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NASA Awards Private Industry Contracts to Build Rockets to Ferry Astronauts to Space Station

NASA on Tuesday awarded a pair of much-anticipated contracts, worth up to $6.8bn combined, to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station to Boeing and SpaceX in a deal that would allow the U.S. to launch astronauts into space from U.S. soil for the first time in years.

Should Even Nuclear Command and Control Go Into the Cloud, Defense CIO Asks

For all the enthusiasm surrounding the government's move to the cloud - and there's no shortage - one prominent federal CIO is emphatic that cloud computing, for all its virtues, is no panacea for the government's technology challenges.

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Military Logistics Kuwait

Kuwait's most senior-ranked armed forces and logistics supply chain industry event to include General Officers involved with logistics from Kuwait, NATO and international forces

Universal Uses Multi-Modes to Provide Customized Solutions for its Customers

Challenge: Severe congestion for customer because retrograde moving back to US ports from Iraq. Expedited move of 6.2 million lbs. of heavy rolling stock origin to destination to be completed within 18 days. Length of haul, maintaining control of the cargo and expedite to destination within constrained RRD. Rail not an option due to congestion at the destination and their ability to quickly unload rail cars.

Up in the Sky - It's a Cargo Airship!

It might seem like a throwback to the dirigibles of the 1930s, but a new type of airship is another animal entirely.

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Discover How One Command Cut Inventory by $4.5 Billion

Challenge: This 65,000-employee command is responsible for planning all things logistic for a branch of the service. This command had made an investment in an SAP ERP system. However, things didn't improve as expected. "Even after the ERP deployment, we didn't let go of how we'd always done business" explains David Frey. Frey was charged with improving efficiency across the command.

Labor Costs Unrelated to Decision to Build Version of Dreamliner in South Carolina, Boeing Says

Boeing will build the biggest version of its 787 Dreamliner family exclusively in South Carolina at a nonunion plant it built five years ago. It's part of an effort to lower labor costs, but the company said organized labor had nothing to do with its decision.

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Chemical Production in U.S. on the Rise

According to the American Chemistry Council, following an upwardly revised 0.5 percent gain in May, the U.S. Chemical Production Regional Index continued to expand, rising by 0.3 percent in June. Chemical output was higher in all regions.

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What Lessons Were Learned from Air Force's Failed $1Bn ERP Implementation?

The United States Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations has issued its official report on the Air Force's failed enterprise resource planning system implementation. The Air Force Expeditionary Combat Support System (ECSS) was supposed to be a "transformational" logistics program that would make the U.S. Air Force more efficient and effective. The goal of the program was to replace hundreds of legacy systems, some dating back to the 1970s. But, after nearly a decade of work by the system integrator, Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), and more than $1.1bn spent, the ECSS program was terminated in December 2012.

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For Defense Industry, the Good News Is That Slack Times May Be Coming to End

Arms-makers are going through a lean period. Some big contracts, such as ones to make bombers, trainer aircraft and drones, are still up for grabs in America, the world’s biggest spender. But it and other rich-world governments, struggling to curb their deficits, are trying ever harder to get the most bang for the fewest bucks.

USAF Solicits Competitive Bids on National Security Satellite Program

For the first time in a decade, the Air Force has opened up a rocket competition to launch the U.S. government's most sophisticated national security satellites. The Air Force released a request for proposal on Tuesday to companies that want to compete for a national security mission set to blast off in 2016.

Despite Defense Cutbacks, Business Drone Manufacturer Looks for Business in U.S. Airspace to Soar

Boosted by an increase in sales, Monrovia,Calif.-based drone maker AeroVironment Inc. exceeded analyst estimates and reported $8.1m in fiscal fourth-quarter profit, a turnaround from the same period a year earlier.

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