SOSSEC Awarded $99M C4ISR Data Sharing System Prototyping OTA System of Systems Security has won a potential five-year, $99 million “other transaction” agreement with the U.S. Air Force to develop, integrate and test information sharing technology prototypes for various C4ISR systems…

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NIST Kicks Off Agile Robotics Competition; Craig Schlenoff Comments The National Institute of Standards and Technology has kicked off a national simulation-based robotics competition in an effort to help further the development of agile robots. The Agile Robotics for Industrial Automation Competition is a collaboration between NIST and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers to draw input from organizations and individuals to design the challenges, NIST said Wednesday…

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CBP Deploys Facial Comparison Tech at JFK Airport; Gil Kerlikowske Comments The U.S. Customs and Border Protection will begin the initial deployment of facial comparison technology at John F. Kennedy International Airport to verify the identity of some travelers entering the U…

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DRS Launches Digital Tuner for HF Radio Signal Detection; Steve Robillard Comments DRS Technologies has unveiled a 10-pound digital tuner that works to detect weak high-frequency radio signals. The Harrier Multichannel Wideband High-Frequency Digital Tuner is designed to capture signals of interest through its 28 digital down converters distributed across its four wideband channels, DRS said Wednesday…

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AWS Rolls Out New Tools for Weather Data Analysis on Cloud Platform Amazon Web Services has introduced new tools designed to help users analyze and integrate Next Generation Weather Radar data with workflows on AWS’ Simple Storage Service cloud platform. NEXRAD is a system composed of 160 Doppler radar sites that work to collect data that commercial firms and researchers use to predict severe storms, AWS said in a blog post published Jan…

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Force 3 to Install VMware Products for Census Bureau Data Collection; Mike Greaney Comments Force 3 has been awarded an $18 million blanket purchase agreement to provide VMware products for the U.S. Census Bureau’s data collection process. The Census Bureau currently explores ways to automate and update its data gathering practices with the use of websites in mobile platforms and diverse languages and an electronic data entry for field workers, Force 3 said Thursday…

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Army to Test Updated WIN-T Operations Toolset This Spring The U.S. Army intends to evaluate a new suite of tactical network operations tools designed to help soldiers manage voice, data and video communications in the battlefield. An updated NetOps toolset is scheduled to undergo operational tests as part of a Warfighter Information Network-Tactical Increment 3 follow-on demonstration this spring at the Army’s Network Integration Evaluation 16…

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January 21 Market Close: GovCon Index Enters Correction With 1% Decline, US Stocks Rise on Oil Gains The GovCon Index suffered a loss of 1.324 percent to 70.492 Thursday driven by a plunge in Engility Holdings (NYSE: EGL) shares after the contractor issued fiscal year 2016 guidance that forecasts a sharp drop in earnings from 2015 outlook…

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