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Northrop Grumman will begin to produce and deploy its counter-improvised explosive device system after the company received approval from the U.S. Navy to go forward on the work. The Joint Counter Radio-Controlled Improvised Explosive Device Electronic Warfare jammer system works to thwart IED trigger devices, Northrop Grumman said Thursday. Jeannie Hilger, vice president and general manager of the communications division […] More

DRS Technologies and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems will jointly pursue a U.S. Army tank defense contract and offer a Rafael-built Trophy active protection system, DoD Buzz reported Wednesday. Kris Osborn writes the vehicle-mounted Trophy system works to detect and engage enemy fire through the use of a radar, processor and on-board computer. “Trophy will…compute an intercept point in space away […] More

Red Hat and Cloudera have partnered to combine their enterprise software services in an effort to help customers extract value from big data. The team will provide open and agile technology stack to aid clients in deploying big data solutions on premises and in various cloud platforms, Red Hat said Thursday. Scott Musson, vice president of global […] More

The Commonwealth of Virginia has enlisted Michael Baker International to help refine a geospatial information systems roadmap for the state. Under the contract, the company will help update the Virginia Information Technologies Agency’s 5-Year GIS Strategic Plan for 2015-2020, which seeks to reap the benefits of geospatial data to improve public service, Michael Baker said Tuesday. […] More

Battelle has received more than $800,000 in federal grants from the National Institute of Justice to assess and evaluate new tools for probing DNA evidence. The company will test instruments, laboratory materials and software that forensic investigators use to obtain biological evidence based on the tools’ next-generation sequencing, Battelle said Oct. 9. “Next-generation sequencing will significantly expand our technical capabilities to support forensic […] More

Veris Group has chosen JAMIS Software to provide an enterprise resource planning system intended to help the cybersecurity firm manage corporate functions and deliver services to public and private sector clients. JAMIS Software intends for its Prime ERP platform to help Veris access real-time business data as well as address operational efficiency and transparency issues, […] More

A Mercury Systems subsidiary has received a $2.6 million order to build digital radio frequency memory jammers for the U.S. Navy. Mercury Defense Systems booked the order for the first quarter of its fiscal year 2015 and the contract is a follow-on order under a five-year agreement with the Navy, Mercury Systems said. “The continued technology advancements are designed to keep pace with the […] More

Ball Aerospace & Technologies and NASA will fly a set of experimental Defense Department scientific payloads on the planned Green Propellant Infusion Mission for 2016 under a $3.4 million payload integration contract. The company said Wednesday the DoD Space Experiments Review Board selected the Integrated Miniaturized Electrostatic Analyzer Reflight, Small Wind and Temperature Spectrometer and Space Object Self-tracker payloads to be part of the GPIM […] More

Schafer‘s government services sector business will support Advantage SCI as a subcontractor on the Technical Acquisition and Business Support Services contract for the Department of Homeland Security. The company will provide 24-7 watch officer services for the Joint Analysis Center of DHS’ Domestic Nuclear Detection Office, expanding its current support for information analysis at JAC, Schafer said Thursday. Ramesh […] More

Northrop Grumman has launched a modernization offering that works to drive fuel efficiency and enable extended life for High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles, also known as Humvees. The company said Tuesday that it collaborated with Meritor Defense and Pratt & Miller Engineering to develop the offering, which aims to achieve lower sustainment and life-cycle costs. Jeff Wood, director of vehicle modernization at Northrop Grumman Technical […] More

DRS Technologies has introduced a new small signals intelligence sensor system, Breaking Defense reported Thursday. Colin Clark writes the Finmeccanica subsidiary designed the ruggedized sensor to fulfill the combat requirements of U.S. troops. Stephen Robillard, DRS vice president for SIGINT business development, told Breaking Defense that he sees the the SIGINT market to grow by tens of millions […] More

CA Technologies has updated its unified infrastructure management offering in an effort to help customers monitor critical information technology assets. The company rolled out updates to the tool’s analytics, alerting and cloud monitoring systems for users to avoid problems through predictive identification of threats in performance, CA said Thursday. “CA UIM’s scalable, end-to-end monitoring capabilities help IT organizations and service […] More