Posts from GovCon Daily for 10/06/2015

Gene Colabatistto: New Defense Contracts to Build CAE’s Training Services Portfolio

CAE received $76.5 million in contracts during its second fiscal quarter for training services and simulation products, including defense contracts from the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy and German air force…

Kelly Olson: Challenge.gov to Expand Coverage, Open Fed Marketplace to More Innovation

Kelly Olson, senior innovation adviser and director of the General Services Administration‘s Challenge.gov website, has described the online crowdsourcing portal as a tool that opens government contracting sector to more ideas in an interview with FCW posted Monday…

VArmour Extends Security Tool to AWS Cloud Platforms; Angie Messer Comments

Data center security firm vArmour and Amazon Web Services have formed a partnership to help enterprises secure and manage their data workloads on AWS’ private, public and hybrid cloud computing platforms…

DARPA Picks 7 Teams for Nerve Stimulation Device Program; Doug Weber Comments

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has chosen seven research teams for a program that aims to develop a closed-loop system that will work to detect and treat diseases through peripheral nerve stimulation…

Northrop Completes F-35 Center Fuselage for Integration In Japan

Northrop Grumman will deliver the AX-5 center fuselage to Japan for integration into a conventional takeoff and landing variant of the Lockheed Martin F-35 aircraft. That F-35A jet will be the first to be assembled at Japan’s F-35 final assembly and checkout facility in Nagoya, Northrop said Sunday…

Jerry McGinn: DoD Should Use Analytics to Predict Industrial Base Performance

Jerry McGinn, the Defense Department‘s principal deputy director for manufacturing and industrial base policy, believes DoD can better measure industry’s technology efforts against national security requirements with business intelligence tools, FCW reported Monday…

Blue Canopy to Provide AWS Cloud-Based HPC, Analytics to SEC

Blue Canopy Group has received a five-year, $39 million prime contract to build a high-performance computing infrastructure hosted on Amazon Web Services‘ cloud environment for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission‘s office of information technology…