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  • SPA Lands Acquisition Oversight Support Contract With JIDA; Kirk Donald Comments
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    SPA Lands Acquisition Oversight Support Contract With JIDA; Kirk Donald Comments

    Systems Planning and Analysis has been awarded a potential three-year, $7.3 million contract to provide acquisition management support services for the Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Agency. SPA said July 23 it will work to develop policies, procedures, systems and learning materials related to reporting, systemic analysis, program management and other aspects of acquisitions for JIDA’s Acquisition Policy […] More

  • USAF Awards $82M Propulsion R&D Contract to Engineering Research and Consulting
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    USAF Awards $82M Propulsion R&D Contract to Engineering Research and Consulting

    Engineering Research and Consulting has won a five-year, $82 million contract to carry out research and development efforts for the U.S. Air Force’s Propulsion Sciences III program. The cost-plus-fixed-fee contract was awarded through a competitive procurement process and covers support for the Air Force Research Laboratory, the Defense Department said Monday. The Alabama-based contractor will […] More

  • TCS Lands Tennessee Contract Extension for 911 Platform; Curtis Sutton Comments
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    TCS Lands Tennessee Contract Extension for 911 Platform; Curtis Sutton Comments

    TeleCommunication Systems has been awarded a six-year, $20 million contract extension to continue to provide integration and management services related to the implementation of its emergency communications platform across Tennessee. Tennessee residents will continue to use TCS’ Next Generation 9-1-1 system to place calls and send emergency texts, videos and photos to communication dispatchers via […] More

  • Deloitte-Exelon Team to Help North American Utilities Implement NERC Cyber Defense Standards
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    Deloitte-Exelon Team to Help North American Utilities Implement NERC Cyber Defense Standards

    Deloitte and public utility holder Exelon have forged a partnership to implement Critical Infrastructure Protection version 5 standards in an effort to protect North America’s bulk power system from potential cyber attacks. Deloitte said Monday the CIP standards from the North America Reliability Corp. were created through the utility sector’s regulatory requirements that aim to ensure the electric […] More

  • Lockheed, PowerAmerica Forge Bandgap Microelectronics Partnership; Jeff Wilcox Comments
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    Lockheed, PowerAmerica Forge Bandgap Microelectronics Partnership; Jeff Wilcox Comments

    Lockheed Martin and manufacturing institute PowerAmerica have teamed up to develop and commercialize wide bandgap microelectronic tools the companies will build to reduce sizes electronic components and mitigate potential energy losses. “Wide bandgap semiconductors have huge potential for aerospace and defense, especially in embedded power systems and high-power radio frequency applications,” Jeff Wilcox, vice president of […] More

  • Oak Ridge Lab Taps Citrix Tool for Mobile Device Mgmt; Tina Snyder Comments
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    Oak Ridge Lab Taps Citrix Tool for Mobile Device Mgmt; Tina Snyder Comments

    The Energy Department‘s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has moved to adopt a Citrix-built platform in an effort to centralize mobile device management operations, GCN reported Thursday. Stephanie Kanowitz writes ORNL mobile managers previously used two different MDM services to manage the national lab’s bring-your-own-device initiative and laboratory-owned devices but decided to implement the Citrix-developed tool […] More

  • PwC Wins $12M DHA Performance Mgmt Task Order Via GSA’s BPA
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    PwC Wins $12M DHA Performance Mgmt Task Order Via GSA’s BPA

    PricewaterhouseCoopers Public Sector LLP will continue to provide process improvement and performance management support services for the Defense Health Agency under a $12.2 million task order awarded through a blanket purchase agreement of the General Services Administration. The Defense Department said Friday the contract covers support for DHA’s Healthcare Operations Directorate, assistant defense secretary and […] More

  • Integrated Data Services Lands $17M Air Force SME Contract for Financial Mgmt Tool
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    Integrated Data Services Lands $17M Air Force SME Contract for Financial Mgmt Tool

    Integrated Data Services has secured a three-year, $16.9 million contract to provide subject matter expertise for the U.S. Air Force’s Web-based financial management system. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract also covers the acquisition of services for the implementation and maintenance of the Web Comprehensive Cost and Requirements platform, the Defense Department said Friday. The contractor will perform work […] More

  • Marine Corps Issues 1st IOC for Lockheed F-35B Squadron; Jon Davis Comments
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    Marine Corps Issues 1st IOC for Lockheed F-35B Squadron; Jon Davis Comments

    The U.S. Marine Corps has designated a group of 10 Lockheed Martin-built F-35B fighter jets for initial operational capability to become the first military service branch to declare the plane ready for worldwide deployment. “(Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 121) has ten aircraft in the Block 2B configuration with the requisite performance envelope and weapons clearances, to include the training, […] More

  • Iron Bow’s Ray Harris: CIOs Consider Operational Factors in IT Systems Procurement for ‘Internet of Things’
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    Iron Bow’s Ray Harris: CIOs Consider Operational Factors in IT Systems Procurement for ‘Internet of Things’

    Ray Harris, chief information officer at Iron Bow Technologies, has said that most corporate CIOs focus on the operational aspect when purchasing and managing information technology systems in an effort to leverage the Internet of Things. Harris advised CIOs to conduct pilot testing of IoT-based projects to determine their capabilities before they launch large-scale programs, Iron Bow’s TechSource […] More

  • Army Taps Motorola Solutions Software for VoIP Communications; Michael Thurston Comments
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    Army Taps Motorola Solutions Software for VoIP Communications; Michael Thurston Comments

    The U.S. Army has purchased a Motorola Solutions-built software platform intended to facilitate communication between disparate devices, the branch website said Thursday. The service branch will integrate the WAVE software tool with its tactical communications network to meet program requirements of the Program Executive Office Command, Control and Communications – Tactical in Maryland. WAVE is designed to convert […] More

  • Boeing to Relocate Aircraft Sustainment, Modernization Division in Oklahoma City
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    Boeing to Relocate Aircraft Sustainment, Modernization Division in Oklahoma City

    Boeing has begun construction work on a new facility in Oklahoma City as part of its plan to move the aircraft sustainment and modernization division’s headquarters there. The company said Wednesday it will open the 290,000-square-foot building in the summer of 2016 to accommodate personnel involved in research and development and engineering operations. Leanne Caret, president […] More