Posts from GovCon Daily for 12/2/2015

Bruce Tanner: Lockheed to Extend IT-Govt Services Business Review, Eyes Decision by March 2016

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will delay a final decision on a spinoff or sale of a bulk of its information technology and government services businesses until the end of March in order to review offers from potential buyers, the company’s chief financial officer told investors Wednesday…

Beth Cobert: OPM Launches Federal Personnel Data Breach Verification Website

The Office of Personnel Management has unveiled an online verification center for potential victims of a massive cyber attack on OPM’s federal and contractor employee background check systems. Acting OPM Director Beth Cobert wrote in a blog entry posted Tuesday the site will work to verify whether the information of an employee was compromised during the attack…

Booz Allen Unveils Field Guide to Data Science 2nd Edition; Josh Sullivan Comments

Booz Allen Hamilton has unveiled the update to its free data science resource material, which seeks to help government and industry leverage data assets through analytics. This second edition of The Field Guide to Data Science is a follow-up to the initial release in November 2013, the company said Monday…

Tony Scott Names Winners of CIO Council’s 2015 IT Solutions Challenge

Federal CIO Tony Scott has announced the winning teams in the inaugural CIO Council’s IT Solutions Challenge, which sought innovative solutions to federal IT and IT acquisition challenges. “The solutions proposed through the 2015 IT Solutions Challenge can significantly enhance the work we do by fostering collaboration across the federal government and enabling us to drive greater value for the American people,” Scott wrote in a CIO…

Navy, Northrop Complete Fire Scout Operational Tests

Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Navy concluded a series of operational assessments on a company-built MQ-8C Fire Scout autonomous helicopter last month. The company said Tuesday its MQ-8C recorded 83…

Lockheed, EOS Build Space Debris Tracking Facility in Australia; Ben Greene Comments

Lockheed Martin and Electro Optic Systems have begun construction on a new facility in Australia that seeks to help government and industry satellite operators track and monitor orbital space debris objects…

Aerojet Rocketdyne Makes 3-D Printed Orion Nozzle Components; Julie Van Kleeck Comments

Aerojet Rocketdyne has used 3-D printing technology to produce 12 nozzle extensions for installation onboard the Orion spacecraft’s crew module reaction control system. “These components are the first additively manufactured parts we have provided for the Orion spacecraft,” Julie Van Kleeck, vice president of advanced space and launch programs at Aerojet Rocketdyne, said in a statement released Tuesday…