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The U.S. Army has partnered with Rockwell Collins to perform research on system designs and integration processes in an effort to help inform standards and architectures for future vertical lift platforms. Rockwell Collins and the Army will collaborate to study open-system architecture technologies and architectural centric model-based engineering systems required in the design and certification of mission […] More

Alliant Healthcare Products has won a five-year, $41.1 million contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to supply various medical scopes and related accessories to U.S. military and federal civilian agencies. Eighty-five offers were submitted to the DLA for the fixed-price contract through a competitive acquisition process, the Defense Department said Monday. Work will occur in Michigan through Nov. […] More

IBM and NVIDIA have partnered to build a new machine learning tool in an effort to speed up how computers operate and help them learn in a human-like manner. The PowerAI deep learning software toolkit operates on the IBM Power S822LC server that incorporates the NVIDIA NVLink interconnect technology and four GPUs that run AlexNet with Caffe, a […] More

Data Systems Analysts will continue to maintain information management systems at various U.S. Navy facilities in Florida and Cuba under a new task order from the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southeast. DSA said it will continue to collaborate with Critigen to assist NAVFAC SE in the deployment and sustainment of the military branch’s geographic information systems and GeoReadiness Explorer platform. […] More

A U.S. subsidiary of geostationary satellite operator SES has received a potential five-year, $15 million contract to provide managed satellite communications services for the Broadcasting Board of Governors. SES’ government solutions business will use its network of satellites to help BBG broadcast U.S. civilian content to international audiences as well as provide satellite connectivity to news […] More