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A team that includes the Missile Defense Agency, U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin have conducted the first shipboard demonstration of the latest version of a Lockheed-produced  ballistic missile defense system. Lockheed said Monday the Aegis Baseline 9.C2 (BMD 5.1) combat system underwent the developmental test onboard the USS John Paul Jones and worked to detect, track and intercept a medium-range ballistic […] More
Amazon Web Services and the city of Plano, Texas, have entered into an agreement to give local government and law enforcement agencies access to the company’s U.S. government cloud platform. AWS said Monday the Criminal Justice Information Services agreement works to enable Plano’s city government and police department to use AWS GovCloud (US) to utilize encryption and other features […] More
IBM has teamed up with six Dubai-based public and private organizations in an effort to advance the country’s government blockchain strategy. IBM said Monday it will collaborate with Dubai’s customs and trade agencies as well as with Emirates NBD, du, Aramex, and Banco Santader to assess the potential use of blockchain technology in trade finance and logistics systems designed for the import and re-export process […] More
Accenture has supported the Australian defense department in the development and implementation of a cloud-based supply codification system that works to receive updated supply chain codification data and link with the systems of other NATO nations. The software-as-a-service program is also designed to facilitate new supply chain processes for the Australian DoD and manage defense logistics, […] More
A new report by Cisco has found that security teams at organizations investigate 56 percent of security alerts they receive on a daily basis and that 44 percent of the security threats received are left unexplored. The 2017 Security Capabilities Benchmark Study also showed that 28 percent of those investigated threats are considered legitimate, David […] More
Mikros Systems has secured a potential five-year, $35.2 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Navy to support the production of a computer-aided alignment and maintenance tool for air and surface radar systems used on warships. The Defense Department said Monday the Phase III Small Business Innovation Research contract also covers data management, engineering, logistics and technical […] More
Boeing and NanoRacks have formed an alliance to build a new commercial airlock designed to help the U.S. increase its capability to deploy small satellites, equipment and payloads from the International Space Station. The companies plan to attach the NanoRacks Airlock Module to the ISS U.S. segment in 2019, Boeing said Monday. Boeing will develop […] More
A new report from the Technology CEO Council outlines ways the federal government could save approximately $1 trillion in the next decade through the implementation of modern technologies. The report titled “The Government We Need” has been shared with President Donald Trump’s team including Vice President Mike Pence and White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, TCC said Jan. […] More
CSRA will transfer its workload to Microsoft’s Azure Government cloud platform under a three-year enterprise agreement between the two companies. The deal also allows CSRA to use Microsoft’s Office 365 software platform for the cloud environment, CSRA said Monday. John Dancy, chief information officer of CSRA, said the company aims to operate 70 percent of its applications […] More
Japan’s meteorological agency has unveiled a detailed picture of clouds taken by a Harris-developed imager technology onboard the country’s newest weather satellite over Japan and the Pacific Ocean. Harris said Monday it designed the Advanced Himawari Imager to increase the accuracy, speed and accuracy of information the Mitsubishi Electric-built Himawari-9 satellite delivers to Japanese meteorologists with the aid of the satellite’s 11 additional spectral bands […] More
Boeing has been awarded an $18.3 million contract modification by the U.S. Air Force to supply AN/APG-63(V) 3 radar for the Saudi Arabian air force’s F-15SA aircraft. The Defense Department said Monday work will primarily occur in Forest, Mississippi, through March 31, 2017. The modification falls under a foreign military sales agreement between the U.S. government and Saudi Arabia. Boeing-built F-15 jets serve as […] More
Alexandria, Virginia-based audit and accounting firm Cotton and Company has won an $18.8 million contract to examine the financial statements of the Defense Department. The Defense and Finance Accounting Service received three quotes for the labor-hour financial statement audit services contract via a competitive bidding process, the Pentagon said Monday. The contract has a 12-month base period that runs through Dec. […] More
