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Mark Fox, a retired U.S. Navy vice admiral, has joined Huntington Ingalls Industries as corporate vice president of customer affairs at HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding division. He will succeed Evan “Marty†Chanik, also a retired Navy vice admiral who is scheduled to retire in October, in the role and will directly report to Mitch Waldman, […] More
Aerospace Corporation has appointed Edward Bolton, a retired U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. and previous senior vice president of Aerospace Special Studies. to succeed Rand Fisher as systems planning, engineering and quality senior vice president. Bolton has been with the Air Force for 37 years and held a number of positions within the department, including deputy assistant secretary for […] More
WISeKey has joined a Microsoft-led global initiative that aims to help connect government agencies, businesses and citizens with urban services through the use of technology. WISeKey said Monday it will provide an integrated object identity management and cybersecurity tool for cities to securely connect to the Azure cloud computing technology and other Microsoft-made platforms under the CityNext initiative. “Government employees and city infrastructure from traffic lights and […] More
A team of Samsung Electronics and Intelligent Decisions has been awarded a contract to supply tablet computers to the U.S. Air Force’s bases worldwide after the handheld passed the military service’s hardware and software tests for flight line use. Air Force technicians will use the Galaxy Tab S2 device to access digital technical orders, manuals and parts databases to perform aircraft […] More
The U.S. Navy has awarded ViaSat a potential 10-year, $48 million contract to supply hardware and software for the Joint Ultra-High Frequency Military Satellite Communications Network Integrated Control System. ViaSat provide engineering, technical services and ancillary hardware and software technologies to the UHF SATCOM’s channel controllers and user terminals under the contract, the Defense Department said Thursday. The contract contains a […] More
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity plans to hold a Proposers Day on Aug. in Washington to discuss a program to develop multimodal sensors IARPA wants to help assess individuals across a range of factors. IARPA said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday the event aims to answer questions on the Multimodal Objective Sensing to Assess Individuals with Context program that seeks to […] More
NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Lockheed Martin‘s mission support area have worked together to operate and place the company-built Juno spacecraft into a large elliptical polar orbit around Jupiter. Lockheed said Monday the probe reached Jupiter Monday evening after a 1.76-billion-mile journey in the last five years. A team of engineers from the company and the agency sent final commands to […] More
InfoReliance has received Amazon Web Services‘ AWS Government Competency certification in eight customer markets for compliance with AWS standards in workload and application deployment on the Amazon cloud platform. Fairfax, Virginia-based InfoReliance said Friday it utilizes best practices and lessons from various industries to support accelerated AWS adoption for customers. InfoReliance is an AWS audited managed service partner, advanced consulting partner and […] More
SRI International and a Polish research-and-development agency have formed a partnership with the goal to foster technological innovation and establish a community of scientists and researchers in Poland. The Menlo Park, California-based nonprofit said Wednesday it will collaborate with Poland’s National Centre for Research and Development to design and carry out a series of challenges and an advanced research projects initiative. Leszek Grabarczyk, NCBR deputy director, […] More
Cobham has agreed to support maintenance of a ground control station for the British air force’s MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft system under a contract with General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business. Cobham said Friday it will help maintain the Reaper GCS and the Sentry Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition system at RAF Waddington as well as the rear crew training platform at Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose. “Technicians have completed […] More
Applied Technology Associates has been awarded a potential five-year, $27 million contract to help the U.S. Navy research and develop electro-optical and infrared sensing technology. The Defense Department said Thursday the company will perform work in Albuquerque, New Mexico and is scheduled to finish by June 29, 2021. The Naval Research Laboratory obligated $2.3 million from the Navy’s fiscal […] More
The University of Southern California’s information sciences institute has received a potential $800,000 contract from the Department of Homeland Security to research and develop new platforms that work to detect and report internet outages. The cybersecurity division under DHS’ science and technology directorate awarded the contract as part of the Internet Measurement and Attack Modeling project […] More
