An award to Southern Methodist University will fund development of two-way, fiber-optic communication between prosthetic limbs and the wearer’s peripheral nerves, reports blogger Brian Robinson.
ICF International Inc. will continue to provide information technology services to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration under a five-year, $31.8 million recompete contract.
BAE Systems is acquiring Oasys Technology, a private company that specializes in the design and manufacture of electro-optical systems and subassemblies for aerospace, defense, industrial and commercial markets.
After a week when a data storage failure in a relatively new statewide system created havoc for Virginia agencies, the final three – including the 74 branches of the Department of Motor Vehicles – are expected to resume services today. But the problems of state agency computer systems are national in scope.
Lockheed Martin Corp. will help the Health and Human Services Department accelerate the establishment of digital health records and secure health information exchanges as a result of two new HHS contracts that have a combined value of $9 million.
Five years after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast, the region continues to rebuild and the federal government is still trying to fix information technology-related problems that the storm and its aftermath exposed.
Video games used to train recruits for war could also be masking the reality of the battlefield and creating a kind of detachment for those who become involved in the real thing.
L-3 Communications Corp. has acquired Airborne Technologies Inc., which specializes in aeronautical engineering services for unmanned aircraft systems. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Stanley Inc. has won two Defense Department contracts for biometrics assistance and operational support worth a combined $8 million to support the U.S. Army Intelligence Center Language Technology Office at Fort Huachuca, Ariz.
Blogger Brian Robinson wonders about the long-term impact of NASA’s involvement with a new industry initiative aimed at promoting open source-based cloud technology.
Dell Computer Corp. has entered into a $5.1 million contract to provide new servers to NASA so the agency can conduct simulation modeling and data analysis to explore, understand and predict climate change.
Although its headquarters is more than 1,750 miles from the Washington, D.C., metro area, RightNow Technologies Inc., of Bozeman, Mont., is in the right place at the right time, company officials say, as it looks to ramp up the company's cloud computing offerings in the public sector.
