Pat Blevins on General Dynamics’ New Cloud & Data Analytics Org and Disruptive Tech’s Pressure on Legacy Systems General Dynamics announced in February the formation of a new team within the defense contractor’s information technology business unit that would focus on work in emerging technologies related to areas such as cybersecurity and cloud computing…

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Space News: DARPA Plans Software Development Contracts for Space Operations Program The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency plans to launch two contracts worth approximately $21.5 million for software development support services under its Hallmark program that aims to provide real-time visualization of space operations, Space News reported Monday…

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Wizbe Innovations Starts Unmanned Parachute Tech Development Initiative Wizbe Innovations has started to develop a technology for the U.S. Army and NASA to control unmanned parachutes, Morning Sentinel reported Sunday. Keith Edwards writes the startup company uses what Wizbe describes as smart materials to design a system that would help control the speed and direction of unmanned parachutes…

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USNI News: ONR Nears Vehicle-Mounted Laser Weapon Program’s 3rd Phase The Office of Naval Research is close to the third phase of its program to develop a vehicle-mounted laser weapon system for efforts to counter adversaries’ unmanned aerial vehicles, USNI News reported Thursday…

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Dan Bennewitz: QTS to Open Mega Data Center in Downtown Chicago QTS Realty Trust will open a 317,000-square-foot data center in downtown Chicago Friday to provide a range of information technology infrastructure services to government and enterprise customers…

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eGlobalTech to Continue CMS Health Insurance Marketplace Data Service Hub Tests eGlobalTech has received a contract to continue its tests of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services‘ Health Insurance Marketplace Data Service Hub. eGT’s Senior Director for CMS said in a release posted Tuesday that the data service hub works to process millions of transactions during the open enrollment period and route user information to determine eligibility…

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Mitre, Allied Minds Expand Tech Licensing Agreement Mitre has expanded its partnership with Allied Minds to provide the latter company exclusive access to some of the nonprofit’s patented inventions and related technical information. The new agreement allows the Allied Minds Federal Innovations organization to review Mitre’s intellectual property portfolio and to potentially license technology into companies established by AMFI, Allied Minds said Tuesday…

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BroadSoft Takes Unified Comms Offering Through FedRAMP Process; Scott Hoffpauir Comments BroadSoft has kicked off the process to comply with the governmentwide Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for the company’s cloud-based unified communication software offering in order to help partners provide the product to government clients…

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Maury Blackman: Accela Launches Payment Platform for Govt Market San Ramon, California-based cloud-based productivity and civic engagement provider Accela has introduced a new online and in-person modern payment platform for government agencies, the company announced June 21…

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