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General Dynamics has received a $9.1 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to produce five Common Aviation Command and Control System. The company will provide limited deployment units of the aviation command-and-control system, with work performed in Arizona, Maryland, Alabama and California through September 2017, the Defense Department said Monday. The award exercises a contract […] More
SRI International has been awarded a one-year, $7.8 million contract by the U.S. Navy to research methods for the development of surveillance, tracking, security and access control systems. The company aims to help develop a modular and open architecture approach for the military service to build sensors and aviation platform systems, the Defense Department said Monday. SRI will […] More
Vencore will work to provide software development services to government agencies under the potential $25 million Agile Delivery Services blanket purchase agreement of the General Services Administration‘s 18F digital services organization. The company said Tuesday the Agile BPA vehicle seeks to facilitate the procurement of digital products and services by government agencies in support of […] More
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has allotted $7 million in funding for pilot projects meant to help small manufacturers engage with the Manufacturing Innovation Institutes for technology transfer efforts. The National Network for Manufacturing Innovation consists of multiple linked Manufacturing Innovation Institutes. Each has a unique technological concentration, but is also designed to […] More
Louis Berger and New Jersey’s department of environmental protection have teamed up with industry partners to develop a resiliency plan to aid communities across 15 municipalities in Monmouth County as part of a regional coastal resilience grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NJDEP, Louis Berger, the Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve, the Rutgers Climate Institute and local […] More
Textron’s unmanned systems business has joined a National Science Foundation-funded organization that aims to advance research in unmanned aircraft systems. The Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems is under NSF’s Industry/University Cooperative Research Center initiative that works to connect research and development efforts and needs of universities and industry, Textron said Monday. Bill Irby, senior vice president […] More
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has asked for proposals from industry to develop a secure messaging platform for the U.S. military that is accessible via a web browser or standalone native application. proposals on the for potential a Secure Messaging Platform. DARPA said Friday it also wants the platform to separate the message creation from the message transfer […] More
Modern Technology Solutions has collaborated with PrecisionHawk and Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi to test PrecisionHawk’s Low Altitude Traffic and Airspace Safety platform on air traffic management with four unmanned aircraft and two manned aircraft. MTSI said Monday the demonstration was funded by the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate’s Borders and Maritime Security Division and took place at […] More
NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory will move to a private cloud computing infrastructure built by Red Hat in an effort to modernize and secure JPL’s on-premise storage and server system. The space agency selected Red Hat’s OpenStack and Linux technology to update JPL’s storage service for large computing requirements of scientists and engineers at NASA’s main center for robotic exploration of […] More
Science Applications International Corp. will provide simulation and training support services to special operations military personnel and employees of civilian and federal agencies under a potential five-year, $93 million task order with the U.S. Army. SAIC said Monday the software engineering directorate within the service branch’s Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center awarded the labor-hour, fixed-price […] More
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has unveiled its Transformative Design research program to develop new mathematics and algorithms that will work to help apply new materials and fabrication methods. DARPA said Friday the TRADES project’s goal is to develop new tools that addresses potential mismatches between technologies, representations and algorithms do with nexisting material properties. “Structural and functional complexities introduced by today’s advanced […] More
San Francisco, Calif.-based construction company Bechtel and its partners have commenced the development of the Edmonton Valley Line Light Rail Transit – Stage 1 project that looks to address a projected population increase in the Canadian city. The company will work with Bombardier, EllisDon and Fengate Capital Management as part of a consortium called TransEd Partners to build and eventually operate […] More
