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AECOM has secured a $4 million contract to design a system for the Indiana Transportation Department to manage information on truck parking availability within the state. The company said Wednesday INDOT’s Truck Parking Information Management System project is part of the $25 million Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery grant from the Mid-American Association of State Transportation Officials. The TIGER program aims […] More

The General Services Administration held an event Thursday to inform vendors of GSA’s  framework to address outdated technology systems in the government. GSA Administrator Denise Turner Roth hosted the technology industry day with agency Chief Technology Officer Navin Vembar; David Shive, acting commissioner for the Technology Transformation Service; Mary Davie, assistant commissioner of integrated technology services; and 18F Executive Director Aaron Snow, GSA said Thursday. The […] More

NASA launched a Lockheed Martin-built spacecraft Thursday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida aboard a United Launch Alliance rocket on a mission to explore and collect a sample from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. Lockheed said Wednesday the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer spacecraft separated from the Atlas V 411 rocket nearly an hour after launch, then autonomously deployed […] More

Blue Origin plans to carry out an unmanned flight test in October to evaluate its New Shepard rocket’s abort system, Space News reported Thursday. Jeff Foust writes the in-flight abort test of the Blue Origin-built suborbital vehicle will occur at the company’s test site in West Texas and aims to demonstrate how the crew capsule would fire its […] More