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The Department of Veterans Affairs has exercised the third year option of its five-year contract with DecisionSim to expand the use of the latter’s simulation teaching platform to agency employees. The company said Tuesday its DecisionSim platform is designed to train and assess VA healthcare professionals and nonclinical staff through simulation of real-world medical processes and situations. […] More

An Airbus Defense and Space company has refreshed its call processing system offerings in a move to aid communities in public safety communications. Airbus DS Communications launched the VESTA SMS Text-to-911 platform, VESTA Map service and VESTA Analytics updates, Airbus said Monday. “I am particularly excited to announce our new SMS offering which places text-to-911 capability inside our VESTA […] More

A consortium of CH2M Hill, EnergySolutions, Fluor, Rolls-Royce and SNC-Lavalin has been selected to operate several nuclear research and development laboratories in Canada. The Canadian National Energy Alliance team will work to manage Canadian Nuclear Laboratories and decommission old materials at the Chalk River and Whiteshell facilities, three prototype reactor sites and the Laprade heavy water storage facility, CH2M Hill said […] More

Lockheed Martin Commercial Flight Training has signed a contract to provide two flight stimulators for Airbus for use in the latter’s training centers in Mexico. Lockheed said Monday the frame contract aims to facilitate collaboration on future training initiatives and purchase of flight stimulation systems between the two companies. “With this frame contract in place, […] More

Accenture‘s federal services subsidiary and MicroPact have expanded their partnership on the implementation of the latter’s entellitrak case management offering at Accenture’s federal agency clients. Accenture said Monday it will continue to deploy the entellitrak development platform to support case and process management functions for health, financial and civilian agency programs. Vanessa Godshalk, a managing director at […] More

TeleCommunication Systems has unveiled a new suite of 911 communications services for emergency responders. The  Intrepid9-1-1 service is designed as a modular emergency communications tool to verify and route 9-1-1 voice calls and messages to public safety answering points, TCS said Monday. Lynne Seitz, TCS safety and security group senior vice president, said the company build […] More

A partnership between FCi Federal and The Oryza Group has been awarded a four-year contract to provide data management and administrative support services for service centers of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The Service Center Operations Support Services B contract awarded to the Service Center Oryza Team covers support for USCIS centers in California and Vermont, FCi […] More

Lockheed Martin has received a $237.7 million delivery order to provide initial spares for the U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, non-Pentagon participants and international military clients under a basic agreement previously awarded to the firm. The Defense Department said Thursday the spares will be used in the preliminary production of F-35 jets under the order, which also covers deployment and […] More

OSI Systems’ optoelectronics division has received a potential $2 million contract to provide software and system hardware components for Raytheon. OSI  said Friday Raytheon will use the components to create an electronic toll collection system for the Massachusetts Department of Transportation. “We are excited to provide our sensor technology and software to support Raytheon’s efforts with […] More

SRI International has received a $12.2 million contract from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority to extend the company’s work on the development of a screening device for radiation exposure. David Cooper, director of the sensor systems laboratory at SRI, worked with DCN Diagnostics, Evolve Manufacturing and Stanford University’s School of Medicine five years ago to […] More

Carahsoft Technology has launched the cloud-hosted Defense Connect Online II tool, which builds on the company’s DCO offering for military collaboration and training activities. “DCO II can be used by anyone associated with the [Defense Department] who wishes to continue using DCO Connect for their collaboration needs,” Mark Mills, DCO II program manager and vice president at […] More