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NASA will deploy an ocean winds sensor technology in space with the goal of helping scientists predict storms as well as study changes in the weather. The agency expects to send the ISS-RapidScat instrument aboard a SpaceX capsule from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida no earlier than Sept. 19, NASA said Monday. ISS-RapidScat […] More
Lockheed Martin has received a $26.8 million follow-on contract from the Defense Department for sustainment and operations support to the Integrated Data Environment/Global Transportation Network Convergence program, run by the U.S. Transportation Command and Defense Logistics Agency. The IGC program, which the company developed under a contract awarded in 2008, is designed to help make the supply chain visible and help DoD track […] More
IBM and Mayo Clinic have partnered to expand the database of IBM’s Watson cognitive computer in an effort to develop clinical trials and provide individual medical options to patients. IBM Watson will work to analyze Mayo’s clinical data in order to match trials with specific patients, IBM said Monday. “Using Watson’s cognitive computing capabilities, Mayo Clinic can consistently […] More
Creative Computing Solutions has received a subcontract to help Palladian Partners perform research analysis and reporting services for the National Institutes of Health. CCSi said this month that it was chosen by Silver Spring, Maryland-based Palladian to work with NIH’s Office of Research on Women’s Health. The value of the subcontract was not disclosed. CCSi holds other contracts for work with federal agencies, such as a contract […] More
NASA has built a large machinery for assembling and testing components for the Space Launch System, a rocket the agency intends to use on manned missions to Mars or asteroids. The agency said it will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony and a media briefing on Friday at its Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans to demonstrate […] More
CACI International has received $44 million contract to provide logistics and acquisition management services for the U.S. Navy‘s Littoral Combat Ship program. The contract contains an eight-month base period and two three-month options, CACI said Monday. “With our ongoing support for this program countering asymmetric challenges close to shore, we will continue to help provide the multi-dimensional, nuanced approaches […] More
Deltek has launched a new educational program with the aim to keep companies up to date on government contracting procedures and federal acquisition regulations. The company said Friday it offers several GovCon courses year-round at its learning facility in Herndon, Virginia. “Knowledge of federal government regulations can be a barrier to market entry for many […] More
A Jacobs Engineering Group–HDR joint venture is part of a design-build consortium that won a $2.32 billion contract for the 21-mile Interstate 4 modernization project in Florida. The Florida Transportation Department picked I-4 Mobility Partners to construct 15 interchanges, more than 140 bridges and four toll lanes between Orange and Seminole counties, Jacobs said Friday. […] More
Darryl Shaw, director of healthcare solutions and new product development at Verizon Enterprise, says his company is seeing higher rates adoption of cloud services for healthcare delivery among customers. Carlos Arcila, external communications manager for Verizon Enterprise, wrote Thursday that chief information officers are moving to migrate their services to cloud environments in order to fulfill Health Insurance Portability […] More
Cisco and Red Hat have extended their partnership to open collaboration around the OpenStack, Intercloud and Application Centric Infrastructure tools and unveiled a new integrated infrastructure for cloud deployments on OpenStack. Cisco said Thursday the new Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure product family is designed for private cloud operations on OpenStack and on-ramp to Intercloud for enterprise and midmarket customers. “Open […] More
HP has unveiled new tools under the HP JetAdvantage brand that are designed to help further secure the enterprise’s print environment. Pradeep Jotwani, senior vice president for LaserJet and enterprise solutions at HP, said Thursday that the new offerings are intended to meet a demand for a solution that enterprises can use to better monitor and manage their print security. “As […] More
SANS has released the results of a new survey that highlights the challenges organizations are facing as they move to adopt critical security controls. The report shows that 63 percent of organizations cited insufficient staffing as barriers to their CSC transition, 54 percent attributed it to budget scarcity and 36 percent pointed to operational and security gaps, SANS said Wednesday. “Organizations across […] More
