A Telesat subsidiary will participate in a Lockheed Martin-led team that won a $187.5M contract from the Space Development Agency to provide 10 space vehicles with communication links to explore interoperability between commercial and government satellites.

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has received funding from the Defense Health Agency and U.S. Army to lead an initiative focused on developing systems based on a proposed interoperability framework for medical technologies.

U.K.-based semiconductor intellectual property vendor Arm has agreed to help the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency establish a framework for researchers to utilize the company's IT, technology and support services in microelectronics innovation projects.

The U.S. Army is seeking additional vendors with access to required Department of Defense networks to provide support services for the Joint Enterprise Data Interoperability program.

REI Systems received a five-year contract of an undisclosed value through the General Services Administration's CIO Modernization and Enterprise Transformation blanket purchase agreement to update the agency's personal property management suite.

Real-Time Innovations has received additional funds worth $500K to help the Department of Defense bolster cybersecurity and address standardization gaps.

Rick Lober, vice president and general manager of Hughes Network Systems' defense and intelligence systems segment, has said that software-defined radios can help address the Department of Defense's interoperability issues, Avionics International reported Friday.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development wants information on potential vendors that can replace a legacy system used to track and manage HUD homes and support the department“™s financial and accounting processes. A sources-sought notice published Friday says HUD plans to award a potential five-year contract by the end of calendar year 2020 to procure a cloud-based software platform that would replace the Single Family Acquired Asset Management System.

Hughes Network Systems has received a $11.8M contract to help the U.S. Army boost interoperability across military satellite communications systems.

IronNet Cybersecurity has expanded the features of its IronDefense network traffic analysis platform to enable Amazon Web Services users to replicate Amazon Virtual Private Cloud traffic and trasmit the data to the NTA tool for behavioral analysis.

Microsoft and Oracle have teamed up to enable clients to migrate and operate enterprise workloads across their cloud platforms.

Eric Trexler, vice president for global governments and critical infrastructure sales at Forcepoint, wrote in a commentary published Tuesday on Federal News Network that the Continuous Diagnostic and Mitigation program“™s transition to the third phase - Dynamic and Evolving Federal Enterprise Network Defense - could provide agencies an opportunity to address interoperability and modernization challenges. Such challenges were revealed in a survey of more than 200 federal civilian IT leaders conducted in August with research firm Market Connections.