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The Defense Information Systems Agency looks to adopt software-defined networking in an effort to protect mission-critical networks, C4ISR & Networks reported Wednesday. John Edwards and Eve Keiser write DISA will base the SDN deployment plan on use cases and proof-of-concept assessments. Eric Sharret, vice president of Telegrid, said the agency will use three use case studies focused on data center connectivity, […] More

Cubic Tranportation Systems has been selected to maintain London’s tunnel infrastructure for Transport for London in collaboration with radio systems provider Simoco EMEA. The team will perform maintenance services on 12 road tunnels and 90 kilometers of road corridors, Cubic said Wednesday. CTS subsidiary Cubic ITMS is scheduled to kick off full service delivery by February 2016. “This […] More

The Virginia Information Technologies Agency has contracted Interactive Achievement to supply an instructional data software platform to the Virginia Department of Education. IA said Monday its onTRAC Longitudinal Data System works to track and collect data points for school administrators to determine education trends. Teachers use the system to monitor students’ progress and craft instructional strategies tailored to the needs […] More

DLT Solutions and GitHub have partnered to market a programming code management tool for open source and private software development projects in the government sector. DLT said Thursday the GitHub Enterprise platform is an on-premise variant of GitHub.com and works to help developers search, review and share codes. Jim Propps, director of DLT’s enterprise platforms […] More

Northrop Grumman has received the first of the five sunshield membranes a ManTech International subsidiary produced for NASA‘s James Webb space telescope. Huntsville, Alabama-based NeXolve Corp. designed and manufactured the sunshield layers to help capture images of star and galaxy formation, Northrop said Wednesday. “We are thrilled to receive the first flight layer from NeXolve […] More