Unanet has released Unanet Connect, an open integration marketplace and platform will integrate pre-built connectors with customers’ ERP seamlessly, the company reported on Tuesday. The platform will provide a single solution for data orchestration, workflow automation and improved team collaboration.

“As companies continue their digital transformations, Unanet Connect is the only tool that will allow them to scale their entire enterprise environment in a way that meets all of their unique needs, improving their business processes easily and simply,” said Assad Jarrahian, chief product officer, Unanet.

Unanet Connect will provide access to an open marketplace with more than 100 pre-built application connectors that can be integrated at scale, with increased time to value. The result is a highly automated enterprise with increased efficiencies across systems, processes and teams from sales to projects, expenses to payments, hiring to payroll and operations.

The platforms will feature applications, including Paylocity, ADP, Oracle, BambooHR, MS Teams, Box, DocuSign and HubSpot, among others. Unanet’s solutions will support business functions such as payroll, HR, marketing, and sales and finance.

Unanet Connect will increase efficiency and productivity, by enabling customers’ digital transformation goals. The centralized hub will feature greater information, insights and automation.

Earlier this year, Unanet announced a variety of new product enhancements to its ERP for government contracting (GovCon) and architecture/engineering (A/E) customers, including streamlined invoicing with online payment facilitation, analytics, and subcontractor management features.

The earlier enhancements will be integrated with Unanet Connect to help customers innovate and scale digital transformation.

“The status quo of ERP and other business solutions just aren’t delivering on customer needs,” added Jarrahian. “With this unique integration tool, we’re disrupting the entrenched marketplace and finally giving customers what they want and deserve.”

About Unanet

Unanet is a leading provider of ERP solutions purpose-built for Government Contractors, A/E, and Professional Services. More than 2,000 project-driven organizations depend on Unanet to turn their information into actionable insights, drive better decision-making, and nurture business growth.

The full-rate production phase for the F-35 fighter jet program faces another delay after the Department of Defense (DoD) pushed back testing in the Joint Simulation Environment from December 2020 of this year to sometime in 2021, Defense News reported Monday.

Jessica Maxwell, a spokeswoman for Hon. Ellen Lord, undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment at DoD and a four-time Wash100 Award winner, announced the delay in simulation tests, which she said will inform a statutory report DoD needed to review and decide whether to grant Milestone C approval in order for the program to advance to full-rate production.

“Production of the F-35 will continue in [low-rate initial production] in accordance with Congressional authorization and appropriation,” Maxwell said in a statement.

The F-35 program was expected to receive Milestone C decision in December 2019, but that timeline was pushed back to March 2021, according to the report.

Air Combat Command (ACC) has identified the electromagnetic spectrum as a technology priority across training activities in anticipation of future challenges. 

The command is working to keep up with the intelligence and maneuvering challenges associated with EMS technological advancements', the U.S. Air Force said Friday.

“Focused integration of electromagnetic spectrum operations in our training and exercises will expand our readiness by creating complex environments for our Airmen to train in and against,” said Gen. Mark Kelly, ACC's commander.

Lt. Gen. Christopher Weggeman, ACC deputy commander, said excellence in information warfare would depend on expertise in spectrum operations. ACC will modify and align its policies, organizations and tactics with priorities to address EMS challenges.

The U.S. Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center (AFIMSC) has deployed a storm damage tracker to assess infrastructure damage brought by natural disasters on USAF installations.

Developed in partnership with the Air Force Civil Engineer Center, the tracker collects various information such as independent government estimates, statements of work and photos of the damage, the service branch said Sunday.

"Comptrollers work hand-in-hand with civil engineer squadrons to get the right information and photos uploaded in the tracker so we can go in and validate damage," said Dave Thomander, facilities sustainment, repair and modernization requirement validator at the Air Force Civil Engineer Center's planning and integration directorate.

AFIMSC will use the data collected by the tracker to obtain funding or reimbursement for installation repairs and replacements.