Dominique Stump

CGI has secured a three-year, $6.1 million contract to design and operate a cloud-based system for England’s environment agency to generate and disseminate flood forecasts. The company said Tuesday that EA’s Future Flood Forecasting System will be designed to run on Microsoft‘s Azure Cloud platform and employ rich data analysis and visualization technologies. CGI will base FFFS on the company’s Digital Insight Platform to support data analytics and […] More

Textron‘s systems advanced information solutions unit has updated a technology platform that works to integrate and manage data from multiple remote platforms such as sensors and information feeds. The company said Tuesday the iCommand 2.5 is designed to help users obtain a single pane view of previously disparate data and attach critical information to raw data necessary for mission planning activities. […] More

A U.S. combat support agency has awarded Norsat International a $3.3 million order for the company’s GLOBETrekker 2.0 portable satellite terminals. GLOBETrekker is designed with a one-touch interface and LinkControl control interface software that works to facilitate automatic satellite acquisition and X-band and Ku-band connectivity worldwide, Norsat said Monday. The company added its terminal offering allows for […] More

Orbit International‘s electronics business group has received a $1.1 million purchase order from the U.S. Navy for unindentified products. The company said Thursday it will deliver the completed units to the military service  in  during second and third quarters of 2017. “This is the second of the two large awards that we were expecting prior to year-end,” […] More

General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business will provide Phase 1 logistics support for MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles to France under a one-year, $24 million delivery order from the U.S. Air Force. The order comes under a foreign military sales contract and work will occur in Poway, California, through Dec. 31, 2017, the Defense Department said Thursday. The Air Force Life Cycle Management […] More

Jacobs Engineering Group has secured a contract to deliver design and engineering services to a New Jersey Transit project that aims to establish a microgrid to help power rail system transit infrastructures in the event of power outages. The company said Wednesday it will help design a central, natural gas-fired power plant, connections to the PJM commercial grid and substations and […] More

The U.S. Navy‘s Board of Inspection and Survey has recommended the General Dynamics-built USS Rafael Peralta guided missile destroyer to join the Navy fleet after the ship completed its acceptance trials. USS Rafael Peralta will be delivered to the Navy in February and will depart from the company’s Bath Iron Works shipyard in the spring to join 34 other Arleigh Burke-class […] More