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  • Lockheed Puts New Northrop AESA Radars In F-16V Jet
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    Lockheed Puts New Northrop AESA Radars In F-16V Jet

    Lockheed Martin has completed the integration of Northrop Grumman‘s Scalable Agile Beam Radar into the F-16V aircraft as part of a design review stage in the U.S. Air Force‘s F-16 modernization program. Lockheed said Wednesday that the active electronically scanned array radar meets its requirements and those of the Air Force as they aim to launch the F-16V variant in Taiwan. Other updates to Taiwan’s fleet […] More

  • InfoZen Moves NASA Web Portals, Apps to Amazon Cloud; Roopangi Kadakia Comments
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    InfoZen Moves NASA Web Portals, Apps to Amazon Cloud; Roopangi Kadakia Comments

    NASA has partnered with cloud services provider InfoZen to migrate several of the space agency’s public-facing websites and applications to a cloud computing environment. InfoZen moved 110 online NASA portals into an Amazon Web Services-powered, open-source content management platform within 22 weeks under the NASA WESTPrime web migration contract, InfoZen said Wednesday. “WESTPrime provides a […] More

  • Research and Markets: APAC, Middle East to Lead Global Ammo Market by 2020
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    Research and Markets: APAC, Middle East to Lead Global Ammo Market by 2020

    A new Research and Markets report forecasts a 4.2 percent compound annual growth rate for the global ammunition market by 2020 due to modernization programs and ongoing conflicts in some parts of the world. The market research firm said Tuesday that ATK, BAE Systems, General Dynamics, Nammo and Raytheon could lead the market as it shifts focus from the west to Asia-Pacific and the Middle […] More

  • TSA Certifies Eid Passport ID Mgmt Offering; Steve Larson Comments
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    TSA Certifies Eid Passport ID Mgmt Offering; Steve Larson Comments

    Eid Passport has obtained a certification from the Transportation Security Administration for the company’s identity management tool following tests and demonstrations. TSA has placed Eid Passport’s RAPID-RCx program on the agency’s Transportation Worker Identification Credential Qualified Technology List, Eid Passport said Tuesday. “We now offer maritime terminal operators a unique, portable solution through our RAPID-RCx program and […] More

  • Battelle to Help Build Army Weapons, Equipment
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    Battelle to Help Build Army Weapons, Equipment

    Battelle holds a position on a potential five-year, $300 million contract to help the U.S. Army develop and test munitions, explosive detectors, mobile robots and other military systems. The Army selected Battelle as one of seven contractors for the branch’s Rapid Prototyping and Technology Insertion program, the company said Tuesday. A Battelle-led industry team and […] More

  • Air Force Used Cobham In-Flight Refueling Tool for South Sudan Rescue Mission
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    Air Force Used Cobham In-Flight Refueling Tool for South Sudan Rescue Mission

    Cobham’s air-to-air refueling system has worked to facilitate in-flight refueling for three Bell–Boeing CV-22 Osprey aircraft of the U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command under attack during a rescue mission in South Sudan. The CV-22s sustained substantial system damages from attacks by hostile forces after the AFSOC rescue team tried to leave a UN compound […] More

  • HII’s Richard Schenk: Coast Guard Cutter ‘Hamilton’ Ready for Service
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    HII’s Richard Schenk: Coast Guard Cutter ‘Hamilton’ Ready for Service

    Huntington Ingalls Industries has completed a series of acceptance sea trials for the fourth U.S. Coast Guard National Security Cutter, named “Hamilton.” Richard Schenk, Huntington Ingalls’ vice president of program management and test and trials, said Monday “the ship is ready to enter the service and start performing key Coast Guard missions.” The company’s Ingalls Shipbuilding […] More

  • Graham Hughes: SAS Tech Seeks to Improve Patient Care Delivery
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    Graham Hughes: SAS Tech Seeks to Improve Patient Care Delivery

    SAS has partnered with not-for-profit hospital operator Dignity Health in an effort to bring down hospital readmissions and provide customized patient care using big data and predictive analytics technology. The project tasks the business analytics company to build a cloud platform that would provide healthcare givers and providers actionable insights based on clinical, social and […] More

  • New CEO Ted Davies on His Goals for Altamira, Roles of Data Analytics and Open Source
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    New CEO Ted Davies on His Goals for Altamira, Roles of Data Analytics and Open Source

    Ted Davies joined McLean, Virginia-based national security and technology services contractor Altamira in July as CEO after nearly six years as president of Unisys‘ federal government arm — Unisys Federal Systems. Davies took the reins at Altamira nearly a year after the company formed out of a merger between Invertix and Near Infinity, a transaction that was […] More

  • Jacobs to Continue Hong Kong Public Works Lab Support; Kevin McMahon Comments
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    Jacobs to Continue Hong Kong Public Works Lab Support; Kevin McMahon Comments

    Jacobs Engineering Group has received a new four-year contract from Hong Kong’s civil engineering and development department to continue managing and operating the Public Works Regional Laboratory in Tai Po. The company said Tuesday that it will oversee compliance testing of construction materials for public works projects. Kevin McMahon, Jacobs group vice president, said that the company also provides management and operational support […] More

  • Lockheed Unveils Naval C4ISR Testing Platform; Rob Smith Comments
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    Lockheed Unveils Naval C4ISR Testing Platform; Rob Smith Comments

    Lockheed Martin has built a platform for testing maritime intelligence, communications or sensor technologies before their deployment. The Maritime Test Bed is designed to simulate environments at sea and on shore and employs an open-source architecture that works to access multiple data sources for testing, Lockheed said Tuesday. Rob Smith, vice president of C4ISR at […] More

  • Michael Toscano: Underwater Drones’ Potential Uses are ‘Limitless’
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    Michael Toscano: Underwater Drones’ Potential Uses are ‘Limitless’

    Commercial and government efforts are underway to build unmanned and autonomous underwater vehicles that can be used for naval warfare, environmental research and recovery mission, National Defense Magazine reports. Yasmin Tadjdeh writes that Michael Toscano, president and CEO of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, believes that UUV technology has limitless applications and will […] More