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  • HII’s Richard Schenk: Coast Guard Cutter ‘Hamilton’ Ready for Service
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    HII’s Richard Schenk: Coast Guard Cutter ‘Hamilton’ Ready for Service

    Huntington Ingalls Industries has completed a series of acceptance sea trials for the fourth U.S. Coast Guard National Security Cutter, named “Hamilton.” Richard Schenk, Huntington Ingalls’ vice president of program management and test and trials, said Monday “the ship is ready to enter the service and start performing key Coast Guard missions.” The company’s Ingalls Shipbuilding […] More

  • Graham Hughes: SAS Tech Seeks to Improve Patient Care Delivery
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    Graham Hughes: SAS Tech Seeks to Improve Patient Care Delivery

    SAS has partnered with not-for-profit hospital operator Dignity Health in an effort to bring down hospital readmissions and provide customized patient care using big data and predictive analytics technology. The project tasks the business analytics company to build a cloud platform that would provide healthcare givers and providers actionable insights based on clinical, social and […] More

  • New CEO Ted Davies on His Goals for Altamira, Roles of Data Analytics and Open Source
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    New CEO Ted Davies on His Goals for Altamira, Roles of Data Analytics and Open Source

    Ted Davies joined McLean, Virginia-based national security and technology services contractor Altamira in July as CEO after nearly six years as president of Unisys‘ federal government arm — Unisys Federal Systems. Davies took the reins at Altamira nearly a year after the company formed out of a merger between Invertix and Near Infinity, a transaction that was […] More

  • Jacobs to Continue Hong Kong Public Works Lab Support; Kevin McMahon Comments
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    Jacobs to Continue Hong Kong Public Works Lab Support; Kevin McMahon Comments

    Jacobs Engineering Group has received a new four-year contract from Hong Kong’s civil engineering and development department to continue managing and operating the Public Works Regional Laboratory in Tai Po. The company said Tuesday that it will oversee compliance testing of construction materials for public works projects. Kevin McMahon, Jacobs group vice president, said that the company also provides management and operational support […] More

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  • Lockheed Unveils Naval C4ISR Testing Platform; Rob Smith Comments
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    Lockheed Unveils Naval C4ISR Testing Platform; Rob Smith Comments

    Lockheed Martin has built a platform for testing maritime intelligence, communications or sensor technologies before their deployment. The Maritime Test Bed is designed to simulate environments at sea and on shore and employs an open-source architecture that works to access multiple data sources for testing, Lockheed said Tuesday. Rob Smith, vice president of C4ISR at […] More

  • Michael Toscano: Underwater Drones’ Potential Uses are ‘Limitless’
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    Michael Toscano: Underwater Drones’ Potential Uses are ‘Limitless’

    Commercial and government efforts are underway to build unmanned and autonomous underwater vehicles that can be used for naval warfare, environmental research and recovery mission, National Defense Magazine reports. Yasmin Tadjdeh writes that Michael Toscano, president and CEO of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, believes that UUV technology has limitless applications and will […] More

  • Frank Culbertson: Orbital Sciences-Built Capsule Returns From ISS Cargo Delivery Mission
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    Frank Culbertson: Orbital Sciences-Built Capsule Returns From ISS Cargo Delivery Mission

    The Orbital Sciences-built Cygnus spacecraft has returned from its voyage to the International Space Station, where the cargo ship delivered 3,669 pounds of supplies for the ISS crew. Cygnus unberthed from the orbiting laboratory Friday after staying 31 days there and reached Earth’s atmosphere Sunday at around 9:15 a.m. Eastern Time, Orbital Sciences said Monday. […] More

  • Navy Fires Raytheon’s SM-6 Missile in ‘Juliet’ Test; Michael Ladner Comments
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    Navy Fires Raytheon’s SM-6 Missile in ‘Juliet’ Test; Michael Ladner Comments

    Raytheon‘s Standard Missile-6 has completed a flight test held by the U.S. Navy, which sought to demonstrate how the surface-to-air missile works to detect and intercept a subsonic target at low altitude. The Navy said Friday the so-called “Juliet” test was part of a series of follow-on test and evaluation events to assess the operational performance of SM-6. Capt. Michael Ladner, a […] More

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  • Lockheed, Kaman, US Army Demo Autonomuous Operation; Scott Greene Comments
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    Lockheed, Kaman, US Army Demo Autonomuous Operation; Scott Greene Comments

    Lockheed Martin and Kaman Aerospace Corp. have partnered with the U.S. Army‘s Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center to demonstrate a fully autonomous operation that used unmanned air and ground vehicles to perform several missions. The K-MAX helicopter and Squad Mission Support System vehicle together demonstrated functions in resupply, target-acquisition, reconnaissance and surveillance during an assessment a Fort Benning, Lockheed said Monday. […] More

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  • Matt Calkins: GSA Public Buildings Service Deploys Appian Procurement Tool
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    Matt Calkins: GSA Public Buildings Service Deploys Appian Procurement Tool

    Appian Corp. has updated procurement request module application on the company’s work platform offering that the General Services Administration uses to perform enterprise-wide acquisition processes. GSA’s Public Building Service deployed the Electronic Acquisition System Integrated to process requests, solicitations, contracts and close-out functions, Appian said Monday. “The PRM solution is the latest example of GSA PBS’ […] More

  • Tony Bardo: Hughes to Expand Texas Satellite Internet Services
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    Tony Bardo: Hughes to Expand Texas Satellite Internet Services

    Hughes Network Systems has received a contract modification from the Texas Department of Information Resources to provide additional offerings in support of the Texas Agency Network Next Generation Communications Technology Services program. The company said Aug. 12 the expanded contract includes Internet bandwidth tokens for small or home offices, redeployable satellites for fixed satellite services and move/add/change services for […] More

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  • NIC Wins South Carolina E-Gov Services Extension
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    NIC Wins South Carolina E-Gov Services Extension

    An NIC Inc. subsidiary has won a five-year recompete contract to extend its support work for the state of South Carolina’s public digital portals. NIC’s South Carolina Interactive unit began work on the new e-government services contract with the state on July 16, NIC said Thursday. Work could run through July 2021 if a renewal […] More