Cisco and the University of California San Francisco have teamed up to develop a platform designed to achieve interoperability among health information technology systems. UCSF said Wednesday it will set up a center at the university’s Mission Bay campus to collaborate with Cisco and other health technology experts to develop and test the interoperability tool […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has issued a solicitation for industry proposals for a program that seeks to develop platforms designed to facilitate interoperability of airborne radio networks that manned aircraft and drones use to communicate with each other. The objective of the Dynamic Network Adaptation for Mission Optimization program “is to enable pilots […] More

TeleCommunication Systems has expanded the testing services its interoperability laboratory offers to companies that seek to test their software platforms used to process and send emergency text messages to public safety answering points. TCS said Tuesday Solacom, Airbus DS Communications, ModUcom and Emergency CallWorks completed testing their interfaces for text-to-911 messaging service via Message Session Relay Protocol and […] More

Sierra Nevada has won a potential $10.8 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force create interoperability guidelines for manned and unmanned aircraft software and subsystems. The Defense Department said Tuesday that the company will also help the military service develop a Future Airborne Capability Environment framework and strategies for the branch to demonstrate interoperable […] More

NetScout Systems’ line of service assurance applications has received certification from the Defense Information Systems Agency after the products met the information assurance and interoperability requirements of the Defense Department for inclusion in the Unified Capabilities Approved Products List. The company said Wednesday its nGeniusONE Unified Performance Management and nGeniusONE InfiniStream platforms also secured Common Criteria […] More

Greg Wenzel, an executive vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton, has said the company is working with the U.S. Navy to implement the service’s interconnectedness goals, the Daily Transcript reported Wednesday. Wenzel noted that there are Navy officers who say they need to operate in a networked system “rather than as individual ships, doing their own thing,” Tony Lovitt […] More

Several of Dell‘s networking switches have received certification from the Defense Department on interoperability and information assurance capabilities and are now included in the DoD Unified Capabilities Approved Products List. The company said Monday the certification means federal agencies can now use Dell’s S4810, S4820T, S6000 and Z9000 switches to support networking operations. “We are pleased to see that several of our […] More

A joint venture of Thales Group and Raytheon moved closer to deploying a command and control system they have developed for NATO after completing a four-nation demonstration that evaluated the program’s network operations. The tests looked at the NATO Air Command and Control System’s ability to connect to national pilot sites in Belgium, France, Germany and Italy, and integrate […] More

Jerry Hogge, deputy group president of Leidos’ health solutions group, said interoperability and connectivity are among key features the U.S. Defense Department want from the agency’s future electronic health records system, EHRintelligence reported Thursday. Jennifer Bresnick interviewed Hogge along with Jim Traficant, managing director of Accenture Federal Services, and Travis Dalton, general manager of Cerner‘s […] More

An Elbit Systems subsidiary has been selected to test the Department of Homeland Security‘s broadband services for public safety operations. Elbit Systems of America will demonstrate WideBridge, which works to combine mission systems with the Federal Information Processing Standards-approved BlackBerry BES10 workspace and Etherstack’s P.25 networks, Elbit Systems said Tuesday. “Ongoing efforts to establish important interoperable broadband solutions for the FirstNet […] More

Vencore has won a nearly $15 million contract with the General Services Administration to operate and maintain the Public Buildings Service‘s property data management system. PBS uses the REXUS system to manage federally owned and leased real estate properties under the four-year task order, Vencore said Thursday. “Through this task order, and our position on the ITDS BPA, we will […] More

Boeing has wrapped up a design review on a U.S. Air Force communication and information sharing system following the technology’s demonstration on various platforms. Boeing developed the Talon HATE system to consolidate data from fighter networks, national sources and joint command and control infrastructure for data-link transmission to joint aircraft, ship and ground stations, Boeing said Tuesday. “The Boeing team demonstrated communications […] More