The National Nuclear Security Administration has received the final wind turbines for a wind farm in Amarillo, Texas that is being built by Siemens Government Technologies, the German conglomerate’s U.S. federal business organization. Siemens has set the operational date for the Pantex Renewable Energy Project as July 31, 2014 — nearly a year after NNSA and […] More

An Elbit Systems company has won an $11.7 million contract modification to develop a helmet-mounted display system for U.S. Marine Corps pilots, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Thursday. John Keller writes Fort Worth, Texas-based EFW Inc. will produce helmet display tracker system kits for pilots of the Whiskey Cobra attack helicopter under the U.S. Naval […] More

Boeing’s tracking and data relay satellite has transmitted its first signals from space after its launch on Jan. 23. The TDRS-L is the fifth satellite that Boeing built for various NASA operations involving the International Space Station, researches on the Earth’s climate and deep space study using the Hubble Telescope, Boeing said Thursday. Craig Cooning, […] More

A U.K. research facility has deployed an Agilent Technologies scanning microscopy device to support experimental studies on two-dimensional materials, including graphene. The 5600LS atomic force microscope was installed at the Cambridge Graphene Centre, a nanotechnology innovation hub backed by the European Commission, Agilent said Thursday. Agilent’s instrument works by using an electrical characterization method to […] More

General Electric Co. has moved to grow its smart grid services customer base by adding new municipal and rural utilities clients for the subscription-based offering, Greentech Media reported Thursday. Jeff St. John writes at least six more customers have subscribed to GE’s Grid IQ solutions-as-a-service unit in addition to existing clients such as the municipal […] More

Larry Sikes, a member of the mission assurance engineering contract team at Science Applications International Corp., has been selected to receive the NASA Johnson Space Center’s Silver Snoopy Award. The award is given to individuals who have made significant contributions to the future of human space flight, SAIC said Tuesday. “The Silver Snoopy award is the […] More

Digital Management Inc. has delivered an enterprise mobility infrastructure to the U.S. Agriculture Department for monitoring devices and applications across the 29-unit agency. DMI built the system under a potential five-year, $20 million contract, the company said Wednesday. USDA’s system is comprised of a mobile device management, an app store and a data encryption platform […] More

Exelis will update the carriage and release systems on the U.S. Navy‘s fleet of AV-8B Harrier aircraft under a contract worth more than $13 million. The company will develop 181 digital improved triple ejector rack units for the plane’s current carriage and release technology, the company said Thursday. Pete Martin, director of defense systems for Exelis’ electronic […] More

Oracle has been selected to manage scientific data for Italian National Institute of Astrophysics’ space mission with the goal of developing a three-dimensional map of the Milky Way galaxy. INAF will use the Oracle Database and Oracle Enterprise Manager to store and process information collected by the Gaia satellite, which the European Space Agency launched into […] More

Stability operations contractor Sterling Global Operations (SGO) recently executed the site work of a two-year project funded by the United Arab Emirates that helped locate and destroy more than 11,000 unexploded bombs left over from wars in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. The United Nations Mine Action Service administered the project in Kandahar, which borders Pakistan for […] More

CNSI has been awarded a five-year task order to create and maintain cloud computing applications for the Maryland State Highway Authority. The agency selected CNSI to build Salesforce-based cloud apps and support enterprise systems such as Microsoft Access, Net Technology and Power Builder, CNSI said Tuesday. Under a separate five-year contract extension, the company will manage […] More

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems demonstrated its Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper drone equipped with a Northrop Grumman-built electronic warfare system at a biannual flight training exercise hosted by the U.S. Marine Corps. GA-ASI’s Reaper worked to operate across an electromagnetic spectrum during the USMC Weapons and Tactics Instructor event held Oct. 20 in Yuma, Ariz., GA-ASI said […] More