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A team of Harris robotics specialists will demonstrate a company-made robot at an ongoing event in Thailand that features explosive ordnance disposal and counter improvised explosive device technologies and methods. Harris said Wednesday its T7 EOD robotic platform will be showcased at this week’s Raven’s Challenge that aims to bring together multinational, multiservice teams to collaborate on realistic EOD scenarios. “Years of research and continuous […] More

Washington Headquarters Services has awarded American Systems a potential five-year, $52 million contract to provide professional engineering services to the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Developmental Test and Evaluation. American Systems said Friday its warfare area professionals will work to manage, review and evaluate approximately 150 major defense acquisition program and major automated information […] More

Phase One Consulting Group has obtained funds of an undisclosed sum that will support the company’s federal business as well as modernization efforts in the federal information technology sector. Alexandria, Virginia-based Phase One said Thursday that Salesforce‘s corporate investment group Salesforce Ventures serves as one of the consulting firm’s investors. Dave Rey, executive vice president for Salesforce’s North America public sector […] More

Teresa Weipert, senior vice president of Sutherland Global Services‘ government solutions business, has suggested federal agencies should collaborate with the private sector to deliver services with digital technology. She wrote in a guest piece published Friday on Nextgov that public-private partnerships are a good starting point for customer-focused innovation programs in the national security, transportation, education and healthcare sectors. “Customer service innovation […] More

DigitalGlobe, CosmiQ Works, NVIDIA and Amazon Web Services have collaborated to develop a web-based repository of satellite imagery and training data that could support the development of machine learning and deep learning algorithms. DigitalGlobe said Thursday the SpaceNet repository provides open access to curated, high-resolution satellite imagery that includes the company’s multi-spectral satellite imagery and 200,000 curated building footprints from Brazil. The imagery […] More

ManTech International has secured a potential three-year, $24 million task order from the Department of Homeland Security to prototype a joint service-oriented architecture for use in border security operations. The company said Tuesday it will develop the tool to help DHS’ Customs and Border Protection personnel integrate operational data and gain situational awareness in real time. Daniel Keefe, president and chief […] More