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Keysight Technologies has secured a five-year, $39.8 million contract to provide the U.S. Air Force with tools needed to support automatic testing. USAF will gain access to Keysight's test and measurement products for Versatile Diagnostic Automatic Test Station updates and production activities.

Huntington Ingalls Industries is set to commence a four-year project to modernize the USS John C. Stennis nuclear powered aircraft carrier at the company's shipyard in Newport News, Virginia. The CVN 74 supercarrier will be the seventh ship of the U.S. Navy's Nimitz class to undergo a midlife refueling and complex overhaul process, HII said Thursday.

Kratos Defense and Security Solutions has secured over $46 million in several awards to support various space domain awareness programs. Kratos' OpenSpace software is designed to facilitate adjustments of satellite ground systems to environmental or operational changes.

The U.S. Postal Service has implemented an edge artificial intelligence system on the NVIDIA EGX platform to help speed up the process of identifying and tracking packages within hours instead of several days. The distributed edge AI platform, called the Edge Computing Infrastructure Program, emerged from a three-week sprint in 2019. During the sprint, a USPS data scientist and NVIDIA architects identified ways to accelerate the analysis of billions of images of packages each USPS center generates by designing deep learning models.

Danielle Rentz Hunt, an Abt Associates project director overseeing five COVID-19 studies for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has been named vice president of client account management at the research services provider. Hunt will oversee the Rockville, Maryland-based company's CDC business operations and growth initiatives in her new position, Abt said Thursday.

In-Q-Tel has made a strategic investment in Fiddler to help the Palo Alto, California-based artificial intelligence platforms developer further advance its explainable AI tool development efforts. Fiddler also announced its participation in FinRegLab’s research to assess the fairness and transparency of machine learning models.

REI Systems has secured a software licenses award under the General Services Administration's Multiple Award Schedule contract that allows the company to offer its software-as-a-service product governmentwide. GovGrants is a management software designed by REI to handle customers' full lifecycle grants and loans business processes.

A Carahsoft Technology report shows that customer experience with federal government services has remained the same or has not improved since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic based on a survey participated by 2,312 individuals and conducted by market research firm Merit in October and November 2020.

The U.S. Coast Guard will continue to use Palantir-made data management and analytics software for another nine months under a potential $11.25 million contract renewal. Palantir said Thursday it has provided the military service access to its technology over the past year to help the branch manage resource data amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Intelligent Waves announced on Thursday its appointment of Kathy Barlow as the new senior vice president for contracts and pricing. Prior to joining Intelligent Waves, Barlow worked as the senior director of contracts at IntelliDyne.

Raytheon Technologies' Collins Aerospace business has updated the wheels and brakes of the U.S. Navy's C-130 Hercules transport aircraft and KC-130T tanker. Collins Aerospace said Wednesday the new C-130 braking system is made of Duracarb heat sink material and designed to support approximately 2,000 aircraft landings per overhaul.

Leidos announced on Thursday that it has been awarded a spot on potential $12.6 billion Solutions for the Information Technology Enterprise III (SITE III) contract from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). The company will continue supporting DIA and compete for task orders to support the overall information technology (IT) program. SITE III runs for ten years and is a multiple-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract.

CloudBees will help the goverment with its adoption of DevSecOps capabilities as part of the U.S. Air Force's Small Business Innovative Research Phase 1 contract award. Michael Wright, director of public sector at CloudBees, said the company's Software Delivery Automation offering is designed to provide the Air Force, Department of Defense and other agencies with assistance in developing and implementing secure software.

A joint venture between CAE USA and Pinaccle Solutions has received a delivery order to update a suite of systems used to train U.S. Army personnel in watercraft operations. Xebec Government Services will refresh expeditionary fast transport, vessel defense and full mission bridge simulator configurations in the service branch's Maritime Integrated Training System, CAE said Tuesday.

Perspecta has secured a two-year, $17.9 million task order from the Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific to develop, test, integrate and maintain software for Marine Corps Forces Cyberspace Command. The company said Wednesday the cyber tool development award is meant to help MARFORCYBER augment the command's operational performance in cyberspace.