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America open for business says US Department of Defense

April 18, 2018

DPRTE 2018 broke new ground with the introduction of a brand new Knowledge Transfer Zone, christened ‘Doing Business with the US Department of Defense’. As the name suggests, the new addition – which co-opted the Keynote Arena for the afternoon of the event – paid tribute to the UK’s innumerable contributions to defence and security in the United States and made available much-needed advice to British businesses looking to ...

Jacobs to provide consultancy services for African infrastructure

Land April 6, 2018

Jacobs Engineering Group has been selected by the US Army Corps of Engineers, Europe District, to deliver architectural and engineering consulting services for the development, assessment, design, monitoring and evaluation of infrastructure projects in more than 15 African nations. The works falls under the US Africa Command (AFRICOM), responsible for all ...

US Department of Defense awards $57M supercomputer contract to HPE

Land February 23, 2018

The US Department of Defense (DoD) has contracted Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to supply state-of-the-art supercomputers as part of its hugely ambitious High Performance Computing Modernization Program. In order to accelerate development and acquisition of advanced national security capabilities, the technology specialist will provide HPE SGI 8600 systems and services to ...

ViaLite’s RF Links Meet US Military WGS Standard

Homeland August 22, 2017

ViaLite Communications has announced that its RF over fibre links are compliant with the US army MIL-STD-188-164B ARSTRAT-WGS standard. ViaLite’s Director of Sales for North America, Craig Somach, confirmed the successful testing of the ViaLiteHD RF over fibre transmission equipment with tests carried out in-conjunction with a US systems integrator. ViaLite’s ...