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The U.S. Marine Corps has kicked tests on the first squadron of the Lockheed Martin-built F-35B aircraft as the service prepares for an initial operating capability declaration scheduled in July, Breaking Defense reported Tuesday. Colin Clark writes the 12 Marines checked the aircraft and its maintenance procedures on Monday in Yuma, Arizona. Marine spokesman Maj. Paul […] More
XL Associates Inc. has unveiled a new cyber threat mitigation service offering that is intended to help federal agencies respond to notices generated by the government’s threat reduction tool. XTract is designed to prioritize large volumes of notices produced by the Einstein 3 Accelerated tool into a few incidents for agencies to act on specific […] More
The General Services Administration has narrowed down the scope of technologies listed in the Alliant II governmentwide acquisition contract, Federal Times reported Wednesday. Aaron Boyd writes a GSA survey last year that assessed the maturity of 17 technology categories helped to inform the updated list of 10 technologies. GSA has also released a request for […] More
Inmarsat and the European Space Agency have agreed to jointly seek fresh technologies for developing mobile satellite communications services with an initial funding of $4.6 million. Under a new public private partnership, Inmarsat will conduct a nine-month feasibility study to expand mobile satellite services, create an open architecture with standard interfaces, build smaller terminals and […] More
Honeywell International has received a five-year, $41,432,253 award from the Defense Logistics Agency to produce radar altimeters for the U.S. Army’s avionics equipment. Federal civilian agencies will also use the APN-209 radar altimeters under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Defense Department said Wednesday. Honeywell will perform work in Arizona through July 14, 2020. The radar features […] More
The Pentagon Force Protection Agency has conducted a cross-agency communications exercise to assess how the agency shares information with mission partners through the use of a security tool developed by AtHoc. AtHoc said Tuesday the U.S. Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force and the Department of Homeland Security deployed AtHoc Connect to send and receive information, control the […] More
Science Applications International Corp. has signed up for the Blackboard Partnerships program to deploy the company’s training materials to clients through Blackboard’s learning management system. SAIC customers will have access to coursework, experimentation, war-gaming, analysis services and education tools tailored for various requirements through the Blackboard Learn portal under the partnership, SAIC said Tuesday. Josh […] More
Cerner has been contracted to refresh the Military Health System’s anatomic pathology laboratory information system for the Defense Health Agency. The company will install its server hardware, peripheral equipment and services in the Defense Department’s anatomic pathology laboratories worldwide and issue the company’s CoPathPlus software licenses, Cerner said July 8. DHA intends to implement CoPathPlus to help the […] More
Lockheed Martin has been awarded a follow-on contract to build additional Sniper targeting pods for the Pakistan Air Force‘s F-16 fleet under a foreign military sales agreement. The company will also work to upgrade 22 Sniper ATPs in addition to the production of 15 pods, Lockheed Martin said Tuesday. The pods are scheduled for delivery […] More
Infosys has begun to offer the company’s suite of software services on Verizon Enterprise‘s cloud offerings in a software-as-a-service model. Financial clients in the U.S. will have access to Infosys’ Finacle suite via Verizon Cloud, Verizon said Thursday. Infosys has deployed Finacle Core Banking, Finacle e-Banking and Finacle Mobile Banking on Verizon’s managed cloud infrastructure. […] More
CAE has been selected to produce additional visual systems for the Eurofighter training program under a contract with Eurofighter Simulation Systems. CAE will provide new Medallion-6000 image generators, display systems and database development tools for the Eurofighter Typhoon Aircrew Synthetic Training Aids program, CAE said Monday. ESS designed the Eurofighter training systems for the U.K., […] More
IBM and Seagate Technology have developed a fresh software defined storage appliance by combining IBM’s storage software with Seagate’s high performance computing storage platform. Seagate has consolidated its ClusterStor storage service into IBM’s Spectrum Scale software for users to handle storage demands for genomic research, digital design, media, data analytics, financial model analysis and electronic […] More
