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Serco has secured a six-year facilities management contract with Dubai Airports to maintain a large portion of Dubai International Airport’s buildings and infrastructure. Serco said Monday its Middle East subsidiary will manage facilities at terminals 1 and 2 and maintain other cargo and ancillary buildings at the airport. Joe Boyle, managing director of Serco Middle East’s integrated facilities services sector, […] More

ICF has received nearly $7 million in additional funds to assist the New York Department of Transportation in efforts to manage the state’s corridors in a multimodal manner. The company said Monday it will provide program development, operational, marketing, outreach and customer services to downstate programs and extend these programs across the upstate area. ICF and NYSDOT will also […] More

Science Systems and Applications Inc. has been awarded a potential $10 million contract to provide support for NASA’s atmospheric science and data assimilation research efforts. NASA said Tuesday the company will support various activities of the Earth Science Division’s Global Modeling and Assimilation Office at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The Global Modeling […] More

L-3 Communications has won a $49.5 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide binocular night vision devices to the U.S. Navy. The Defense Department said Monday that L-3 will supply the military branch with BNVD goggles that are equipped with white phosphor tubes and designed to increase visual acuity of special operations forces who operate in low light conditions. The follow-on IDIQ has a five-year ordering period that […] More

The U.S. Army has partnered with Rockwell Collins to perform research on system designs and integration processes in an effort to help inform standards and architectures for future vertical lift platforms. Rockwell Collins and the Army will collaborate to study open-system architecture technologies and architectural centric model-based engineering systems required in the design and certification of mission […] More

Alliant Healthcare Products has won a five-year, $41.1 million contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to supply various medical scopes and related accessories to U.S. military and federal civilian agencies. Eighty-five offers were submitted to the DLA for the fixed-price contract through a competitive acquisition process, the Defense Department said Monday. Work will occur in Michigan through Nov. […] More

IBM and NVIDIA have partnered to build a new machine learning tool in an effort to speed up how computers operate and help them learn in a human-like manner. The PowerAI deep learning software toolkit operates on the IBM Power S822LC server that incorporates the NVIDIA NVLink interconnect technology and four GPUs that run AlexNet with Caffe, a […] More

Data Systems Analysts will continue to maintain information management systems at various U.S. Navy facilities in Florida and Cuba under a new task order from the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southeast. DSA said it will continue to collaborate with Critigen to assist NAVFAC SE in the deployment and sustainment of the military branch’s geographic information systems and GeoReadiness Explorer platform. […] More

A U.S. subsidiary of geostationary satellite operator SES has received a potential five-year, $15 million contract to provide managed satellite communications services for the Broadcasting Board of Governors. SES’ government solutions business will use its network of satellites to help BBG broadcast U.S. civilian content to international audiences as well as provide satellite connectivity to news […] More

Spain’s defense ministry has adopted Polycom‘s unified communications platform to help maintain contact between the country’s defense headquarters and personnel across the world. The company said Nov. 3 its RealPresence Platform works to connect the Spanish defense headquarters with the armed forces, military headquarters and NATO. “Our communication needs are quite varied as we need to be able […] More

Certara has provided its population-based simulator to support the Environmental Protection Agency‘s toxicity testing program. The company said Thursday EPA uses Simcyp Simulator to identify commercial chemicals that could pose risks to human health and should be tested further. Certara CEO Edmundo Muniz said the simulator is designed to simulate the behavior of virtual populations to provide individual variability […] More

LAC Federal has secured a five-year contract to provide cataloging and cataloging support services to the Smithsonian Libraries that include maintenance work on bibliographic records within online systems. The company said Monday it will offer original and copy cataloging of books, CDs, microfilm, electronic journals, magazines and other printed material on various western European and Asian languages. […] More