Colsa Corp. has secured a $69.6M contract modification to perform command, control, communications, computer, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance support services to the U.S. Air Force.

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Colsa has received a one-year, $56.2 million contract modification to advise the U.S. Air Force on the command, computer, communications, control, intelligence and reconnaissance and cybersecurity areas. The Defense Department said Monday the company will provide technical and management advisory services as well as perform additional acquisition, research, development, test and evaluation support services under the modification. […] More

Colsa has received a $41.1 million contract modification to continue design and operation support work at a research facility that provides simulation services to the Missile Defense Agency. The Defense Department said Wednesday the modification extends by one year the ordering period under a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for Advanced Research Center support services and increases the contract’s ceiling […] More

Federal information technology and professional services provider IPTA has appointed James Combs Jr. as regional vice president. IPTA said Monday that, in this role, Combs will work to manage prime contracts as overseer of the company's newly-established southeast business unit.

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Ted Martin, formerly a Parsons vice president, has been named executive vice president of federal solutions at Huntsville, Alabama-based government contractor MartinFed. He will be responsible for driving growth strategy development and execution, with a focus on providing federal customers with integrated offerings, MartinFed said Monday. Commenting on Matin’s appointment, Matthew Schmitz, chief growth officer […] More

Battelle has sold nearly 100 units of a portable drone defense system to the departments of Defense and Homeland Security. The nonprofit science organization’s DroneDefender technology works to disrupt the operations of unmanned aircraft systems at a range of up to 1,300 feet through the use of radio control frequency, Battelle said Wednesday. “The idea is to quickly […] More

ArmorSource is scheduled to deliver combat helmets to the U.S. Army this spring after it concluded the first article testing on the protective equipment. The Lightweight Advanced Combat Helmet AS-505 is designed to protect the human body from back-face deformation and fragmentation and projectile threats, ArmorSource said Tuesday. ArmorSource CEO Yoav Kapah said the 3-pound helmet […] More

Leaders from IBM and Epic visited Oregon Health & Science University to evaluate how the school could support the consortium’s bid for a multibillion dollar contract to modernize the Defense Department‘s healthcare management systems, the Portland Business Journal reported Thursday. Elizabeth Hayes writes the university’s simulation center could serve as a training facility for DoD can practice protocols for the future electronic health record system if the […] More

Lockheed Martin has introduced an open source platform for developers and non-developers to process analytics work in real time. The StreamFlow software launched on hosting service GitHub and is designed to work with the Apache Storm open source computation system, Lockheed said Thursday. “The next step in data analytics relies on the inclusion of diverse expertise and we envision […] More

A new report from ABI Research outlines market demand for cybersecurity tools from Internet of Things users in areas such as consumer privacy and data protection. The market intelligence firm said Friday that current product development requirements and the consideration between cost and risk for connected “things” will drive the market. “Embedded security, trusted computing, security protocols—these are all fledgling areas of product development […] More