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  • 3 Companies Utilize VMware Virtual SAN Hyperconverged Service for Workload Migration, Virtualization
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    3 Companies Utilize VMware Virtual SAN Hyperconverged Service for Workload Migration, Virtualization

    VMware has said Amway, iGov Technologies and SugarCreek will deploy the VMware Virtual SAN hyperconverged service to run business-critical applications and virtual desktop infrastructure. The technology works to support shared storage for virtualized production environments that can scale out to several server providers, VMware said Tuesday. Michigan-based Amway transitioned 300 application servers, databases and other workloads to Virtual SAN. Systems integrator and value-added reseller […] More

  • Sevatec Opens New Office in Virginia in Push to Support DHS Component Agencies
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    Sevatec Opens New Office in Virginia in Push to Support DHS Component Agencies

    Sevatec has opened a new office in Crystal City in Arlington County, Virginia, in an effort to deliver information technology services to Department of Homeland Security operational and support components. The new office’s project delivery teams support the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Joint Engineering Teams-Sustainment contract and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement‘s Student Exchange and Visitor Program contract for optional practical training […] More

  • Carahsoft to Offer Geofeedia Social Media Intell Tools in Federal Sector
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    Carahsoft to Offer Geofeedia Social Media Intell Tools in Federal Sector

    Carahsoft has agreed to serve as the federal government aggregator of Geofeedia‘s location-based social media intelligence tools under a partnership agreement between the two companies. Geofeedia said Wednesday its products are now available to public sector agencies through Carahsoft’s General Services Administration schedule and Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement V contracts. Tiffany Goddard, director of geospatial solutions at Carahsoft, said the […] More

  • University of Illinois-Led Team Gets $110M NSF Award to Continue Work on XSEDE Project; Irene Qualters Comments
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    University of Illinois-Led Team Gets $110M NSF Award to Continue Work on XSEDE Project; Irene Qualters Comments

    A team led by researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has received a five-year, $110 million award from the National Science Foundation to continue work on a project that aims to provide scientists and engineers access to computing resources. NSF said Tuesday principal investigators at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will collaborate with other researchers from […] More

  • 1st Predator A Pilots Graduate From General Atomics’ UAS Flight Training Academy
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    1st Predator A Pilots Graduate From General Atomics’ UAS Flight Training Academy

    A General Atomics subsidiary has produced the first batch of graduates from its North Dakota-based Unmanned Aircraft System Flight Training Academy on Aug. 12. The graduating class of General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc.‘s training academy includes three pilots who are now qualified to operate the Predator A UAS and will join approximately 230 globally deployed GA-ASI aircrews, General Atomics said Thursday. GA-ASI opened the flight […] More

  • AlloSource Partners with NASA, JPL on Microbial Research; Peter Stevens Comments
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    AlloSource Partners with NASA, JPL on Microbial Research; Peter Stevens Comments

    AlloSource, a nonprofit cellular and tissue network, has partnered with NASA and the space agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to conduct microbial research in an effort to help improve medical care for astronauts who fly into space. A team of AlloSource, NASA and JPL scientists aims to determine the effects of zero gravity on antibiotic resistant genes in microorganisms taken […] More

  • Securiport-Amazon Web Services Team to Build, Test Immigration Control Services on AWS Cloud
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    Securiport-Amazon Web Services Team to Build, Test Immigration Control Services on AWS Cloud

    Securiport has entered an agreement with Amazon Web Services as a technology partner to develop, deploy and test various immigration control services and internal research and development projects through the AWS Cloud. Washington, D.C.-based Securiport said Friday it will utilize its Amazon Partner Network membership and AWS resources to build and test new cloud technology in a controlled […] More

  • Northrop Demos Multi-Vehicle Collaborative Autonomous System at Annual Naval Technology Exercise
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    Northrop Demos Multi-Vehicle Collaborative Autonomous System at Annual Naval Technology Exercise

    Northrop Grumman has demonstrated a cross-domain anti-submarine warfare approach for autonomous undersea, surface and air vehicles during the Naval Undersea Warfare Center’s Annual Naval Technology Exercise in Newport, Rhode Island. The company said Thursday the demonstration featured mission management and control of a multi-vehicle collaborative autonomous system-of-systems designed to search, detect, track, classify and engage submerged targets. Multiple sensors on autonomous undersea, surface […] More

  • Boeing Hands MexSat Satellite Communications System to Mexico
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    Boeing Hands MexSat Satellite Communications System to Mexico

    Boeing has completed the final tests on its MexSat satellite communications platform that works to provide voice and data services across Mexico and has delivered the system to the country’s communications and transportation ministry. MexSat features 3G+ voice and data connectivity for land, air and sea mobile terminals in support of Mexico’s national security, civil and humanitarian programs, […] More

  • Lockheed Delivers 50th Super Hercules Tanker to Marine Corps
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    Lockheed Delivers 50th Super Hercules Tanker to Marine Corps

    Lockheed Martin has handed a KC-130J Super Hercules aircraft to the U.S. Marine Corps. The company said Thursday the service branch received on Aug. 18 its 50th Lockheed-built KC-130J aircraft, will be assigned to the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in California. The KC-130J tanker is designed to perform aerial refueling operations for helicopters, tactical and tiltrotor aircraft […] More

  • WidePoint Receives Approval to Issue ID Credentials for Defense, Civilian Requirements
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    WidePoint Receives Approval to Issue ID Credentials for Defense, Civilian Requirements

    WidePoint has received approval to issue identity credentials that meet the requirements of the Defense Department and the General Services Administration. The company said Thursday it becomes the first source of ECA PIV-I credentials that combine DoD-issued External Certification Authority and civilian agencies’ Personal Identity Verification-Interoperable credentials. ECA PIV-I credentials are also designed to help enterprises achieve multi-factor authentication, digital signature […] More

  • Ensco to Develop Environmental Health Hazard Sensor for DHS; Boris Nejikovsky Comments
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    Ensco to Develop Environmental Health Hazard Sensor for DHS; Boris Nejikovsky Comments

    Ensco Inc. has been awarded a two-year, $4 million contract by the Department of Homeland Security to develop an integrated sensor system for the detection of biological and environmental health hazards in buildings. The company said Thursday it aims to build, test and integrate a tiered aerosol detection system with dedicated environmental monitoring sensors and emerging commercial sensors under the second phase […] More