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Joe Kim, a senior vice president and global chief technology officer at SolarWinds, has said federal information technology managers should implement network monitoring tools to address challenges associated with the adoption of software-defined data centers. Kim wrote in a GCN article published Tuesday those SDDC-related challenges include the need to manage service-level agreements and configuration issues. Government […] More

Charles Stark Draper Laboratory has secured a five-year, $36.9 million contract  perform technical and analytical services in support of the Missile Defense Agency‘s efforts to evaluate, maturate, integrate and test guidance, navigation and control technologies. The Defense Department said Wednesday Draper Lab will also aid research analysis on sensors; modeling and simulation; radiation hardening and survivability; precision targeting […] More

Japan has asked the U.S. government to use a new radar for integration with a ground-based version of the Aegis ballistic missile defense platform the East Asian country plans to launch by 2023 in an effort to counter threats posed by North Korea, Reuters reported Wednesday. Sources familiar with the matter told Reuters Japan wants to equip the Aegis […] More

Vencore has received a potential $6.4 million task order from the U.S. Air Force to continue to provide scientific and analytical support services for the service branch’s technical applications center. The company said Wednesday it will carry out work in Melbourne, Florida, under the follow-on order to support the development of AFTAC’s modular optimized operations […] More

The U.S. Navy and Missile Defense Agency have test-fired two Raytheon-made Standard Missile-6 Dual I missiles using the Lockheed Martin-built Aegis Combat System  installed on the guided missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones. Lockheed said Wednesday its Aegis platform helped the SM-6 missile detect, track and intercept a ballistic missile target in flight during the Flight Test Standard Missile–27 Event 2. […] More

Iron Mountain has opened a new $4.5 million, 11,600-square-foot customer welcome center called the Guardian Gateway in western Pennsylvania. The facility is located at the company’s underground campus in Boyers that houses storage, imaging, data center as well as data management and restoration operations, Iron Mountain announced Tuesday. “We have deep roots in Butler County and are happy to continue […] More

ViaSat has received a contract of undisclosed value to supply a cybersecurity platform for U.S. military users to protect wearable computing devices against threats. The ViaSat Mobile Dynamic Defense software will work to secure iGov‘s Tactical Local Area Network Field Computing Device-Wearable platforms that are designed to provide dismounted soldiers with a suite of situational awareness and […] More

Spaceflight Industries‘ BlackSky division has received a two-year, $16.4 million contract to build a cloud-based geospatial intelligence broker platform for the Air Force Research Laboratory. BlackSky will develop the platform to help government users collect and analyze GEOINT data from multiple data sources worldwide, Spaceflight said Tuesday. “Easy access and streamlined delivery of timely and relevant […] More

The U.S. Special Operations Command has awarded Trellisware Technologies a five-year, $40 million contract to supply Advanced Tactical Scalable Mobile Ad-hoc Network radios to USSOCOM’s Special Operations Forces Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics Center. USSOCOM granted the award following the third phase of a Small Business Innovation Research Program, the Defense Department said Tuesday. San Diego, California-based Trellisware will receive $54,759 […] More

Battelle and Aerobotix have demonstrated on a mock-up of a military aircraft’s air inlet duct a software platform designed to predict collisions of robotic systems with sensitive industrial components and parts. Battelle said Tuesday its PathPlan software worked to protect the robotic platform and aircraft from potential collisions through prediction of the robot’s movement based on […] More