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Iron Mountain has opened an information management facility in Arkansas that is built to store up to 200,000 cubic feet of records and 260,000 data tapes for enterprise customers. The 23,000-square-foot building joins other local and regional Iron Mountain facilities that support data management, imaging and secure shredding operations, the company said Thursday. “We chose Little […] More

MapR Technologies and C3 IoT have formed an alliance to build an end-to-end platform designed to facilitate the development and deployment of applications based on internet of things and artificial intelligence. The companies will collaborate on go-to-market programs and technology development efforts to accelerate the roll out of applications that work to leverage the cloud, […] More

Joe DellaVedova, a spokesman for the F-35 joint program office, has said a $60 million contract awarded to Lockheed Martin would support the second phase of the Blueprint for Affordability program in an effort to cut the production costs of the F-35 fighter jet, Defense News reported Wednesday. The U.S. Navy on Monday awarded the $60 […] More

Cubic‘s global defense segment has received a potential $61 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to update the U.S. Air Force‘s P5 air combat training system. The sole-source contract includes modifications for the company to help the service branch address emerging government requirements for the P5 system and supporting infrastructure, the Defense Department said Wednesday. P5 CTS is designed to train warfighters from […] More

An ASRC Federal subsidiary and Xentity have won spots on a potential five-year, $25 million contract to provide geospatial support services for the Agriculture Department’s Forest Service. A contract award notice posted Tuesday on FedBizOpps says ASRC Federal Data Networx and Xentity will provide vector and imagery-based data analysis, geospatial training, remote sensing and services related to the […] More

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin a potential eight-year, $60.5 million contract to perform wing durability test on the company-built C-130 Hercules transport aircraft. Lockheed will carry out test preparation, test operations, residual strength test, test teardown and inspection, outer wing test and technical data delivery under the sole-source contract, the Defense Department said […] More

A joint venture of BWX Technologies and Aptim has received a potential two-year, $140 million contract extension to continue to provide support services at nuclear propulsion plants a Bechtel subsidiary manages for the U.S. Navy. BWSR will extend its decommissioning, demolition and infrastructure support for complex systems and components at Bechtel Marine Propulsion Corp.-managed facilities under the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program, […] More

NASA will launch the Airbus-built replacement satellites for the U.S.-German Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment satellite duo aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in the first quarter of 2018, Space Flight Now reported Tuesday. The space agency inked a shared launch agreement with Iridium and the Helmholtz Center-Potsdam German Research Center for Geosciences called GFZ to launch the […] More

SAP SE has announced the initial list of partners that will participate in a blockchain co-innovation program which aims to provide an opportunity for participants to explore the applications of blockchain technologies. The SAP Leonardo Blockchain Co-Innovation program looks to integrate a digital ledger system onto digital supply chain, Internet of Things and manufacturing services, SAP […] More

Siemens plans to invest more than $20 million annually in a research and development center in Chicago that will focus on internet of things and cloud computing applications for the company’s control products and systems business. The Siemens Building Technologies CPS Software House is scheduled to open next month and seeks to employ more than 100 professionals who […] More

The Defense Information Systems Agency has awarded Xtera a contract to build a new regional submarine cable system designed to offer high-bandwidth subsea connectivity. Xtera said Wednesday it will provide a turnkey system that consists of undersea optical repeaters, cable, marine services and the company’s Nu-Wave Optima submarine line terminal equipment under the contract. Nu-Wave Optima is a dense wavelength division multiplexing […] More

Robert Kleppinger, a senior client partner at IBM responsible for federal government contracts, told Data Center Dynamics in an interview published Tuesday how the company plans to apply its Watson cognitive computing system to the U.S. Army’s maintenance and logistics activities under a $135 million recompete contract. “Ideally, the plan is to bring this further, probably next to […] More