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Science Applications International Corp. has signed up for the Blackboard Partnerships program to deploy the company’s training materials to clients through Blackboard’s learning management system. SAIC customers will have access to coursework, experimentation, war-gaming, analysis services and education tools tailored for various requirements through the Blackboard Learn portal under the partnership, SAIC said Tuesday. Josh […] More

Lockheed Martin has been awarded a follow-on contract to build additional Sniper targeting pods for the Pakistan Air Force‘s F-16 fleet under a foreign military sales agreement. The company will also work to upgrade 22 Sniper ATPs in addition to the production of 15 pods, Lockheed Martin said Tuesday. The pods are scheduled for delivery […] More

Hewlett-Packard and Seagate Technology have expanded their alliance to include the reselling of Seagate’s ClusterStor 1500 and 9000 storage appliances with HP’s Apollo portfolio of high-performance computing products and services. Seagate said Tuesday the combined technologies work to bolster storage and computing capabilities in support of academic, medical, industrial and government research activities. “Aligning our expertise is more […] More

CAE has been selected to produce additional visual systems for the Eurofighter training program under a contract with Eurofighter Simulation Systems. CAE will provide new Medallion-6000 image generators, display systems and database development tools for the Eurofighter Typhoon Aircrew Synthetic Training Aids program, CAE said Monday. ESS designed the Eurofighter training systems for the U.K., […] More

Hewlett-Packard and NEC have agreed to combine their offerings in an effort to help communications service providers develop and introduce services based on the network functions virtualization concept. HP said Tuesday it will integrate its OpenNFV Platform and Helion OpenStack Carrier Grade cloud-based offering with NEC’s virtual network tools in order to build an open architecture […] More

TeleCommunication Systems has expanded the testing services its interoperability laboratory offers to companies that seek to test their software platforms used to process and send emergency text messages to public safety answering points. TCS said Tuesday Solacom, Airbus DS Communications, ModUcom and Emergency CallWorks completed testing their interfaces for text-to-911 messaging service via Message Session Relay Protocol and […] More

IBM and Seagate Technology have developed a fresh software defined storage appliance by combining IBM’s storage software with Seagate’s high performance computing storage platform. Seagate has consolidated its ClusterStor storage service into IBM’s Spectrum Scale software for users to handle storage demands for genomic research, digital design, media, data analytics, financial model analysis and electronic […] More

TeleCommunication Systems has secured a potential $11.3 million contract to provide maintenance and technical support services for the Maryland Department of Human Resources’ information technology infrastructure. TCS said Friday the contract has a three-year base period and two option years and has been awarded under Maryland’s Consulting and Technical Services+ indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. Under the CATS+ […] More

Aerojet Rocketdyne has completed testing of a propulsion system prototype that intends to improve the delivery of solar array-derived power to the electric propulsion thruster components on board a spacecraft. The company said Thursday the PowerTrain Solar Electric Propulsion platform has a power tracking tool and power conditioning breadboard components and is designed to work […] More

Booz Allen Hamilton has teamed up with Power Analytics and Siemens to conduct feasibility studies on the construction of microgrid systems across the state of New York. Booz Allen said Thursday 16 communities in the state each received an initial funding worth $100,000 for the microgrid projects under the New York State Energy Research and […] More

Northrop Grumman Corp. has been selected to supply mission computer for a U.S. Marine Corps helicopter upgrade program. The company will deliver its FlightPro Gen III mission computers for the UH-1Y and AH‑1Z aircraft under the contract with the Naval Air Systems Command, Northrop Grumman said Thursday. Northrop is scheduled to perform the contract from October […] More

Lockheed Martin‘s space systems business will install a point spectrometer developed by NASA‘s Goddard Space Flight Center for the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security – Regolith Explorer. The space agency said Wednesday the OSIRIS-REx Visible and Infrared Spectrometer will work to help OSIRIS-REx identify water resources and organic materials on the surface of the Bennu asteroid by […] More