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Northrop Grumman plans to launch on Oct. 26 the Ionospheric Connection Explorer spacecraft aboard the Pegasus rocket, NASASpaceflight.com reported Friday. The rocket will launch from the Stargazer L-1011 aircraft that will take off from Cape Canaveral in Florida. ICON was originally scheduled to launch in June, but Northrop postponed the take-off after Pegasus sent off-nominal data […] More
Oracle has unveiled a cloud-based application designed to help local and state government agencies facilitate land management and the processing of building permits and inspections. Oracle Public Sector Community Development is a subscription software-as-a-service app that works to upgrade the regulatory and compliance processes for building infrastructure and land use, the company said Thursday. “Today’s […] More
Lockheed Martin’s space business has begun to consider the possibility of providing companies and researchers a chance to fly experiments aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft, the Denver Business Journal reported Thursday. Orion is scheduled to launch in 2020 atop the Space Launch System for an unmanned flight test as part of Exploration Mission-1 and take off […] More
Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president of government strategy and policy at Inmarsat Government, has said warfighters and government users in hostile and remote environments depend on resilient satellite communications platforms. Cowen-Hirsch wrote in a Signal magazine piece published Monday that such satcom systems “must be accessible at a moment’s notice.†She noted how government leaders acknowledge the value of […] More
James Hanson, formerly managing director at marketing communications firm ConnellyWorks, has joined Nextgov as first publisher, the publication reported Monday. He will oversee business development, client relations and product planning for the GovCon community through the publication’s Washington, D.C.-based office. Hanson is “a master at helping government contractors connect with federal decision makers, and Nextgov […] More
NASA has awarded blanket purchase agreements to three companies to provide the agency with Earth observation data sets derived from constellations of commercial small satellites. Maxar Technologies’ DigitalGlobe subsidiary, Planet and Spire received the sole-source contracts under the agency’s Private Sector Small Constellation Satellite Data Product Pilot program, NASA said Friday. “This pilot program is […] More
Employees continue to click on malicious links amid government agencies’ efforts to launch training programs and assessments as part of their cyber defense strategies, Government Technology magazine reported. A study by the Federal Information Systems Security Educators’ Association shows that 34 percent of cyber breaches are associated with negligence or human error. The report said […] More
Boeing and Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky subsidiary expect the SB>1 Defiant compound helicopter to have the initial flight in December, Breaking Defense reported Wednesday. The two companies have teamed up to design and propose the aircraft for the U.S. Army’s Future Vertical Lift program. The service considers Defiant and the Bell V-280 Valor tiltrotor for the FVL initiative. Randy Rotte, director of FVL […] More
Leidos has joined a Cerner-led team to upgrade the Department of Veterans Affairs’ electronic health record system through the deployment of the same EHR platform used at the Defense Department’s medical facilities worldwide. “As lead systems integrator for the DoD’s Defense Healthcare Management Systems Modernization (DHMSM) program, we are pleased that the deployment of MHS […] More
The number of companies that won positions on the General Services Administration’s $50B Enterprise Infrastructure Services contract has dropped from 10 to nine after CenturyLink closed its acquisition of Level 3 Communications in 2017, Nextgov reported Wednesday. David Young, senior vice president of strategic government group at CenturyLink, told the publication the company decided to […] More
The U.S. Army has asked industry to submit proposals for a program to design, build and test a future attack reconnaissance aircraft prototype. A FedBizOpps notice posted Wednesday says Army Contracting Command plans to use an “other transaction†authority for the prototype initiative in support of the cross-functional team responsible for the service’s future vertical lift […] More
Two Maxar Technologies subsidiaries will work together to develop a space-based layer prototype concept designed to help the Missile Defense Agency detect and track missile threats. SSL will leverage and combine its space systems expertise with Radiant Solutions’ experience in ground systems engineering to build the Space Sensor Layer, Maxar said Wednesday. “We are honored […] More
