The D.C. Public Service Commission has rejected Exelon‘s proposed $6.4 billion merger with Pepco Holdings due to concerns on the latter’s potentially diminished role in the future management structure, the Washington Post reported Tuesday. Thomas Heath writes that the commission also indicated a lack of evidence to prove that the transaction will improve utilities services for consumers […] More

The U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has issued a request for information on existing methods for modeling and forecasting of low-frequency events. IARPA said Aug. 12 in a FedBizOpps notice it also seeks industry’s help to find alternative approaches to test and evaluate if rare event prediction techniques work. Areas of interest highlighted in […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has released a pre-solicitation that seeks research proposals from industry sources for a defense system against distributed denial of service attacks. DARPA said in a broad agency announcement issued Friday that the goal is to develop a program to disperse cyber assets and hide those assets’ characteristics in order […] More

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency will hold an event at its campus in Springfield, Virginia, on Sept. 14 to discuss the agency’s Next Generation initiative with industry and overview NGA’s technology and services requirements. NGA said in a notice posted Aug. 7 on FedBizOpps that the NGA Operations Technology Solution Discovery Day also intends to promote collaborations […] More

Research and Markets predicts that the global satellite-based Earth observation market will achieve a 13.23-percent compound annual growth rate over a five-year period ending 2019. The company said Friday the report points to the growing application base for satellite data leading to the increasing number of launches of Earth observation satellites, which is the key market driver. […] More

The Energy Department has issued a solicitation for industry partners to help facilitate the market readiness and commercialization of Sandia National Laboratories’ active authentication technologies. DOE said in a special notice posted June 26 on FedBizOpps that Sandia has worked to develop a Quasi-Physically Unclonable Digital ID that uses data scrambling to authenticate devices and counter digital […] More

BAE Systems has teamed up with Saab Australia as it works to pursue its joint bid with Finland-based Patria for Australia’s armored vehicle program. Saab Australia will work to provide subsystems and related support services under a memorandum of understanding with BAE Systems for the proposed Land 400 Phase 2 platform, which aims to develop […] More

The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration plans to contract with Raytheon for Phase II development of Coyote unmanned aerial systems that NOAA intends to use to collect hurricane data. NOAA said in a June 12 FedBizOpps notice that it intends to buy three Raytheon-built Coyotes fitted with communications technology and meteorologic sensors. The company […] More

Amazon‘s cloud computing business posted revenue of $1.57 billion for the first quarter of its 2015 fiscal year, up almost 50 percent from the prior year period, the Washington Post reported Thursday. Amrita Jayakumar writes Amazon Web Services‘ performance is partly attributed to its cloud information technology services contracts in the government sector. “We always […] More

A Naval Surface Warfare Center division has requested information on potential sources of equipment intended to detect trace amounts of explosives. NSWC’s explosive ordnance disposal technology unit seeks to leverage industry’s existing platforms that can identify triacetone triperoxide, urea nitrate, potassium chlorate and ammonium nitrate mixtures, the Department of the Navy said Nov. 13 in […] More

Deltek forecasts that state and local government agencies will increase spending on information technology products and services by more than 3 percent annually over the next five years, the Washington Post reported Sunday. Chris Dixon, a senior manager at the Herndon-based market analysis firm, estimates IT investments at the state and local levels to grow […] More

Ken Asbury, president and CEO of CACI International, says the health information technology and cybersecurity areas present the company with opportunities for growth in the federal market, The Washington Post reported Sunday. Amrita Jayakumar writes that Asbury told the Post in a phone interview the company also wants to acquire businesses that specialize in health IT, […] More