Tetra Tech has been awarded a spot on a $49 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide technical geospatial services for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's coastal management program. The company said Tuesday it will collect, analyze and process geospatial data with the use of airborne and bathymetric lidar, satellite imagery and video …
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SRI International Launches Agriculture Tech Firm Abundant Robotics; Dan Steere Comments
SRI International has spun off and unveiled an agriculture firm that aims to automate fruit harvesting operations through robotics. Abundant Robotics will leverage SRI's agricultural robotics research efforts in order to commercialize systems intended for orchard agriculture automation, SRI International said Wednesday. “The first automated apple harvesting system that doesn't bruise …
Read More »Former NASA Chief Dan Goldin Launches Neural Tech Company Called KnuEdge
Dan Goldin, a former NASA chief, launched a new San Diego, California-based company called KnuEdge that provides neural computing technology for the aerospace, banking, healthcare, hospitality and insurance sectors. KnuEdge said June 6 that it has also developed a new military-grade voice recognition and authentication technology called KnuVerse that works to …
Read More »Paul Stockton, Richard Danzig Named Johns Hopkins APL Senior Fellows
Paul Stockton and Richard Danzig, respectively former officials at the Defense Department and the U.S. Navy, have been appointed senior fellows of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. “Their experiences leading the nation through challenging times and knowledge of emerging technical challenges will further the lab’s impact for the nation,” APL Director Ralph Semmel …
Read More »Booz Allen Becomes Silver Sponsor of Consortium for IT Software Quality
Booz Allen Hamilton has joined the Consortium for IT Software Quality as a silver sponsor and will support the development of new software quality standards and pilot the CISQ conformance assessment program. The company said Tuesday it is the sixth major sponsor to join the consortium’s efforts to foster the implementation of …
Read More »Navy Vet Dan Cloyd Joins Northrop as Naval Aviation, ISR Programs Corporate Director; Timothy Jones Comments
Dan Cloyd, former director of maritime operations at the U.S. Fleet Forces Command, has been named corporate director of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance and naval aviation programs at Northrop Grumman. Northrop said Friday Cloyd will report to Timothy Jones, vice president of aviation and ISR programs, and will coordinate corporate …
Read More »DigitalGlobe Aims to Help Address Climate Change with Data Tech; Taner Kodanaz Comments
DigitalGlobe has joined a public-private partnership that aims to help low-lying coastal countries address their climate adaptation and sustainable development challenges through the use of technology. The company said Monday the Blue Guardians consortium seeks to leverage big data platforms and other informational tools to support ocean and coastal management …
Read More »NASA Test Flies Drone Equipped with Collision Avoidance Sensors
NASA and three aeronautical technology firms have collaborated to demonstrate the collision avoidance functions of an Ikhana unmanned aerial system at the agency’s Armstrong Flight Research Center at Edwards, California. Ikhana worked to alert a remote pilot or maneuvered itself to avoid approaching aircraft while it flew over California’s high …
Read More »Dan Gutierrez, Napoleon Stewart, Don Chaney Take MacAulay-Brown Leadership Roles
Dan Gutierrez, vice president of mid-Atlantic operations at MacAulay-Brown, has been promoted to VP of operations for the Dayton, Ohio-based company’s national security group. MacB said Monday it also named Napoleon Stewart director of military intelligence programs and appointed Donald Chaney director of intelligence community programs within the national security …
Read More »NASA to Use IBM’s Bluemix Cloud Platform for Virtual Space Apps Challenge
IBM has partnered with NASA to use the company’s Bluemix cloud platform for the NASA International Space Apps Challenge virtual event, which seeks to facilitate innovation through the development of space exploration applications. The company said Tuesday Bluemix will offer access to at least 200 NASA data sources, services and tools to help …
Read More »Deloitte’s Dan Helfrich: Federal Civilian Sector to See Opportunities in Gov’t Transformation
Dan Helfrich, federal civilian sector leader at Deloitte‘s consulting practice, believes that the GovCon sector will see opportunities in areas such as back-office operations, mobility and human capital programs in 2015 to support government modernization efforts. He noted that agencies can adopt a shared services model to help with the delivery of citizen …
Read More »Deloitte's Terri Cooper Previews Federal Health Opportunities, Challenges in 2015
Terri Cooper, Deloitte's federal health sector lead, has highlighted the opportunities and challenges for health providers, planners, policymakers and regulators in the coming months. Cooper noted in her 2015 Industry Outlook that the health sector's opportunity is to control costs while maintaining the quality of medical treatment for consumers. She recommended that health officials leverage …
Read More »Ted Girard on Delphix’s Federal ERP Market Push and Agencies’ Data Security, Mgmt Challenges
Ted Girard leads the federal business of Menlo Park, Calif.-based enterprise resource application services provider Delphix as a vice president at the company. Girard’s GovCon career includes time as vice president of federal sales at BMC Software and federal sales director at data center automation software company BladeLogic, which BMC purchased …
Read More »Booz Allen Lands $79M in FY 2015 4Q Contracts for Military Health Services
Booz Allen Hamilton has received 25 contracts worth almost $79 million combined to provide military health services at the U.S. Defense Department during the last quarter of fiscal year 2015. The contracts cover work in areas such as healthcare analytics, medical data privacy and security, behavioral health and wellness, combat care …
Read More »IBM Study Indicates Cyber Concerns of CISOs; Brendan Hannigan Comments
A new IBM study indicates a growing concern among security leaders over what they perceive as rising external threats. The survey of chief information security officers and other leaders says 60 percent of respondents believe their organizations lack the necessary resources to engage in a cyber war, IBM said Tuesday. Organizations see big data, cloud …
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