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    Report: Industry Backs US Military’s Software Sustainment Capability Devt Efforts

    Defense contractors such as Harris, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon have integrated software sustainment into their practices as they work to support U.S. service branches’ efforts to build organic capabilities to sustain software on military systems, C4ISRNET reported Tuesday. “The way the Air Force and the way Harris is teaming with the Air Force is to […] More

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    Iron Mountain Unveils New Data Mgmt Facility in Arkansas

    Iron Mountain has opened an information management facility in Arkansas that is built to store up to 200,000 cubic feet of records and 260,000 data tapes for enterprise customers. The 23,000-square-foot building joins other local and regional Iron Mountain facilities that support data management, imaging and secure shredding operations, the company said Thursday. “We chose Little […] More

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    MapR, C3 IoT Forge Internet of Things, AI-Based App Development Partnership

    MapR Technologies and C3 IoT have formed an alliance to build an end-to-end platform designed to facilitate the development and deployment of applications based on internet of things and artificial intelligence. The companies will collaborate on go-to-market programs and technology development efforts to accelerate the roll out of applications that work to leverage the cloud, […] More

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    Joe DellaVedova: New Lockheed Contract Award Covers F-35 ‘Blueprint for Affordability’ Phase 2

    Joe DellaVedova, a spokesman for the F-35 joint program office, has said a $60 million contract awarded to Lockheed Martin would support the second phase of the Blueprint for Affordability program in an effort to cut the production costs of the F-35 fighter jet, Defense News reported Wednesday. The U.S. Navy on Monday awarded the $60 […] More

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    Cubic Awarded $61M Contract to Update Air Force P5 Combat Training System

    Cubic‘s global defense segment has received a potential $61 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to update the U.S. Air Force‘s P5 air combat training system. The sole-source contract includes modifications for the company to help the service branch address emerging government requirements for the P5 system and supporting infrastructure, the Defense Department said Wednesday. P5 CTS is designed to train warfighters from […] More

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    ASRC Federal, Xentity Secure Forest Service Geospatial Support IDIQ

    An ASRC Federal subsidiary and Xentity have won spots on a potential five-year, $25 million contract to provide geospatial support services for the Agriculture Department’s Forest Service. A contract award notice posted Tuesday on FedBizOpps says ASRC Federal Data Networx and Xentity will provide vector and imagery-based data analysis, geospatial training, remote sensing and services related to the […] More

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    Lockheed to Test C-130 Aircraft Wing Durability Under $61M Air Force Contract

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin a potential eight-year, $60.5 million contract to perform wing durability test on the company-built C-130 Hercules transport aircraft. Lockheed will carry out test preparation, test operations, residual strength test, test teardown and inspection, outer wing test and technical data delivery under the sole-source contract, the Defense Department said […] More

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    BWXT-Aptim JV Awarded $140M to Extend Support for Bechtel-Led Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program

    A joint venture of BWX Technologies and Aptim has received a potential two-year, $140 million contract extension to continue to provide support services at nuclear propulsion plants a Bechtel subsidiary manages for the U.S. Navy. BWSR will extend its decommissioning, demolition and infrastructure support for complex systems and components at Bechtel Marine Propulsion Corp.-managed facilities under the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program, […] More

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    NASA to Launch GRACE Satellite Replacements Aboard SpaceX Rocket in Early 2018

    NASA will launch the Airbus-built replacement satellites for the U.S.-German Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment satellite duo aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in the first quarter of 2018, Space Flight Now reported Tuesday. The space agency inked a shared launch agreement with Iridium and the Helmholtz Center-Potsdam German Research Center for Geosciences called GFZ to launch the […] More

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    SAP Unveils Initial Partners for Blockchain Co-Innovation Program

    SAP SE has announced the initial list of partners that will participate in a blockchain co-innovation program which aims to provide an opportunity for participants to explore the applications of blockchain technologies. The SAP Leonardo Blockchain Co-Innovation program looks to integrate a digital ledger system onto digital supply chain, Internet of Things and manufacturing services, SAP […] More

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    Siemens to Open Chicago-Based Digital Tech R&D Hub

    Siemens plans to invest more than $20 million annually in a research and development center in Chicago that will focus on internet of things and cloud computing applications for the company’s control products and systems business. The Siemens Building Technologies CPS Software House is scheduled to open next month and seeks to employ more than 100 professionals who […] More

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    Xtera to Build Regional Submarine Cable System for DISA

    The Defense Information Systems Agency has awarded Xtera a contract to build a new regional submarine cable system designed to offer high-bandwidth subsea connectivity. Xtera said Wednesday it will provide a turnkey system that consists of undersea optical repeaters, cable, marine services and the company’s Nu-Wave Optima submarine line terminal equipment under the contract. Nu-Wave Optima is a dense wavelength division multiplexing […] More