Posts from GovConDaily for 05/05/2016

Air Force Picks Boeing, Lockheed, Northrop for Follow-On GPS III Readiness Assessment Contracts

Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman have received separate contracts to conduct readiness feasibility studies for the development of an 11th and succeeding GPS III space vehicles for the U…

Altamira Purchases Cyber Operations Contractor Prime Solutions for Intell Market, R&D Resource Expansion

McLean, Virginia-based Altamira Technologies has acquired cybersecurity services provider Prime Solutions for an undisclosed sum in a push to add new footprints in the intelligence community and resources for research-and-development initiatives…

NEC-Unisys Team to Help CBP Deploy Facial Comparison Tech at JFK Airport

NEC Corporation of America and Unisys have teamed up to deliver facial comparison technology for the Customs and Border Protection agency to deploy at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City…

John Hale: Commercial Providers Will Operate DISA’s Next milCloud Iteration on DoD Property

John Hale, chief of the Defense Information Systems Agency‘s cloud portfolio, has said commercial providers will maintain and operate DISA’s future milCloud 2.0 private cloud platform on Defense Department property with access only available to DoD data and users…

Accellion Gets ‘In-Process’ FedRAMP Certification for Private Cloud Platform; Yorgen Edholm Comments

Accellion has obtained what the company called an “in-process” certification under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to offer a private cloud platform to federal agencies. The company said Thursday it expects to achieve a full FedRAMP certification in 2016 for its Kiteworks Federal Cloud offering…

Naval Research Lab Concludes Arctic Sea-Ice Characterization Research Project; Joan Gardner Comments

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory scientists have assessed ice thickness, strength and other parameters in Alaska’s North Slope in order to determine the evolution and physical structure of ice in the Arctic Ocean as part of the Navy’s five-week research effort…

Finmeccanica Unveils New E-Scan Airborne Surveillance Radar for UAVs

Finmeccanica has added the Osprey airborne surveillance radar to its portfolio of electronically scanning radars in effort to offer a 360-degree field of view for different types of aircraft such as unmanned aerial vehicles…

DOE Seeks Proposals for Future Energy Tech Development Hub; Ernest Moniz Comments

The Energy Department has issued a request for proposals to establish a new public-private partnership institute with $70 million in funding to develop technologies meant to save energy for manufacturing processes used in U…

Army Cyber Blitz Exercise Seeks to Help Soldiers Respond to EM Spectrum, Cyber Threats

The U.S. Army held a two-week training in April at Joint Base Mcguire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey in an effort to help soldiers observe and respond to electromagnetic spectrum and cyber threats in a tactical operations center, the Army reported Tuesday…