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Rockwell Collins has introduced a network to facilitate communications between first responders and public safety personnel during hurricanes and other natural disasters. The company said Monday the ARINC UrgentLink communications platform works to allow safety officials to place voice calls and send information to other critical infrastructure personnel and other stakeholders using Federal Communications Commission-regulated radio […] More

Cubic has been awarded a $9.9 million contract to keep testing and analyzing the U.S. Air Force’s chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear counter proliferation technologies. The company won the initial award in January 2015 under the five-year CBRN counter proliferation and survivability missions program, Cubic said Monday. “With the successful efforts of the initial investment, […] More

Computer Sciences Corp. will provide support to the Defense Threat Reduction Agency for efforts to address the threat of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and high-yield explosives under a $10.3 million contract. The Defense Department said Friday CSC will contribute its technical expertise, operational proficiency, policy knowledge, assistance teams and services for collective training and process development. According to DoD, […] More

The U.S. Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman a $38.5 million contract to integrate mine warfare mission packages with the service branch’s littoral combat ships. The mission packages will work to support the LCS’ anti-submarine, surface warfare and mine countermeasure operations, the Defense Department said Friday. The sole-source, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract could reach $78 million in total […] More

Orbital ATK has selected United Launch Alliance to send NASA’s second cargo mission to the International Space Station. ULA will launch the first Cygnus cargo in early December under the commercial resupply services program, ULA said Wednesday. Tory Bruno, ULA president and CEO, said the Cygnus spacecraft will “carry the maximum cargo load to service […] More

Serco‘s North American subsidiary has been awarded a potential five-year, $16.3 million contract to provide behavioral-health screening and communications services in support of the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve’s Psychological Health Outreach Program. Serco Inc. will carry out work in Massachusetts, Washington, Missouri, Georgia, Louisiana and California, the subsidiary said Thursday. The award has a one-year base […] More

Raytheon has purchased VT MAK’s simulation and logging products for use in the former company’s air and missile defense operations center. Raytheon will conduct operator training and mission rehearsal with VT MAK’s VR-Forces and record simulation data through the MAK data logger, VT Systems said Monday. The company will also integrate the VR-Forces remote control application programming […] More

Capstone has secured a task order to continue to provide technical support and program management services for the Commander, Navy Installations Command’s smart card technology program. The award also covers configuration management, evaluation and testing, systems design, lifecycle management-related documentation, training and other maintenance services for the common access card program across the service branch, […] More

The Defense Information Systems Agency looks to adopt software-defined networking in an effort to protect mission-critical networks, C4ISR & Networks reported Wednesday. John Edwards and Eve Keiser write DISA will base the SDN deployment plan on use cases and proof-of-concept assessments. Eric Sharret, vice president of Telegrid, said the agency will use three use case studies focused on data center connectivity, […] More

Cubic Tranportation Systems has been selected to maintain London’s tunnel infrastructure for Transport for London in collaboration with radio systems provider Simoco EMEA. The team will perform maintenance services on 12 road tunnels and 90 kilometers of road corridors, Cubic said Wednesday. CTS subsidiary Cubic ITMS is scheduled to kick off full service delivery by February 2016. “This […] More

The Virginia Information Technologies Agency has contracted Interactive Achievement to supply an instructional data software platform to the Virginia Department of Education. IA said Monday its onTRAC Longitudinal Data System works to track and collect data points for school administrators to determine education trends. Teachers use the system to monitor students’ progress and craft instructional strategies tailored to the needs […] More

DLT Solutions and GitHub have partnered to market a programming code management tool for open source and private software development projects in the government sector. DLT said Thursday the GitHub Enterprise platform is an on-premise variant of GitHub.com and works to help developers search, review and share codes. Jim Propps, director of DLT’s enterprise platforms […] More