The Project Performance Company has signed a potential five-year, $17.5 million contract with the Justice Department to provide operation, maintenance and other IT support services for the department’s Victim Notification System. PPC CEO Paul Strasser said Tuesday the contract continues the company’s support for the automated notification system, which began in 2009. This follow-on contract also covers program …

RSA, the security division of EMC, has launched the RSA Advanced Security Operations Center Solution to combinee several technologies that are designed to help enterprises detect emerging threats and mitigate network breaches. EMC said Tuesday that the suite integrates RSA Security Analytics, RSA ECAT, RSA Archer Security Operations Management and RSA Advanced Cyber Defense Practice training …

Emergent BioSolutions has landed a five-year, $29 million contract with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to make a dry formulation of the NuThrax anthrax vaccine candidate in an effort to facilitate shipping and storage at normal temperatures. The company said Monday the contract covers manufacturing, non-clinical processes and application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for …

Serco Inc. will continue to provide command consultations, behavioral health screenings and psychological-education briefings to the U.S. Navy Reserve‘s Psychological Health Outreach Program under a five-year, $14.3 million contract. The company said Tuesday that it will perform contract work in Everett, Washington; Fort Worth, Texas; Great Lakes, Illinois; Jacksonville, Florida; Norfolk, Virginia; and San …

Lockheed Martin has selected a subsidiary of IBC Advanced Alloys to supply beryllium-aluminum cast components for the F-35 jet’s electro-optical targeting system under a $2 million initial contract. IBC Engineered Materials will perform engineering and hard-tooling services and use the Beralcast beryllium-aluminum alloy to build an EOTS azimuth gimbal housing for the F-35, IBC …

Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Newport News Shipbuilding division has christened the USS John Warner (SSN 785), the first Virginia-class submarine to be named after a living person — former Senator and Navy Secretary John Warner. Warner’s wife Jeanne led the christening ceremony as the ship’s sponsor, the company said Monday. “American technological innovation and manufacturing skill have always …

Lockheed Martin has received a $26.8 million follow-on contract from the Defense Department for sustainment and operations support to the Integrated Data Environment/Global Transportation Network Convergence program, run by the U.S. Transportation Command and Defense Logistics Agency. The IGC program, which the company developed under a contract awarded in 2008, is designed to help make the supply …

Creative Computing Solutions has received a subcontract to help Palladian Partners perform research analysis and reporting services for the National Institutes of Health. CCSi said this month that it was chosen by Silver Spring, Maryland-based Palladian to work with NIH’s Office of Research on Women’s Health. The value of the subcontract was not disclosed. CCSi holds other contracts for work …

Cisco and Red Hat have extended their partnership to open collaboration around the OpenStack, Intercloud and Application Centric Infrastructure tools and unveiled a new integrated infrastructure for cloud deployments on OpenStack. Cisco said Thursday the new Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure product family is designed for private cloud operations on OpenStack and on-ramp to Intercloud for …

A Lockheed Martin subsidiary has partnered with the Copenhagen Airport in Denmark to provide a data insights consulting service to other airports to use for support operational planning. Lockheed said Friday its BEONTRA subsidiary and CPH will jointly work with airports to analyze and optimize their data as they seek to manage costs in airport operations. “After working …

All network security strategies are centered on protecting sensitive data and the success of such a measure relies on organizations’ understanding of both internal and external interactions with the data, according to Francis Ofungwu of Unisys. Ofungwu, director of network security services at the company, writes in a post published Thursday that organizations must perform data …

Platform-as-a-service gives federal agencies a tool to support their initiatives on cloud computing and data center consolidation but many have not embraced PaaS due to several reasons, James Benson of HumanTouch says. Benson, a HumanTouch senior vice president, wrote in a post for GCN published Thursday that he believes some system integrators are hindering federal adoption of …

MicroPact has been awarded a contract with the Government Accountability Office to offer the agency’s Forensic Audits and Investigative Service division a product to use as a criminal investigative case management platform. The company said Thursday FAIS will use entellitrak to manage civil and criminal investigations on fraud, waste and abuse of public funds and help standardize its investigative process. “Investigations are …

Battelle has secured a five-year deal with the city of Dublin in Ohio to utilize its fiber optic network in testing the data transfer functions of ID Quantique‘s Quantum Key Distribution hardware. Battelle said Wednesday its quantum communication researchers have been given permission to use the city’s dubLINK fiber optic ring and other available cables for free to conduct …

The Justice Department has awarded Intelligent Fiscal Optimal Solutions a five-year, $3 million contract to provide administrative, budget and program support services to DOJ’s Office on Violence Against Women for anti-violence programs. Columbia, Maryland-based iFOS said Wednesday the contract covers staff augmentation services for OVW activities. “We look forward to providing OVW with fresh solutions to minimize …