In-Q-Tel, the intelligence community’s investment arm, has partnered with OpGen Inc. to develop a genome mapping pipeline for the Department of Homeland Security. In a Monday joint statement, the companies said they will work to develop a high-throughput sequence and pipeline for microbial genome analysis. Microbial data analysis looks at samples from different sources to [...]
Harris Corp. has won a $19.4 million task order to install Wi-Fi systems at hospitals run by the Department of Veterans Affairs, NextGov reports. The Melbourne, Fla.-based communications and contracting firm will install Wi-Fi and real-time tracking systems at 26 sites. Nearly 111 VA facilities do not have Wi-Fi that supports real-time tracking equipment and [...]
Carahsoft Technology Corp. and Acquia have formed a partnership to build an open source government publishing platform. In a joint statement, the companies said they will work with eight other firms to help deliver Drupal one technology to the federal government. The partnership program will help the government operate and deploy education websites, said Natalie [...]
Boeing has delivered a video and imagery data access system to General Atomics’ aeronautical systems affiliate for use on drones, the company announced Tuesday. The company said intelligence analysts and warfighters can use the system to access surveillance data from MQ-1 Predator and MQ-9 Reaper drones. EXMeritus HardwareWall can also be used to share information [...]
BAE Systems is partnering with a Slovakia-based company to offer remote turrets to the South African military, the company announced Tuesday. Sitno’s PPS Vehicles subsidiary and BAE will provide Tactical Remote Turrets, designed to provide ground fire support for light armored, mine-protected and infantry combat vehicles. The companies said the TRT armament suite has rapid [...]
Lockheed Martin Corp. has delivered the 79th and final C-5 Galaxy aircraft to the Air Force through an avionics modernization program, the company announced Monday. The C-5 is the Air Force’s largest cargo aircraft and was originally introduced in the 1970′s. Lockheed said aircraft will be assigned to Air Force Reserve 433rd Airlift Wing, at [...]
TASC Inc. has won $9,600,001 contract to continue providing support for the Air Force’s space control architecture development program, the Defense Department announced Monday. The company’s services will support offensive and defensive counterspace operations, space situational awareness and command and control mission areas, the Pentagon said. Work under the cost-plus-fixed-fee and level of effort modification [...]
