Posts from GovConWire for 09/22/2015

Battelle, Riverside Research to Help US Air Force Transition Microelectronics, Embedded Systems

Battelle Memorial Institute and Riverside Research Institute each won a $48,721,000 contract to assist in the U.S. Air Force’s research and development work intended to protect the reliability of microelectronics and embedded systems during transition…

Raytheon Lands $180M US Air Force Air-to-Air Missile Maintenance IDIQ

Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has received a $180 million contract to maintain the U.S. Air Force’s Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile program. The company will perform service life prediction and logistics services under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Defense Department said Monday…

Report: IT Sector’s Public Cloud Revenues Hit $22B in Q2 2015

Synergy Research Group reports that information technology companies generated a combined revenue of $22 billion from public cloud platforms and services during 2015’s second quarter. The market research firm said Thursday hardware, software and data center infrastructure accounted for $10 billion of the IT industry’s quarterly public cloud revenue…

USPTO Launches Patent Data Visualization Tool; Michelle Lee Comments

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has rolled out a web-based platform to help the general public search and visualize patented invention data gathered over a nearly 40-year period. USPTO saidThursday the PatentsView tool is still in beta phase and designed to allow users to view technological, individual-level and regional patenting activities that occurred from 1976 to 2014…

MTSI to Help Air Force Integrate ISR Sensor Systems

The U.S. Air Force has awarded MTSI a potential four-year, $25 million contract to help integrate space, air and ground sensor platforms for the military service to access intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data…

September 21 Market Close: GovCon Index Up, US Stocks Steady as Post-Fed Decision Week Starts

The GovCon Index kicked off the first full week of trading since the Federal Reserve‘s Thursday decision to hold interest rates with a decline of 0.098 points to 72.354 on a light-volume day in U…