the Hybrid Renewable Multifuel Power Generator for the U.S. Navy‘s Facilities Engineering and Expeditionary Warfare Center. HR-MPG works to burn […] More