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Prith Banerjee, a senior client partner at consulting firm Korn Ferry, has been named to Cubic‘s board of directors in a move that takes effect on Saturday. Cubic said Thursday Banerjee will advise the San Diego-based company’s leadership team on innovation efforts and brings research, development, technology, engineering and academic work experience to the board. He currently […] More
Acendre has received Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification to offer cloud-based technology built to help organizations manage human resources. Prior to approval, an accredited third-party assessment organization and FedRAMP’s program management office assessed Accendre’s talent management software offering for government agencies, the company said Wednesday. The company also offers people analytics, recruitment and performance management platforms […] More
NASA will collaborate with General Atomics’ aeronautical systems business, PAE ISR and Textron‘s Bell subsidiary on a two-year project to demonstrate commercial unmanned aircraft systems through various flight missions. The space agency said Wednesday it selected the three UAS developers to conduct multiple flight demonstrations at an altitude of more than 500 feet by 2020 under cooperative agreements worth up to […] More
The U.S. Air Force has begun to accept bids for an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that covers air support services for joint terminal attack controller training. USAF said in a solicitation notice posted Friday it seeks providers of “realistic” adversary air threats necessary for the military branch to conduct up to 30K sorties a year within the continental U.S., Alaska and […] More
Carahsoft Technology has agreed to offer virtualization and programmable graphics processing unit-powered deep learning tools from Nvidia to public sector customers through NASA’s Solutions for Enterprise-wide Procurement vehicle. Nvidia designed its technology offerings to help clients analyze huge amounts of data, implement virtual desktop infrastructure and manage data security and information technology performance, Carahsoft said Tuesday. Products covered by the companies’ agreement […] More
The U.S. Army‘s Rapid Capabilities Office has selected a team from federally funded research and development center operator Aerospace Corp. as the winner of a competition that sought artificial intelligence and machine learning tools that could support electronic warfare missions. Platypus Aerospace won the $100K first-place award at the Army Signal Classification Challenge while TeamAU — a group […] More
The Department of Homeland Security collaborated with the FBI, Microsoft and Facebook to inform state and local government officials at a recent joint briefing about cybersecurity initiatives ahead of midterm elections. DHS said Saturday the event aimed to encourage public and private stakeholders to exchange information on efforts to safeguard election infrastructure against foreign interference. Christopher Krebs, undersecretary of DHS’ […] More
NASA obtained data from its latest observation campaign of the Ball Aerospace-built Kepler spacecraft, despite the observatory having only a little amount of fuel onboard. The space agency said Friday it put the space telescope on hibernation mode after NASA found that the craft’s tank was running on low fuel. Kepler was roused from sleep Aug. 2, […] More
CACI International plans to offer the U.S. Navy‘s Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division with a wide range of support for training and simulation platforms through a potential $980M indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract awarded in late July. The company said Thursday the award represents new work for its logistics and material readiness market area. The IDIQ runs for nine years […] More
Harris has pledged to support science, technology, engineering and math education through grant funds in a move to inspire future space innovators. The company said Thursday that, for the third consecutive year, it will back the Space Foundation’s Space in the Community program that seeks to inform students, teachers, parents and community members about space and […] More
Unisys has received a potential six-year, $242.4M contract to provide storage, server and data center services to the Virginia Information Technologies Agency. VITA said Wednesday it selected the company after the agency and experts from the state’s executive branch units conducted in-depth studies and evaluations of proposals for the project. Virginia Chief Information Officer Nelson […] More
Carahsoft Technology has agreed to distribute CloudBees‘s suite of automated software delivery platforms to public sector agencies via a NASA-managed governmentwide acquisition vehicle. Government customers will have access to CloudBees Core, which is based on the Jenkins open source automation server, through Carahsoft’s position on the Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement V contract, the company said Tuesday. CloudBees’s product portfolio also includes […] More
