The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced Tuesday the launch of its Million Hearts Risk Check Challenge. The challenge aims to develop a mobile application which will help its users to conduct health risk assessments, locate places where they can avail of [...]
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The General Services Administration Office of Government-wide Policy has issued a request for information on how to implement a privacy-enhanced, cloud-based, federated credential exchange service. The request for information supports the Federal Cloud Credential Exchange Tiger Team, a program that aims to help agencies move identity management systems on the cloud. GSA’s Deb Gallagher and [...]
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Lockheed Martin has developed a new unmanned aerial vehicle as it appears set to enter a U.S. Navy competition for drones based on aircraft carriers, Wired reports. According to David Axe’s report, Lockheed’s Sea Ghost will compete against other designs from Boeing, General Atomics and Northrop Grumman. The Navy would choose a design by 2018, [...]
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Lockheed Martin will provide a full motion video transmission system for a U.S. Army program, the company announced Monday. The company will provide GyroLink, a commercial system, for the Army’s Remote – Vehicle Optics Sensor System program. “Fielded as a configurable component of Gyrocam systems equipment, GyroLink is a plug-in system that deploys with the [...]
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Raytheon and Lockheed Martin have developed a dual band radar for a U.S. Navy carrier scheduled for deployment in 2015, Raytheon announced Tuesday. Raytheon said it is preparing the radar suite for testing and evaluation by updating the power optimization software. This is the first U.S. Navy radar system that coordinates operations simultaneously across two [...]
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Gen. Keith Alexander, head of the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command, addressed hackers at the DefCon conference Friday to pitch his agency as a potential employment opportunity, CNN Money reports. According to Stacy Cowley, more than 16,000 people turned out at the Las Vegas conference. Alexander spoke to a standing-room only audience at [...]
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Raytheon Co. has hit delivery and operational milestones for its F/A-18 avionics systems, the company announced Monday. The Waltham, Ma.-based contractor delivered its 300th active electronically scanned array radar to Boeing for integration with F/A-18E/F Super Hornets and EA-18G Growlers. Raytheon also announced the delivery of the 600th ALR-67(V)3 radar warning receiver, which is a [...]
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Serco Inc. will update vehicle-mounted information and communications systems for the U.S. military’s mine resistant ambush protected vehicles, the company announced Monday. The Reston,Va.-based subsidiary of the British government services provider will update C4ISR systems on MRAP vehicles used by all four military service branches to defend against improvised explosive devices. “Serco has supported SPAWAR [...]
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Northrop Grumman announced Monday its X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System demonstrator completed its first flight from the Naval Air Station Patuxent River on July 29. The X-47B reached a maximum altitude 7,500 feet and flew at a speed of 180 air knots. Carl Johnson, vice president and Navy UCAS program manager for Northrop, said the [...]
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General Dynamics will provide engineering and technical support for tactical control systems installed on U.S. and Australian navy submarines, the Defense Department announced Friday. The company’s advanced information systems unit will help the naval forces work with the Raytheon-made AN/BYG-1 through July 2013. According to Raytheon, the AN/BYG-1(V) is designed for conventional submarines and includes technology [...]
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