The U.S. Air Force has awarded Aptima a $12,425,604 contract to develop a virtual training environment for use in Air Force Distributed Common Ground System operations. Aptima will provide geospatial intelligence full motion video, high altitude imagery, synthetic aperture radar imagery, electro optical imagery and infrared imagery to DCGS sites, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The […] More

Five companies have secured 18-month grants from the U.S. Army to continue developing prototypes of mission critical technologies as part of the second phase of the Small Business Innovation Research Program. The service branch said Thursday it awarded up to $1.7 million to each SBIR participant to support the transition of artificial intelligence and machine […] More

The U.S. Army has selected an AECOM subsidiary, Parsons' government services business, the Jacobs USAE joint venture, HydroGeologic and Aptim's federal arm to compete for orders under a $49 million contract in support of a Department of Defense program for addressing munitions-related concerns.

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Twelve companies have each received a $750K grant to support the U.S. Air Force’s space technology needs, Space News reported Tuesday.

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The U.S. Army has selected ManTech International for the next phase of a collaborative effort to develop a Persistent Cyber Training Environment prototype as part of an other transaction agreement with the National Security Technology Accelerator.

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John Stewart, formerly president and general manager of BWSR, has been named president of BWX Technologies‘ nuclear fuel services subsidiary. He led the BWXT-Aptim joint venture for six years in efforts to provide decommissioning, demolition and operations support to the Naval Nuclear Laboratory, BWXT said Thursday. Stewart spent 25 years at the U.S. Navy, where he served as a staff […] More

Hologic has received a one-year, $4.1 million contract from the Department of Health and Human Services to further develop a test that works to detect Zika virus in donated blood. The company’s Procleix Zika Virus Assay is designed to detect for up to seven days the presence of ribonucleic acid linked to the mosquito-borne virus […] More

Massachusetts-based medical technology developer Hologic has received emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration for a device the company developed to help clinicians detect Zika virus infections. Hologic said Friday its Aptima molecular diagnostic assay is designed for qualitative detection of ribonucleic acid from the mosquito-borne virus in human blood samples. The assay is based on the company’s Panther system that works to […] More

An industry team led by BAE Systems has won a $79 million contract to help the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency design technology for converting large volumes of sensor data into threat intelligence. DARPA seeks to build a device that can help defense organizations process information from multiple sensors and predict threat behaviors by using […] More