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Computer Sciences receives $50M Air Force contract
Relevance Score: 6.168 2009-08-14 09:33:53
Information technology company Computer Sciences Corp. said Wednesday it received a $50 million Air Force contract for technical support, development testing and training. CSC will provide technical and support services, including information assurance, development testing, configuration management and training for the command and control system of the Air Force's air mobility command. The Falls Church, Va., company received the contract during its fourth quarter ended April 3. The contract has a one-year base period and three one-year options. The total four-year value is $50 million. CSC shares rose $1.09 to $50.06 in afternoon trading.
AMERICOM Government Services’ Commercially Hosted Infrared Payload (CHIRP) Flies Through Critical Design Review
Relevance Score: 2.932 2009-03-22 00:28:14
Satellite solutions provider AMERICOM Government Services (AGS) and its partners Orbital Sciences Corporation and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) successfully completed the Space Segment Critical Design Review (CDR) for the Commercially Hosted Infrared Payload (CHIRP) program. The CHIRP Flight Development program is designed to reduce risks in the development of wide field-of-view starring infrared sensors to meet the needs of the US government. The program includes the hosting of the sensor on board a commercial communications satellite, a sensor operations center and a data analysis center. The CDR delivery included a draft Concept of Operations (CONOPs) which provides for operating the sensor 24 hours per day and delivering data to the analysis center for processing. The data analysis center will post process data on a priority scheme established by an experimental plan which is still under development. The AGS team successfully completed the CDR within seven months of contract award and is on target for launching the CHIRP sensor on board an SES AMERICOM spacecraft scheduled to launch in 2010. The three-year, $65 million firm fixed price contract was signed on June 30, 2008 with the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) in Los Angeles, CA. Tim Deaver, Director of Air Force Programs at AGS and Program Manager for the CHIRP program noted, “The successful completion of the Space Segment CDR keeps us on schedule for a launch in 2010. We could not have successfully completed this milestone without the hard work and dedication of both our contractor and government teammates.” Major Craig Phillips, SMC/XR CHIRP Program Manager noted, “We are pleased with the progress the AGS team has made in maturing the design of the spacecraft accommodation for our wide field-of-view sensor.” AGS has subcontracted with Orbital Sciences for the integration of the sensor to the spacecraft. The wide field-of-view sensor is being developed by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) as a subcontractor to Orbital Sciences. more > businesswire.com
Smiths Detection to Take Part in DoD’s Advanced Standoff Chemical Detection Demonstration
Relevance Score: 2.761 2009-07-07 09:17:28
Smiths Detection, in partnership with Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI), today announces it will showcase a prototype of an advanced standoff chemical detector at the Utah Dugway Proving Ground, a premier U.S. military technology testing facility. The showcase is part of a Warfighter Operational Demonstration for the NGCSD program evaluations, with testing taking place July 6-24, 2009. Known as the Adaptive InfraRed Imaging System (AIRIS), the prototype employs a hyperspectral system developed by PSI, a recognized technology development partner to the U.S. Department of Defense. The system provides the capability to detect, identify and track chemical material from distances greater than five kilometers. Tim Picciotti, General Manager, US Military, Smiths Detection, said: “We are delighted to participate in this demonstration and to show how the AIRIS system will be used to assess chemical contamination from afar. Our partnership with PSI is enabling the further advancement of technologies to enhance warfighter safety by detecting and defeating chemical threats.” B. David Green, CEO of Physical Sciences, Inc, said: “It is a pleasure to be working with the world-class engineers at Smiths Detection, whose proven record in chemical detection coupled with our expertise in optical detection methods and advanced algorithms is making this standoff chemical detection technology a reality. We look forward to seeing this technology implemented in a variety of applications, including vehicles.” Smiths Detection is a world-leading provider of chemical agent detection solutions including the recently launched Light Chemical Detector (LCD) 3.3™. The company sells chemical detectors and warning systems to armed forces and emergency response teams across the globe.
Top 100 US Defense Contractors
Relevance Score: 2.467 2009-07-08 23:16:05
1. Lockheed Martin Corp. 2. Boeing Co. 3. Northrop Grumman Corp. 4. General Dynamics Corp. 5. Raytheon Co. 6. KBR Inc. 7. L-3 Communications Holdings 8. United Technologies Corp. 9. BAE Systems 10. SAIC 11. General Electric Co. 12. Computer Sciences Corp. 13. Humana Inc. 14. Health Net Inc. 15. Triwest Healthcare Alliance Co. 16. EDS 17. Public Warehousing Co. KSC 18. ITT Industries 19. Textron Inc. 20. Honeywell Inc. 21. URS Corp. 22. Harris Corp. 23. AmerisourceBergen Corp. 24. Bechtel Group Inc. 25. FedEx Corp. 26. Alliant Techsystems Inc. 27. Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. 28. BP PLC 29. DRS Technologies Inc. 30. Exxon Mobil Corp. 31. Kuwait National Petroleum Co. 32. The Alliance Contractor Team 33. Renco Corp. 34. MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings 35. Environmental Chemical Corp. 36. Oshkosh Truck Corp. 37. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. 38. Stewart & Stevenson Services 39. Armor Holdings Inc. 40. General Motors Corp. 41. Grindex Pumps A B Sweden 42. Korea Agricultural Cooperative 43. CACI International Inc. 44. Johns Hopkins University 45. General Atomics Technology Corp. 46. Rockwell Collins 47. McKesson Corp. 48. Valero Energy Corp. 49. Aerospace Corp. 50. MITRE Corp. 51. Cardinal Health Inc. 52. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 53. Syracuse Research Corp. 54. Chugach Alaska Corp. 55. Dell Computer Corp. 56. Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. 57. ARINC Inc. 58. Phillips and Jordan Inc. 59. Refinery Associates Inc. 60. Rolls-Royce PLC 61. United Industrial Corp. 62. IAP Worldwide Services Inc. 63. Government of Canada 64. Hatakeyama Bussan 65. AP Moller-Maersk 66. ChevronTexaco Corp. 67. Battelle Memorial Institute 68. Shaw Group Inc. 69. Parsons Corp. 70. Thales Group 71. Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. 72. Bahrain National Oil Co. 73. Philip Morris Co. 74. Tetra Tech Inc. 75. Chenega Corp. 76. AshBritt Inc. 77. Hunt Building Corp. 78. Ceradyne Inc. 79. Ceres Environmental Services 80. SK Corp. 81. Veritas Capital Inc. 82. CH2M Hill Companies Ltd. 83. Aecom Technology Corp. 84. Washington Group International 85. Goodrich Corp. 86. Hensel Phelps Construction Co. 87. Procter & Gamble Co. 88. Tesoro Petroleum Corp. 89. UBS Provedores 90. Dogog Farm 91. Datapath Inc. 92. Mantech International Corp. 93. Afognak Native Corp. 94. VSE Corp. 95. Accenture 96. IBM Corp. 97. Arctic Slope Regional Corp. 98. Serco Group PLC 99. Kemyong Farm Ltd. 100. Charles Stark Draper Labs
New Contracts
Relevance Score: 2.181 2010-02-12 12:20:18
This week's federal contracts, deals and bankruptcy filings involving Maryland businesses include the following: FEDERAL American Fleet Sales & Services of Capitol Heights won $163,344 from the Air Force for two 16-passenger surrey buses. Ashwani Manufacturing of Columbia won $61,950 from the Defense Logistics Agency for mounting brackets. BAE Systems Technology Solutions and Services of Rockville won $9.09 million from the Navy for continued design agent and technical engineering support for a weapons missile system. Calico Industries of Annapolis Junction won $66,955 from the General Services Administration for thermometers. Carroll Water Systems of Westminster won $9,221 from the Coast Guard to maintain a water treatment facility. Computer Sciences Corp. of Rockville won $29,773 from NASA for additional applied sciences support under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. D.B. Consulting Group of Silver Spring won $924,617 from NASA for unmanned air systems requirements under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Dela Technology of Rockville won from the Defense Logistics Agency $71,304 for indicator lights; $47,025 for spring tension washers; and $35,834 for an electronic components assembly. Dynamac of Rockville won $126,031 from the Army for engineering evaluation and cost analysis revision and finalization under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Forrester Construction of Rockville won $10.15 million from the Army to construct the Wideband Satellite Communications Operations Center at Fort Detrick. Harkins Builders of Marriottsville won $11.72 million from the Army to build a satellite Earth terminal station. IBM in Gaithersburg won $70,512 and $12,916 from the Air Force for software maintenance renewal. Intelsat General of Bethesda won up to $10 million from the Defense Information Systems Agency for a commercial broadband satellite program and $1.21 million from the Navy for satellite communication services. Johnson & Towers of Baltimore won $85,301 from the Defense Logistics Agency for metal tube assemblies. Johnson Truck Center of Landover won $76,664 from the Defense Logistics Agency for wiring harnesses. Lockheed Martin Maritime Systems and Sensors of Baltimore won $31.36 million from the Navy for electrical design agent services for a vertical launching system (VLS). Mabey Bridge & Shore of Elkridge won $39,815 from the Defense Logistics Agency for span junction decks. Metalcraft of Baltimore won $477,100 from the Defense Logistics Agency for fire extinguishers. Microwave Engineering of North Andover won $1.32 million from the Navy to repair quad feed horns and ortho-mode transducer waveguides. Norseman of Elkridge won $7,492 from the Department of State for switches under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Northrop Grumman Systems of Linthicum Heights won $232,168 from the Air Force for electrical and electronic equipment components. Powerstar of Gaithersburg won $58,560 from the Defense Logistics Agency for power supplies. Richard S. Carson & Associates of Bethesda won $3.58 million from the Department of Health and Human Services for security architecture, engineering and staffing support services. Scientific Specialties Service of Hanover won $27,633 from the Defense Logistics Agency for screw cap bottles. Sigma Space of Lanham won $1.3 million from NASA for laser vegetation imaging sensor development for the Global Hawk aircraft under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Swales & Associates of Beltsville, dba ATK Space Systems, won up to $497,379 from NASA for research and development for integrated air and round concepts under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Tate Andale of Baltimore won $349,690 from the Defense Logistics Agency for valves. Vetcorp of Frederick won $527,535 from the Army for 285 gallons of herbicide under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Vigil Contracting of Crofton won $2.56 million from the Department of Agriculture to replace tower windows under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Wilcoxon Research of Germantown won $147,725 from the Army for liquid and gas flow, liquid level and mechanical motion measuring instruments.
Wi-Fi in the Sky
Relevance Score: 2.171 2010-02-16 19:58:28
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is moving forward with a space program that could revolutionize the way satellites are procured and deployed. The agency has awarded Orbital Sciences Corp. a one-year, $75 million contract to develop hardware that would allow satellites to share data while in orbit. In other words, the company is building an outer-space version of the Internet. The goal is to create a web of small, wirelessly connected satellites that individually aren’t as capable as current satellites but are also more easily replaced and procured. Together, they will carry out the same missions as the bulkier satellites of today. For example, one satellite in the network might collect information while another stores it. The government now pays huge up-front costs to develop and launch large satellites. Under DARPA’s program, which was given the tongue-twister name Future Fast, Flexible, Fractionated, Free-Flying Spacecraft, or F6, officials could purchase these cheaper, smaller satellites one at a time and build a network over many years. The system likely would be more expensive than current satellite programs, but its costs would add up incrementally. It would also be easier to replace damaged satellites and harder for enemies to wipe out the system with anti-satellite weapons, Burgess says. “One shot doesn’t destroy the whole capability.” In the program’s first phase, researchers created a computer model that simulated a seven-satellite network. Next, the company will build the network infrastructure that the satellites will use to communicate with each other and with the ground. It hopes to complete that by December. Finally, developers will build and launch three satellites — a step that’s tentatively set to be completed in 2014, according to officials at Orbital. At that point, DARPA will have a three-satellite cluster that can be expanded. The agency is requiring Orbital to make its technology designs and software codes open source so other companies can add to the system. Orbital is now developing the radio technology necessary for outer-space communications among satellites. “We have to show that the technology has the correct range and that it performs,” Burgess says. “It’s like Wi-Fi in the sky.”
RubbleViewer Uses Robots to Map Natural Disasters in 3D
Relevance Score: 2.071 2009-07-06 12:12:19
When disaster strikes, every minute matters. And the time spent surveying the scene is time that can’t be spent saving survivors. Researchers at Texas A&M University and Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands have collaborated on a way to speed up the process. Small robots take photos of the disaster site. The photos are then uploaded to a computer program called Rubble-Viewer that transforms them into a three-dimensional map of the site. (The program is based on Microsoft’s Photosynth software, which won a 2008 PM Breakthrough Award.) This could speed up rescues. “It can take 10 hours to extract somebody because you don’t know the structure,” says Robin Murphy, a professor of computer science and engineering at Texas A&M. “This will give structural engineers more accurate information to speed up extraction.” RubbleViewer’s creators hope to get the software to first responders by August, when hurricane season normally hits its peak.
Army Telecommunications Careers
Relevance Score: 2.070 2009-05-26 12:05:30
The United States Army has a vast arsenal of equipment and vehicles, and it has a complex and ever expanding system of electronic communications. It is a field that is challenging and features a number of different telecommunication type specialist jobs. Soldiers that work in the telecommunications field work with a wide variety of radio and electronic telecommunications equipment. It is a challenging field and dynamic in that it has a large ever changing field of equipment including radar, complex electronic machinery, decoding and coding machines, and transceivers of every size shape and variety that you can think of. At different times Army soldiers can even be tasked to help transpire data and communications from the enemy or other sources. As a telecommunications technician in the Army you will be required to; deal with classified communications and data, to work as a computer repair person, or with computer network technical issues. You can work with communications circuits, switchboards, telephones and other communications equipment. The Navy will give you training that is state of the art in communications and classified field systems. You will interpret schematics, and work with diagrams, sketches, blueprints and other electronic equipment. You will deal with various radio and telecommunications equipment both in the field and in training in the classroom. You will work with navigations and digital communications gear, and work with systems and electronic systems. You will function as a computer network repairer and repair computer technician. After working in the electronics repair and digital electronics field you will have training and skills that will be highly sought after in the civilian field. You will attend basic training for Army enlisted personnel for 9 weeks, and then you will transfer to a technical school for further training. You will be instructed in radiological and electronics training for telecommunications work, and your training will work with both basic and advanced electrical theory. You will work in the classroom and in the field. You will study intensely at both simulated in the field training and classroom training. Almost all of the career training you receive as an Army Telecommunications career is eligible for college level credit.
iKey designs customized, wearable keyboard for SpecOps Systems
Relevance Score: 1.932 2010-02-12 15:35:24
SpecOps Systems, Inc. has a unique mission: designing rugged, wearable computer technology to provide enhanced situational awareness of the battle space for military soldiers to use in the field. Their WC2 computer system performs like an extremely powerful desktop computer, but is designed to be worn and carried by a soldier during live action for extended periods of time. In the summer of 2009, a SpecOps Systems customer asked for a WC2 computer with an integrated keyboard. The keyboard had to be small enough to fit within the system, while maintaining the durability required for extensive use in harsh environments. SpecOps Systems turned to iKey for a solution. Seven weeks after the initial conference call, SpecOps Systems had a working prototype of the KYB-170-OEM, an ultra-compact keyboard measuring only 2.55" x 2.75" x 0.22" (w-h-d) that is packed with functionality. The initial prototype was delivered as "production ready" within the required timeframe, without a need for engineering changes to the firmware, printed circuit board or mechanical drawings. Features on the KYB-170-OEM include a 17-key keypad that functions just like a cellular phone does when texting. Characters are accessed by pressing the appropriate key sequentially until the desired character is produced. It also features an integrated micro Force Sensing Resistor (FSR) pointing device and can be manufactured with any available color of LED lighting for use in dark environments. The KYB-170-OEM is completely sealed to NEMA 4X specifications, which means it is resistant to dirt, dust, liquids and other ingress when properly installed. It is available with a USB cable and is designed to meet MIL-STD-461E requirements. Several models of the WC2 featuring the integrated keyboard are now undergoing dual testing in theater and stateside. Meanwhile, iKey now offers the KYB-170-OEM as a standard product. iKey also continues to design customized, rugged peripheral solutions that meet the specific needs of customers.
Mission-Ready Wearable Computing
Relevance Score: 1.912 2009-07-04 13:25:36
Wearable computing has transitioned from concept to reality—as evidenced by Eurotech Group’s Zypad wearable computer. Designed from the ground up to accommodate harsh environments, Zypad is the ideal wearable computing solution for military, homeland defense, first responder, security, and emergency service field and in-vehicle applications. The technological advancements in COTS technology and innovative engineering from Eurotech have made Zypad one of the most sought after wearable-computing devices on the market today. In one compact device, Zypad offers a modular design to allow the user to customize the device to specific needs. Other features included in the Zypad such as “mission” mode, enhanced power management, embedded wireless radio, biometric fingerprint reader, and multiple I/O are all aimed at providing soldiers with easy access to necessary computing power, thereby improving the success of net-centric warfare. The advancements Eurotech has made in the field of high technology for computer miniaturization proves that wearable computing is indeed pervasive and will continue to penetrate new and emerging markets.