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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   U.S. Army Awards SimSpace Agreement to Build Portal and Content Repository for Persistent Cyber Training Environment Agreement Awarded to Winner of Second Cyber Innovation Challenge   (Arlington, VA – August 6, 2018) The National Security Technology Accelerator (NSTXL) and the Training and Readiness Accelerator (TReX) today announced the U.S. Army had…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: NSTXL Names Erik Olbeter as Chief Operating Officer Olbeter brings track record of organizational growth, innovation, and success Washington, DC – July 23, 2018 – National Security Technology Accelerator (NSTXL), an essential Pentagon partner for rapidly delivering mission driven systems and emerging technologies for the U.S. military, today announced that it is…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Army Prototyping New Tech to Protect Troops Against Missile Threats Technology Accelerator signs $15.2 million agreement with Photo-Sonics Arlington, Va. – May 30, 2018 — The U.S Army has awarded a rapid prototyping agreement to Photo-Sonics Inc. to improve the training of soldiers against portable missiles threats. The project, funded through the…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  Army Turns to TReX for Advanced Pilot Testing Geeks and Nerds Awarded a $13.6 Million Prototype Agreement  (Arlington, VA – May 29, 2018) The National Security Technology Accelerator (NSTXL) and the Training and Readiness Accelerator (TReX) today announced the U.S. Army has awarded Geeks and Nerds Corporation a prototype agreement worth more…

There is a right way and a wrong way to do rapid acquisitions for the U.S. military. And the recent debacle over a $950 million internet cloud contract to an Amazon partner, later dramatically cut back by the Pentagon, underscores the wrong approach. The contract made use of an innovation in federal procurement called other transaction authority,…

The Department of Defense wants to improve its modeling and simulation programs as a way to bolster how it trains cyber warriors and to make better use of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data from drones.  To do that, the Pentagon is looking to a new public-private partnership to speed up delivery of these technologies in…

PCTE is a training platform that allows cyber mission forces (CMF) to train in emulated network environments utilizing current cyber tool suites. The evolution of the platform will largely focus on integration of available applications, enabling increased automation to ultimately support multiple simultaneous training events. At maturity, the U.S. Department of Defense joint PCTE will…