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Lockheed Martin has completed its work to update a ground control system that supports the U.S. Air Force‘s Global Positioning System satellite constellation. Lockheed said Thursday the Commercial Off-the-Shelf Upgrade #2 project is part of the Air Force’s multi-year plan to modernize the GPS constellation’s legacy Operational Control Segment. CUP2 became fully operational on Oct. 15 and began […] More

Paul Smith, senior vice president and general manager of Red Hat‘s U.S. public sector business, has identified the use of open source in development models as a “de facto setting” for digital transformation initiatives at agencies. Smith said Nov. 2 at the 2016 Red Hat Government Symposium in Arlington, Virginia that the government’s open-first strategy toward digital transformation “is absolute foundation for […] More

The U.S. Army has awarded CACI International a three-year, $79 million task order to provide intelligence systems engineering support for the military branch’s intelligence and information warfare directorate. CACI said Tuesday it will work to mature technologies in order to fulfill the Army’s intelligence and electronic warfare requirements in collaboration with academia. Under the task order, the company and […] More

Advanced Concepts and Technologies International has received a three-year, $21 million task order to provide acquisition support services to the cybersecurity and communications office within the Department of Homeland Security‘s national programs and protection directorate. ACT I CEO Michael Niggel said in October the company will assist the DHS NPPD CS&C office in efforts to safeguard cyber and communication infrastructure […] More