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Galois has formed a new election technology company as part of an effort to help election officials secure and verify polls with open source software and systems. The Free & Fair spinoff will provide voting technology that utilizes commercial off-the-shelf hardware and works to generate verifiable evidence of election results, Galois said Monday. Joseph Kiniry, an elections technology […] More
General Dynamics’ mission systems business unit has received a contract modification from the U.S. Navy to produce more than 30 digital modular radios for use onboard naval surface vessels and submarines. The latest order for the AN/USC-61(C) radios represents the sixth option under a contract General Dynamics received in 2010, the company said Thursday. Paul Parent, vice president […] More
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is set to sponsor a Proposers Day from June 22 to 23 to inform industry on the objectives of an upcoming Defense Sciences Office broad agency announcement. DARPA said Wednesday the event is intended to discuss basic or applied research ideas in mathematics, modeling and design; physical systems; human-machine systems; […] More
The U.S. Navy plans to update its MH-60 Seahawk helicopters in order to extend the service life of the aircraft through 2035, Navy Times reported Tuesday. Meghann Myers writes the Naval Air Systems Command must first assess the service life of the airframes in order to look into the extent of wear prior to extending the aircraft’s […] More
Planned Systems International Inc. has completed a global deployment of the company’s blood donor management system for the Defense Department‘s Armed Services Blood Program. The system employs a centralized database built to manage and monitor blood donor registration, screening and blood products for U.S. military and civilian personnel, PSI said May 12. PSI CEO Terry Lin said the […] More
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has received a $18.2 million contract to design, test and deliver a cryocooler for NASA’s Landsat-9 spacecraft. Ball Aerospace will build two stages of cooling materials into the Thermal Infrared Sensor-2 instrument Cryocooler, NASA said Tuesday. The first cooling stage will be for a layer of thermal shielding and the […] More
Raytheon and the U.S. Navy have evaluated the company’s anti-ship missile defense system in a series of test shots that simulated advanced threat scenarios. During the tests, the SeaRAM system worked to detect two inbound supersonic missiles and launch the Rolling Airframe Missile Block 2 guided missiles to intercept the targets, Raytheon said Tuesday. The Navy conducted the […] More
Elbit Systems‘ U.S. subsidiary has selected Leonardo-Finmeccanica to provide a radar system to support training at the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School in Patuxent River, Maryland. The school will use the Vixen 500E active electronically scanned array radar for student training operations aboard a C-26 aircraft, Leonardo-Finmeccanica said Friday. The radar is set for delivery in mid-2016 and will […] More
Parsons has been awarded a $1.7 billion contract to construct two deep wastewater tunnels and link sewers for the city of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. The company will perform feasibility studies, preliminary design, tender preparation, program management of the construction phases and supervision of the pumping station construction, Parsons said Tuesday. The tunnels will […] More
NTT Data has expanded the company’s North America service delivery center located in Louisville, Kentucky as part of an effort to grow its financial services business in the U.S. Customers will have access to on-shore delivery support through the center and the company will hire more than 300 positions in Louisville for financial services jobs, NTT […] More
CAE has delivered the naval warfare training system to the Swedish Navy and kicked off the installation process at the Naval Warfare Centre in Karlskrona, Sweden. The Naval Tactical Mission Trainer suite consists of 52 student stations and 13 instructor operator stations, CAE said Tuesday. Ian Bell, CAE’s vice president and general manager for Europe, […] More
The U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation has introduced a new certification program for U.S. and international GEOINT professionals across industry, military, academia and government. USGIF officially unveiled the the Universal GEOINT Certification Program during the general session at its GEOINT 2016 Symposium, USGIF said Monday. The certification program requires three exams for applicants to obtain the GIS […] More
