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The U.S. Air Force has asked five prospective contractors to bid for a contract to design user interface technology to transform the delivery of software platforms to the warfighter. A FedBizOpps notice posted Friday says the service branch seeks Kessel Run UX designers with top secret/sensitive compartmented information clearances to help update and move applications into a […] More
Maj. Gen. John Morrison, commander of the U.S. Army Cyber Center of Excellence, has announced that the U.S. Army will launch a drone-mounted electronic warfare technology in 2019, C4ISRNET reported Tuesday. The service has started developing prototypes of the Multi-Function Electronic Warfare Air capability for installation on General Atomics-built MQ-1C Gray Eagle unmanned aircraft system. MFEW includes […] More
HP Inc. and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have teamed up on a pilot program that seeks to speed up testing of new drugs against antimicrobial resistant bacteria through the use of an inkjet printing system. CDC has purchased HP D300e Digital Dispenser BioPrinters for deployment to four regional laboratories in Minnesota, New […] More
The Department of Homeland Security collaborated with the FBI, Microsoft and Facebook to inform state and local government officials at a recent joint briefing about cybersecurity initiatives ahead of midterm elections. DHS said Saturday the event aimed to encourage public and private stakeholders to exchange information on efforts to safeguard election infrastructure against foreign interference. Christopher Krebs, undersecretary of DHS’ […] More
Amazon Web Services has several service offerings designed to help public sector institutions develop predictive maintenance analytics platforms that work to detect potential equipment failure and facilitate scheduling of maintenance activities. Some of the company’s managed offerings include the AWS IoT Core, AWS Greengrass, AWS IoT Analytics and Amazon SageMaker, AWS said Friday. Amazon SageMaker […] More
Raytheon CEO Thomas Kennedy has been chosen to receive the Society of Women Engineers’ 2018 Rodney D. Chipp Memorial Award in recognition of his initiatives to promote diversity in the workplace and empower female engineering professionals through mentoring. SWE chose Kennedy based on testimonials from multiple industry representatives who vouched for his efforts to diversify program teams […] More
The Defense Department has launched a second round of comment period for industry to submit questions about DoD’s revised request for proposals for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud procurement program, Nextgov reported Friday. A FedBizOpps notice posted Thursday says cloud service providers should send their questions about the amended JEDI cloud RFP through Tuesday, […] More
Some aerospace and defense contractors have initiated efforts to build new communications satellites and hypersonic missiles to leverage the rising military spending on space projects to counter threats posed by Russia and China to U.S. space assets, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. Those companies also intend to capitalize on the White House’s plan to […] More
The U.S. Army plans to deploy by 2022 three new protection systems for its combat vehicles, Breaking Defense reported Friday. Those systems are the advanced reactive armor tiles that work to neutralize warheads; a signature management platform designed to protect an armored vehicle from detection by reducing the vehicle’s noise, radar and heat signature; and […] More
Pete Hoene, president and CEO of SES‘ government solutions business, has said the company aims to offer a suite of managed services and systems designed to help customers transmit data in real time via a new satellite network. He wrote in an article published by SpaceNews that Boeing will build seven medium-Earth orbit satellites for […] More
Fredericksburg, Va.-based IST Research has received a potential five-year, $48.3M contract to supply the U.S. Army with a communications platform designed to help users obtain insight into human security challenges. The company said Thursday it will provide the Pulse Platform to the service and perform research, development and engineering efforts to advance the technology as […] More
NASA obtained data from its latest observation campaign of the Ball Aerospace-built Kepler spacecraft, despite the observatory having only a little amount of fuel onboard. The space agency said Friday it put the space telescope on hibernation mode after NASA found that the craft’s tank was running on low fuel. Kepler was roused from sleep Aug. 2, […] More
