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  • Jacobs to Oversee Tennessee Valley Fossil Plants, Hydro Dams Construction
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    Jacobs to Oversee Tennessee Valley Fossil Plants, Hydro Dams Construction

    Jacobs Engineering Group has been selected to manage and support the construction of fossil plants and hydro dams located in Tennessee, Alabama and Kentucky for an undisclosed contract amount. The company will provide managed task construction management services for the Tennessee Valley Authority’s civil projects and coal combustion product management group under the terms of the contract, Jacobs […] More

  • DOE Seeks Proposals for Future Energy Tech Development Hub; Ernest Moniz Comments
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    DOE Seeks Proposals for Future Energy Tech Development Hub; Ernest Moniz Comments

    The Energy Department has issued a request for proposals to establish a new public-private partnership institute with $70 million in funding to develop technologies meant to save energy for manufacturing processes used in U.S. industries. The Modular Chemical Process Intensification Institute will be the fourth DOE-led institute within the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation as […] More

  • CBP Seeks Sources for Management Support to Network Operations Center
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    CBP Seeks Sources for Management Support to Network Operations Center

    The U.S. Customs and Border Protection is seeking information on potential vendors that can help run and maintain an agency facility built to support up to 17,000 enterprise network devices. CBP needs support personnel to ensure continuity of operations at the agency’s Network Operations Center, the Department of Homeland Security said in a FedBizOpps notice published Thursday. Task areas listed in the notice include program […] More

  • CH2M to Help Colorado Carry Out Road Usage Charge Model Study
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    CH2M to Help Colorado Carry Out Road Usage Charge Model Study

    CH2M has landed a contract of undisclosed value from Colorado’s Department of Transportation to serve as prime consultant of for a study to examine how the state can develop a new system to finance infrastructure projects. The company said Thursday the Road Usage Charge pilot research study aims to help state legislators and transportation officials consider a model […] More

  • Globecomm Receives Govt Contracts, GSA Schedule Extension to Provide Satcom Tech, Services
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    Globecomm Receives Govt Contracts, GSA Schedule Extension to Provide Satcom Tech, Services

    Globecomm has received multiple contracts worth a combined $7 million to provide various configurations of its Summit and Explorer pre-engineered satellite communications terminals to customer agencies. The company said Thursday the General Services Administration‘s office of integrated technology services has also extended its spot on the Schedule 70 contract vehicle for five more years to offer its satcom products and services to public sector […] More

  • TORC Robotics Books Curtiss-Wright COTS Gigabit Ethernet Switch for UGV Use
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    TORC Robotics Books Curtiss-Wright COTS Gigabit Ethernet Switch for UGV Use

    Curtiss-Wright‘s defense business unit was selected by TORC Robotics to supply its in-house rugged gigabit Ethernet switch subsystem for installation into autonomous tele-operated unmanned ground vehicles. The Curtiss-Wright segment provided its commercial-off-the-shelf Parvus DuraNET 20-10 Ethernet switch, which features Ethernet management, security and design functionalities to support defense and aerospace platforms, the company said Tuesday. Lynn Bamford, Curtiss-Wright […] More

  • Harris, PrecisionHawk Expand UAS Airspace Mgmt Partnership; Ed Sayadian Comments
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    Harris, PrecisionHawk Expand UAS Airspace Mgmt Partnership; Ed Sayadian Comments

    Harris Corp. and PrecisionHawk have agreed to expand their alliance in an effort to launch platforms designed to meet situational awareness and operational requirements of unmanned aerial system pilots. The companies will use the PrecisionHawk-built Low Altitude Traffic and Airspace Safety platform to develop and deploy tools that will work to support airspace management operations […] More

  • NASA Opens Access to 56 Agency Tech Patents; Daniel Lockney Comments
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    NASA Opens Access to 56 Agency Tech Patents; Daniel Lockney Comments

    NASA has opened up its intellectual property for 56 agency-built technological platforms to the commercial space industry as part of the agency’s technology transfer efforts. “By releasing this collection into the public domain, we are encouraging entrepreneurs to explore new ways to commercialize NASA technologies,” Daniel Lockney, NASA’s technology transfer program executive, said in a statement released Friday. The agency […] More

  • BMC’s Herb VanHook to Discuss Modern IT Management at Gartner Summit
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    BMC’s Herb VanHook to Discuss Modern IT Management at Gartner Summit

    Herb VanHook, BMC Software chief technology officer, will host a session that focuses on a customer-centric view of information technology management at the 2016 Gartner IT Operations Strategies and Solutions Summit on May 11. VanHook will discuss initiatives across IT organizations that work to utilize innovative technologies in the digital world, BMC said Wednesday. BMC will also exhibit its digital […] More

  • Ed Sheehan: Army Taps CTC-Battelle JV to Support NDCEE
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    Ed Sheehan: Army Taps CTC-Battelle JV to Support NDCEE

    National Defense Energy & Environmental Alliance, a joint venture between Concurrent Technologies Corp. and Battelle, has been selected with three other contractors to support the National Defense Center for Energy and Environment. E2A will look to demonstrate, validate and transition technologies in an effort to assist Defense Department installations, ranges and weapon systems and work to meet the […] More

  • Leidos to Hire 3K Veterans, Spouses in Support of White House Joining Forces Program; Sarah Allen Comments
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    Leidos to Hire 3K Veterans, Spouses in Support of White House Joining Forces Program; Sarah Allen Comments

    Leidos has announced plans to employ 3,000 veterans and spouses of service personnel in the next five years as part of its continuous support to a White House program. Leidos said Thursday First Lady Michelle Obama and Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden, introduced the Joining Forces initiative in an effort to support service personnel, veterans and their […] More

  • Vernon Joyner Joins Ensco as National Security Solutions Division Manager; Boris Nejikovsky Comments
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    Vernon Joyner Joins Ensco as National Security Solutions Division Manager; Boris Nejikovsky Comments

    Vernon Joyner, formerly technical director for the advanced mission solutions group at Dynetics, has joined Ensco as manager of the company’s national security solutions division, effective April 30. Ensco President Boris Nejikovsky said Thursday Joyner brings three decades of experience in system engineering, software development, organizational leadership and program management to the Falls Church, Virginia-based engineering firm. […] More