Thales Communications Inc. has received up to $40,000,500 contract modification from the Defense Logistics Agency to deliver radio system components to federal civilian agencies. The Defense Department announced Monday that the modification will provide additional 34 DLA-managed National Stock Numbered items to the contract. Thales Communications expects to complete deliveries by August 26, 2016. The [...]
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Computer Sciences Corp. will continue to provide supercomputing support service for NASA’s Ames Research Center in California. Under the $60.3 million deal, the Falls Church, Va.-based firm will provide support for supercomputing services of the Advanced Supercomputing Division at the Moffett Field, Ca. NASA facility. NASA initially awarded Computer Sciences Corp in 2007 with two-year [...]
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Report: IBM’s Watson Entering Healthcare IT Arena; Barry Mason, Martin Kohn Comment
July 23, 2012 1 CommentIBM officials hope Watson, one of its artificial intelligence computer systems, can be used for medical applications including storage of patient data and finding information in medical journals, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports. According to writer Jackie Crosby, Watson contains 16 terabytes of memory — twice the Library of Congress — and can read 200 million [...]
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Raytheon is developing modular technologies for cargo ships to use unmanned aerial vehicles in humanitarian and other non-combat missions, the company announced Wednesday. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency established the Tactically Expandable Maritime Platform program for new technologies in air and sea cargo transport, cargo transfer and onboard support. “As we’ve seen through numerous [...]
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Computer Sciences Corp. has introduced an on-premise private cloud for federal agencies that can start handling application workloads within 10 weeks, the company announced Thursday. BizCloud for Government gives users a private cloud behind their firewall or on their premises of choice, the company said. Leif Ulstrup, president of CSC’s federal consulting practice, said the [...]
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The intelligence community’s research arm wants contractors to help the community improve geolocation and high frequency emitters, according to a FedBizOpps post. Through the HFGeo Program, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity plans to figure out how to overcome ionospheric variations, high noise environments and ionospheric polarization that impacts quality of emitters. IARPA falls within [...]
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Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. will carry five payloads and a de-orbit module onboard a spacecraft the company will launch in 2013, the company announced Tuesday. President and CEO David Taylor said in a release the company built the STPSat-3 spacecraft for the U.S. Air Force in 47 days. He added the vehicle will carry [...]
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BAE to Provide Additional Army Battlefield HEADS Sensors; Don Dutton Comments
July 11, 2012 No CommentBAE Systems announced Monday was awarded a $16.9 million contract modification to supply the Army with additional helmet sensors for identifying combat-related head injuries. Don Dutton, BAE Systems protection vice president and general manager, said the data collected by Headborne Energy Analysis and Diagnostic Systems Generation II helmet sensors during traumatic events will be used [...]
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ATK’s GAU-23 Automatic Cannon Receives Air Force Type Classification; Mike Khan Comments
July 10, 2012 No CommentThe Air Force recently categorized ATK’s modified Mk44 Bushmaster Automatic Cannon – 30mm GAU-23 received type classification, the company announced Monday. According to ATK, the classification enables GAU-23 integration with AC-130W gunships. The Arlington, Va.-based firm said the cannon is the standard medium-caliber weapon for ground combat vehicles and naval weapon stations. ATK Defense President [...]
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