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General Electric’s research-focused arm is expected to secure $6.4 million in funding from a Department of Energy unit to work on a nuclear fuel reprocessing advancement initiative. The company said Wednesday its researchers will collaborate with GE Hitachi Nuclear, Sandia National Laboratories, Orano and Lumitron Technologies to develop the Monochromatic Assays Yielding Enhanced Reliability technology. The […] More
Professional services firm DCS Corp. and Hawaiian consulting and engineering company Makai have created a joint venture program called Pele Solutions under the Small Business Administration’s Mentor-Protege program. DCS said Wednesday it will assist Makai in enhancing capabilities in software development, systems engineering and technology integration to advance the latter’s role in the national security sector through the […] More
L3Harris Technologies has supplied the U.S. Army with almost 600 additional units of Enhanced Night Vision Goggle-Binocular, bringing overall deliveries to the service branch to 10,000 to date. The defense contractor said Tuesday it handed over the supplementary ENVG-Bs to the ninth Army brigade and will provide the military service with more goggles under a new […] More
Spire Global has secured a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to perform preliminary satellite design work for a program aimed at bringing ionospheric data-gathering sensors to very low-Earth orbit. Contract work is part of the Ouija program, DARPA’s new effort to understand the propagation of high-frequency radio waves within the ionized part […] More
Nancy Santos has been promoted to the role of vice president of business development at Leonardo DRS, according to her LinkedIn post published Monday. Prior to her move up, Santos served as senior director of business development at the defense contractor for a little over two years. She was primarily responsible for the U.S. Army’s Aberdeen Proving […] More
Jackie Riegle, a former senior manager at Lockheed Martin, has joined Raytheon Technology‘s intelligence and space business as director of strategic market intelligence. In a LinkedIn post, the executive said her transition takes effect Monday and follows a 15-year stint at Lockheed serving a number of roles with increasing responsibilities. Riegle began her Lockheed career […] More
The U.S. Army showcased how a Lockheed Martin-built multi-mission radar was able to assist a counter unmanned aerial system defeat system during an exercise in Yuma, Arizona. The service branch’s AN/TPQ-53 MMR work with the Forward Area Air Defense Command and Control system to launch the Coyote Block 2 C-UAS defeat system at the Army-led demo, Lockheed […] More
Omni Federal has received an award for the extension of the Digital University it created with BESPIN to further boost the digital literacy of the U.S. Air Force, Space Force and Defense Department personnel. The company said Thursday the task order also covers the enhancement of the DU’s artificial intelligence and machine learning platform to […] More
KVH Industries, a Middletown, Rhode Island-based satellite communications provider, has secured a five-year, $69 million contract to extend connectivity support for the U.S. Coast Guard’s small cutter fleet. The company said Tuesday the service branch will continue using the KVH TracPhone V7-HTS Ku-band satellite communications system and mini-VSAT Broadband service on over 140 small cutters under […] More
The Federal Railroad Administration and Ensco held an event Tuesday to mark the 50th anniversary of the agency’s Transportation Technology Center in Pueblo, Colorado. Ensco assumed management responsibility for TTC earlier this month under a potential 20-year, $571 million contract from the FRA. The company said Tuesday some representatives from the government and the commercial […] More
Kelum Pinnaduwage, former discretionary investments director at Northrop Grumman‘s aeronautics sector, has transitioned to the role of strategic planning and development director at the aerospace and defense company’s mission systems business, according to a LinkedIn post published Sunday. In his previous post, the decade-long Northrop executive handled financial planning and management duties. Pinnaduwage also assumed other […] More
Illuminate, a Herndon, Virginia-based data services provider, has secured a task order under the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Solutions for the Information Technology Enterprise III contract vehicle to provide IT and data management services. The company said Monday it will use its cloud-native applications, system sustainment and cloud migration services to help enhance the intelligence analysis and […] More
