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    Fulcrum Receives Army, DIA Intelligence Support Subcontracts; Jeff Handy Comments

    Fulcrum has secured separate subcontracts from Booz Allen Hamilton and Absolute Business Solutions Corp. to support work under respective task orders from the Defense Intelligence Agency and the U.S. Army. Centreville, Virginia-based Fulcrum said it will support Booz Allen’s efforts as a prime contractor under DIA’s Enterprise Platform Services and Enterprise Infrastructure Engineering and Operation Services task orders […] More

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    Charles River Analytics-5D Robotics Team to Help Army Develop Soldier-Machine Interface

    Charles River Analytics and 5D Robotics will collaborate to develop a soldier-machine interface for U.S. Army robotic systems under a two-year, $1 million follow-on contract. The companies’ Multi-Modal Interface for Natural Operator Teaming with Autonomous Robots will integrate multiple tracking and robot control systems, Charles River said Nov 1. MINOTAUR is intended to provide an interface to warfighters who operate with autonomous systems […] More

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    ASRC Federal’s Vistronix Subsidiary to Engineer Wideband Control Systems for Army

    ASRC Federal‘s Vistronix subsidiary has secured a three-year, $14.1 million contract for engineering and technical work on the U.S. Army‘s wideband controls systems. The Army received one bid for the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract through an online solicitation and obligated $1.3 million at the time of award from the military branch’s fiscal 2016 “other” funds, the Defense Department said Friday. Vistronix will perform […] More

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    Army Seeks New Landing Craft Provider

    The U.S. Army has started work to find a company to build a 100-foot-long landing craft for the Abrams main battle tank as the military branch seeks to retire a predecessor 74-foot landing ship, Defense News reported Wednesday. Christopher Cavas writes the Army has released a request for proposals for a new light maneuver support vessel […] More

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    Xybion to Help Automate Army’s Biosafety Research Operations

    Xybion has been selected to provide a preclinical management platform for the U.S. Army to automate scientific research operations at the military branch’s Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick in Maryland. The company will deploy its Pristima Suite to USAMRIID’s biosafety facility as well as perform system validation, configuration and training support services, said Tuesday. Pristima is designed to help users track […] More

  • in Healthcare IT, News

    Dicom Systems Awarded DoD Dental Records Archiving Contract

    Dicom Systems has received a contract from the Defense Department’s dental information systems center in San Antonio, Texas to provide a technology platform for DISC to migrate and archive exams data from more than 150 U.S. Army dental clinics. DISC will transition more than 27 million dental exams from the center’s archive into the company’s Unifier Enterprise […] More

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    Army Seeks Projectile Velocity Detection Equipment Supplier

    The U.S. Army looks for a supplier of velocity detection technology that can help the military branch evaluate ballistic materials alongside its projectile acceleration equipment. The Natick Soldier Research, Development, and Engineering Center’s warfighter directorate will implement the tool to detect striking and residual velocity of various projectiles in order to send an output signal that will serve as a […] More

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    Minact CEO Augustus Leon Collins Elected to Huntington Ingalls Board

    Augustus Leon Collins, CEO of Mississippi-based government contractor Minact, has joined Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ board of directors. HII said Tuesday Collins brings to the board 35 years of previous experience in the U.S. Army and the Mississippi National Guard. “[Collins’] proven leadership, long and distinguished service to our country as an Army officer, combined with his […] More

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    3M’s Ceradyne Subsidiary to Build Helmets, Armor Inserts for Army Soldier Protection System

    3M‘s Ceradyne subsidiary has received two contracts worth $43 million combined to produce helmet systems and hard body armor inserts to act as components of the U.S. Army‘s Soldier Protection System. 3M said Tuesday Ceradyne secured a $7 million contract to deliver more than 5,300 helmet systems for SPS’ Integrated Head Protection System component. IHPS is designed give soldiers a lighter ballistic helmet […] More

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    Parsons Establishes San Antonio Tech Office to Support Govt Clients

    Parsons held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday to mark the opening of its new 14,000-square-foot technology office in San Antonio, Texas, that will support  cybersecurity and intelligence efforts of the company’s government customers. The company said Monday the office includes 2,600 square feet of project space designed to help address intelligence community security requirements. The facility also has visualization conference and huddle […] More

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    American Water Partners With Army on Military Veterans Employment Program; Susan Story Comments

    Water and wastewater utility firm American Water has signed a deal with the U.S. Army to serve as a partner of a program that seeks to help military personnel and veterans transition to civilian jobs. The service branch’s Partnership for Youth Success program seeks to provide soldiers an opportunity to establish relationships and find employment with the […] More

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    Chemring to Supply Army & Navy Flares for Helicopter Survivability System

    The U.S. Army and the U.S. Navy have awarded a Chemring Group subsidiary $17.6 million in contracts to produce and deliver MJU-61A/B flares and M2o6 and M211 infrared decoy flares. Chemring Countermeasures will produce the MJU-61A/B and m206 flares at its Kilgore facility in Toone, Tennessee and the M211 at its Alloy Surfaces facility in Chester Township, […] More