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  • in Government Cloud, News

    Interior Dept Selects eGlobalTech for Cloud Transition Services

    eGlobalTech has secured a five-year contract from the Interior Department to help implement a cloud-based Drupal platform that will work to support the agency’s website management consolidation effort. The project will employ the government-targeted content management system OpenPublic to help DOI’s existing websites transition onto a consolidated web content management platform, eGlobalTech said Tuesday. DOI seeks to optimize user engagement of its […] More

  • in News, Products & Service

    Mythics to Provide Oracle Products for State Dept Offices

    Systems integration and consulting services firm Mythics will provide Oracle-built products and services to the State Department under a blanket purchase agreement with the agency. All State Department bureaus, offices and components worldwide will have access to Oracle products as Mythics is a resale partner, the latter company said Friday. The BPA is intended to act as a procurement vehicle for the State Department to optimize service […] More

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    Booz Allen Gets Navy’s Marine Corps Operational Services Task Order

    Booz Allen Hamilton has received a potential $20.4 million U.S. Navy task order to provide operational support services to the Marine Corps Installations Command and the Marine Corps headquarters’ energy, water management and transportation initiatives. The Defense Department said Tuesday the task order requires Booz Allen’s support across the Marine Corps’ nine primary objectives for the programs through March 22, 2017. The […] More

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    Michigan Tech Taps Woolpert for Road Project Drone Imagery Support

    Michigan Tech Research Institute has contracted Woolpert to capture images of Midwest roads through unmanned aerial systems to support a road analysis project sponsored by the state transportation department’s office of the assistant secretary for research and technology. Woolpert said Tuesday the “Characterization of Unpaved Road Conditions Through the Use of Remote Sensing” project seeks to detect road material damage with UAS-collected […] More

  • in Big Data & Analytics News, News

    Seagate, Los Alamos Lab Enter Supercomputer Data Archiving Tech R&D Agreement

    Seagate Technology and Los Alamos National Laboratory have entered a cooperative research-and-development agreement to study a new storage tier both entities believe could help supercomputers at the lab house data at reduced energy usage rates. Seagate said Monday it will collaborate with LANL to create a power-managed disk and software system and design the technology to archive large volumes […] More

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    Cubic’s TeraLogics to Provide Video Dissemination Services to AFRICOM Under DISA Contract

    Cubic subsidiary TeraLogics has been awarded a $1.4 million Defense Information Systems Agency contract to build on the business unit’s video dissemination services to support U.S. Africa Command‘s airborne, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance requirements. Cubic said Monday TeraLogics will install its Unified Video Dissemination System AISR architecture at the U.S. European Command Defense Enterprise Computing Center in an effort to […] More

  • in Industry News, News

    Optus, Cisco to Co-Invest in Cyber & Internet of Things Tech Development for Australia’s Public Sector

    Optus and Cisco have signed a letter of intent to allocate funds for a $12 million co-investment toward the development of cybersecurity, cloud and Internet of Things technologies for government agencies and businesses in Australia. Optus said Thursday the three-year investment was established in early March at the Cisco Global Partner Summit in San Diego, where Cisco announced the telecommunications company as […] More

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    MBDA, Boeing Eyes Brimstone Missile/Apache Helicopter Integration Under UK Defense Contract

    MBDA and Boeing have partnered to study the potential integration of MBDA’s Brimstone air-to-surface missile with Boeing’s AH-64E Apache helicopter under a U.K. defense ministry contract, Flightglobal reported Friday. Beth Stevenson writes MBDA U.K. Managing Director David Armstrong said the one-year contract requires a live test fire by the third quarter of 2016. The U.K. army air corps seeks […] More

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    Sikorsky Completes Flight Test of Second CH-53K Helicopter for Marine Corps

    Lockheed Martin-owned Sikorsky has completed the flight test of its second CH-53K King Stallion helicopter for the U.S. Marine Corps heavy-lift rotorcraft program. Lockheed said March 14 the second helicopter first flew on Jan. 22 while the initial CH-53K carried out its flight on Oct. 27 to account for 35 flight hours combined. Sikorsky will add two more CH-53K units during the projected three-year flight test program in […] More

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    LiveU, FlyMotion Create Drone System with Live Video Transmission

    Live video services provider LiveU and drone technology company FlyMotion Unmanned Systems have collaborated to create a UAS that features live video transmission. The TRIDENT system works to capture and transmit live video via wireless networks to any location worldwide through LiveU’s cellular technology and FlyMotion’s FAA 333-approved drone technology, LiveU said Jan. 26. The company added TRIDENT is […] More

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    USAID Jordan Awards $51.7M Contract to Abt Associates for Healthcare Services Support

    Abt Associates has landed a $51.7 million contract from the United States Agency for International Development – Jordan to help support maternal and child healthcare services with focus on Syrian refugees in Jordanian communities. Abt Associates said Friday the contract requires the implementation of the Health Service Delivery Activity program alongside the Ministry of Health and non-government […] More

  • in Government Cloud, News

    Elbit Systems of America Unveils Cloud-based Public Safety Applications Suite

    Elbit Systems of America has launched WideBridge Cloud applications suite, a system of cloud-based public safety broadband communications services. The Elbit Systems subsidiary said Friday the suite is designed to give first responders access to broadband communication tools that allow real-time voice, video and data services through P25 Land Mobile Radio and LTE devices. The company added WideBridge […] More