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    Lockheed-Led Shipbuilding Team Launches Navy’s 19th LCS; Joe DePietro Quoted

    A Lockheed Martin-led industry team launched the U.S. Navy‘s 19th littoral combat ship into the Menominee River in Wisconsin during a ceremony held Saturday. Barbara Broadhurst Taylor, the ship’s sponsor and daughter of a decorated pilot during World War II, led the USS St. Louis christening at a Fincantieri Marinette Marine-owned shipyard before the launch, Lockheed said […] More

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    Labor Dept Recognizes Eaton’s Military Veterans Employment Initiative

    The Department of Labor has chosen Eaton to receive DOL’s HIRE Vets Medallion Award in recognition of the power management company’s efforts to recruit, employ and retain military veterans. Eaton said Friday the department evaluates award recipients based on criteria such as leadership programming, compensation and tuition assistance programs and availability of resources for the country’s former active-duty service […] More

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    DTRA Details Technical Reachback Support Requirements in Presolicitation Notice

    The Defense Threat Reduction Agency has issued a presolicitation to lay out its technical reachback operational support needs. A FedBizOpps notice posted Thursday says DTRA wants potential contractors that could help develop weapons of mass destruction modeling tools and manage decision support analysis programs related to chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear explosives. Other tasks include configuration management of research-and-development software; […] More

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    Charles River Analytics to Release Open-Source Mixed-Reality Training Interface

    Charles River Analytics has developed an open-source interface that employs a hybrid reality approach to military medical training and education. Virtuoso is based on a multimodal interface to allow natural human interactions within virtual and augmented reality environments and facilitate transfer of knowledge to trainees, the company said Thursday. The platform works to automatically assess a trainee’s skill […] More

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    Intelsat, COMSAT Partner to Offer Broadband Service in Gov’t Aviation Sector; Skot Butler Quoted

    Intelsat and satellite communications services provider COMSAT have partnered to market a broadband connectivity offering to U.S. government aircraft operators and coalition partners. COMSAT will add the FlexAir managed service to the company’s suite of airborne satcom services intended to help military personnel communicate anywhere in the world, Intelsat said Thursday. “FlexAir was designed with government users […] More

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    L3 Subsidiary to Supply Autonomous Underwater Vehicle to Marine Corps

    An L3 Technologies subsidiary has received a contract to provide the U.S. Marine Corps with an unmanned underwater vehicle. L3 OceanServer said Thursday it will supply its Iver3 UUV to help Marine Corps Systems Command carry out evaluation and testing operations. Iver3 is a commercial-off-the-shelf autonomous underwater system that has a package of sensors including a side […] More

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    Kratos, Space Vector Partner to Build Suborbital Rocket for Air Force; Dave Carter Quoted

    Kratos Defense and Security Solutions and Space Vector have teamed up to design, manufacture and integrate a suborbital launch vehicle under the U.S. Air Force’s Sounding Rocket Program-4. The industry team will build the rocket to support tests of prototype weapons and missile defense systems, Kratos said Wednesday. Space Vector and Northrop Grumman‘s innovation systems segment won positions […] More

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    Lockheed to Help Army Develop Software

    Lockheed Martin will provide software development and help desk support for the U.S. Army under a potential two-year, $40.4M contract. The cost-plus-fixed-fee contract includes product updates, analysis, design, integration, testing, fielding and exercise support, the Department of Defense said Thursday. Contract work will take place in Orlando, Fla., and is projected to run through Dec. […] More

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    CRL Wins Potential $84M IDIQ for Navy AIRWorks System Integration Support

    CRL Technologies has won a potential five-year, $84M contract from the U.S. Navy to engineer systems for the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division’s AIRWorks organization. The company will provide technical, project management and engineering services for multiple programs and platforms under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Department of Defense said Thursday. NAWCAD received five offers for the cost-plus-fixed-fee […] More

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    Woolpert to Support US Military Airfield Projects in Eastern Europe

    Woolpert has received a contract to provide airfield planning and conceptual design services for a Department of Defense program that aims to help U.S. air forces, regional partners and allies establish operational presence in Eastern Europe. The company said Thursday it will collaborate with Louis Berger as a subconsultant and help design military airfield structures throughout the region. Rebecca Knolle, project manager […] More

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    Viasat’s Ken Peterman: Industry Moves to Address Satellite Cybersecurity Risks

    Ken Peterman, president of Viasat‘s government services business, has said satellite operators have implemented measures to manage cybersecurity of their systems, Via Satellite reported Tuesday. “We understand that no satellite operator in the industry is immune to new and emerging cyber threats, but we are taking key steps to ensure the end user remains protected,” Peterman told […] More

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    Intelsat General Unveils Military Aircraft Broadband Service; Skot Butler Quoted

    Intelsat General has introduced a broadband service offering intended to help military aircraft passengers connect to the internet while in flight. FlexAir uses the company’s Ku-band and EpicNG communications satellite platforms and is designed to operate with fuselage and tail-mounted antennas, Intelsat said Thursday. The in-flight connectivity service works to support intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance applications such as sensor […] More