Dominique Stump

SimplyHome has received a $200,000 grant from the Department of Veterans Affairs to develop a technology platform for voice commands to control assistive technology under the Specially Adapted Housing Assistive Technology program. The company said Tuesday the platform will work to enable physically disabled veterans and service members to use voice commands to trigger pre-customized actions on the technologies installed […] More

The Justice Department has exercised the first option under a previously awarded five-year, $65 million task order to Hill Associates Corporation for information technology management and technical support services to DOJ’s Office of the Chief Information Officer. Hill Associates said Tuesday it will continue to help the department manage wide area network, voice modernization and network infrastructure projects. The company […] More

Force Protection Video Equipment has secured an order from the U.S. Forest Service for LE50 high-definition body camera kits built on Ambarella chip sets. Force Protection Video said Tuesday LE50 is designed to provide 10 hours of 1080-pixel record time or 12 hours of 720p recording, as well as 50 hours of standby time with 32 gigabytes of internal storage. The camera kits […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ sixth National Security Cutter ship for the U.S. Coast Guard has completed the three-day builder’s sea trials held at the Gulf of Mexico. Munro underwent ship propulsion, electrical systems, anchor handling, small boat operations, damage control and combat systems tests as well as a four-hour, full-power propulsion run during the trial, HII said Tuesday. Derek Murphy, HII’s […] More

The Office of Naval Research has awarded Florida State University’s Center for Advanced Power Systems a five-year, $35 million grant to lead a team of scientists and engineers from various universities to help the U.S. Navy build an all-electric ship. The team will work on various energy and machinery aspects such as ship architecture, energy storage and power distribution, Florida […] More

PAR Technology subsidiary Rome Research Corp. will provide teleport commercial satellite services to the Global Information Grid facility located in Lago Patria, Italy as well as other remote sites under a five-year, $13.6 million contract with the U.S. Navy. The Department of Defense uses GIG to receive, manage, store and relay data to military commanders, policymakers and support personnel during national security and intelligence community missions, PAR […] More

NASA has awarded Southern Research a five-year, $10 million contract renewal to continue to support a video imaging system used on the space agency’s WB-57 research aircraft. The Airborne Imaging and Recording System is attached to the WB-57 nose cap and designed to process full motion videos of rockets that ascend into space at a distance of more than 25 miles, Southern Research […] More

Lockheed Martin has completed a demonstration of the new linear optics, guidance system and control actuation system of its Dual Mode Plus laser-guided bomb during two flight tests held at the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division in California. The tests featured two Mk-82 inert warheads that were released from an F/A-18 Super Hornet aircraft to engage fixed targets, the company said Monday. Lockheed […] More

CSRA has partnered with open container platform provider Docker to help the former’s federal government clients migrate to the cloud and manage information technology applications across multiple environments. The collaboration also works to support efforts to update legacy applications and facilitate IT operational flexibility for government agencies, CSRA said Monday. Larry Prior, CSRA president and CEO, said the […] More