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The Commerce Department‘s National Technical Information Service has selected 35 organizations via a merit-based process to serve as joint venture partners tasked to work with NTIS on data projects to be performed for federal agencies. Commerce said Wednesday the NTIS JV private sector partners, that include small and large businesses, nonprofit and research groups, were selected as a result […] More

BAE Systems has released a report that offers an analysis on money laundering operations and provides suggestions on how industry can help implement anti-money laundering measures. The company said Wednesday Robert Mazur, a former U.S. federal agent, will join BAE to unveil the report titled “How Dirty Money Moves” in London and share his insights […] More

DCNS and Airbus Group‘s helicopter business unit have partnered to design a vertical take off and landing drone system for France’s navy. Airbus said Thursday DCNS will design and develop components for the ship-based operation and integration of the VSR700 drone such as payload specification and validation as well as mission data links. DCNS will also build the drone’s mission system […] More

NineSigma has received a five-year contract from the General Services Administration to provide support services to federal agencies in the development and management of prize-based innovation challenge projects. GSA awarded the contract through the 00CORP Professional Services Schedule, NineSigma said Wednesday. Denys Resnick, chief growth officer at NineSigma, said a prize-based innovation contest is an approach […] More

Lockheed Martin has implemented an energy storage system at the company’s facility in Syracuse, New York, and selected electric utility firm ENGIE to support operation of the system. The GridStar lithium storage is designed to help Lockheed reduce power consumption and carbon emissions as well as to provide energy supply to the New York Independent System Operator, […] More

Intelligence community venture capital firm In-Q-Tel and MapD have partnered to update certain features of the latter company’s graphics processing unit-powered database and visualization platform. MapD said Wednesday it also raised Series A capital funds from IQT, Nvidia, Vanedge Capital, Verizon Wireless and GV, formerly called Google Ventures. “CPU-bound database and analytics systems have struggled to keep pace with the massive growth […] More

A United Arab Emirates-based aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul services provider has developed a network infrastructure based on Juniper Networks-built switching, security and network management technology. Advanced Military Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul Center adopted Juniper’s  SRX Series Services Gateways, EX Series Ethernet Switches and Junos Space Management Platform to manage the performance, scalability and capacity of AMMROC  operations, Juniper […] More

The Defense Logistics Agency expects to issue a request for proposals by Nov. 1 for a potential five-year, $11.5 million contract that will require Bose-built headsets. The US Federal Contractor Registration said Monday the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract will cover the delivery of TriPort Tactical Headset Series 2 units to the New Cumberland, Pennsylvania-based DLA Distribution Facility. Interested contractors must be registered under the System […] More

Raytheon has joined the Estonian Defense Industry Association as the trade organization’s sixth international member during an EDIA breakfast roundtable. Estonian Defense Minister Hannes Hanso and John Harris, CEO of Raytheon International, attended the roundtable to discuss transatlantic security cooperation and industry collaboration issues, Raytheon said Tuesday. The agreement comes nearly a year-and-a-half after Raytheon and […] More

Tribalco has received a task order of an undisclosed value to engineer, furnish, install, secure and test video teleconference equipment for the U.S. Army. Bethesda, Maryland-based Tribalco said Monday it will serve as the prime contractor on the task order and perform EFIS&T activities as part of the military branch’s video teleconference endpoint modernization program. The company has provided […] More