Hewlett-Packard has been awarded a potential eight-year contract to help the state of Texas install a new pension administration system intended to serve more than 1 million active and 300,000 retired teachers. The Teacher Retirement System of Texas manages a $120 billion trust fund that was started to finance member benefits and manage accounts, HP said […] More

Exelis has delivered the first of four meteorological payloads for a future U.S. weather satellite of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, moving the program forward toward the planned satellite launch in 2016, Exelis said Tuesday Eric Webster, Exelis Geospatial Systems vice president for weather systems, said, “Delivery . . . is an important milestone because it […] More

Red Hat has given its North American Public Sector Distributor of the Year Award to Carahsoft Technology Corp. for its work to offer Red Hat tools to public sector clients in 2013. The companies started their partnership in 2005 and Carahsoft serves as a sales force to Red Hat in Canada, Red Hat and Carahsoft said Tuesday. Mike Byrd, Red […] More

CGI will work with Sweden’s national transport administration to install Microsoft’s Windows 8.1 operating system on computers housed inside 11,000 workplaces across 120 locations in the country. The company will provide the modernization and operation services to Trafikverket under a potential seven-year contract worth up to an estimated $76.9 million, CGI said Tuesday. Sweden’s Trafikverket agency has […] More

Lockheed Martin has notified the Federal Aviation Administration that the company plans to produce a civil variant of its C-130J Super Hercules transport aircraft. The LM-100J variant plane is intended to leverage technology and design upgrades from the L-100 plane for other functions such as aerial firefighting and airborne medical patient transportation, Lockheed said Monday. […] More

Ball Aerospace & Technologies has evaluated how a U.S. weather forecasting satellite platform could integrate with the spacecraft communication network SpaceWire. Joint Polar Satellite System-1 is a collaboration between NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and is designed to track global climate patterns, Ball Aerospace said Monday. The company built the JPSS-1’s satellite bus […] More

DynCorp International has received a $6.4 million contract to train military engineers in Afghanistan through a security assistance training program run by the U.S. Army. The company will administer a series of Afghan national army exercises in carpentry, plumbing, masonry and electrical engineering as a subcontractor to GovSource Inc., DynCorp said Thursday. This one-year order falls […] More

Bostonia Partners LLC has worked with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and General Services Administration to close two leases totaling $258 million for NOAA to remain at its headquarters in Silver Spring, Md. NOAA resides in two buildings at the Silver Spring Metro Center and each lease is for a 15-year term with both set […] More

Harris Corp. has started to deliver hardware and software systems for installation in a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite network after the equipment passed a pre-shipment review. Those systems will be used to build the ground segment for NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite – R series program, Harris said Thursday. “We have worked closely with NOAA […] More

HP Autonomy has released a new version of its HP IDOL information processing tool that is designed to integrate with other components of the HAVEn big data platform to address the increasing number of analytics applications in businesses. The company said Thursday HP IDOL 10.5 will operate with a combination of HP Vertica’s data processing […] More

NDP, a net-centric systems engineering company, has won a task order to design a communications  infrastructure framework for the U.S. Air Force‘s Space and Missile Systems Center. The Air Force picked NDP to build a prototype of a network-independent messaging system using open-source software, NDP said Monday. NDP won the contract under the General Services […] More

Xerox will implement an electronic pricing system for the Veterans Health Administration to manage Medicare reimbursement coverage for veterans. VHA intends for the Xerox’ web-based tool to automatically calculate Medicare payment rates of non-contracted hospice and home health services, Xerox said Tuesday. “Claims pricing is a growing segment of the VHA’s health services offerings,” said Mike […] More