John Dancy, senior vice president and chief information officer at CSRA, has joined the Wall Street Journal’s CIO Network. He will be part of the network that works to identify technology challenges and innovation opportunities, CSRA said Tuesday. Dancy is responsible for overseeing the Falls Church, Virginia-based contractor’s information technology program and ensuring the program aligns with strategic […] More

A CSRA-developed online registry platform has helped the Federal Aviation Administration document more than 1 million owners of civilian drones throughout the U.S. CSRA said Wednesday more than 870,000 of the registered drones are from hobbyists while the remaining 122,000 registrations are for individually documented commercial and public drones. The company helped FAA design, build and […] More

CSRA has been re-certified as a partner under Amazon Web Services‘ Managed Service Provider program. The MSP Partner designation allows CSRA to offer proactive monitoring, automation and management of customers’ cloud environments, the company said Thursday. CSRA initially obtained the designation in February 2017 following an assessment of the firm’s application migration and cloud infrastructure offerings. An […] More

CSRA will work with Supermicro Computer and Edge Solutions & Consulting to expand the computing capacity at NASA’s Center for Climate Simulation under a contract with the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center. CSRA said Wednesday it will update NASA’s Discover supercomputer to increase the system’s high-performance computing capacity to approximately 5 petaFLOPS as part of the […] More

CSRA announced that it aims to introduce the second version of the Defense Department‘s cloud computing platform on February 1, three months ahead of the initially scheduled launch date. The unclassified sections of MilCloud 2.0 will be rolled out at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma and Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama, the Washington Business Journal reported Saturday. […] More

UVision Air has showcased its extended-range loitering platform at a demonstration in southern Israel to validate the system’s tracking, lock-on, target engagement, mission-abort and other capacities for operational scenarios. The company said Monday Hero-400EC system is equipped with an updated electric motor built to provide low-speed loitering and high-speed transit capacities at lower acoustic and […] More

Joseph Weiss, president and CEO of Israel Aerospace Industries for nearly six years, has informed IAI’s board of directors that he intends to retire from his dual-role once the company finds a successor. IAI said Thursday it will form a committee to find the aerospace technology firm’s next CEO. Weiss joined the company in 1998 after he spent 27 […] More

Elbit Systems has showcased a company-built unmanned surface vessel during a maritime exercise jointly conducted by British and Israeli navies in Haifa Bay, Israel. The Seagull USV scanned and mapped a path for U.K.’s HMS Ocean helicopter carrier as part of a mine countermeasure mission that took place at the joint naval exercise, Elbit Systems said Thursday. Seagull also worked […] More

CSRA President and CEO Larry Prior has been recognized as “Tech Executive of the Year” by the Northern Virginia Technology Council during an awards ceremony held Monday. Recipients of the annual award are selected based on executive leadership; the company’s financial growth; personal contributions to the local technology community; and the individual’s vision for the company’s […] More

CSRA has secured a potential five-year, $49.3 million contract to develop, support and update ship management training devices for the U.S. Navy. The company will provide equipment for the service branch’s Navigations Seamanship Shiphandling Trainers program, the Defense Department said Wednesday. DoD noted the Navy will obligate $3.4 million in fiscal 2017 “other” procurement funds at the […] More

There is a method to the madness of preparing for future foes and threatening scenarios; when climbing a hill that appears insurmountable, the best way up is to keep climbing. In the intelligence community, industry leaders are utilizing all available resources to decrease costs and increase productivity, working in collaboration to find new solutions to […] More

A computing platform that CSRA upgraded for the National Institutes of Health has been named to the Top500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers. NIH’s Biowulf cluster ranked 66th on the Top500’s 2017 list, CSRA said Monday. Biowulf works to process simultaneous computations related to genomics, statistical analysis, image processing and other areas in biomedical research. CSRA […] More