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  • Mike Mackey: Navy’s 2nd Northrop Triton Drone Undergoes Flight Testing
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    Mike Mackey: Navy’s 2nd Northrop Triton Drone Undergoes Flight Testing

    The U.S. Navy and Northrop Grumman flew a second unmanned Triton aircraft for 6.7 hours on Wednesday from the company’s manufacturing center in Palmdale, California. Northrop said Thursday the MQ-4C Triton test was conducted in preparation of the drone’s ferry flight to the Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, later this month. The UAS will […] More

  • Michael Baker to Assist VITA Updates on Virginia’s GIS Path; Robert Hanson Comments
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    Michael Baker to Assist VITA Updates on Virginia’s GIS Path; Robert Hanson Comments

    The Commonwealth of Virginia has enlisted Michael Baker International to help refine a geospatial information systems roadmap for the state. Under the contract, the company will help update the Virginia Information Technologies Agency’s 5-Year GIS Strategic Plan for 2015-2020, which seeks to reap the benefits of geospatial data to improve public service, Michael Baker said Tuesday. […] More

  • CGI Wins $61M Cloud Tech Transition Project for Oslo Schools
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    CGI Wins $61M Cloud Tech Transition Project for Oslo Schools

    CGI will help update the Norwegian capital public school system’s information technology infrastructure under a $61 million project of the Agency for Education in the City of Oslo. The contract involves transitioning the ICT system to a cloud-based architecture and address school requirements for a six-year base period of performance and two-year option to extend, CGI said […] More

  • Jim Anderson: BAE Platform Aims to Secure Ops-IT Link in Industrial Systems
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    Jim Anderson: BAE Platform Aims to Secure Ops-IT Link in Industrial Systems

    BAE Systems‘ applied intelligence division has developed an offering to protect industrial systems and critical national infrastructure, particularly in the energy and utilities sector, from cyberattacks and other security concerns. The company said Wednesday that IndustrialProtect works to provide a network segmentation gateway to secure the link supporting data transmission between operational technology and corporate IT networks. “Since we […] More

  • Battelle to Test Forensic DNA Tools Under Federal Grants; Rich Guerrieri Comments
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    Battelle to Test Forensic DNA Tools Under Federal Grants; Rich Guerrieri Comments

    Battelle has received more than $800,000 in federal grants from the National Institute of Justice to assess and evaluate new tools for probing DNA evidence. The company will test instruments, laboratory materials and software that forensic investigators use to obtain biological evidence based on the tools’ next-generation sequencing, Battelle said Oct. 9. “Next-generation sequencing will significantly expand our technical capabilities to support forensic […] More

  • Tracie Cook: Veris Group Selects JAMIS ERP Platform for GovCon Services Mgmt
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    Tracie Cook: Veris Group Selects JAMIS ERP Platform for GovCon Services Mgmt

    Veris Group has chosen JAMIS Software to provide an enterprise resource planning system intended to help the cybersecurity firm manage corporate functions and deliver services to public and private sector clients. JAMIS Software intends for its Prime ERP platform to help Veris access real-time business data as well as address operational efficiency and transparency issues, […] More

  • Mark Templeton: Citrix Eyes Workforce, Business Expansion With New Raleigh Office
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    Mark Templeton: Citrix Eyes Workforce, Business Expansion With New Raleigh Office

    Citrix has opened a new 170,000-square-foot office in Raleigh, North Carolina’s warehouse district that will house Citrix Mobile Workspace tools and work to integrate Citrix technologies. The company said it aims to facilitate creativity, productivity, collaboration and employee engagement as well as highlight its vision of a mobility-enabled enterprise. “Raleigh is experiencing tremendous business growth and has firmly established itself as […] More

  • Mercury Systems to Build Navy Digital RF Memory Jammers; Brian Perry Comments
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    Mercury Systems to Build Navy Digital RF Memory Jammers; Brian Perry Comments

    A Mercury Systems subsidiary has received a $2.6 million order to build digital radio frequency memory jammers for the U.S. Navy. Mercury Defense Systems booked the order for the first quarter of its fiscal year 2015 and the contract is a follow-on order under a five-year agreement with the Navy, Mercury Systems said. “The continued technology advancements are designed to keep pace with the […] More

  • Bill Rebarick: Cubic to Offer Game-Based Training Tools for Govt Through ‘EDGE’ Consortium
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    Bill Rebarick: Cubic to Offer Game-Based Training Tools for Govt Through ‘EDGE’ Consortium

    A Cubic subsidiary that builds game-based training platforms has joined an industry alliance designed to encourage collaboration among technology developers, universities and government agencies. The EDGE Innovation Network offers a collaborative environment for organizations to build new tools to help first responders, warfighters and law enforcement officers perform their missions, Cubic said Wednesday. Bill Rebarick, […] More

  • Anne Ostroff: Northrop Lands Subcontract for SBIRS Satellite 5, 6 Payloads
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    Anne Ostroff: Northrop Lands Subcontract for SBIRS Satellite 5, 6 Payloads

    Lockheed Martin has tasked Northrop Grumman to provide sensor payloads for the fifth and sixth geosynchronous Earth orbit satellites in the U.S. Air Force‘s Space Based Infrared System under a $422 million subcontract. “Northrop Grumman looks forward to joining our partner and prime contractor, Lockheed Martin, to produce the GEO-5/6 IR payloads,” Anne Ostroff, vice president of Northrop’s military and civil […] More

  • Ball Aerospace Tech Demo Mission to Fly 3 DoD Payloads
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    Ball Aerospace Tech Demo Mission to Fly 3 DoD Payloads

    Ball Aerospace & Technologies and NASA will fly a set of experimental Defense Department scientific payloads on the planned Green Propellant Infusion Mission for 2016 under a $3.4 million payload integration contract. The company said Wednesday the DoD Space Experiments Review Board selected the Integrated Miniaturized Electrostatic Analyzer Reflight, Small Wind and Temperature Spectrometer and Space Object Self-tracker payloads to be part of the GPIM […] More

  • Tom McGuire: Lockheed Aims to Build Nuclear Fusion Tech for Power Generation
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    Tom McGuire: Lockheed Aims to Build Nuclear Fusion Tech for Power Generation

    Lockheed Martin is developing a small reactor the company believes has potential to generate power through nuclear fusion, Reuters reported Wednesday. Andrea Shalal writes Tom McGuire, a program lead at Lockheed’s Skunk Works unit, said the organization seeks to attract government, academic and commercial partners for its compact fusion reactor project. Skunk Works conducted a study […] More