The pedCAT® is the first true in-office cone beam 3D scanner for the foot and ankle. It is designed to access clinical conditions for the foot and ankle region, which allows for confident planning of optimal surgery and treatment planning in minutes. Although it has virtually the same radiation dose, the diagnostic information captured from the pedCAT scan cannot be seen in regular 2D x-rays.

The pedCAT® system comes complete with CubeVue software installed, giving you powerful interpretation and treatment planning tools at your fingertips. CubeVue allows users to quickly build various 3D renderings and scroll through the complete volume data. Window sizes and views can be customized for easy comparison and presentation.

Government customers can now contact GSAmart at 888-665-2765 for more information and pricing on CurveBeam products.

For the month of January, Washington Technology covered 17 contract awards. The month was especially active for Lockheed Martin, who made the list twice. A small-business award also scored very high on the list.

Starting at No. 10, the countdown for the first month of the calendar year went like this:

10. ManTech wins $33.5M anti-terrorism contract

ManTech International Corp. captured a contract with the Defense Department’s Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office to provide support services.

“The CTTSO customer has unique operational and technical demands to quickly deploy advanced solutions in support of the global war on terrorism,” said Terry M. Ryan, president and chief operating officer of ManTech’s Emerging Markets Group. He’s since left the company to become CEO of VT Group.

Full article by Mark Hoover, Washington Technology

The White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued so-called passback guidance to the Department of Defense on Jan. 29, according to Pentagon spokeswoman Lt. Col. Elizabeth Robbins.

“The next step is to continue working with OMB to produce the FY ‘14 President’s Budget,” she said over e-mail.

The passback is the OMB’s revised version of the budget proposal for fiscal year 2014 that the Pentagon submitted to it last fall. In past years, the White House budget office issued passbacks to the Pentagon and other federal agencies the week after Thanksgiving. That kicked off a process intended to lead up to an unveiling of the administration’s budget for the federal government the first week of February.

Full article by Emelie Rutherford, Defense Daily Network

But the company wasn’t the only one facing a big test. Dave McClure, the associate administrator in the General Services Administration’s Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies, said the FedRAMP review process was also a proving ground for GSA.

“I think it’s a big deal because we’ve working on trying to set up a successful process to evaluate cloud security and the process has produced the first company through it,” McClure said in an interview on In Depth with Francis Rose. “That means that our operating model has been tested and that we’re capable of delivering a security assessment against a standard baseline set of controls for cloud computing.”

Full article by Jack Moore, Federal News Radio

The blanket purchase agreement, awarded in December to Microsoft partner and InformationWeek 500 awardee Insight Enterprises, Inc., gives the military its lowest-ever prices and “more favorable” contracting terms for the military.

The deal is the most comprehensive licensing agreement Microsoft has ever struck with the Department of Defense, which is Microsoft’s single largest customer, and covers almost 75% of all DoD personnel.

The new contract was awarded by the Army contracting command and also includes the Army, Air Force and Defense Information Systems Agency. The joint enterprise license differs from the historically fragmented approach of the military: In the past, military services and even groups within the services have done their own deals with Microsoft.

For example, as recently as last July, the Navy announced a multi-year, $700 million enterprise licensing agreement with Microsoft in a deal that consolidated multiple older Navy licensing agreements with Microsoft. And previously, the Army had done business with Microsoft through another contractor, SoftArt Government Services.

The new approach follows through on an effort by DoD CIO Teri Takai and other top military officials in the recent past to look for ways to spend money more efficiently and to leverage the joint purchasing power of the military by bringing multiple branches of the armed services into cross-DOD contracts.

Full article by J. Nicholas Hoover, InformationWeek

Qmatic provides complete systems for managing the flow of visitors, patients, or customers from initial contact through final service delivery. Government agencies deploy Qmatic solutions in service/visitor centers, access areas/reception, post/gates, waiting rooms, and many other areas within their facilities that handle high traffic volumes. Implementing these solutions has proven to reduce waiting times, increase staff satisfaction levels and improve the overall customer experience. Rich management reporting provides insight into daily activities and supplies the data necessary to intelligently drive operational improvements.

Maintaining service levels is a daily challenge that is exasperated by the need to balance quality customer service with government guidelines and targets. Thousands of public sector organizations from local, county and state government to embassies and consulates don’t simply maintain but improve their service levels using a Qmatic CFM solution.

Qmatic solutions range from independent and networked virtual and linear CFM systems, to kiosk systems, digital signage and an accompaniment of CFM specific hardware. With Qmatic CFM solutions, government organizations can reduce costs while increasing sales and processing capacity, improve customer and staff satisfaction, and derive real-time management information (MI) that powers meaningful operation decisions.

Call TestMart at 888-665-2765 for GSA pricing.

Most radar sites are operated on commercial power, and are backed up by a generator with a Power Conditioning System (PCS). The PCS supports the Critical Radar Loads during power bumps, power spikes, voltage sags and transitions from commercial to engine-generated power. The static switch and the PCS unit have to make the transition in less than 4 milliseconds to ensure uninterrupted function of the beacon, radio transmitters and other radar equipment. The PCS at the Red Table Mountain site had a frustrating problem: PCS batteries were supposed to last up to 4 years, but they only lasted a year to year and a half. The frequent replacement of the batteries was costly and time-consuming. The site personnel suspected that the PCS unit was going to batteries frequently, without the engine sensing a power failure. It was not clear why this would be happening, so they requested assistance in identifying the problem.

Full article by Ani Dimusheva, Power Standards Lab

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• 5-in-one design: oscilloscope plus options for logic analysis, protocol analysis, 3-digit voltmeter, and function generator w/ AWG
• 1M waveforms per second update rate to capture the most elusive signal variances
• Over a dozen applications for the 3000 X-Series, including power analysis for integrated power analysis capability
• Dozens of probing options, including passive, active, current and differential

The DSO3XPWR option is a power measurement and analysis option that is integrated into InfiniiVision 3000 X-Series scopes. The embedded application provides a quick and easy way of analyzing the reliability and efficiency of your switching power supply.

Learn more:

• Product Page – DSOX3PWR Power Measurements for the InfiniiVision 3000 X-Series Oscilloscopes
• Application Note – 7 Hints that Every Engineer Should Know when Making Power Measurements with Oscilloscopes

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After reviewing the company’s GSA Schedule 70 contract, “it was determined that it was not in the best interest of the government to continue the contract,” Mary Davie, assistant commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service’s Office of Integrated Technology Services, said in a statement.

GSA officials would not provide more any details. However, a spokeswoman said April 19 the contract that has been canceled due to the company not meeting the terms of the contract. The GSA Schedules provide agencies an easy way to purchase commodities and some services. Schedule 70 is specifically for IT.

The cancellation takes effect May 17.

It doesn’t mean that Oracle won’t continue doing business with the government. It has other contracts. Mark Amtower, partner of Amtower and Company, said the GSA Schedule contract accounts for less than 7 percent of total government purchases. Oracle offers services through other avenues, such as NASA’s Solutions for Enterprisewide Procurements (SEWP) and other Defense Department indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contracts.

“Oracle losing its GSA contract is news, but don’t overlook these facts,” he wrote in a comment on Washington Technology’s initial story about the cancellation.

As a result of GSA’s cancellation, all blanket purchase agreements (BPAs) awarded against the contract will end. Existing task orders may continue through their set period of performance but agencies will be unable to exercise options to these task orders or place new orders.

Agencies can still buy Oracle’s software and software maintenance products through resellers with active IT schedule 70 contracts, Davie said.

GSA has notified agency customers through Federal Business Opportunities website and is contacting agencies with known BPAs directly.

Full article by Matthew Weigelt, Federal Computer Week