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The Commonwealth of Virginia has partnered with Amazon Web Services in a move to expand the reach of the state’s cybersecurity-related educational programs. Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s office said Wednesday AWS, Virginia Tech and the Commonwealth will collaborate to implement a cloud infrastructure and offer content, simulations, hands-on exercises and competitions via the Virginia Cyber Range. “We are thrilled […] More
Harris has unveiled a lightweight wideband manpack radio system the company designed to help military customers transmit data beyond line of sight via high-frequency communication networks. The Falcon III RF-300H system is built to replace the US Type 1 AN/PRC-150(C) multiband radio technology and increase data transfer rate tenfold, Harris said Tuesday. The company developed RF-300H in an effort to offer military […] More
The General Services Administration seeks comments from industry on the agency’s plan to create a new special item number for Earth observation services under the Information Technology Schedule 70 procurement vehicle as part of efforts to address commercial imagery requirements across the government. GSA said Feb. 14 in a FedBizOpps notice it seeks to help […] More
PSI Pax has won a potential five-year, $23.8 million contract to provide management support and professional services to the U.S. Navy‘s combat integration and identification systems division. The Defense Department said Friday task orders under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract will include systems design, integration, engineering, installation, operational support, training and in-service engineering for shore and combat […] More
A Vectrus subsidiary has received a potential $14 million task order to provide logistics services at a U.S. Air Force installation located in Bagram, Afghanistan. Vectrus Systems Corp. will support the Bagram Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron as part of the firm-fixed-price order that was awarded through the Air Force Contract Augmentation Program IV, the company said Tuesday. “The AFCAP program supports the […] More
Parsons has secured a contract of an undisclosed value to provide program management services for an office upgrade project at NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The company said Thursday it will also provide architectural design and construction management support at JPL, which the California Institute of Technology.manages for the space agency. Carey Smith, Parsons federal group president, said the […] More
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and Space Systems Loral have drafted a partnership agreement to develop technologies that would facilitate autonomous repair and maintenance of satellites in geosynchronous orbit. Both parties aim to jointly fund and perform technology development efforts under the Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites program as part of the agreement, DARPA said Thursday. The RSGS public-private partnership is subject to review […] More
A Textron subsidiary will continue to provide maintenance and training support services for Afghanistan’s Cessna C-208B Caravan aircraft under a potential five-year, $50 million contract from the U.S. Air Force. Textron Systems Support Solutions will train Afghan air force personnel on how to maintain the branch’s C-208Bs designed for military transport and training activities, the company said Tuesday. The follow-on Afghan Trainer Contractor […] More
Alexandria, Virginia-based audit and accounting firm Cotton and Company has won an $18.8 million contract to examine the financial statements of the Defense Department. The Defense and Finance Accounting Service received three quotes for the labor-hour financial statement audit services contract via a competitive bidding process, the Pentagon said Monday. The contract has a 12-month base period that runs through Dec. […] More
Berico Technologies has made its geoparsing platform available on Amazon Web Services to help customers extract names of places from unstructured text in data streams or documents. CLAVIN 2.0.0 software is designed to identify location names and resolve misspellings, alternative names and ambiguous references against a gazetteer, Berico said Wednesday. The company added its tool also works to help government […] More
A third Lockheed Martin-built missile warning satellite launched atop United Launch Alliance‘s Atlas V evolved expendable launch vehicle Friday evening from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit satellite is designed to provide battlespace awareness efforts of U.S. combatant commanders, intelligence organizations and allies globally, the U.S. Air Force said Friday. […] More
NASA expects SpaceX to deliver supplies, equipment and science investigations to the International Space Station no earlier than February as part of the company’s 10th cargo resupply mission. The space agency said Friday it is still reviewing a possible date launch and time for the launch of SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft with the Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center […] More
