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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants information on ideas and approaches that could help develop interactive simulation platforms that will work to validate social science research methods. A notice posted Wednesday on FedBizOpps stated DARPA eyes simulations or “forensic social science supercolliders” that could help evaluate social science research methods for using “strong inference” to identify factors that lead to particular human behaviors and […] More

CSRA has won a five-year, $53 million contract to provide systems engineering and technical assistance services to the Joint Integrated Air and Missile Defense Organization. The company said Monday it will continue to perform analysis, assessments, technology demonstrations, wargames and exercises meant to help the agency shape concepts, requirements and operational architectures under the recompete contract. “The Joint Integrated Air and Missile Defense’s challenge […] More

Jeremy Burton, chief marketing officer of Dell Technologies, wrote in a blog entry posted Wednesday the company’s goal is to serve as a partner and a catalyst for enterprise customers that aim to transform their information technology functions. Dell Technologies formed as a result of the merger between Dell and EMC. Burton said the company seeks to help enterprise clients […] More

A subsidiary of L-3 Communications has received a one-year, $49.2 million contract modification to provide logistics support services for the U.S. Air Force‘s T-1A Jayhawk trainer aircraft. The modification exercises an option on a previously awarded contract to L3’s Vertex Aerospace business for contractor-operated maintained base supply, on-equipment maintenance and data services, the Defense Department said Friday. Vertex Aerospace will perform work  through Sept. […] More

Conrad Shipyard will build a welded steel barge to support floating crane services of the Army Corps of Engineers-Rock Island District under a $17.7 million firm-fixed-price contract awarded by the U.S. Army. The Defense Department said Friday USACE received one bid for the procurement effort via the Internet and obligated the full contract amount from the Army’s fiscal 2016 operations […] More

Northrop Grumman has received an $18.3 million delivery order to supply technical refresh mission computers and trays for integration into Lot 13 AH-1Z Viper and UH-1Y Venom helicopters for the U.S. Navy. The company will also produce similar equipment for Pakistan under the foreign military sales program, the Defense Department said Friday. Work will take place in Maryland, Utah and California through December 2018. […] More

AECOM has secured a $4 million contract to design a system for the Indiana Transportation Department to manage information on truck parking availability within the state. The company said Wednesday INDOT’s Truck Parking Information Management System project is part of the $25 million Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery grant from the Mid-American Association of State Transportation Officials. The TIGER program aims […] More

The General Services Administration held an event Thursday to inform vendors of GSA’s  framework to address outdated technology systems in the government. GSA Administrator Denise Turner Roth hosted the technology industry day with agency Chief Technology Officer Navin Vembar; David Shive, acting commissioner for the Technology Transformation Service; Mary Davie, assistant commissioner of integrated technology services; and 18F Executive Director Aaron Snow, GSA said Thursday. The […] More

NASA launched a Lockheed Martin-built spacecraft Thursday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida aboard a United Launch Alliance rocket on a mission to explore and collect a sample from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. Lockheed said Wednesday the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer spacecraft separated from the Atlas V 411 rocket nearly an hour after launch, then autonomously deployed […] More

Blue Origin plans to carry out an unmanned flight test in October to evaluate its New Shepard rocket’s abort system, Space News reported Thursday. Jeff Foust writes the in-flight abort test of the Blue Origin-built suborbital vehicle will occur at the company’s test site in West Texas and aims to demonstrate how the crew capsule would fire its […] More

The State Department has awarded FCi Federal a five-year, $25.5 million prime contract to support DOS diplomatic pouch and mail services. FCi said Thursday it will help the department incoming and outgoing mails at two government-run facilities located in Virginia under the contract. Michael Petrucelli, executive vice president of corporate development at FCi, said the company currently […] More

MEADS International and Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa, a state-owned defense firm in Poland, have agreed to explore cooperation and business opportunities related to the WisÅ‚a medium-range air defense program. The two companies inked a letter of intent to allow PGZ a participation in the expansion and sales of the Medium Extended Air Defense System in partnership […] More