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    DARPA, University of Delaware Partner for Small Composite Parts Manufacturing R&D

    The University of Delaware has landed a $15 million cooperative agreement with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to help explore methods to produce small composite parts for military equipment. DARPA and the university will work to develop reconfigurable forming and molding processes for the fabrication of composite structures under the Tailorable Feedback and Forming program, the Defense Department said Friday. The agency received six proposals […] More

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    DoD Adopts Mediware-Built Blood Donation Mgmt Software

    The Defense Department has installed a Mediware Information Systems-designed blood establishment computer software the military now uses at more than 20 treatment facilities worldwide. DoD will use Mediware’s LifeTrak to manage blood donations and handle tasks for functions in areas such as donor recruitment and management assistance, manufacturing, testing, labeling and blood product distribution, Mediware said Thursday. The Military Health System uses LifeTrak for MHS’ […] More

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    Russell Granzow: DoD Certifies Philips’ Digital Pathology Tech

    A Royal Philips-built digital pathology technology has been certified by the Defense Department as security compliant under the DoD Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process. DoD granted Philips a DIACAP certification and an authorization to operate for the company’s IntelliSite platform that is designed to manage pathological workflows, facilitate multisite collaboration among clinicians and secure electronic protected health information, Philips said Thursday. “This latest […] More

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    Trabus Technologies Wins Potential $12.6M Navy Airborne Comms, Networking Support Contract

    Trabus Technologies has won a potential $12.6 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide airborne communications and networking technical services to the U.S. Navy. The company will also perform engineering, programmatic services and related certification and information assurance for new, existing and future developments to communication and networking systems, the Defense Department said Monday. Trabus Technologies is one […] More

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    Lockheed Wins Navy EO/IR Surveillance, Response System Contract

    Lockheed Martin has won a potential $10.6 million contract to manufacture multispectral electro-optic infrared countermeasures to be installed on the U.S. Navy’s combined EO/IR surveillance and response system. The Defense Department said Wednesday the company will perform work in Bothell, Washington through March 1, 2020. The Office of Naval Research said in a FedBizOps notice […] More

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    Liquidity Services Wins DLA Bid for US Military Scrap Assets

    Liquidity Services has placed the winning bid in a U.S. Defense Logistics Agency auction event held Wednesday in search of a contractor to manage, purchase and sell scrap assets for the Defense Department. The DLA scrap contract contains a base period of three-years and two one-year options to extend work, Liquidity Services said Thursday. Scrap assets include property that has […] More

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    Capstone Lands CNO Contract to Implement Information Resource Mgmt Programs; Rich White Comments

    Capstone has received a five-year $25.8 million contract from the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations to implement and maintain information resource management programs for the CNO’s chief information officer. The company will offer services such as program management, field services, information assurance compliance support, applications and systems support and enterprise video teleconference support, Capstone said Monday. “We are […] More

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    Harris Corp. Gets DoD Award for Geospatial Data Business Mentorship

    Harris Corp. has been chosen for the Defense Department‘s Nunn-Perry Award in recognition of the company’s partnership with Spatial Data Integrations under the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency‘s mentor-protege program. Harris said Wednesday it mentored the woman-owned company in geospatial content management, open source data collection and quality control strategies. North Carolina Central University is also part of the mentor-protege team and has […] More

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    Army Taps SAMS for CECOM Systems Engineering Support Contract

    Strategy and Management Services has received a contract to continue to provide systems engineering and technical support services for the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command. The contract covers lifecycle management of post-deployment and post-production software for CECOM’s intelligence support division in support of the software engineering center’s Defense Department clients, SAMS said Friday. This award marks […] More

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    American Systems Completes First Phase Of Defense Healthcare Mgmt Testing Infrastructure; Peter Smith Comments

    American Systems has completed phase one of the testing infrastructure for the Program Executive Office Defense Healthcare Management Systems under a General Services Administration Connections II contract. West Virginia-based Allegany Ballistics Laboratory hosts the testing infrastructure to maintain information technology systems, applications, networks and virtual environments, American Systems said Monday. “American Systems is delighted to be […] More

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    CACI Gets CMMI Level 3 Development, Services Appraisals for US Operations; Ken Asbury Comments

    CACI International has achieved Maturity Level 3 revalidation for development under the CMMI Institute’s Capability Maturity Model Integration framework in recognition of its U.S. operations’ efforts to adopt process improvement practices. CACI also received the institute’s Maturity Level 3 appraisal for services after Process Improvement & Compliance conducted an evaluation of the company’s U.S. operations, […] More

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    LGS, DARPA Build Laser Tech With Waveform Agility; Stephan Wielandy Comments

    LGS Innovations has completed work on a laser platform designed to improve the capability of light detection and ranging systems to detect and analyze objects of interest. The company developed the laser system with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s strategic technology office under the Laser Radar Technology program, LGS said Tuesday. LRT is a […] More