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General Dynamics’ land systems business has received a delivery order from the U.S. Army to convert an additional 100 M1A1 Abrams main battle tanks to the M1A2 System Enhancement Package Version 3 configuration. The company said Wednesday the latest configuration works to update the vehicle’s armor, communications and fuel systems. The order falls under a potential three-year, $2.63 billion […] More

United Technologies Corp.‘s aerospace systems business has received a three-year, $64.8 million contract from the U.S. Navy to repair a tiltrotor aircraft constant-frequency generator system for the U.S. Marine Corps and the U.S. Air Force. CFG works to support USMC’s MV-22 and USAF’s CV-22 aircraft, the Defense Department said Wednesday. UTC Aerospace Systems will perform Rockford, Ill., and is expected […] More

IBM and the Air Force Research Laboratory have unveiled an experimental supercomputing machine that will work to mimic the human brain’s neural network to perform pattern recognition and integrated sensory processing functions. AFRL said Tuesday it currently examines applications of the Blue Raven machine at the Information Directorate Advanced Computing Applications Lab located in Rome, N.Y. Blue Raven is equipped with IBM’s TrueNorth software […] More

Explosives experts from Janus Global Operations have cleared a grain processing facility in Tal Afar, Iraq, months after the Iraqi Army drove out Islamic State of Iraq and Syria fighters from the area. The company said Wednesday its teams found and deactivated more than 70 improvised explosive devices, rockets, grenades, mortar and other weapons, and cleared more than 192,000 […] More

A new ICF survey has found that 90 percent of federal agency leaders said they think agencies should make citizen experience a priority in their digital transformation efforts. ICF said Tuesday it polled 500 government program level directors and employees for the Federal Digital Trends 2018 Report and found that 97 percent of respondents said […] More

Teresa Carlson, vice president of worldwide public sector at Amazon Web Services and a four-time Wash100 awardee, has emphasized the company’s work with government clients to help them implement technology that can aid their missions, FedScoop reported Tuesday. “They need to have the most innovative and cutting-edge tools they can,” Carlson was quoted as saying. She noted […] More

KBR‘s government services business has received a potential 51-month, $36.5 million task order to help sustain the U.S. Air Force‘s current intercontinental ballistic missile system. The company said Wednesday that KBRwyle will provide sustainment engineering support for the LGM-30G Minuteman III ICBM weapon and related ground and support equipment. KBRwyle will conduct technical and scientific analyses and offer recommendations to address reliability, […] More

The federal government has asked feedback from industry and academia regarding the proposed development of an applied research center, meant to facilitate the delivery of citizen services through public-private partnerships. A FedBizOpps notice posted Monday says the government wants to learn about the possible objectives, operational focus, governance structure and funding approaches of the Government […] More

General Dynamics’ information technology business held its third annual Cyber Hackathon on July 11 and 12 sponsored by Amazon Web Services and Splunk. This year’s collaborative training exercise, led by GDIT’s Cyber, Cloud and Data & Analytics Communities of Interest, focused on the use of artificial intelligence and machine-learning in the cyber domain, GDIT said […] More