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Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky subsidiary has delivered another CH-53K helicopter to the U.S. Marine Corps, adding to the six already in operation at the service branch’s air station base in Jacksonville, North Carolina. The defense company said Thursday the dispatch was the first from the Lot 2 contract awarded by the Navy to Sikorsky in 2019, with […] More
Peraton has received a Maturity Level 3 certification under the CMMI Institute’s Capability Maturity Model Integration Version 2.0 framework for development and services. The rating underscores Peraton’s best practices for development and services in support of its customers, the Herndon, Virginia-headquartered enterprise information technology provider said. “Receiving two CMMI Level 3 ratings is a testament of Peraton’s commitment […] More
Several U.S. companies have secured grants collectively amounting to $137 million from the Department of Energy to research and develop clean energy technologies and instruments under the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs. The awardees will conduct phase II R&D work to help DOE innovate technologies in support of its mission areas, the […] More
Susan Repo, chief financial officer of synthetic aperture radar satellite operator ICEYE, has joined the board of directors of 3D data platform developer Matterport. The executive will contribute leadership experience gained from previously working at MariaDB, Tesla, Juniper Networks and Agilent Technologies to the Matterport board, where she will serve as chair of its audit committee, the spatial […] More
SpaceX will launch a spacecraft Thursday to carry cargo to the International Space Station for its 25th resupply services mission, which will include a NASA payload for climate change research. The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft will help enable NASA’s orbital laboratory-based investigation of the composition of the Earth’s mineral dust and the effects of the dust […] More
Boeing has handed over to the U.S. Navy the 150th unit of a multimission aircraft built to perform maritime and reconnaissance operations in support of the U.S. and its international allies. The aircraft will be based at the Naval Air Station in Patuxent River, Maryland, and will be used by the Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) […] More
Cambium Networks, a wireless infrastructure developer, has provided Advanced Technology Systems Company with its initial order of microwave line-of-sight radios to assist the latter in upgrading the broadband communications framework of the U.S. Army. The delivery of the microwave radios is in support of ATSC’s work under a seven-year, $191 million indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract for the Army’s […] More
AST SpaceMobile has agreed to sell its majority share in NanoAvionics, a Lithuania-based small satellite mission integrator and bus manufacturer, to Kongsberg‘s defense and aerospace business for approximately $68 million. The deal is anticipated to be completed in the third quarter, subject to customary closing conditions, and to bring about $28 million in net cash proceeds to AST […] More
NATO has set up an approximately $1 billion venture capital fund to support early-stage companies in the development of dual-use emerging technologies over a 15-year allocation period. The investment fund specifically valued at €1 billion will target start-ups focused on advancing artificial intelligence, biotechnology, big-data processing, novel materials, energy, quantum technology as well as propulsion and […] More
Oshkosh’s defense segment has secured a $216.7 million contract modification from the U.S. Army to continue providing joint light tactical vehicles to international allies. The award will cover foreign military sales of JLTV family of vehicles to Brazil, Lithuania and Montenegro, and work under the Army program will approximately run through Nov. 30, 2023, the Department […] More
Teledyne FLIR’s unmanned ground systems division has received a $62.1 million firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Army to provide robotic systems that assist in locating and discarding unexploded ordnance and improvised explosive devices. The Department of Defense said Wednesday work on the Army’s Man Transportable Robotic System Increment II program will approximately run through Oct. 2, 2023. The […] More
An Akima subsidiary has received a potential three-year, $7.6 million contract to help the U.S. Coast Guard’s National Maritime Center process approximately 100,000 commercial mariner credential applications annually. RiverTech will assist the West Virginia-based credentialing body in evaluating merchant mariner documents to determine whether applicants should be approved or denied for certification, Akima said Tuesday. Duncan […] More
