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Honeywell and the U.S. Army will collaborate on a $29 million modernization project at Tobyhanna Army Depot that will work to reduce energy and water consumption. Honeywell said Thursday the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded a 23-year energy savings performance contract to the company in support of a project that looks to address greenhouse gas […] More

The Federal Railroad Administration has awarded Rockwell Collins a $4.9 million grant to install company’s passenger and freight railroad messaging network platform ARINC RailwayNet on railroads in the U.S. Rockwell Collins will install the system on short line and commuter railroads and also develop a guide to help smaller railroads adopt similar tools in compliance with the Positive Train Control requirements listed […] More

The Defense Department has tapped Battelle to deploy the company’s bioaerosol threat identification technology in South Korea to help protect warfighters and civilians from biological threats. DoD will use Battelle’s Resource Effective Bio-Identification System tool to support a biological surveillance mission under the Joint United States Forces Korea Portal and Integrated Threat Recognition program, the […] More

The Bureau of Land Management has introduced travelogues based on Esri-built Story Maps in an effort to promote exploration of public lands managed by the agency. The travelogues by Bob Wick, a photographer and a wilderness specialist at BLM, document Wick’s trips to public lands as part of the bureau’s My Public Lands awareness campaign, […] More

Smiths Detection has updated its IONSCAN 600 portable desktop trace detector to offer narcotics identification on top of the technology’s existing explosives detection feature. The new IONSCAN 600 will work to detect narcotics such as amphetamine, cocaine, heroin, ketamine, MDA and MDMA, SDI said Thursday. SDI added the updated system is designed to provide narcotics and explosives detection either separately or simultaneously […] More

Erickson has been selected to transport a research crew tasked to analyze forest areas in Alaska under a five-year contract with the Agriculture Department and U.S. Forest Service. Erickson said Wednesday the company will provide helicopter transport to interagency research crew led by the Alaska Department of Natural Resources’ division of forestry, USDA and USFS in support […] More

DRS Technologies and robotic vehicle technologies provider Autonomous Solutions Inc. have forged an agreement to build automated systems for U.S. Army route-clearance vehicles. The team will automate the High Mobility Engineering Excavator platform as part of the Army’s Route Clearance Interrogation System Type I program, DRS said Friday. Joseph Matteoni, vice president and general manager […] More

The U.S. Special Operations Command has awarded Ballard Power Systems’ Protonex subsidiary a potential $5.8 million contract to supply portable power management tools to Socom. Socom expects Protonex to ship all SPM-622 squad power manager special operations kits in 2016 under the follow-on contract that the program executive office-soldier awarded through the Nett Warrior program, Ballard Power Systems […] More

CGI has signed an agreement with the Canadian Securities Administrators to update CSA’s national information technology systems with a new digital platform that supports information management across provincial and territorial securities commissions. The company will develop an integrated system based on a Foster Moore-created software and implement the product in stages over the next three years, CGI said Wednesday. […] More

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency has awarded Southwest Research Institute a potential three-year contract worth $3.4 million to develop and test a countermeasure drug therapy for the Ebola virus. SwRI will work with Texas Biomedical Research Institute to combine two existing drugs designed to combat biothreats, Texas Biomed said Wednesday. Robert Davey, Texas Biomed virology and immunology department chair and […] More