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Orbital ATKÂ has been awarded a five-year, $25 million contract to engineer and repair the munitions tester and reprogrammer system of the U.S. Air Force and foreign military sales clients. The company will also perform technical and logistics services for the automated test systems division within the Agile Combat Support Directorate at Robins Air Force Base […] More
Orbital ATK has received a Tibbetts Small Business Innovative Research Award from the Small Business Administration in recognition of the company’s work on an air-to-surface tactical missile platform. “The [Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile] program is an excellent example of how partnering between industry, the U.S. Navy and SBA can leverage the innovation and technology generated by small […] More
L-3 Communications has received three James S. Cogswell Outstanding Industrial Security Achievement Awards for security practices being implemented at the company’s facilities. The Defense Security Service selected L-3’s Greenville, Texas-based mission integration division, Middletown, Rhode Island-based Unidyne facility and the Camden, New Jersey-based Systems Company operation as among the 41 recipients of the award, L-3 said […] More
Aerojet Rocketdyne has completed initial on-orbit validation tests of its upgraded XR-5 Hall Thruster using Boeing‘s X-37 unmanned space plane as part of the U.S. Air Force‘s Orbital Test Vehicle mission 4. The five-kilowatt XR-5A Hall Thruster includes performance and operating range modifications based on the results of XR-5’s initial low-rate production and flight programs, Aerojet Rocketdyne said July 1. […] More
IBM has unveiled a new center in Montpellier, France to provide technical support for developers as they work to create applications for big data workload management. IBM said Thursday it collaborated with NVIDIA and Mellanox to set up the POWER Acceleration and Design Center through the OpenPower Foundation co-founded by the three firms. The center at […] More
A NASA spacecraft with a Ball Aerospace & Technologies-built camera is scheduled to arrive at Pluto on July 14. Ball Aerospace said Wednesday the 23-pound Ralph camera will work to gather images of the planet as the New Horizons spacecraft performs flybys within 7,000 miles of Pluto. “We know so little about Pluto that we expect the mission […] More
Accenture and Avanade have been selected to migrate the email service of England’s Health Department and Scotland’s National Health Service to a new cloud-based platform in a move to help social workers collaborate. The companies will implement a new directory and Lync collaboration technology for instant messaging, voice over Internet protocol, audio and video communication, […] More
The Department of Veterans Affairs is field-testing new mobile applications that work to help healthcare providers and patients connect with the VA’s Vista electronic health records system, FCW reported Wednesday. Adam Mazmanian writes that the Mobile Blue Button and Summary of Care apps as well as the upcoming Patient Viewer app work to provide mobile access and control to […] More
Red Hat has begun to offer the Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA platform on the Amazon Web Services marketplace in a move to help clients deploy big data workloads. Customers will have an additional option to process data analytics tasks with the listing of the open source service on AWS, Red Hat said Wednesday. “The addition […] More
Austal has started final assembly work on a new Littoral Combat Ship under a $3.5 billion, 10-ship contract awarded by the U.S. Navy in 2010. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) served as the sponsor for the fifth Independence-class USS Manchester (LCS 14) during the keel-laying ceremony held Monday at Austal’s shipyard in Mobile, Alabama, the company said Tuesday. Austal […] More
Deltek has found that 38 cloud computing platforms from industry are certified under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to date. Kyra Fussell, a senior research analyst at Deltek, writes in a blog post published Tuesday that vendors provide their FedRAMP-compliant offerings to government clients using infrastructure-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service and software-as-a-service delivery models. Eighteen cloud […] More
Christopher Ames, director of international strategic development for General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, has noted at several indicators that he said point to a “growing interest in maritime surveillance,†DoD Buzz reported Tuesday. Brendan McGarry writes the Department of Homeland Security bought a fleet of a maritime-configured variant of the General Atomics-built Predator B aircraft to aid in the U.S.-Mexico […] More
