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The Department of Veterans Affairs seeks market information on potential application of three types of emerging technology into the Veteran Health Administration's clinical workflow. Future contractors would help VA identify and assess clinically applicable advanced manufacturing, robotic process automation and immersive technologies, VA said Thursday in a SAM notice.

Todd Probert, president of Operations for National Security and Innovative Solutions (NSIS) for CACI International and 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding his efforts to drive CACI’s growth initiatives in the national security space, the challenges his customers are facing, the latest initiatives involving electronic warfare for the U.S. military. 

Todd Probert, president of National Security and Innovative Solutions (NSIS) for CACI International, has been recognized for his significant contributions to the federal sector and government contracting (GovCon) industry with a 2021 Wash100 Award for the first time in his illustrious federal career. Executive Mosaic would like to congratulate CACI and Todd Probert. 

A Cubic company has received a three-year contract worth approximately $10 million to help the Department of Defense develop a lightweight and compact dual-band transceiver for military 5G networks. Cubic Nuvotronics, which falls under the mission and performance solutions segment, secured the award through the National Spectrum Consortium and will build a  low size, weight and power 5G wireless network communications transceiver to support the DOD's “5G to Next G“ effort, Cubic said Wednesday.

Concurrent Technologies Corp. has introduced a new form of composable architecture that can modify virtual spaces to suit applications such as military training, real estate and live entertainment.

Frank Backes, senior vice president for federal space business at Kratos Defense and Security Solutions, has noted that the military and industry are working to identify threats to space systems, National Defense Magazine reported Monday.

Bob Kleinhample, vice president for training and mission solutions at Science Applications International Corp., has said the company is working to help the U.S. Air Force address immediate pilot training needs, Inside Defense reported Monday.

Kratos Defense and Security Solutions has unveiled an aircraft simulation training system designed to support immersive scenarios beyond augmented- and virtual-reality.

Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Air Force have partnered to develop and implement a virtual reality system for training the service branch's F-35A aircraft maintenance personnel.

MAK Technologies, a subsidiary of ST Engineering North America, has released a new version of its product suite that works to help users create synthetic training environments. The updated MAK ONE platform includes virtual reality-based modeling, simulation and visualization tools.

Charles River Analytics has secured Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity funds to advance a virtual reality technology designed to help military first responders examine brain injury cases on the battlefield. The company said Monday it will equip the ADVISOR-Tethered Forward Deployable platform with a ruggedized screening kit comprised of a head-mounted display and a graphics and data processing unit.

Charles River Analytics has secured funds from the U.S. Army to develop a technology that uses virtual and augmented reality features to allow planning, rehearsal and execution of missions.

Juliana Vida, chief technical adviser of Splunk's public sector business, forecasts that agencies will increase the use of data, virtual and augmented reality tools and blockchain to support federal information technology operations, she wrote in a guest piece for Nextgov published Friday.

Raytheon has announced a new portable technology that applies virtual reality to military training for a number of battlefield scenarios.

Cubic is scheduled to highlight multi-domain training products at the 2019 Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference in Orlando, Fla.