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Battelle has been awarded a three-year, $25 million contract to develop mobile laboratory platforms for the Defense Department. The common analytical lab system will contain instruments designed to help service members and first responders identify and analyze chemical, biological and radiological hazards, Battelle said Monday. Battelle will perform work at the company’s Ohio, Maryland and […] More
Space Exploration Technologies has received a $30 million payment from NASA after the company completed the launch escape system test of its Crew Dragon spacecraft. The spacecraft’s eight SuperDraco engines produced a nearly 15,000-pound thrust and lifted the spacecraft off a platform at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida during the test on Saturday, NASA […] More
LGS Innovations will work as a subcontractor for on an initiative to upgrade the Defense Department’s Research and Engineering Network under a potential 10-year, $750 million contract awarded to CenturyLink in 2012 by the Defense Information Systems Agency. LGS’ task is to develop high-performance network for five supercomputing locations with speeds of 40 gigabits per second for DREN, […] More
The U.S. Navy and Missile Defense Agency have completed the first flight test for a Raytheon-built missile system. Standard Missile-3 Block IIA exhibited nosecone performance, steering control, booster separation, and second and third stage rocket motor separation during live fire at Point Mugu sea range in California, MDA said Saturday. Taylor Lawrence, Raytheon’s missile systems […] More
Kingfisher Systems has been selected to assist the Defense Information Systems Agency in efforts to secure the agency’s information infrastructure. Kingfisher said Friday it will collaborate with Cylab to perform on-site support for the DISA cyber compliance and assessment operation. The goal is to make data assets and information secured and available to authorized users, Kingfisher […] More
Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies has been awarded a potential five-year, $97 million contract to provide support for NASA’s science programs and projects. The company will work to develop instruments and software, collect data, analyze scientific results, develop models and present scientific data, NASA said Friday. SGT will perform work at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt […] More
A new MarketsandMarkets report projects the Asia-Pacific and Latin American regions would drive future growth in the global healthcare mobility solutions market to $84.82 billion by 2020. The market analyst said Thursday both economies have attracted local entrepreneurs and global leaders by modifying healthcare-related regulations and monitoring how policies are implemented. The report also suggests that the growing geriatric population in Japan […] More
Research and Markets has released a new report that predicts the global software-defined storage market will grow 35.2 percent from 2015 through 2019, spurred by increased enterprise use of flash-based storage. The market research firm said Wednesday that platform interoperability is one of the advantages of using SDS in flash-based storage. The report also identified […] More
Todd Akers, vice president for public sector at Acquia, has said proper execution of open data initiatives fuel “innovation across both the public and private sector.†Akers wrote in an opinion piece for Carahsoft published Thursday that a new survey of federal leaders meant to assess the progress of the Digital Government Strategy program has […] More
Frank Kendall – defense undersecretary of acquisition, technology and logistics – and Bill LaPlante — the Air Force‘s acquisition chief — have wrapped up a review for the branch’s Long Range Strike Bomber program, Breaking Defense reported Thursday. “We looked at the design to make sure it’s at the level of maturity it’s supposed to be,†Kendall told Breaking Defense editor […] More
IBM and the British government have pumped a total of $479.7 million in investments into cognitive computing and big data research, Computerworld UK reported Thursday. Margi Murphy writes the amount is meant to expand the Hartree Center at Daresbury. The facility will have access to IBM’s Watson cognitive computer, intellectual property assets and researchers under the technology agreement, […] More
Northrop Grumman has built a ground surveillance aircraft for NATO that is intended to fulfill the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance requirements of the alliance. The wide area surveillance Global Hawk system features a multiplatform radar technology insertion program sensor that works to transmit operational data to commanders, Northrop said Thursday. NATO will use the aircraft in various missions […] More
