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The 11th annual America’s Transportation Awards has recognized the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation’s $24.2 million Hunter Station Bridge project for its innovative use of technology for bridge rehabilitation and replacement. Dewberry said Friday that it served as the prime consultant for the Tionesta Township, Pa., project, which won Best Use of Technology and Innovation in the medium […] More

Global professional services company EY has announced plans to spend $1 billion to develop cloud-based platforms and managed service offerings intended for both the public and private sectors. EY said Sunday the two-year investment effort will support the creation of technology products, client services, innovation programs and the company’s ecosystem across the software, audit, cyber, digital tax, financial and […] More

Leaders from the geospatial world have formed a council that would facilitate collaboration in the industry, particularly among companies and representative trade organizations. Jack Dangermond, president of Redlands, Calif.-based Esri, provider of geographic information system software, web geographic information systems and geodatabase management applications, will serve as the chairman and founder of the World Geospatial Industry […] More

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has launched a market survey to identify potential vendors that can offer a technology designed to analyze the interaction between sensors within a limited sensor network for first responders. A FedBizOpps notice posted Saturday says the agency looks to utilize a multi-protocol analyzer platform that can assess signals […] More

Mitch Stevison, vice president of air and missile defense systems at Raytheon, said at the Space and Missile Defense Symposium he believes leadership in the government and industry amid the rapid growth of technology is key to U.S. defense missions. He made the statement during a panel discussion that tackled evolving space and missile threats, technology […] More

Austal USA has authenticated the keel of the 11th Spearhead-class expeditionary fast transport ship at the company’s shipyard in Mobile, Ala. EPF 11 or the future USNS Puerto Rico is set to enter construction following the ceremony, and will be the third U.S. Navy ship to carry the island’s name, Naval Sea Systems Command said Thursday. Expeditionary fast transport […] More

Northrop Grumman has opened a facility in Ventura County, Calif., for the company’s Astro Aerospace business to produce satellite structures and other space-based hardware. The unit will use the 140,000-square-foot center located in Oxnard to build deployable technology such as boom and mast subsystems, mesh reflectors, solar arrays, antennas and planar systems, Northrop said Friday. Rep. […] More

The International Association for Continuing Education and Training has given DynCorp International subsidiary Phoenix Consulting a re-accreditation status which will allow the company to offer IACET Continuing Education Units for five years. DynCorp said Thursday that Phoenix Consulting will now join over 500 organizations around the world authorized to use the IACET name and accredited provider logo on […] More

Lockheed Martin has received a $47 million contract modification to procure upgrade kits and associated spares for the U.S. Navy’s submarine electronic warfare support system. The Defense Department said Thursday the company’s rotary and mission systems business will also assemble, integrate and test and deliver the AN/BLQ-10 modernization kits by December 2020. The system is designed to locate and […] More

The joint venture of Boeing and Textron’s Bell Helicopter subsidiary has secured a $74.2 million contract to repair 23 items the U.S. Navy uses on the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft. Bell-Boeing Joint Program Office will perform work at contractor facilities located in Fort Worth, Texas, and Ridley Park, Pa., through August next year. The Naval Supply Systems Command […] More

Dell Technologies‘ VMware subsidiary has agreed to buy a Dell EMC software suite designed to provide communication service providers with root cause analysis management and assurance tools as they launch services on existing and 5G networks. VMware said Thursday it will integrate the Dell EMC Service Assurance Suite offering into its network functions virtualization portfolio for the telecommunications sector, […] More

Galois has formed a new software re-engineering company in a push to help Defense Department customers reconfigure complex and large embedded systems. The Tangram Flex spinoff aims to use “smart” tools in efforts to update cyber-physical platforms and other subsystems that support DoD missions. Galois said Thursday. “Despite all the advancements in technology to date, it often takes years […] More