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    Harris Eyes $125M Investment to Back R&D Projects in Florida; William Brown Quoted

    Harris plans to make an investment worth over $125M in research-and-development projects in Florida to support tech innovation and talent recruitment efforts in the state. The company said Monday R&D initiatives will focus on robotics, avionics, small satellite units and electronic warfare and will occur at the firm’s facilities in Central Florida in support of the company’s approximately 7K […] More

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    Lockheed-Led Team Concludes Acceptance Trials of Eighth Freedom-Variant LCS

    A Lockheed Martin-led industry group has wrapped up a series of acceptance trials of the U.S. Navy‘s eighth Freedom-variant littoral combat ship in Lake Michigan. USS Billings (LCS-15) underwent maneuverability tests and demonstrations of the ship’s combat systems against surface and aerial threats as well as aviation support and small boat launch-and-recovery capabilities, Lockheed said Monday. “LCS […] More

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    Aerospace Corp.’s Steve Isakowitz: Satellite Architecture Flexibility Key to Space Programs

    Steve Isakowitz, president and CEO of Aerospace Corp., has said adopting a flexible architecture can help the U.S. military and industry update satellites with a new payload or augment constellations, SpaceNews reported Monday. He told the publication in an interview the government should use an enterprise-level approach and simplify the decision-making process to manage the country’s […] More

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    Pratt & Whitney Inaugurates Puerto Rico Aerospace Engineering Hub

    United Technologies Corp.’s Pratt & Whitney subsidiary has established an aerospace engineering center in Puerto Rico through a partnership with the island’s government-owned industrial development company. Pratt & Whitney said Monday it opened the 104K-square-foot facility during a ceremony held Monday and attended by Gov. Ricardo Rosello and PRIDCO representatives. The building is designed to comply with LEED Silver standards […] More

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    Ed Sheehan Marks 25 Years of Service With CTC

    Ed Sheehan, president and CEO of Concurrent Technologies Corp., has celebrated his 25th anniversary at the nonprofit scientific research and development services contractor. CTC said Monday it awarded plaques to Sheehan and 33 other employees who have worked at the company for more than a quarter century. He joined the nonprofit in 1993 and served as chief […] More

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    PAE Gets $72M Navy Test Range Support Contract Option

    PAE will continue to help the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division engineer, operate and maintain the U.S. Navy’s Atlantic test range under a $72M contract modification. The modification exercises an option in a previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee contract and will include range sustainability, testing and data reduction services to NAWCAD’s marine operations division, the Department of Defense said Monday. […] More

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    Northrop Gets $50M Contract on Navy E-2D Aircraft Production Contract

    Northrop Grumman will obtain long-lead parts and support the full rate production of two lot 7 E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft under a $49.9M contract modification from the U.S. Navy. The company will perform work through December 2023 and receive full amount of the modification at the time of award, the Department of Defense said Monday. The […] More

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    Iridium Eyes Jan. 7 for Final ‘NEXT’ Satellite Launch; Matt Desch Quoted

    Iridium Communications has announced that the launch of the eighth batch of 10 Iridium NEXT satellites aboard SpaceX‘s Falcon 9 rocket is now scheduled on Jan. 7, SpaceNews reported Friday. The new schedule sought to provide SpaceX more time to accommodate Spaceflight Industries’ SmallSat Express rideshare mission, which took off on Monday, Dec. 3. Iridium CEO Matt Desch said in a […] More

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    SpaceX, NASA Reschedule Uncrewed Demo-1 Flight Test to ISS; Kathy Lueders Quoted

    NASA and SpaceX have changed the target date for an uncrewed flight test to the International Space Station as part of the space agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Both parties agreed to reschedule Demo-1 launch to Jan. 17 in a move to accommodate the return of the Dragon cargo ship from the company’s 16th resupply mission, NASA said Friday. SpaceX […] More

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    NASA Seeks Info on Potential Financial Support Sources

    NASA‘s Ames Research Center has issued a request for information on potential providers of financial support services. The agency said Friday on a FedBizOpps notice it plans to award the potential five-year Financial Support Services II contract as part of the Mission Support Future Architecture Program that seeks to standardize activities across its centers to […] More

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    SpaceX’s Dragon Spacecraft Arrives at ISS for 16th Cargo Delivery Mission

    SpaceX‘s Dragon spacecraft reached the International Space Station on Saturday to deliver approximately over 5.6K pounds of crew supplies and research payloads. The spacecraft launched from Florida via SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket on Wednesday, Dec. 5, as part of its 16th Commercial Resupply Services mission with NASA, the agency said Saturday. Dragon is set to return to Earth in January with […] More

  • in Government Technology, News

    NTT Group to Help Expand Smart City Tech Adoption in Nevada; Jun Sawada Quoted

    NTT Group has signed an agreement to help the state of Nevada and the city of Las Vegas adopt a distributed platform for urban modernization efforts. Las Vegas will begin testing the company’s smart city offering in spring 2019 and consider implementing a full-scale service by summer 2019, NTT said Friday. The platform is based on the Cognitive Foundation architecture […] More