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Latest Federal & Government Contracting Companies' News Coverage
Appian and Zoomdata have partnered to combine their business process management and visual analytics offerings in an effort to help customers gain insights from big data. Appian will integrate its SAIL technology into Zoomdata’s interface as part of the agreement, Appian said Tuesday. “By embedding Zoomdata for fast exploration and visualization across both real-time and legacy […] More
IRobot Corp. has been awarded a $4 million contract to produce robots and accessories for the U.S. Navy. The Navy ordered iRobot’s model 110 FirstLook robots and the company will deliver the products through February 2016, iRobot said Wednesday. “iRobot is pleased to provide these state-of-the-art robots to the U.S. Navy as they will help […] More
The U.S. Defense Forensic Science Center has selected Battelle to aid investigators in work to determine the genetic makeup of persons of interest. Investigators will use Battelle’s ExactID genomics software to identify the traits of an individual from an unmatched DNA sample, Battelle said Wednesday. “DNA has long been considered as objective evidence and ExactID greatly […] More
Denmark’s Meteorological Institute has moved to run its climate and weather models on Cray’s supercomputers and storage system under a $6 million contract. Cray said Tuesday that DMI will install the Cray XC supercomputer and Sonexion 2000 storage system at the Icelandic Meteorological Office datacenter in Reykjavik, Iceland. The company is on schedule to deliver the […] More
Windstream has signed up for Hewlett-Packard’s team of managed service providers — the HP PartnerOne program — in a move to deliver cloud services to clients. Windstream will offer private cloud, backup as a service and replication as a service to small, medium and enterprise clients, Windstream said Tuesday. “Windstream’s IT as-a-Service provides our joint […] More
Lockheed Martin has ordered a set of air combat training systems for the F-35 fighter jet from Cubic under a new low rate initial production contract. Cubic will deliver additional 250 JSF P5 systems to Lockheed under the contract, Cubic said Wednesday. The company will perform engineering work for the training systems in San Diego and Fort Walton Beach, […] More
Capstone Corp. has been awarded a task order to continue its analysis work on the U.S. Navy’s air and port operations mission requirements. The company will use operations research modeling, simulation and group decision conferencing techniques to carry out the task, Capstone said Monday. “Selection to continue supporting this task reflects the confidence and trust of […] More
Madeline Weiss, director of the Society for Information Management’s Advanced Practices Council, has said the industry group wants a non-government organization to serve as a cyber hub for information sharing practices, FierceGovernmentIT reported Monday. Dibya Sarkar writes the goal is to establish a cybersecurity information center designed to both gather and analyze cyber threat indicators. […] More
A new Teal Group report forecasts production of unmanned aerial vehicles to reach a total of $93 billion in the next 10 years. Philip Finnegan, Teal Group’s director of corporate analysis and an author of the study, said Friday the market research firm’s 2015 UAV study “calculates the UAV market at 72 percent military, 23 percent consumer, 5 […] More
Richard Spires, CEO of Resilient Network Systems, has highlighted what he calls the root causes of insecure federal information technology infrastructure. Spires wrote in an opinion piece for FCW published Monday that the lack of IT management best practices is one of the factors that lead to data breaches and compromise in several agencies. He […] More
SRI International has won an $8,520,257 contract to assist the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in research for data privacy and privacy science studies. SRI will submit research proposals on how to capture and test technologies to DARPA, the Defense Department said Monday. The company will perform work in Menlo Park, California through Feb. 16, 2020. The Space and […] More
HEBCO has ordered a new multi-purpose display from IEE for the U.S. Air Force’s F15E Strike Eagle program. IEE will produce a 6×6 display system to replace the cathode ray tube in F15 cockpit displays, IEE said Tuesday. “We choose IEE because they have been qualified and fielded on a military fighter aircraft and have […] More
