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The National Institutes of Health’s Office of Strategic Coordination has selected LCG to manage the main IT systems of NIH’s Common Fund in an effort to help the agency meet its collaboration and content management needs. LCG will handle the SharePoint Common Fund site and the Strategic Initiatives Database of the NIH Common Fund under […] More
Versar Inc. has received $17.1 million in task orders to assist the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the oversight of construction projects in Afghanistan. The company will provide Afghan engineering and technical personnel to support USACE staff under the new task orders, Versar said Tuesday. The task orders are part of Versar’s four-year personal […] More
Lenovo and Nutanix have partnered to jointly develop and offer new hyperconverged appliances to customers through Lenovo’s global channel partners. The Lenovo hyperconverged appliances will feature Nutanix’s software and incorporate Intel technologies to run enterprise applications, databases, virtualized desktops and big data analytics, Lenovo said Wednesday. Yang Yuanqing, chairman and CEO of Lenovo, said the […] More
Lockheed Martin will continue to develop a small unmanned aircraft system that works to adapt to various maritime operations under a $4.6 million contract. The company has begun to build a Vector Hawk drone with fixed-wing, collapsible-wing and tilt-rotor configurations, Lockheed Martin said Tuesday. Jay McConville, Lockheed Martin director of business development for unmanned solutions, said Vector Hawk’s canister deployment and launch functions work […] More
United Technologies Corp. subsidiary Pratt & Whitney has selected Multicut A/S to produce components for the F135 engine under a 10-year procurement agreement. F135 serves as the propulsion system for the F-35 Lightning II aircraft, Pratt & Whitney said Monday. Bennett Croswell, president of Pratt & Whitney military engines, said the contract “reaffirms Pratt & Whitney’s commitment to […] More
Intel and Honeywell have showcased a connected safety tool offering designed to help keep industrial workers and first responders safe as they perform their duty. The Honeywell Connected Worker tool incorporates a mobile hub for sensor data collection and Intel’s Quark SE microcontroller-based devices, Honeywell said Tuesday. “The joint use case from Honeywell and Intel […] More
Lockheed Martin has demonstrated the gun system for the conventional-takeoff-and-landing variant of the F-35 jet in three airborne gunfire bursts during a test flight held in California. The company tested how the internal Gun Airborne Unit-22/A 25-millimeter Gatling gun system works during flight as part of preparations for the gun system’s certification and the U.S. Air Force’s […] More
Microsoft has moved to help enterprise clients consume data streams from Internet of Things devices by incorporating Esri’s location services and spatial analytics to the Microsoft Azure IoT suite. The partnership is intended to provide preconfigured platform services to customers and partners, Esri said Monday. “Our collaboration with Esri will extend the Azure IoT Suite […] More
A Cubic business unit has received a five-and-a-half-year, $52 million contract to update the back office for the New Hampshire Transportation Department’s electronic toll-collection system. Cubic Transportation Systems has begun to develop, test and install the new back office for NHDOT’s E-ZPass system, with initial operation scheduled in 2016, Cubic said Monday. “We look forward to establishing a […] More
A joint venture of Sparton and Ultra Electronics Holdings has received a five-year, $20 million, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to supply sonobuoys to the U.S. Navy. The ERAPSCO JV will tap the Ultra Electronics USSI and Sparton De Leon Springs business units for sonobuoy production requirements under the contract, Sparton said Monday. The companies will manufacture the sonobuoys at Ultra […] More
Lockheed Martin has completed the keel laying for the 15th U.S. Navy Littoral Combat Ship at Fincantieri Marinette Marine in Marinette, Wisconsin. Ship sponsor Sharla Tester welded her initials on a sheet of steel that will be fixed on USS Billings during the ceremony, Lockheed said Monday. “The LCS platform is proving the Navy’s concept of operations […] More
General Dynamics has christened a new guided-missile destroyer at the company’s Bath, Maine-based shipyard. General Dynamics Bath Iron Works started to fabricate the USS Rafael Peralta (DDG 115) in November 2011 and is set to deliver the destroyer to the U.S. Navy in 2016, General Dynamics said Monday. “We all understand the importance of what we […] More
