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Riverbed Technology has released a new survey that found nearly all of the 335 federal employee respondents believe latency issues from bandwidth-intensive applications have negatively impacted agency productivity. Riverbed said Tuesday one in three respondents reported that it takes more than 24 hours for an agency to address application failures and crash, freezes, speed and load time […] More

Public benefit corporation data.world and the Defense Department have partnered to launch an open data website that works to provide searchable, machine-readable and downloadable military datasets. Data.World said Thursday that DoD’s Defense Digital Service worked with data owners across the U.S. military to create the new Data.mil platform. The new website is designed to facilitate collaboration, analysis and discussion among journalists, subject […] More

The General Services Administration has posted a request for information to gather industry feedback on the agency’s plans to reopen an acquisition vehicle for office products and supplies. GSA said Wednesday RFI responses will inform the agency’s plans to accept new offers for Multiple Award Schedule 75 – Office Products and Supplies in fiscal year 2017. “This RFI […] More

Zenoss has been awarded multi-site software contract for information technology software and services to support the U.S. Air Force Distributed Common Ground System. Zenoss said Wednesday it will offer its Hybrid IT Monitoring Platform that offers visibility in cloud, physical and virtual environments to federal agencies and public sector organizations. The Air Force Distributed Common Ground System, also known […] More

The National Defense Industrial Association hosted a meeting on Nov. 14 to allow representatives from companies to present their commercial off-the-shelf technology platforms to Will Roper, director of the Defense Department’s strategic capabilities office, the National Defense magazine reported Monday. Sandra I. Erwin writes executives from Allegheny Technologies, Battelle, Creative Micro Systems, Endeavor Robotics, General Atomics, […] More

NASA has begun to solicit proposals for a robotic planetary mission that the space agency aims to launch by the mid-2020s. The agency said Friday the future program will serve as the fourth mission under NASA’s New Frontiers portfolio that includes the New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt; the Juno mission to Jupiter; and the […] More

The U.S. Air Force has awarded a $6.7 million contract to a team comprised of Boeing, Southwest Research Institute and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining to help the military branch develop software and technology for a multi-process robotic system. SwRI said Wednesday the team aims to build and demonstrate a mobile robotic platform that will […] More

The Defense Contract Management Agency and Lockheed Martin co-hosted a retirement ceremony for a U.S. Air Force railroad switch engine that will be given to the Williston, Florida-based educational facility Kirby Family Farm. DCMA said Tuesday the engine 1248 was previously used to transport C-5 Galaxy and C-130 Super Hercules parts as well as autoclaves for B-1 Bomber […] More

BAE Systems plans invest up to $10 million over 10 years in a collaborative network that will work to facilitate development of technologies that can support the Australian military. BAE said Tuesday its Australian subsidiary partnered with the Universities of Adelaide and South Australia to establish the Joint Open Innovation Network with the goal to introduce university engineering scholarship, internship, job placement, defense-related courses […] More

Lockheed Martin has joined the Augmented Reality for Enterprise Alliance at the sponsor level and received a seat on the global membership funded organization’s board of directors. AREA said Tuesday Lockheed will work with AREA enterprise members such as Bosch, Boeing, Huawei and Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Newport News Shipbuilding subsidiary to develop an ecosystem and establish best practices for […] More

Microsoft‘s Azure Government Engineering unit has released a new platform for the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program High Baseline system that will serve as a guide to receive authority-to-operate designations. A blog post published Tuesday says the Azure Blueprint is now available on the FedRAMP High Baseline system and will work to help facilitate the use […] More