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KEMP Technologies has updated its load balancer product to offer support for smart card technology used in the federal sector. The LoadMaster application delivery controller offering can now support hardware, cloud, virtual and bare-metal systems intended to process security IDs, KEMP said Monday. According to KEMP, federal smart cards are designed to provide select civilian, […] More

Carahsoft has agreed to resell Autodesk‘s three-dimensional design software offerings to customers in the federal government. Carahsoft has expanded its General Services Administration schedule with Autodesk services and term-based licenses and software suites, Carahsoft said Tuesday. Autodesk’s software is designed for use in government projects such as facility, building and installation management; vehicle and weapons systems; games […] More

Rockwell Collins will serve as lead research firm for NASA‘s Single Pilot Operations program under a contract to study automation, ground support and crew capacity technologies for commercial aircraft through the end of September 2015. “The aviation industry has been looking at the potential for single-pilot operations for quite some time to address concerns about future pilot […] More

Several of Dell‘s networking switches have received certification from the Defense Department on interoperability and information assurance capabilities and are now included in the DoD Unified Capabilities Approved Products List. The company said Monday the certification means federal agencies can now use Dell’s S4810, S4820T, S6000 and Z9000 switches to support networking operations. “We are pleased to see that several of our […] More

Cray will provide the Defense Department with two XC40 supercomputers and two Sonexion storage systems to support the military’s High-Performance Computing Modernization Program under a $30 million contract. The company said Monday the U.S. Navy DoD Supercomputing Resource Center at the John C. Stennis Space Center will house the Cray systems intended to support the production of coastal-ocean circulation and wave-model oceanography data. “[DoD HPCMP] remains […] More

FireEye has updated its endpoint threat prevention platform in an effort to help customers address security threats through an adaptive technology. The new endpoint threat prevention product is designed to detect, analyze and respond to attacks against on-premise, remote and mobile endpoints, FireEye said Thursday. David DeWalt, chairman and CEO of FireEye, said the company is […] More

Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority has won a $49 million contract to help NASA maintain and support the space agency’s Wallops, Virginia-based flight facility. NASA said Wednesday it began to issue tasks under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract on Dec. 8 through Dec. 7, 2019. The contractor performs work at Wallops and other off-site facilities. More

Northrop Grumman has finished work on the first of 52 center fuselages it has designed for the Royal Norwegian Air Force’s planned order of F-35 Lightning II – the AM 1 conventional takeoff and landing variant. The company said Wednesday it reached the milestone on time and within budget, utilizing an integrated assembly line approach to produce the […] More

United Launch Alliance has partnered with Orbital Sciences to provide launch services for the transportation of cargo to the International Space Station as part of NASA‘s Commercial Resupply Services program. ULA said Tuesday the agreement includes one cargo mission that will launch late next year from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station with the Atlas V 401 vehicle as well as an optional mission in 2016. […] More

The U.S. Army plans to award SunPower a task order to execute a large-scale renewable energy project at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama with the intent to produce up to 18,000 megawatt-hours of power per year. The Office of Energy Initiatives writes Friday that the proposed solar project is the first under the solar technology portion of the Army’s renewable and alternative energy program, a […] More

Microsoft has released a new version of its Azure cloud computing platform that is intended for public sector organizations in the U.S. The Azure Government offering is meant to help agencies manage cloud-based applications as well as storage, networking and data systems through Microsoft’s data center network, Microsoft said Tuesday. The company also integrated security […] More

Cubic will provide its Urban Operations Training System to Canada’s defense department under a $12 million contract modification for an initial training instrumentation phase that runs through December 2015. The company said Tuesday it will perform system integration and validation as UOTS expands the Weapon Effects Simulation system with training capability using an urban village environment. Dave Schmitz, president of Cubic Defense Applications, said that UOTS […] More