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The Customs and Border Protection seeks public input on the development of potential wireless communication applications, equipment, technologies and tools that can help address multiple wireless communication requirements and challenges. CBP said in a request for information issued Tuesday on the FedBizOpps website that it looks to develop technologies that can augment, integrate with and replace the existing land mobile radio network. […] More

ViON‘s Ascolta subsidiary and X-IO Technologies have partnered to offer a high-performance computing platform that will work to help enterprise clients manage large volumes of data for cyber and intelligence defense missions. The partnership seeks to integrate Ascolta’s customer lifecycle services with X-IO’s Axellio platform, designed to support applications that process sensor-based data, ViON said Tuesday. John Mansfield, senior vice president of […] More

Ball Aerospace & Technologies has completed a six-month study on the wide field instrument for a NASA observatory that seeks to support the agency’s astrophysics research mission. The company said Monday it examined WFI technology and scientific requirements for NASA’s Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope currently under development as a follow-on project to the James Webb Space Telescope. WFIRST is designed to capture images […] More

Orbital ATK plans to launch its Cygnus spacecraft aboard its upgraded Antares 230 rocket in September as part of the company’s eighth cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station under NASA‘s Commercial Resupply Services contract, Space News reported Monday. “The launch date on the manifest now is September the 12th,” Frank Culbertson, president of Orbital ATK’s […] More

CenturyLink will integrate its managed security service offering with ThreatConnect‘s threat defense platform in efforts to help customers strengthen their cybersecurity posture. ThreatConnect said Monday it seeks to help CenturyLink and clients implement or incorporate the SAP HANA-powered ThreatConnect platform into threat detection, protection and remediation operations. CenturyLink works with customers to identify, block and mitigate security threats through security […] More

Sonim Technologies has received a $1.4 million grant from the public safety communications research division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology to research, develop, produce and test broadband technologies for emergency communications. Sonim said Monday it will collaborate with Nemergent Solutions to create an open source push-to-talk system that can operate with current narrowband equipment. “Our goal is to […] More

Northern Virginia Technology Council board members and member company executives held a meeting with Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) on June 7 to discuss how H-1B non-immigrant visas help technology firms and universities gain access to highly-skilled employees. NVTC leaders told Cotton how H-1B visas help companies employ workers to fill job posts in the areas […] More

The U.S. Navy will issue a request for proposals later this year for the deployment of the MQ-25A Stingray unmanned aerial refueling tanker, USNI News reported Monday. Four competitors under the MQ-25A program will receive the RFP, including General Atomics, Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Northrop Grumman. The companies received one-year contract modifications from the Navy in April to perform risk reduction […] More

Chimera Enterprises International has received a potential five-year, $45 million contract for advisory and assistance services to the Defense Threat Reduction Agency‘s operations, readiness and exercises directorate. The Defense Department said Monday Chimera will help the directorate research. plan, design, develop, implement, integrate and apply transitioning systems that deal with weapons of mass destruction. Work will occur […] More